American Psychos: Fascist Hippies coming to Town

Guest post by Jack Dash

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Stop Press #2: The venue, The Green Note, made the following statement:"We at Green Note are
committed to running our venue in a way consistent with our beliefs and world view. This article
was recently brought to our attention, and while its accuracy has been disputed by the organisers,
we at Green Note reserve the right to err on the side of caution in the name of our venue, the
hard work of our staff, and our place in the community. While we had no prior knowledge of the
history or politics of this band, if there is any truth to the extreme political views held by the
members of Changes, these run in contrast to our beliefs and we felt unable to go ahead with this
show." Risa / The Green Note, 2013-08-08
Stop Press #1: The venue, The Green Note, have now pulled the concert. Keep your eyes open for
any attempt by the promoters to move to a new venue. 2013-07-19
nb. This article has been edited to change the incorrect attribution of a couple of quotes. This
mistake has no bearing on the accuracy or argument of the post as a whole. 2013-07-23

"None of this had any real connection to integration or peace between races. Integration did not
occur -- flight of the whites occurred. It was no secret that once blacks predominated in an area,
the crime rate would soar and the streets would become dangerous to walk." Robert N. Taylor Chronicles of Chaos, 2006

Booked to appear at a small venue called the Green Note inCamden, London on September 6th
2013 is a shadowy American folk duo known as Changes. Cousins Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas
Tesluk started playing together in coffee houses of their native Chicago in the dusk of the 60s,in an
America redolent with the bad vibes of the Manson Family's 'Acid Fascism' and as the hippy dream
turned bum trip.
Taylor and Tesluk have a history of fascist involvement stretching back to the very early 60s,
originating in their membership of the Chicago chapter of the Minutemen around 60-61, a
vigilante militia group founded to combat what they saw as the communist threat to America.
Here is Taylor in an interview with the fascist neofolk/industrial music magazine Stigmata in 2005
talking about the organisation and his significant role in it:
"Minutemen drew from the full scope of those on the right. From "Barry Goldwater" type
conservatives, Objectivists and libertarians, anti-communists,constitutionalists, Christian Identity,
neo-Fascists, Nazis, gun-owner advocates, etc.."
"My involvement in the Minutemen was considerable. I became a member of the newly formed
organization at about 14 years old. I first was a member, then became the principle organizer and
leader in the Chicago area. Then I became a member of the Executive council of ten as the director
of intelligence. By the time I was 24 years old I was the editor of the organization's publication, On
Target as well as the national spokesman for the group. My involvement lasted through most of
the years of the organization's existence."
"What made On Target uniquely different from other anti-communist or right-wing publications
was that in addition to articles and commentary on various current issues, it also contained names,
addresses and phone numbers of its assumed communist and liberal enemies. Often literal dossiers
on such people were featured. Combine the slogan, cross-hair masthead, and such detailed
information on perceived enemies, and the potential threat was implied, without ever being
actually stated."
"We have studied your Communist smirch, Mao, Che, Bhukarin. We have learned our lessons well
and have added a few homegrown Yankee tricks of our own. Before you start your next smear
campaign, before you murder again, before you railroad another patriot into a mental
institution...better think it over. See the old man at the corner where you buy your paper? He may
have a silencer equipped pistol under his coat. That extra fountain pen in the pocket of your
insurance salesman that calls on you might be a cyanide-gas gun. What about your milkman?
Arsenic works slow but sure. Your auto mechanic may stay up nights studying booby-traps. These
patriots are not going to let you take their freedom away from them. They have learned the silent
knife, the strangler's chord, the target rifle that hits sparrows at 200 yards. Only their leaders
restrain them. Traitors beware! Even now the cross-hairs are on the back of your necks..."

The publicity for this upcoming tour makes reference to Italian facist
philosopher Julius Evola, describing the evening as "An intimate evening of music for aristocrats of
the soul" and calling the tour the 'Ride the Tiger World Tour', both taken from the title of one of
Evola's books, Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul (published in 1961).
Evola's fascism was esoteric and Brahminical, and although he had close ties with Mussolini and
the Nazi Party in the 30s and 40s, he considered both to have failed the cause of fascism because
they were too proletarian in ideology and structure. At the bottom of the poster is printed 'Kali
Yuga' (the Age of Vice), a pointed reference to current era of the Hindu calender constantly
referenced by fascists like Evola and esoteric Nazi Savitri Devias a prophecy of the decline of world
into decadence, reliance on technology, and descent into materialism and greed, as predicted in
the Mahabharata Hindu scriptures written around 400 BC, and a favourite touchstone for postNazi fascism because of its place ancient Aryan history and its narrative of decline, a constant
refrain of fascism. In the past Changes also toured under the banner 'Men Among The Ruins', the
title of another of Evola's books.
The band were rediscovered by Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis notoriety in 1996, who then
produced and released their next album on his Storm label alongside other far-right acts
like Allerseen and David E. Williams. They quickly became revered in the scene as the progenitors
of neofolk.
Austrian label HauRuck! started by comedy neofolk Stormtrooper Albin Julius rereleased Fire of
Life in both LP and CD form in 2001, before releasing a new full length Changes album, Orphan In
The Storm.
In 2005 they released an untitled CD with British fascist folk musician Andrew King (Sol Invictus,
Brown Sierra) on the Portuguese Terra Fria label. King was recently sacked from another neofolk
band Sol Invictus(a band with its own seriously fascist history) because he recorded a song by
David E Williams called 'Wotan Rains On A Plutocrat's Parade', in which he amended the lyrics to
make the song unambiguously racist and Nazi.
The event is obviously being promoted quietly so as to avoid the unwanted attention of antifascist organisations like Searchlight and Antifa. For example Michael Moynihan is referred to as "a
friend" and not by name in the biography on the venue's site, presumably because of his own
involvement in far-right politics. No mention of their history in the Minutemen is made , and they

are presented as a straight-forward folk act. Tesluk talked about the unwanted attention of antifa
protesters in the same Stigmata interview quoted above:
"As for the actual antifas congregated a block away, Douglas, of Death In June, walked over to
confront them and they all faded away and acted like he was the invisible man. I passed them at
least three times and they wouldn't even look in my direction. No one there was afraid of those
punks."
The concert, featuring Death in June, a famous British fascist neofolk band, in Changes' hometown
of Chicago, was cancelled in the end because the Jewish venue owner became aware of the bands'
political affiliations.
Unlike many contemporary neofolk groups Changes seem relatively comfortable talking about
their far-right politics, and specifically how with Moynihan's help they reached a young neofolk
audience that includes plenty of radical traditionalists, Asatru practitioners, esoteric fascists, neoNazis and Third Positionists who are the natural audience for Changes' Eurocentric fascism:
"In the early to mid '70s the audiences were alright, but I doubt that most of them knew what our
music was all about. The folk music scene was pervaded with leftists at that time, both as
performers and as audiences. That has radically changed. It was as if Changes had to wait over
thirty years to find the real audience it had been seeking all those years." Robert N. Taylor Chronicles of Chaos, 2006
At the time of writing the tour will also include in concerts in Lithuania, Germany, Moscow and
Hungary, Italy, Denmark, Austria, and Greece.
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