Stone Throwing Riot

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Settlements, on the West Bank
Armaments, in the Gaza
Terrorists, on the border
What’s this? A new world order
Security by your guns
Oppression by your religion
Employment for you if you beg
And there’s kids with rocks and they’re dropping dead
It’s a
Stone Throwing - Riot
Stone Throwing - Riot
Stone Throwing – Riot
Stone Throwing – Riot
Peace Process, what a fable
Netanyahu, at the table
Laughing at, the secretary mame
With US Cash, in his hand
Smart money brothers look what you did
Advancing zionism in the name of David
While United Nations falls on it’s face
And the US Congress, what a disgrace
A little girl sleeps in tonite
While her brother packs his stones for the fight
And he takes aim at the soldiers machine guns
And takes a bullet in the back for freedom on the run
Cause they have none
Knocking down homes, in Ramallah
Killing olive trees, where is Allah?
Got your F-15s, with cellular phones
Better duck kids, throwing stones
Born American Beebee boy
You have all the guns and American toys
But your not from there but you moved right in
Let the Intifada begin again
They’re desperate, Riot
Oppression Taxation, Riot
No Representation, Riot
I am talking big money man
No Peace for Land!

THE RIOT OVER WHO WROTE STONE THROWING RIOT

Written in winter of 1997 after the 1st Palestinian Intifada, this song was later dedicated to Mohammed Al-Dura, the young 12 year old boy who shot dead in the arms of his father by the guns of Israeli Soldiers on Sept 30, 2000.

But like with most successful classics, there is a plethora of credit takers lurking and claiming stake to it's ownership. Frankly, it's an ongoing riot about who wrote Stone Throwing Riot.

The self-appointed band poet and resident coffee drinker Joe Allen claims the idea to be his and that he co-wrote the lyrics.

Johnny Punish says that he wrote the melody of the song in his studio office, called Joe on the phone to get some ideas, thought them to be rubbish, and just added the Joe Allen line "While United Nations falls on it’s face, And the US Congress, what a disgrace". Although he can't confirm that it was directly attributed to Joe Allen or that he in fact wrote the lyric himself.

Richy Abboud claims he wrote the drum parts and added the backing vocals while Jake "Skoor" Wickstrom added the bass lines, especially the cool breakdown part of the song. Brian Jay Cline says it was his helicopter guitar lead and his interpretation that led to this song becoming a rock classic. Paul Hampton of The Skeletones, the producer who slogged away in the studio in Riverside California for days, says "What, without me....um, whatever!".

When the band was asked in February of 2009 who wrote the song how the song was written, they replied via email with the following;

JOE ALLEN
" I came up with the title and lyrics, Johnny Punish changed the whole song execept the Title & the US Congress UN line".

RICHY ABBOUD
"The drums are what made the song. Everybody sucks except the drummer. I should take the credit for everything and everyone fuck off."

BRIAN JAY CLINE
"The earthwquake.....it was a sign when Paul and I were recording at the bottom of that studio below street level in the dilapitated old beaten office building in downtown Riverside California. We were thinking this is no way to die here a cement crupt. So yeah, I personally don't give a rat fuck who wrote it as long as I receive 25% of whatever money it generates. I gotta live dammi! Shit, I wrote it................ fuck all you knuckleheads and white trash pricks."

ALLEN JENNINGS (roadie): "I was there, I want my cut"

JOHNNY PUNISH
"They say the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. What is left in the rubble of truth is conspiracy theory sprinkled on the egos of rusty old men who confuse myth and truth. Worse, time has not been kind and decay of truth has been pervasive."

"They say old myths which are believed in tend to become true. I say, let the myths continue and the legend grow. Personally, I encourage each and everyone who loves this song to continue to lay claim to it. I, for one, will contribute and continue to perpetuate its’ myth or its’ truth, whichever you prefer. So yes I shall scream to the masses that I, in-deed, sang this song. Yes, I created it based on the idea posed by the simple Clash lyric in the protest anthem “White Riot” that we, the sons of Palestinians, needed a “Riot of My Own”. For me, that was the idea and the basis of this song."

"And so yes, I will even yell louder to lay claim that I wrote the melody with chords on my acoustic and even slowly and deliberately penned the chorus including the back-up vocal idea to empower my fellow band mates to catch hold of it and make it their riot too. This action would serve two fold, the aforementioned spiritual empowerment of teamwork and more prectically, to help this determined charger mask his vocal deficiencies making the song much more palatable to the ear…… Is this a truth? A myth?"

"Like Palestine dying in darkness of blue and brown suited policy wonks in the bowels of Foggy Bottom, this song is now a myth to be talked about by future generations in romantic false truths. Like the lost city of Atlantis, so goes the truth about who wrote Stone Throwing Riot.
And so it goes......."

On the Eddie "Somalia" Kraus taken photo that was the Back Cover of the Stone Throwing Riot CD, there is circumstantial evidence that Joe Allen was indeed part of the song. You can see that shadowy character carrying what looks like an assault weapon" says Johnny Punish. "But we don't know for sure if it was Joe Allen or just a passerby who slipped into the shot. That could be him."

Whichever is true about this song, its' clear that Stone Throwing Riot is a classic punk rock song written, recorded, and performed by a ridiculous bunch of ego driven young bucks who called themselves Twisted Nixon. It truly has become a cult underground punk classic for the ages and is widely considered by critics to be the signature song of Twisted Nixon.