Neil Young cover - Dead Man Acoustic

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - Are you kidding? First, how can you equate Che Guevara, who co-led a popular socialist revolution, with Bin Laden? Would I be right to think you live in the United States? Second, are you saying that Che Guevara is a murderer? If so, can you substantiate this claim? And while you are doing so, can you in parallel name one US president who isn't, or wasn't, a mass murderer? Cheers!

RoboDouche Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - @immanence I'm not American, no. I can't post links, but google "Che Guevara Murderer" and read the Epoch Times piece.I'm not sure what US presidents have to do with it. If the point is simply to compare, I would place Che in a special class of ideologically motivated murderer, with killing and hatred as his stated aims. But certainly, many USP's have questionable human rights records. What is your point? Were you to put their poster on your wall, you would likewise be inviting criticism.

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - Epoch Times is known as anti-communist, so I'm not surprised by the article. They are fighting the Chinese government, but not because it is communist, but because it bans the Falun Gung. Because it is also communist, they attack it as communist, and any other communist. In assessing the momentous contribution of Che, I'm not going to start there. But wait. Why am I even discussing this with you? Any poster on my wall "invites criticism"? What the fuck business of yours is my decor?

RoboDouche Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - None of my business, friend. But would you be at all surprised if you had a George Bush poster and people were critical? It is an invitation in the sense that it is the reasonable expectation.Moreover, a publication's political leanings are irrelevant. What matters are their facts. So, would you care to refute anything in the article? Did Che not personally execute over 180 people? Did he not order hundreds of thousands more killed? Did he not imprison homosexuals? Let's have it.

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - Why would I get into or care about convincing or debating you? Do your own research. You are wrong that the political leanings of publications are irrelevant: they are operative. You think the record suggested in the article is the only take on Che Guevara? It is not even documented. It is the work of a staff journalist. Is this what passes as authoritative for you? But wait: I see what you are really saying. If I have a poster of Che, I am condoning all his actions! You clown!

RoboDouche Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - You asked me to provide evidence he was a murderer. I directed you to an article on the subject. It was a direct answer to a direct question, not a statement about your beliefs.The political leanings of a publication are important, but are also IRRELEVANT as concerns your question, for which only facts need be considered. And it is the facts of the piece you refuse to refute. If you are capable of doing so, go ahead. If you do not, forgive me for assuming it is because you cannot.

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - The pathetic article you're referring to is not evidence. It is a series of unreferenced assertions all ending up with the foregone conclusion: Che is co-responsible for the scourge of communism that the Chinese government continues in its policies, a scourge - it is alleged - that led to the deaths of 100 million people. This conclusion is so asinine it barely should be dignified with a response. No, I have no "evidence" that Che killed anyone, and neither do you

RoboDouche Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - The article makes no such claim. It simply says Che was no hero. If it does not persuade you that is fine, but I see no reason to make things up, while continuing to ignore my request to refute, or even deny, the facts it presents. Again, can you refute or deny that Che Guevara personally executed at least 180 people, ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands more, and imprisoned 'undesirables' such as homosexuals? if you can, get on with it.

RoboDouche Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - As for "evidence that Che killed anyone", of course I have evidence. I have Che's diaries as evidence. He speaks about it in detail. "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. ...A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."And about his personal execution of peasant Eutimio Guerra:"I ended the problem giving him a shot with a .32 pistol in the right temporal."

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - "Che's form of communism, which he learned from his mentors the Soviets, has collectively claimed the lives of over 100 million people over the last century and counting, as the Chinese communist regime resumes its policies. That is two times the entire death toll of World War II and sixteen times the death toll of the infamous Nazi death camps." - from the article you cite. I think it's pretty clear what is being claimed.

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - The author of the article you cite admits at the end, "Was he a murderer? He is only identified as such by his own action and words". The case you reference, Eutimio Guerra, is the only one spoken of in detail, and is a case of treason in the context of a war of liberation, where Guerra himself asked Fidel Castro for death. Che writes about it evocatively, but I have no evidence that it happened, or happened in the way he said. Neither do you or the author of the article

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - You and the author claim Che "ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands". Excuse me? What the author claims were "Labor camps" was land reform and collectivisation of previously privately owned land. But the author dismisses this advance: "Through these newly formed Labor Camps, Che ordered the death of hundreds of thousands of helpless Cubans, including women and children as young as 14 years old." This claim is ridiculous.

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - You have only the wit of the polemicist and tools of the ideologue: principally, to take things out of context and selective quotation according to your needs. How many globally did Che save? How many did he inspire to stand up for, and grasp, their rights? How more difficult did he make it for colonial violence and imperial domination to reach their ends? Well, in the end, Che Guevara stands as an icon of liberation struggles, and you and I and the author are nothing. Especially him

immanence Says:

Aug 16, 2010 - As for your command, "get on with it," no one commands me, especially not some arsehole on YouTube who wants to engage some long and pointless polemic because I happen to own a poster of Che Guevara. To you and everyone else who thinks that's a problem: I don't give a fuck

NBjam77 Says:

Oct 4, 2010 - brilliant cover,been in my favorites for months now:)And quite funny to see everytime i check your vid another asswipe is going on and on about your poster....this is a neil young cover vid not a chatroom about the Che ffs

immanence Says:

Oct 4, 2010 - Thanks bro. The last guy was aptly named: RoboDouche. RoboDouchebag more like

JayBGeorge Says:

Oct 23, 2010 - sweat i learned a lick while watching you play thats not an easy song good job

bertho65 Says:

Nov 4, 2010 - well done!

bertho65 Says:

Nov 4, 2010 - well done, great song, great film, sounds really brilliant

uqbar18 Says:

Nov 19, 2010 - Great song and great version, man. I'm argentinian, so great poster too. You know what I mean ;)

jerzykramer Says:

Feb 1, 2011 - Just Beautiful!!!Keep this up man you rule the guitar!

davec3487 Says:

Mar 25, 2011 - Can you do a tutorial on how you are playing or at a minimum list the chords? Thanks, nicely done.

mrbikerider27 Says:

Mar 26, 2011 - the chorus is different than everybodys but it sounds so original yet refined perfectly.

NBjam77 Says:

Jan 5, 2012 - great song,great interpretation,am happy^^

jenous44 Says:

Mar 12, 2012 - its too much tuned up....but on the otherhand it is realy fine cover...not many people can play this...its realy hard though! It took me to learn it almost 1 hour!