Profiteers & Progress, Midnight Oil, The Fillmore, Silver Spring, Maryland; May 9th, 2017; The Great Circle World Tour, (Washington DC area); 1st 2 songs of the set
Thanks for sharing. I have only heard profiteers played live once a long, long time ago. So good to hear them playing the older tunes again. Hi from Oz, looking forward to them playing at Hanging Rock Vic. later this year.
These are great songs to open a show in DC with with now that we have a President who has said he would carpet bomb rather than do targeted strikes to try to avoid civilian casualties and who wants to roll back and dismantle the EPA. I have always thought Profiteers was a brilliant song...the structure and especially Martin Rotsey's guitar solos (one of the few songs he-cowrote)...you can understand how Midnight Oil came to name themselves after Jimi Hendrix's Burning of the Midnight Lamp when you hear this side of their music (See also Armistice Day and Naked Flame)...and Progress is simply one of the best protest songs and hard rock songs ever composed and performed...brilliant...thanks for the video.
