TSOL - Abolish Government (Music Video)

TSOL - Abolish Government (Music Video)

On February 1st, 1983 I was at this particular show filmed at Orange Coast College. The college was hosting a series of "Tuesday Noon Concerts" in the outdoor Quad area on campus and they hired TSOL to come and perform. Before the band started, there were concerned school administrators and they told the band to "keep it tame"... No profanity, rude gestures or inciting the crowd... Of course there were punks that showed up for the free show and they started slam dancing. It was tame by the standards of a normal punk show, but of course the school paper jumped on the media bandwagon with all the local news at the time, sensationalizing the "violence" aspect and claimed there was a "Riot"... There was no riot, only a handful of kids slamming in front of the stage. I kept the clipping from the school paper, still have photos of the show and have one of the few original posters that were found on some of the college walls the week leading up to the show. Did anyone else watching this make it to that show?


I do a punk rock Video DJ thing in Las Vegas, Nevada sharing the legacy of all Punk Rock.

Since there wasn't a video for this song online with decent audio, I decided to make one from video footage filmed that day and dub in digital audio from the album, and then sync everything up. If you are a "purist" and wish to see the video with the original audio, then
the original video footage and audio for the entire show can be found here:    • TSOL - live 1983  

Lyrics: ABOLISH GOVERNMENT

Abolish government, it's nothing to me
Forget about god, He's not here to see
We live by a system a perfect mold
People perfect people who are poor and old
Lives were spent on the ladder of success
Working for nothing in this, in this worthless mess
Presidents a name, presidents a label
Highest man on the government table
America, land of the free
Free to the power of the people in uniform
People are so blind they just can't see
Send your son to boot-camp, send him off to war
If he comes back he'll be dead and nothing more
Struggle for a land, for a country, for a freedom
All you mindless people looking for someone to lead them
Wake up to the same old shit
Live your life to suit their fit
Some people, they don't like your hair
Police, they…


Source: Musixmatch


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TSOL album cover art appearing in this video by Edward Colver. Newspaper clippings appearing by Orange Coast College "COAST REPORT". Coast Report photo by Bill Davis.

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