Luyện nghe bài hát Introduction

Zappa
Joes

Desperate nerds in high offices all over the world have known
to enact the most disgusting pieces of legislation in to win
votes (or, in places where they get to vote, to control
forms of mass behavior).

Environmental laws not passed to protect our air and
water... they were passed to get votes. anti-smut campaigns
are not conducted to rid our communities of moral rot... are
conducted to give an of saintliness to the office-seekers who
them. If a few key phrases are thrown into any speech (as the
expert explain to these various heads of state) votes will
in, bucks will roll in, and, most importantly, power will be
maintained by the groovy guy (or gal) who gets the most
coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his in various
will do okay too.

All governments perpetuate themselves through the commission
of acts which a rational might find to be stupid or dangerous
(or both). Naturally, our is no exception... for instance,
if the President (any one of them) went on TV and sat with the
flag in the background (or maybe a rustic on a little
backdrop, the flag) and stared sincerely into the camera and
told everybody that all problems and all inflationary
problems had been traced to and could be solved by the of
MUSIC, chances are that most would believe him and think that
the illegalization of obnoxious form of noise pollution would
be a small price to pay for the chance to buy gas like the ol'
days. No way? Never Records are made out of oil. All those
big rock shows go from town to town in gobbling 45 foot
trucks... and they get there, they use up enormous amounts of
electrical energy with their lights, their amplifiers, PA
systems... smoke machines. And all those synthesizers... look at
all the plastic they got in 'em... and the picks... you name
it...

JOE'S GARAGE is a stupid story about how the is going to
try to do away with music (a cause of unwanted mass behavior).
It's sort of like a really kind of high school play... the way
it might have done 20 years ago, with all the sets made out of
boxes and poster paint. It's also like those lectures that
local narks used to give (where they you a display of all the
different ways you can get wasted, with the leading to the
weed to the needle, etc., etc.).

If the plot of the story seems just a bit preposterous, and
if the idea of The Central enforcing laws that haven't
passed yet makes you giggle, just be glad you don't live in one
of the cheerful little countries where, at very moment, music
is either severely restricted... or, as it is in Iran,
illegal.