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S2 Bonus 7 - "Sweet Dirty Tony's Baadasssss Song"

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The Saxophone Is an Instrument of the Imperialist

Garcia: The most nasty one is a woman, by the way. She bursts in with her cadres and says, we're taking control of how your music gets played. And then the musicians all shrug and go, we're in the union. That means that the government owns us. But I have to take issue with what happens next, which is that the revolutionaries say the saxophone,. sir, is banned because it's an imperialist instrument. Garcia flips the fuck out. You just can't use the saxophone in the orchestra anymore. Come again? The saxophone is an instrument of the imperialist. Do you know what the Belgium imperialists are doing in the Congo? There

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