Whats So Funny About Peace Love & Understanding?

Can't remember if I've recently mentioned this ( hey, I paid good money for my short-term memory loss--be a shame not to use it; and I may have already said that too???), but I used to do this song in a band I was in, in the late 80's, and proud that I was the one who insisted on doing it. In fact , I tried to somewhat structure the sets , even though they were mostly cover songs, to have a certain message-related logic to them, and used to end every gig with either this , or Lou Reed's Rock and Roll ( with this as next to last). Thought they were important as a way to sum up the evening. Also,I often prefaced this with a little story about a class I'd taken a couple of years earlier, when finishing up my bachelor's degree (in my early thirties)....A communications class, and we'd done a section on modes of communication in different eras. The professor had been discussing the 60's ,and how openness and honesty had been important communication values etc , when this Reagan-era young republican kid pipes up simplistically ( as if there's any other way for republicans) "aren't you glad the 60's are over?" I spoke up and somewhat angrily put him in his place about the guts and integrity etc it had taken to attempt what the best of my generation had tried to do, including trying to communicate honestly , as opposed to the sack of lies the Reagan generation seemed happy to swallow and accept as truth... Anyway, to make a short story too long, I told that little anecdote on stage ( not all the time, but sometimes) before dedicating What's So Funny... to that kid.

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