I have a dream speech by Fabre Lou-adrien

( i tried to do it the fastest possible, the originale vidéo is 17 minute long, my recording is 12, that’s the best i could do.

So here is the vidéo :

And here is the text :

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

With the transcription ! :

-How much does the skill of a given drummer affect your choice of  microphones? Are you ever afraid a guy is gonna hit a mic and break hit ?
-Oh of course you know yeah … not very much expect for that story that i told about when i first recorded a drums and i used 87 on every drum.
-Hahum
-And i would never do that again
-In the studio ?
-In the studio, and the owner went nuts ! ” Oh you hit on of those drum..mics, you’re buying it !”
and you know,hum, He didn’t hit it.
And, but I tend to go with this mics on all the drum kids, and the drummer hit a 421 he is not gonna do anything but he can   ****
Now i have had a drummer knocked the top of a 57 and … ” C’est la vie ” you know …
-That’s right you get another one, this a 79 $ microphone

-What do you think about 57? It’s been around for 35 year
-Let me tell you, when i first started to play it out, and I was singing, and i was looking around tryin’ to find a singing mic and i had, this is years ago, i had first microphone ahead the kind of Elvis had, it was like this, and it had a swithch on it.

and It was the pre-57,and then it came out, then it was 57 and i bought those for my band
I insisted on 57 any place i was singing, i liked those and they said ” there is the 58, it’s the same mic ” no, it isn’t ,it’s a different cabinet …
So i was with 57 and  then when i started engineering, and the 57 sounded great on snares , and it’s funny my all life has been involved with 57, singing, snare drums, guitar amps
i mean,if I’m trying all kind of esoteric stuff on a guitar amp, no matter what I’m doin’, I’ll have a 57 on it also, just because that guys is gonna bite and come right through, I mean this is a,this is,this, i don’t know if they have won any award or so but this is a fantastic development. I mean when you the see the president talking on mics  those are 57 with those windshield with a little screws on it. This is a fantastic development
the guy who invented that should have an award, or, maybe yes, tons of awards, you know ..

-Pretty good deal huh ?
-Fantastic.
-80 bucks…
-80 bucks, you going there and you are in any studio and there are half a dozen of them in every place.

-And it last a long time too.
-Ho my godness.
-Most of the time..
-Exactly … till you chop its head off
-When I’m tracking, yeah, when I’m tracking, I’ll, i usually go thru an analog tap-machine, but it’s a,it’s a much more involved set up to do it because I’m going coming of to reprohead of the analog machine and the band can’t hear that way, you know, so i have to feed the band the inputs and bring, and then me monitor different in here.
So it has to be in a special situation where I’m not getting leakage and they are not any getting leakage, you know , but it just works great.

-When did you make your transition to digital audio ?
-You know there was.. In the beginning of  1984 Sony came out with a thing called F1, where you would have a digital audio converter and that would convert it to a stream of digital that recorded on a Betamax machine… you couldn’t use a VHS because the VHS wasn’t even enought VHS is still was now*ere near  quali*y of Be*a
And , so i got one of those immediately, and i started mixing to that in 84, and i would still make the analogs,like i still do now and, hu, yeah i started mixing the digital then, and then from that i went to a DAT , the DAT machine, and the Protools, well Protools is funny. The..those gentlemen came here last night, my friend Mike,ha,  who is teaching at Valley College, he was doing a recording you know psychiatrist do this things for their clients you know “you’re ok” ?you know,” people like you,” you know that kind of stuff you know “all you have, don’t, don’t look at those weird looks you’re *a*ing jus* be ause you have 3 eyes” you know…
but anyways, so he talked her in*o gi*ing **e money up fron*.
He said it would be a lot easier for you because i can use this new thing called Protools and this was in the time they had… i guess it was called the 441, that’s what protool says, and i had read about pro tool so i said “mike when you’re not using it, could you, could you ..mind if i can come over and try to figure it out?”and and he s..”no for sure”.So i did that. But it still sounded terrible, i mean i would try doin’  you know you would do hu, background vocal in one course..
Interruption
I called you later today.
You do background vocal in one course and then you would, hu, fly them in. Well i would put the stuff on protool and fly back over and …
I didn’t think it sounded as good as like an AMS sampler but you could really manipulate it
and it just get incrementally and incrementally better… when they came out ADD 24
It was to me a time for to use it, and luckily i had been playin’ around, and fooling around and doin’ all this stuff so I go* in*o using i* rig*t on

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