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1. Cool I wish I was there, last month I downloaded some of his SOAD era videos and I enjoy it with my 9 & 6 years Scout grandchildren; I guess it (his part) was all in English; I’m old and I love my beautiful ancient language but not fanatically, yes it works in LA he attracts and captivates masses but not in Armenia where majority voting layer of population have no clue what is he talking about I’m not sure if our PM understood a word or he was just nodding to the rhythms.
   My point is that the music part of it I can’t dispute with; because music is in an international common format which doesn’t have any limitations and boarders and it just captivates masses regardless where and who; but that format (The music) unfortunately  is not capable to relay political messages to masses by itself; so if his goal was to send a message to local masses then I doubted that he was successful.
   This kind of “Demonstration” was to soon for Armenia; it works only in the countries that Democracy has deep roots in the hearts and minds of its entire population; that is down to top layers; otherwise it is harmful because it could just agitate bunch of youngsters sending them to confront with hot bullets again or down deep into “Khor Virab”s; when flat/big belly officials are still nodding to the rhythms.         

2. Osik May be you don’t know,but younger generation in Armenia speaks and understands English very well :) and is well educated enough to know what democracy is.I don’t think USA is a  democratic country,if it was ,Serj wouldn’t be so popular here…

3. You can download the firt track of his new album on his website:

   http://fbwidget1.warnerbrosrecords.com/serj/

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