Covid has crept a little closer to home. Several close friends have been tested positive in Vienna in the last few days. Therefore, we are rescheduling the Acoustic Tuesday from next week to Oct. 13th. If the numbers stabilize a bit by then, then hopefully we’ll be able to get together again. Till then, I hope you all stay safe and act responsibly for yourselves and others. #acoustictuesday #covid_19 (at Chelsea)
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In the wake of the largest refugee camp in Europe burning down, we will donate the proceeds of next week’s Acoustic Tuesday to the people interned in Moria. Whether you come to the Chelsea or not, you can donate here: https://donate.helprefugees.org/campaigns/moria-emergency/ #moria (at Chelsea)
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I’m playing a @unicef benefit here tonight and many of you helped raise $550 for the @americancancersociety when I did a live stream benefit for them a few weeks ago. These things have got me thinking that I’d like to start doing more live stream benefits for various organizations that need help right now. Do any of you know of some good charities or non-profits that you trust and who would need some help? (at Semperdepot)
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Today I released three new songs on Patreon ✍️✍️✍️ One is about religion, one is a love song, and the other is about this guy that I painted behind bars where I think he looks best. If you’d like to hear them, then go to patreon.com/ianfishersongs #lockhimup
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The Acoustic Tuesday is back! In two weeks from today (Sept. 22nd) @frauleinhona / @raisa_kovacki_music / @davemckendry / and moi will share some songs and stories at the good ol’ @chelsea_vienna 🔥 See ya there #acoustictuesday (at Chelsea)
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After a little trip to the mountains, I’m back in Vienna and I’m getting back to work. Look out for news about the upcoming album release in the next weeks and there are three new songs on the way to all my Patreon supporters this week! Picture by Emilia Bruck
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I made it back to Europe 🛫🇪🇺🛬 (at Berlin, Germany)
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Goodbye America. Don’t forget that turning left keeps ya on the track. (at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri)
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Like father, like son… (at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri)
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This is my mom. She has fought cancer for 24 years. Yesterday I played a livestream benefit concert for the American Cancer Society to help them help people like her. If you’d like to check out the livestream and/or support the ACS, then go to my Facebook page and watch the rerun this weekend or visit (https://tiltify.com/@american-cancer-society/ian-fisher). #mom #americancancersociety
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I’m proud to do a livestream benefit concert for the American Cancer Society on Thursday, Aug. 20th, at 7pm CST. My mom has battled cancer for over two decades and it was one of the drugs that the ACS developed which helped her in her fight. The ACS is primarily supported through fundraising events. Due to Covid, they haven’t been able to have those events. Thus, they’ve asked artists like me to help out digitally. If you want it be a part of it, then tune in to the livestream on Facebook on Thursday or visit this site now (https://tiltify.com/@american-cancer-society/ian-fisher). @americancancersociety @ianfishersongs photo by @andreasjakwerth
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I was inspired by the yard signs that I’ve seen saying “No More Bullshit” and “Fuck Your Feelings” in support of our virtuous, christian president’s campaign. I can completely relate to the sentiment. After four years of lies and childish avoidant insults as a response to matters of life and death, I can actually start to smell the physical bullshit smudged all over little orange hands going to town on another Orwellian tweet. This guy is the bullshit master. If spouting bullshit was an art, then Trump would be DaVinci. So I’m with ya neighbor, let’s all say it together, “No More Bullshit”! And concerning the whole “Fuck Your Feelings” thing. Your rich New Yorker president wasn’t elected by middle American white-working-poor, whose standard of living has been plummeting to Third World levels since Reagan started slashing away any governmental protection of the Middle Class, based on facts. You voted based on feelings. Trump is a master of making his supports feel good about who he’s told them they are and momentarily live in a delusion where they don’t have to adapt to a changing world, but rather that that world should be changed to fit their predispositions and prejudices. A safe place where one can be openly racist and hope for a police state enforced theocracy. Well, I hate to rain on that tiki torch parade of yours, but facts don’t care about feelings. And you might feel real good about having political representation that plays to your race or religion now, but behind Trumps identity politics lies a mission to destroy the state itself, because he and his backers have the shortsighted, Medieval view that the state stands in their way of gaining more power and, without it in their way, they will take the democratically vested power away from people like you even more than they already have. So if you want a future where you and everyone else other than a few hundred people at the top are dirt poor and we’re all tricked into hating each other because of race or religion or someone’s right to own a gun or a woman’s right to her own body, then please turn that “Fuck Your Feelings” sign around in your yard so you can read what the rest of us want to tell you.
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I’ve been driving around my hometown and have seen a lot of these hung up like Christmas lights, sports flags, or Halloween decorations. Instead of just reading “Keep America Great”, some even read “No More Bullshit” or “Fuck Your Feelings”. This type of fanfare makes it a little easier to understand why someone who would otherwise benefit from free healthcare, better education, and universal income could be tricked into supporting a candidate whose mission it is to discredit and dismantle the state so the rich can have more power and the rest of us are more easily disposable. So many of them are good-hearted people and it’s so sad to see them misled like this. I just hope that they will still have the right to change if we have to go through a few more years of this shameful digression as a society and a republic.
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On Wednesday at 10am CST/ 5pm CET, I’m going to do my 1st livestream from my cabin in Ste. Genevieve 🤠#livestream #concert #anybodybuttrump2020
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#gocartsarefuckingawesome (at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri)
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I haven’t even been here a week and the farmer’s tan is already back. (at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri)
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A quarantine looks a little different here…
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Dawn on the Mississippi (at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri)
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Oh it feels so good to get my redneck on again.
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