Anti-Flag: “You've Got To Die For The Government” (live from Rock to Roll)

Posted by aubin on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 12:00 PM (EST)

Some music from Anti-Flag, The Black Pacific and Joe Sib's recent Rock to Roll performances has surfaced online. Headliner Anti-Flag, along with The Black Pacific, Punk Rock Karaoke, Heartsounds and Destruction Made Simple, performed at the benefit which directly benefits the non-profit organization UCP Wheels For Humanity. Combined Rock To Roll fund raising efforts have raised over $100,000 since the annual event began in 2006. The average wheelchair costs $150 to refurbish, which means Rock To Roll has directly improved the lives of roughly 670 individuals in need.

Previous years have featured a variety of bands, from Against Me! and Mike Ness in 2006, Bouncing Souls and Flogging Molly in 2007, Alkaline Trio and Gaslight Anthem in 2008 and NOFX and Dead To Me last year.

Several other videos from the same night are available through the same uploader account on YouTube.

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DougCL (December 14, 2010)

so, anti-flag, huh? still playin that song, i see.

paulsilence (December 14, 2010)

Why not? For how many years has/did Black Sabbath play "Paranoid"?

Half_Idiot (December 14, 2010)

You're comparing prime rib to the weird brother of prime rib.

Dante3000 (rich) (December 14, 2010)

Primordial rib.

Cos (December 14, 2010)

bastard_squad (December 14, 2010)

Anti-Flag is NO Black Sabbath and I don't care about Black Sabbath.

paulsilence (December 14, 2010)

Who was comparing them? All I meant to say was bands performs their songs many times over the span of their careers. Some of you people need to learn how to process information.

theproblemwithfire (December 14, 2010)

I think he meant to say:

this song is completely immature and dumb, are they still not above this yet (well, after all it *is* anti flay)

Anti Flag has always been shit. Black Sabbath wrote great music, the first 5 albums are amazing, Anti Flag could never top that in their dreams.

JayTee (December 14, 2010)

Anti-Flag > Black Sabbath

No, I'm not being contrarian, I'm basing this on the fact that Black Sabbath, despite how legendary, blah fucking blah, plays boring goddamn 70's rock that I don't mind driving in a car with my dad to or at a bar or something, but generally bores me. Anti-Flag is a punk rock started in the 90's and who I got into back then band who plays agressively catchy music with a political edge not found in many bands nowadays, even if it's ridiculous at times.

TheInebriator (December 14, 2010)

Lol.

Oh, were you not joking?

JayTee (December 14, 2010)

Lol! People worship Ozzy Ozbourne on a folk-punk website!

Oh, you're all not joking either.

bastard_squad (December 14, 2010)

I usually agree with you and I'm no Ozzy fan but Anti-Flag is fucking cartoonish.

JayTee (December 14, 2010)

Anti-Flag wouldn't even break into my top 40 favorite BANDS, but I do spin them every now and then and I don't care if I never get a job at Rolling Stone writing some lame fucking article about them, I just plain do not care about Black Sabbath. In fact, I enjoy Ozzy's hair-metal sounding shit from LATER over it. That's how little attention I put towards his stuff. Give me Hellraiser over War Pigs any day. (Motorhead's version too)

Misanthropee (December 14, 2010)

Even hardcore Sabbath fans hate Ozzy. I'm thinking you probably haven't heard anything beyond the four songs that get radio play, because it's pretty evident that Tony Iommi was one of the greatest riff-writers in rock history. Literally all metal and all even remotely metallic hardcore owes him a huge debt.

Seriously? Ozzy? The first five Sabbath albums are mind-bogglingly killer and it has nothing whatsoever to do with Osbourne. Give Master of Reality or Vol. 4 a spin and eat them words.

paulsilence (December 14, 2010)

I don't worship Ozzy. I worship Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, and to a far lesser extent, Bill Ward.

Half_Idiot (December 14, 2010)

I have to temporarily put you into the insane people with insane opinions file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRhZISswW_k I don't trust a person who can't get into this.

Misanthropee (December 14, 2010)

Amazing fucking song, amazing album.

I think part of the reason many people don't appreciate Sabbath is that their music has been so extensively imitated, plundered and beaten into the fucking ground over the last 30 years that, even if you've never heard Sabbath before, you've heard pretty much every riff from every song elsewhere. Usually coming from far less creative bands. It's impossible to hear it with fresh ears anymore, but it must have sounded pants-pissingly revolutionary at the time.

Plus Ozzy is just so easy to hate, the uninitiated just assume his schtick is the whole band and dismiss them without actually, you know, listening to an album.

IHaveNoFriends (December 14, 2010)

Propaghandi is just anti-flag with big words.

theproblemwithfire (December 14, 2010)

and they play their instruments better. and their songwriting is better. and they don't sing in fake british accents. and they don't dress like teenagers.

wait. you're completely wrong.

IHaveNoFriends (December 14, 2010)

Like I said, big words.

They play their instruments slightly better because they know how apply theory and fancy vocabulary words that a-f doesn't know.
The songwriting isn't really better, both bands are really shallow; just apply to different age groups.
I don't know what a fake British accent sounds like.
They have a better fashion sense because they understand the advanced concepts from fashionistas.

Like if Anti-Flag went to UC Berkeley for a few years or read enough books as if they did go, they would be Propaghandi.

Misanthropee (December 14, 2010)

You aren't a musician yourself, I presume.

There's seriously no comparison between the two bands' styles either; Propagandhi derives theirs from 1980s thrash, whereas AF . . . well, they just straight fucking suck in every conceivable way. There's no way around it.

publichousing (December 15, 2010)

Plus Prop's last 3 albums have all been close to perfect.

sailin_on (December 14, 2010)

It looks like Justin Sane is having a spasm on stage haha

Dante3000 (rich) (December 14, 2010)

Reprise for 2010: "You're gonna die FROM your government (because they've declined to offer extended health benefits to first responders of 9/11)"

Keeping it current for the kids.

Heathbar (December 14, 2010)

The kids that don't care about politics or the kids that don't care about Anti-Flag? Both? That was cynical. I'm sorry.

JayTee (December 14, 2010)

Or we're fighting 2 wars. Ya know, THAT whole thing.

crackpotdemagogue (December 14, 2010)

terrible mix. can hardly hear the guitars.

stacular (December 14, 2010)

The snare sounds like it's buried in mud.

jje18 (December 14, 2010)

yea, when the sound is taken directly from the board it sounds terrible.

Chadreligion (December 14, 2010)

When I first heard the Black Pacific songs on here, they weren't bad, but that video of them playing sucks... the sound is decent, but the song, bleh!!!! "Woah, WOAH!!!" no thanks.
Joe Sib needs to get 22 Jacks back together again.

Punk_Rock_Chuck_Bass (December 14, 2010)

What was Jim thinking? The finger pointing? I don't know.. I mean.. this really makes the Zoli thing seem even better.

MichaelConway (December 14, 2010)

great work for what appears to be a great cause....i don't care who plays, and what songs they play, this is something positive from the punk community.

Heathbar (December 14, 2010)

Cos (December 14, 2010)

Joe Sib is kind of a mook, isn't he?

whiskeyjed (December 14, 2010)

Nah. He's goofy for sure, but Sib is a genuine, awesome dude.

Dante3000 (rich) (December 14, 2010)

Agreed. I think he'd be the first to admit he's a little weird and goofy but he's a really awesome and genuine dude.

Chadreligion (December 14, 2010)

Super cool guy, in fact, so cool, I got stuck in LA without a place to stay once and he hooked up a place for me to crash... true story.

MN_DrNick (December 14, 2010)

Anti-Flag are the punk rock versions of Dick Clark.... they never age.

apocalidiot (December 14, 2010)

saw Anti-Flag at Riot Fest (never really listened to them) and I was glad when it was over... Do most people like this kind of music now or is it a nostalgic thing?

bastard_squad (December 14, 2010)

I don't know anybody that ever liked them. The thought of somebody being nostalgic for them makes me sad.

badbrain (December 14, 2010)

I liked them in 7th grade.

You now know one person who ever liked them

bastard_squad (December 14, 2010)

I love you.

ZachLeg (December 14, 2010)

they were a huge band to me in 6th grade. their first 3 or 4 albums were in constant rotation when i was first getting into punk.

Misanthropee (December 14, 2010)

I loved them when they were first coming up 12 or so years ago. But then I stopped being 15 years old. Now I despise this band with a burning passion. Yup.

punkrockartshow (December 14, 2010)

Its nice to see these guys playing but whatever venue they are at is pretty depressing.

Tsar (December 15, 2010)

I just realized that this song is very heavily inspired by The Clash.