Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and (TV)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disposable_Heroes_of_Hiphoprisy

Full official video for the song "Television, The Drug Of The Nation" by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy. Directed by Mark Pellington. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI


Television The Drug Of The Nation · The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury ℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1992-01-01 Composer Lyricist: Mark Pistel Composer Lyricist: Michael Franti


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy_Is_the_Greatest_Luxury#Track_listing

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Television the Drug Nation Performing Live at the Kennel Club in San Francisco during the early 1990s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7O8V2NGP9I

Here is an interesting April 21st post about the history of the Smart TV on what just happened to be Michael Franti's 49th birthday.
https://news.samsung.com/global/infographic-history-of-samsung-smart-tv

Michael_Franti was born in 1966 on 4-21 and continues to be quite a versatile artist, especially since the 1990's.
https://www.michaelfranti.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franti#Appearances_in_media

You could say that Mike has been warning people about the dangers of Smart_TV when people were still getting dumbed down enough on the basic terrestrial TV set.

Of course it can also be said that U2 provided a glimpse into the looming technological data-zoo of the 1990s and beyond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour 1992 & 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbrNVAMTLQ ,
http://www.u2.com/tour/index/tour/id/54

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/search?q=U2 ,