This
is a video from the Brain Surgeons Save CBGB show at CBGB on
October 20 2005. The video is inter-cut with videos from other
shows in Germany, Jackson MS, Philly and NYC and still images
from the town of Clayton NY. The videos were provided by CBGB,
Mike Frigerio, Dominique Berard and the old pictures from Clayton
are from the book Images of America CLAYTON by Verda
S. Corbin & Shane A. Hutchinson, Arcadia Pub. 1998
The song 1864 is a tribute to my great-great grandfather,
Joseph Longsway. I got the story from a newspaper article where
he told of the events leading to his getting the Congressional
Medal of Honor. My father stayed with him briefly when his parents
were in mourning because most of their parents had died in the
flu epidemic of 1918. It is also a tribute to my family, the
people of Clayton NY and all brave Americans regardless of their
origins.
