Violet Deliriums's video: Gang of Four - Ether guitar cover

This is my cover of the Gang of Four's song "Ether" (1979). I will let you read the words and figure it out, but I have included some notes on what certain lyrics refer to. "Long Kesh" is a notorious prison near Belfast in Northern Ireland where there were many Irish Catholics (IRA members) were kept as prisoners of war (a "Special Category") until 1976 when they were made to wear the regular prison uniforms and move to the newly built "Block H." They resisted and many refused to wear them and some went on a hunger strike in 1981. Many prisoners escaped in 1983 by driving a lorry they had stolen through the wall. You can learn more about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFj_ogv9PU4. "Rockall" is a little tiny, desolate island made of volcanic rock off the northeast coast of the Great Britain and Ireland. Although the UK says it belongs to Scotland, there are disputes over it and Ireland, Iceland and Denmark also claim it. Adventurers sometimes go there, but only a few people have ever been on it. You can learn more about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpvfHuri3QY. There are "six counties" that make up Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone.) The newspaper "The Derry Journal" was censored and banned in 1932 and 1940 from the Irish Free State because it was believed that Irish Catholics and Republicans were a threat to the UK. Those dissonant two-note chords...The model I had in mind when I made them was like clanging garbage can lids as a sort of cymbal-like thing. I played it on my Fender Violet Deliriums ESM Signature Model Blacktop HH Jaguar, which has Seymour Duncan SH-1 pickups, a killswitch, and some neat-o stickers on the pickguard. (ESM = Explosive Space Modulator.) I select the bridge humbucker and that goes through my Fender Supersonic 22W amp's "Burn" (high gain) channel with both gain knobs at 5 1/2. I shape the sound with a Keeley Compressor (all four knobs at 12 o'clock) TC Electronic Flashback for a slight echo ("Lofi" delay patch). To record it, I played along with the mp3 with my computer speakers and amp huddled around a Samson CO1U microphone into my Mac's Photo Booth program, which reverses the image and I don't know how to fix it. Trapped in heaven life style (locked in Long Kesh) New looking out for pleasure (H-block torture) It's at the end of the rainbow (White noise in) The happy ever after (a white room) Dirt behind the daydream Dirt behind the daydream The happy ever after Is at the end of the rainbow Dig at the root of the problem (Fly the flag on foreign soil) It breaks your new dreams daily (H-block Long Kesh) Fathers contradictions (Censor six counties news) And breaks your new dreams daily (each day more deaths) Dirt behind the daydream Dirt behind the daydream The happy ever after Is at the end of the rainbow White noise in a white room White noise in a white room White noise in a white room White noise in a white room Trapped in heaven life style (locked in Long Kesh) New looking out for pleasure (H-block torture) It's at the end of the rainbow (White noise in) The happy ever after (a white room) Dirt behind the daydream Dirt behind the daydream The happy ever after Is at the end of the rainbow Dig at the root of the problem (Fly the flag on foreign soil) It breaks your new dreams daily (H-block Long Kesh) Father's contradictions (Censor six counties news) And breaks your new dreams daily (each day more deaths) Dirt behind the daydream Dirt behind the daydream The happy ever after Is at the end of the rainbow There may be oil (Now looking out for pleasure) Under Rockall (It's at the end of the rainbow) There may be oil (The happy ever after) Under Rockall (It's corked up with the ether) There may be oil (It's corked up with the ether) Under Rockall (It's corked up with the ether) There may be oil