Chairman Ralph's Ministry Of Truth

Featured Songs

I don't care about the press
And music magazines
I don't like teachers
I never read fanzines
I wanna live on the road
I wanna die on stage
Just let me play my guitar
I do the best I can

Don't slander my name
Don't stab me in the back
Don't tell me what's good or bad
Let me do what I please
Let me do what I like
Let me up I'm satisfied...

--THE DOGS ("Satisfied")

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A REVOLUTION OF THE MIND (LIVE: 8/12/11)	A REVOLUTION OF THE MIND (LIVE: 8/12/11) Live: Friday, August 12, 2011 at the Harbor Vision Festival, Dwight P. Mitchell City Center Park, Benton Harbor, MI, during the "Xpression Session" crew's segment...featuring myselfon vocals only (no guitar), and captured with my Olympus digital voice recorder. Description	Play	Download
CLASH COVERS PROJECT #1: NORTH AND SOUTH	CLASH COVERS PROJECT #1: NORTH AND SOUTH Recorded for If Music Could Talk's "EET Week" Covers Project: for more information, see the "EET Week Covers" thread on clashcity.com/. Mixed/recorded by Don Hargraves: Chairman Ralph, acoustic rhythm/lead guitars, lead/backing vocals. Description	Play	Download
CLASH COVERS PROJECT #2: MOVERS AND SHAKERS	CLASH COVERS PROJECT #2: MOVERS AND SHAKERS Recorded for If Music Could Talk's "EET Week" Covers Project: for more information, see the "EET Week Covers" thread on clashcity.com/. Chairman Ralph: acoustic guitar, lead vocals+backup comedy bits Don Hargraves: plastic trash can, backing vocals+comedy bits Mixed/recorded by Don Hargraves Description	Play	Download
CLASH COVERS PROJECT #3: PLAY TO WIN (Chorus)	CLASH COVERS PROJECT #3: PLAY TO WIN (Chorus) Recorded for If Music Could Talk's "EET Week" Covers Project: for more information, see the "EET Week Covers" thread on clashcity.com/. In this case, we were asked to record just the chorus, for compilation into a final master...so here's Don and myself, double-tracking a great gang chorus that's looking for a song to give it a home: an appropriate tribute to one of CUT THE CRAP's most inscrutable, indicipherable moments! Description	Play	Download
COME TO CD BABY (JINGLE)	COME TO CD BABY (JINGLE) Recorded live, in my van, for CD Baby's May 2012 Jingle Contest. Description	Play	Download
FIVE EMPREES: "TALKING WITH THE STARS" PT IV		Play	Download
FIVE EMPREES: "TALKING WITH THE STARS" PT. I		Play	Download
FIVE EMPREES: "TALKING WITH THE STARS" PT. II		Play	Download
FIVE EMPREES: "TALKING WITH THE STARS" PT. III		Play	Download
I SAW THE CLASH	I SAW THE CLASH There's no getting around the influence of The Clash ("The Only Band That Matters"), especially if you saw them live. No matter which lineup you saw, there's no denying their impact, which this song celebrates...I have a bootleg of the night in question (FIVE ALIVE: recorded on 2/17/84 at The Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden)...so I just used my imagination, and went from there. Description	Play	Download
I SENT YOUR RECORD OUT TODAY	I SENT YOUR RECORD OUT TODAY Dedicated to a customer from Aarhus, Denmark, who bought a compilation by the '70s British punk group, Eater (THE HISTORY OF EATER VOLUME I) -- whose preteen ages grabbed headlines (as did drummer Dee Generate's dismissal of Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten as being "too old"!). No deeper meanings here, just the first in a series of musical greetings for my eBay/GEMM.com customers! Description	Play	Download
I WAS A TEENAGE SUBVERSIVE (LIVE: 8/12/11)	I WAS A TEENAGE SUBVERSIVE (LIVE: 8/12/11) Live: Friday, August 12, 2011, at the Harbor Vision Festival, Dwight P. Mitchell City Center Park, Benton Harbor, MI. I performed this track first(vocals only), followed by "A Revolution Of The Mind," and taped both of 'em with my Olympus digital voice recorder...enjoy! Description	Play	Download
IT'S NEVER ENOUGH	IT'S NEVER ENOUGH I wrote this song after gas prices shot up to $3 per gallon -- no small matter when I still commuted 40-odd miles to work every day, realizing that $15-20 a pop was going out the window, no matter what I did. On a bigger level, the lyrics address the politics of scarcity, and how absurd they can get on an every day level. Description	Play	Download
MY COUSIN KEVIN	MY COUSIN KEVIN "Suffering at its best" is how I often describe this song whenever I'm playing it live, but it's grounded in real experience. Lisa wrote the original lyrics, which I tweaked for a pop format, and added a couple of my own lines (mostly on the bridge)...with the name changed to protect the relation involved. Description	Play	Download