Get Up, Get Into it, Get Involved: GET OUT AND VOTE!

October 16, 2008 by tgrundy
Filed under: General/Misc 

First, a little housekeeping note:

I apologize for not posting a new RIBS mix last week, I was down with the flu. Still not 100% but I’m getting there. Also, there will be a new mix this week but I need to push it back one day so please stop by tomorrow (Friday) to check it out.

Now, on to a more important matter…

Below is the text of an email I sent out this morning to many of my fellow podcasters and online family. As you may know, from time to time we do special “collaboration podcasts” to musically celebrate different times of the year, holidays, special occasions, etc. Well, to paraphrase the Thing, “It’s Collaboration Time!”

Election Day is almost upon us and it is important that we all get out and vote for the next President of the United States and the other elected officials that will represent us. It is very evident that this country is a big mess right now and we need to elect good leaders (whomever you think that might be) to get us back on the right track. We ALL need to GET OUT AND VOTE on election day. So… many of us have agreed to get together to give you a little musical encouragement to:

Get Up, Get Into It and Get Involved!

Super Friends (of Podcasting) & Music Lovers:

TGrundy here. I’m reaching out to you again to invite you to participate in another podcast collaboration brainstorm I had just the other day (gotta give credit where credit is due, the germ of this idea came from listening to the intro of Mr. Fresh’s latest Sunday Soundtrack [check it out: http://vibesnscribes.com/?p=127]).

I think we’ll call this one:

“Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved: Get Out & Vote!“

As I write this on the morning of October 16th there are 19 more days until the election on November 4, 2008. I don’t think that I have to tell you that this is a very important election this year. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, it doesn’t matter whether you are an Obama supporter or a McCain supporter (well, actually, it really does but this is a bi-partisan collaboration effort {Ha! couldn’t resist}), the important thing is that we all GET OUT AND VOTE on election day.

And with that in mind, I figure that we should “do what we do” and put it to music and reach out to our fans and listeners and give them one more shot of encouragement to exercise their right to vote. I’m sorry, let’s make that our obligation to vote and participate our this democratic process.

The plan is to have the podcast available during that last week/weekend prior to election day (an exact date will be forthcoming), sometime between October 29th and November 1st.

If you’d like to participate, simply do the following:

1. Choose a song that captures how you feel about the election, why you feel it’s important to vote or a song that speak about the crazy times we are living in today (some examples: “Big Brother” [Stevie Wonder], “If There’s A Hell Below…” [Curtis Mayfield], “Fight The Power” [The Isley Brothers], etc.)

2. Record the following: An INTRO to your selection talking about why you feel it’s important to vote, giving the song title+artist+why you chose it

3. Send the intro+song as an MP3 file(s) via email to tgrundy[at]gmail.com - no later than Sunday, October 26th!

4. BTW, in an effort to eliminate duplicates, we’ll be posting the song selections everybody chooses in follow-up emails.

That’s it . . . we’ll do the rest. The podcast will be posted on RhythmsInBlackSatin.com AND we encourage you to post it or link to it on your podcast site as well.

If you have any questions, concerns, etc. please reach out to me at tgrundy[at]gmail.com or IM me on GMail or leave me a comment/message on my page at the Soul Commune music community or in the SoulSites Podiverse group also on Soul Commune.

Times are tough. We can no longer just sit on the sidelines and do nothing. We must:

Get Up, Get Into It and Get Involved!

My name is TGrundy of RhythmsInBlackSatin.com and I approve of this message! {smile}

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3 Comments on Get Up, Get Into it, Get Involved: GET OUT AND VOTE!

  1. Get Up, Get Into it, Get Involved: GET OUT AND VOTE! on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 10:13 am

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  2. ms. alex on Fri, 17th Oct 2008 1:31 pm

    3. ~ Sorry to hear that you weren’t feelin’ well & glad ur betta!! Take care of yaself..have a good w/e.

  3. El Slick on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 5:40 pm

    4. A lot of people a saying that their vote won’t count.
    My response: If you are in a fist fight and there was a good chance that you’d lose…..do you stand there and take a asss whipping without throwing a punch? Hell no! You swing back and try to land a punch. Who knows, you might knock the sucker out.
    Don’t punk out and take a “L” without throwing a punch….VOTE dammit!

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