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Post by millring on Nov 27, 2015 20:14:46 GMT -5
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Nov 27, 2015 20:42:12 GMT -5
I do like Dragging the Line.
Mike
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Post by theevan on Nov 27, 2015 21:24:28 GMT -5
Ear bleed......................
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Post by Doug on Nov 27, 2015 23:48:58 GMT -5
That was the #1 tittie bar song when I was in the Marines. Memories
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2015 4:56:31 GMT -5
How poorly some things age...
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Post by millring on Nov 28, 2015 5:48:45 GMT -5
How poorly some things age... I was thinking just the opposite. The video is old, so Tommy James is even older now. But the band he put together for that concert was tight and Tommy James still sang as good as he did when he was young.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2015 5:49:26 GMT -5
And tommy was somehow an E7?
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2015 5:52:02 GMT -5
And tommy was somehow an E7? What a hoot. Must have been that era's "support the troops."
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Post by millring on Nov 28, 2015 5:57:45 GMT -5
And tommy was somehow an E7? I don't know the code.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2015 5:59:23 GMT -5
Ask Doug, or PaulS.
Or google.
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Post by millring on Nov 28, 2015 6:02:22 GMT -5
I did that first. Nothing comes up. I assume he was a draft dodger? I put that in google too and nothing came up.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2015 6:07:15 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm not a patriot by any modern definition, but it seems really stupid for a pop singer who has never been in the military to be decorating themselves with markings of military rank.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2015 6:15:01 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm not a patriot by any modern definition, but it seems really stupid for a pop singer who has never been in the military to be decorating themselves with markings of military rank. Or maybe he could've just hung a faux medal of honour around his neck?
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Post by Doug on Nov 28, 2015 7:17:48 GMT -5
E7 Gunnery Sgt All the hippies were wearing pieces of uniforms in those days, picked them up at the Army Navy Store. Didn't bother anyone I knew. And when we got out and became hippies we wore pieces of our uniforms. In fact this old Marine/hippie is still wearing pieces of my uniform. That's the collar emblem from my dress blues and the one on my summer panama hat is the collar emblem from my greens.
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Post by brucemacneill on Nov 28, 2015 8:30:42 GMT -5
When I got out my little sister stole my uniforms so she could dress in style. Real Navy bell-bottoms with button fronts were all the rage I guess but for work we wore Marine Greens. I only have one uniform shirt left, a short sleeved Marine Green one with the CBU-201 Antarctic patch on the sleeve. I keep it for joke value, short sleeved Antarctic shirt, you know.
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Post by drlj on Nov 28, 2015 8:31:30 GMT -5
Tommy James? Are you people nuts? Millring, this time you have crossed a line that frightens me. Tommy James? Really? I say Tommy James and I spit on the ground.
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Post by millring on Nov 28, 2015 10:14:10 GMT -5
Tommy James? Are you people nuts? Millring, this time you have crossed a line that frightens me. Tommy James? Really? I say Tommy James and I spit on the ground. That's really a shame. He always speaks so highly of you.
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Post by drlj on Nov 28, 2015 10:19:16 GMT -5
He likes me. I am just a likable guy.
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Post by millring on Nov 28, 2015 10:31:34 GMT -5
Well, that's just the thing....
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Post by Marshall on Nov 28, 2015 15:39:57 GMT -5
Enlisted grade 7. That's be a sargent of some level. That's the stripes on his sleeve. . . . , Would seem to be decorative, instead of literal.
It amazes me how that time was a perfect economic storm; that many people, like Tommy James, rode the wave to international fame and fortune, and can still be viable because of that brief moment in time. I think it's got to strike them as funny too; that they lived through that and have this lasting fame because of what they did decades ago. It's not going to be the same for other generations of musicians.
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