About a month or so ago our ever energized manager, Jim DelBalzo, invited Simon and I to lunch at Dallas BBQ. Jim had a revelation to share, an idea of gargantuan proportions.

“Here is what I’m thinking we should do with Iranian Democracy. We put together a concert or maybe a whole bunch of concerts for Iranian Democracy. I was at Colombia records when Geldof decided he was going to do Live Aid. You know what he did? He just called people. He sat there and he just called everyone he knew. So that is what you are going to do. I mean, I could call people, but you are the one who has to sell the idea. It is your passion for the cause that is going to convert them. So, what I want you to do is go home and start calling everyone you know and see if you can make this happen.”

That is how the idea was born. Over the next couple of days I compiled a list of everyone I knew in the music industry and have now started to contact them individually. Pulling this off still seems a little out of my reach and ability, but as they say where there is a will there is a way!

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It is overwhelming to see the amazing response to our Press Release announcing the release of Iranian Democracy. The response is much more than a bunch of people just re-messaging a PRWeb press release, it is individuals across twitter spreading the message that Iranian Democracy is coming. Thank you all!!

twisted4u, luciogalluzzi, PERSIA_NEWS, DominiqueRdr, CAFalk, tehranweekly, zorinsmom, edwand, iranlaya, iran_news, SkyNewswire, prudentpress, Reriani, tekhelet16, NedaIsOurVoice, …there are so many more, but we have to stop somewhere!

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Hi All,

We loved making the Sour Grapes video. It was just a compilation of the top google rank images for Iranian Election. It was fun, easy, and really effective. Now we want to make a video for Burning Out, the other single on the Iranian Democracy EP.

What we really want though is your involvement. Submit any photos that you have taken or have seen that you think are a good fit for this song. We will look at them all and then choose the ones we like and make the video out of them. If we choose a photo that you send us we will definitely credit you for it.

Also, we will choose five people who we think submitted the best photo and send them a copy of Iranian Democracy and a copy of Ashes signed by all band members.

Here are the lyrics. You can listen to the song on this site or our myspace page.

To submit a photo just email it to buddaheadmusic@mac.com

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Cover Artwork for Buddahead Iranian Democracy EP

Hi All,

We are excited to announce the release of Iranian Democracy, available now on Itunes and most other online digital music stores.

For more information please read the official press release

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In my opinion, and I wrote the song so my opinion should count for something, the key lyric in the whole song is A single slide, a single move, a single raised hand in the room could shift the lines that change the whole world too. Sour Grapes is essentially a song about change and behind its musical complexity it carries a pretty simple message: if you want to change your world you have to first change yourself and then stand up for the change. Yes, I know it sounds very Michael Jackson Man in the mirror but so what? That jacko was onto something (before he caught glimpse of his reflection and jumped into another nose job).

However, Sour Grapes begins with the lyric, “We made this bed now we lie in it, started a fire just to burn in it, make no bones about it.” Change is not easy. Our current existence is a bed we have made. To change means we have to be willing to let go of our current identity, to end the safety of what we know. “Sleep now under these uncertainties. Dream now, dream of all the possibilities” It is easy to dream of the possibilities but it is the uncertainty of the outcome that mostly prevents change because what we leave behind after we change is still a part of who we are. I think it was Marcus Aurelius who said (and I am paraphrasing) “What ever is, is also the seed of the change to come”.

So, this being said, the bold steps that the people of Iran are taking, in trying to change is remarkable. They are “peeling layers of life from layers of death” but in death there is life – and it is a new life they are fighting for.

Everything is so connected. Change is so connected. It is remarkable that I have a common understanding with people with whom I may only have an genetic connection. I am blown a way that I am moved by their fight for change.

They are “spitting sour grapes through the skin of their teeth” and asking, “How many lies can we entertain?”

To them I say, “Here is wishing you everything you dream about.” Your change will come. May your leaders take note. They can not stop change. They may only delay it. In the words of John Naisbitt, to conclude, “Change occurs when there is a confluence of both changing values and economic necessity, not before”.

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