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"WE'RE NOT SAFE!" is a 1979 punk protest song against corporate media manipulation and censorship of rock music. It begins my long-time working relationship with precocious then seventeen-year-old guitar virtuoso Chuck Moses.

Synthesizer: Moog MINIMOOG Model D with Ribbon Controller. Effect: Electro-Harmonix BIG MUFF.

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"WE’RE NOT SAFE"

We’re not safe for humans to listen to!
Be careful! Our frequencies might damage you!
We’re not safe for modern radio airplay!
There’s danger in what we have to say!

There’s danger that you might want to be free
Of the way someone keeps from you and me
Access to all media policy
And secrets of atom-age artistry!

We’re not safe!
We’re not safe!
We’re not safe!
We’re not safe!

We’re not safe because we tell the truth!
Watch out now! We got nothing to lose!
We’re not safe! I hope the fuck we never are!
There’s power in fighting for this cause!

We’re not safe!
We’re not safe!
We’re not safe!
We’re not safe!

While big corporations own the radio stations,
Free enterprise is shot!
Yet, rock was born here
On the dark side of the American Dream;
Only now, selling you soul is what it’s come to mean!
But, someday soon,
Out on the edge and through the nadir,
Art will rise again!

Free the airwaves now!
Free the airwaves now!
Free the airwaves now!
Free the airwaves now!

[Copyright 1979 Todd Tamanend Clark. All rights reserved.]

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from NOVA PSYCHEDELIA: SPECIAL EDITION, released October 31, 2005
Year: 1979. Personnel: TODD TAMANEND CLARK: Voice, Synthesizer; CHUCK MOSES: Guitar, Vocals; DAVE WALKER: Bass Guitar, Vocals; MARK COSCO: Percussion.

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Todd Tamanend Clark Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TODD TAMANEND CLARK was born on August 10, 1952 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. He was deeply influenced by Native American cultures, owl ornithology, the Monongahela River, 1950s science-fiction cinema, silver age comic books, beat poetry, space jazz, and the American psychedelic music of the 1960s. He was an early pioneer of adding synthesizers and effects processing to a punk rock aesthetic. ... more

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