As a side note, the idea of Kali-Yuga and society’s path of De-Evolution (if you will) are very close to Thoreau’s “less is more, simplicity is best” mentality.

Wise Men are Hiding in Mountains? A hidden reference to a certain aforementioned man spending a couple of years by a pond in Massachusettes?? Stranger things have happened.

Am G D xalot

C D, C D, C D, A

D G D, D G D, G C G G, C G D, G C G G, C G D,

D G

Jam on Dminorish scale (Same keys as F scale for Keyboard players – I wish I knew guitar scales)

Then to D

C D, C D, C D, A

11-09-01 first played as “hands” with what I’ll call phase one lyrics
11-27-01 instrumental
11-30-01 instrumental
12-02-01 instrumental
12-08-01 Phase2 lyrics start
01-10-02 Phase2 lyrics
01-11-02 Phase2 lyrics
01-16-02 Phase2 lyrics
01-17-02 no lyrics, instrumental
01-21-02 no lyrics, instrumental
01-25-02 no lyrics, instrumental
01-27-02 no lyrics, instrumental
02-02-02 no lyrics, instrumental
02-22-02 -first time tbone sings “How far will we go on Monday”
-goodbye Hands, hello Kali-Yuga…easier to type, thanks Trev

04-12-02 first transition out of Hot Dog
this transition became a staple and really got Kali-yuga rolling.
04-20-02 intro changed, keys dont build as they used to into scotty
05-03-02 the earlist version most like the current stand alone, as the intro was changed alot during 2002
06-09-02 first transition into Hot Dog

07-17-02 intro before lyrics is 2:15 and josh leads into Scotty

etc…towards the end of 2002 and through may 2003 they really started honed the Kali-yuga intro, by locking down the the roll we have all become accustomed too. Having been transitioned out of Hot Dog so much the intro changed alot, but the build start taking shape in the aforementioned period as it stood alone quite often. without hotdog in front of it KY really developed IMO, the building intro. with HDog obv no intro in required. that build is really sweet IMO

whew. it’s I gotta stop listening now.

I try and post the original lyrics soon ?

“My guru [Sri Yuketeswar] determined by various calculations that the last Kali Yuga, or Iron Age, of the Ascending Arc, started about A.D. 500. The Iron Age, 1200 years in duration, is a span of materialism; it ended about A.D. 1700. That year ushered in Dwapara Yuga, a 2400-year period of electrical and atomic-energy developments: the age of telegraphy, radio, airplanes, and other space-annihilators.”

“Kali Yuga is sometimes referred to as the Iron Age because it was also the time when forging iron was discovered. Throughout the Kali Yuga, human civilisation degenerates further…In Kali Yuga, people are no longer respected for intelligence, knowledge or spiritual wisdom. Instead, material wealth and, to a lesser extent, physical strength, are what make a person highly regarded. Even though respect is shown superficially among the people, no one sincerely respects anyone. Everyone believes that the ultimate goal in life is to be respected, hence becoming wealthy and physically strong.”

http://pages.zoom.co.uk/thuban/html/kaliyuga.html

“According to the Hindu tradition of cosmology, we are now nearing the end of the Kali Yuga (the Age of Iron) which is the final and most negative of four evolutionary Yugic cycles.”

Here is an mp3 version of “Hands of invisible forces” with alternate Kali-Yuga lyrics