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Mike Stout and the Human Union pounded out one long set from his their New CD "WAR" on Saturday night for anti-war activists that had been in the street all day marking first and perhaps the last year in Iraq for US troops. Song ranged from a tribute to Rachel Cory, the solidarity activists who was run over by an Israeli tank this year, to another first hand account of how it felt as the Homestead Works were closed, to raging anti-war rock’n’roll anthems. Many in the audience had come directly from the CMU Student Union where anti-war protesters were beginning an occupation of the student union and others from the PINN fundraiser where congregants from all over the city recommitted to interfaith action for justice. At the end of the set – these people gathered around the bar and cheered as we watched the news reports of anti-war actions around the globe. CDs are being sold to benefit School of the America Watch. This is music to play loud at a good party, at a spring barbeque, cranked up with the windows down. There is no substitute for seeing Stout live this summer. Rock’n’roll has a message all its own and Mike pounds it. When I look at the Water Works retail behemoth I want to puke. Stout’s message is the one for working people to go forward with – it’s the Rock’n’Roll from Homestead that makes sense. - Kenneth Alan Miller |