Damon Has A Dream

 

1. Touche’, Chris, touche’.  Well done.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       02/09/2006  at  07:42 AM  



2. More of a dream for them to bang each other!

   Posted by Macker       02/09/2006  at  08:27 AM  



3. If it wasn’t so disrespectful to the deceased, it would be one of those things that I enjoy.  I really LIKE it when Teddy and the Krew open up their yammering skull caves.  No one could do more for conservatives that Ted Kennedy and Cindy Sheehan!  (Please run, Cindy!  PLEASE run, Cindy!)

   Posted by Beccayinn       02/09/2006  at  09:22 AM  



4. To paraphrase “I have a dream that the dummycrats will remember the words of one of their leaders - ‘ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’” And then maybe, just maybe America can get back on track.

   Ever notice that the ‘generation’ of peace and love killed so many of America’s greats, took the military and the office of the President into dis-repair and despair, dragged the media away from journalism and into opinionism, and caused a massive drug problem?  Sort of reminds me of the ‘religion of peace’ currently terrorizing the world.

   What’s the quote - ‘Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.’????

   Posted by wardmama4       02/09/2006  at  09:56 AM  



5. Experience: The ability to spot a mistake, once you’ve made it again.

   Posted by Oink       02/09/2006  at  11:08 AM  



6. Ever notice that the ‘generation’ of peace and love killed so many of America’s greats, took the military and the office of the President into dis-repair and despair, dragged the media away from journalism and into opinionism, and caused a massive drug problem?  Sort of reminds me of the ‘religion of peace’ currently terrorizing the world.

   I have no comment, it just bears repeating. An excellent summation, wardmama4. I’m part of that generation but not of it, if you know what I mean.

   Posted by StinKerr       02/09/2006  at  07:45 PM  



7. Same here, Stin.  In fact, I was turning against it before I got out of junior high.  I always identified with Dad’s generation far more than I ever identified with my own.

   GLENN MILLER FOREVER!!

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       02/09/2006  at  10:42 PM  



8. Glenn Miller ... uh ... didn’t he play for Red Nichols at one time?

   At least that’s the way I remember it from The Five Pennies.

   Posted by StinKerr       02/09/2006  at  11:00 PM  



9. Not me! Altho I grew up in the 50’s, the 60’s was my time!  I think ... it’s all a little hazy . If there was a drug I didn’t take, it was due to an oversight on my part. Peace, Love, Freedom still sounds good—my PTSD wasn’t so great. I was chronically depressed.  The drug-taking turned ugly also.

   Posted by Oink       02/09/2006  at  11:26 PM  



10. Stin, Glenn probably did sit in with Red Nichols at times during the late 20’s and early 30’s, before going in with the Dorsey brothers and then on to Ray Noble.  I’d have to dig into the documentation to be certain, but right off the cuff I would say that the odds favor it.  Lots of good musicians sat in with Red over the years.  His “Five Pennies” were very rarely five in number (usually more), and he worked with a lot of pickup sidemen instead of regular crew.

    

    Posted by Tannenberg       02/10/2006  at  07:43 AM  



11. Oink, my friend, I’m glad that the signature pipe dream of the 60’s can still sound good to you.  But it has been ringing false to me for a long time.  And I will be frank.  Those who were loudest in extolling it were also invariably and insufferably full of hypocritical   in every visible way!  And they still are.  They got to me early.  It was, and it remains, impossible NOT to see through them--if one takes the trouble to look.

    “Peace, love, freedom?” In practice, just a euphemism for, “I’m gonna do what I damn well please, with anybody and to anybody, and to hell with you if you don’t like it!” That is how they lived the dream then, and that is how they live it now.  The universe is always all about THEM--or more specifically, the petty vices they place at the center of their own little universes.  And any other considerations be damned.

    Thus came the generation Wardmama4 described, and its toll, which we will be paying for generations to come.

    

    Posted by Tannenberg       02/10/2006  at  08:10 AM  



12. I said it “sounds good”.  So does MAKE LOVE,NOT WAR, until Osama has you on your stomach with your skivvies down.

    Posted by Oink       02/10/2006  at  08:26 AM  



13. I was just pulling your (trombone) slide, Tann. If you haven’t seen that movie, it’s worth the rental just for the music. Nichols himself did the cornet dubbing for Danny Kaye. It’s been a lot of years since I’ve seen it but it has stayed with me. There’s a pretty good review at that link.

    I’m thinking that most of the “names” worked for or with Nichols at one time or another, including the Dorseys.

    Posted by StinKerr       02/10/2006  at  08:57 AM  



14. Then there’s

    “If it feels good, do it”

    Some airdale had that hanging inside our DASH hangar. Of course, we never had a DASH drone all the time I was aboard, but we had the damn airdales. Easy for them to say, I suppose, three hots and a cot with nothing to do. A military hippy of the day.

    Good morning, OCM. I was just wondering where the hell you were. Honest, I just posted in anther thread with speculation as to what you might be doing.

    Posted by StinKerr       02/10/2006  at  09:45 AM  



15. I grew up in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s but I STILL love big band!
    I remember how disappointed I was when I discovered that my folks had never been drugged-up hippies.(They were born in 1942 and 1944 respectively)
    Looking back, all I can say to my folks is THANK YOU(for not being hippies anyway).

    Posted by Annoying Little Twerp       02/10/2006  at  10:46 AM  

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