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    "airdate": "2025-09-08T10:52:12-07:00",
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    "comment": "Playing:\n- TONIGHT, Monday, September 8th at Burnaby, BC's Deer Lake Park\n- Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA this Friday, September 12th!\n\nThe song was first performed live on February 21, 1989, in Seattle with The Restless, without the band having rehearsed it.\n\nNeil Young wrote the song while on tour with his band The Restless in February 1989. He learned that a planned concert tour to the Soviet Union was not going to happen and his guitarist Frank \"Poncho\" Sampedro said \"we'll have to keep on rockin' in the free world.\" The phrase struck Young, who thought it could be the hook in a song about \"stuff going on with the Ayatollah and all this turmoil in the world.” He had the lyrics the next day.\n\nThe lyrics criticize the George H. W. Bush administration, then in its first month, quoting Bush's famous \"thousand points of light\" remark from his 1989 inaugural address and his 1988 presidential campaign promise for America to become a \"kinder, gentler nation.\" The song also refers to Ayatollah Khomeini's proclamation that the United States was the \"Great Satan\" and Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign slogan, \"Keep hope alive.\" https://tinyurl.com/5ed9epmn\n\nhttps://neilyoungarchives.com/",
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