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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: PhilT on February 07, 2008, 06:31:06 PM
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Has anyone heard Huckabee play? Is he any good?
(http://www.brendancalling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/huckabee.jpg)
There's even a Gibson here, though the wrong sort.
(http://mikeandarts.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/10/27/bilde_2.jpg)
At least he looks a bit more like he knows what he's doing, unlike this je..... person
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1855000/images/_1855939_tony_pa.jpg)
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He can play. Just search for Mike Huckabee bass on YouTube.
He probably hasn't been mentioned because it could lead to a political debate.
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That's even a Tobias, isnt it? So he's halfway there.
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From the clips I've seen, he doesn't seem to have progressed beyond the, "I can't play a note unless I look directly at it" stage. I'm no Jaco though, so I can't really bust on him too much. No comment about anything else either. ;D
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Don't forget John Kerry is/was a bass player. John seemed to come from the Lurch (Addams Family) school of bass playing, though.
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I have known about this for a while. I didn't mention it because of its political nature. I did do some research about it a few months ago. Huckabee has been playing bass since he was 11. I don't know when, but at some point he came to prefer Tobias. When he was governor of Arkansas, he convinced the president of Gibson to move the Tobias factory to Arkansas. I'm not sure about this, but I believe that over the summer he bought a Gibson SG RI. However, in the videos I've seen, he is always playing a Tobias. In most of those videos, it seems to be situations in which he was campaigning, was asked to play with a band, and went on stage and started improvising.
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"I didn't mention it because of its political nature."
Oh please, let's not get carried away. ::)
George W. Bush has a dog and Bill Clinton had a cat. Both were probably very nice to their respective pets. That in itself is not a political statement and cannot be construed as such.
Except by dog lovers and cat haters and the other way around! ;D
I have no idea about Herr Huckabee's political agenda except that he's from the Grand Ole Party, but it's nice that he plays bass. Should be mandatory for all Presidents.
He grooves nice enough on Mustang Sally here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxCVRHx0JoI
It's amazing how you can play bass and yet remain unpolitical about it. :o :o ;D ;D ;D
Uwe
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I think he got up with Letterman's band recently, too.
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I find his playing quite conservative! JUST KIDDING!!!!! :D Actually, I agree with Uwe, it's need to see other old public figures playing bass regardless of their politics. It helps us see them as real people with more than one dimension.
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I think he got up with Letterman's band recently, too.
I tuned into Jay Leno when he was on it just to see him setting down the bass cause he played with the band on Leno's show.
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A big thing was made of Blair being the first PM to move into Downing Street with an electric guitar and having been in a band at Oxford, but apart from a rather cheesey and embarassing photo opportunity with some school kids, I can't find any evidence of him actually playing the thing in public.
I'm now working up a fantasy political band - Blair on guitar, Clinton on sax, Huckabee on bass - anyone know a political drummer? Next Live 8 or whatever, they could headline.
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A big thing was made of Blair being the first PM to move into Downing Street with an electric guitar and having been in a band at Oxford, but apart from a rather cheesey and embarassing photo opportunity with some school kids, I can't find any evidence of him actually playing the thing in public.
I'm now working up a fantasy political band - Blair on guitar, Clinton on sax, Huckabee on bass - anyone know a political drummer? Next Live 8 or whatever, they could headline.
I think Clinton and Huckabee pretty much hate each other since they are Arkansas political rivals. But Blair might be able to act as a mediator.
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I'm now working up a fantasy political band - Blair on guitar, Clinton on sax, Huckabee on bass - anyone know a political drummer? Next Live 8 or whatever, they could headline.
How about Dave Rowntree from Blur? I read last year he was a Labour candidate for city office somewhere and lost.
Of course, he's a drummer first, politician second.
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Mr. Huckabee has been a long distance student of Carol Kaye's for quite a while now, she mentioned him to me a few years ago.
I watched him play Sweet Home Alabama the other night and he was.....OK. Needs to quit looking at the neck and smile more, too intense. But then again he's a politician not a professional entertainer. Still, he plays bass and I like that.
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I'm now working up a fantasy political band - Blair on guitar, Clinton on sax, Huckabee on bass - anyone know a political drummer? Next Live 8 or whatever, they could headline.
They could get AL Gores wife Tipper to play drums, she played in a band in her younger days. Just have to watch those lyrics or she might have to put a warning label on it!
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They could get AL Gores wife Tipper to play drums, she played in a band in her younger days. Just have to watch those lyrics or she might have to put a warning label on it!
Wonder what Tipper would do if she had to play Zappa's music? ;D
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Wonder what Tipper would do if she had to play Zappa's music? ;D
Now that would be funny! ;D
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Wonder what Tipper would do if she had to play Zappa's music? ;D
I vote they cover "Ms. Pinky" - good drums in that one! ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dYV6BB_U78
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I vote they cover "Ms. Pinky" - good drums in that one! ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dYV6BB_U78
Tipper might even find some Inconvenient Truths in the lyrics. ;D
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Tom Scholz of Boston has written Huckabee a letter complaining that Huckabee is using Boston's "More Than a Feeling" for campaign events. Barry Goudreau, who was in Boston a few years, but wasn't a founder such as Scholz, has played the song with Huckabee at a few campaign events. Scholz said in his letter that he was flattered that Huckabee liked the song and took the trouble to learn the bass to it, but he also feels "ripped off." He said he is an Obama supporter and Huckabee represents everything he is against. He could have spared himself the trouble. Most likely Huckabee's campaign will be over very soon anyway.
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Yeah, I read that. Scholz is apparently clueless. You can't license your composition through a performance rights organization (ASCAP, BMI etc.) and then ask or demand that somebody stop performing it because you don't like his views on politics or anything else.
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True. Bush Senior campaigned to "Don't worry be happy" and Bobby McFerrin, then a Dukakis supporter, didn't like it either.
Why does no one ever campaign to this song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggm7VWqhLs
And Herr Furnier is a card-carrying Republican these days so Democrats could show how broadminded they are or Republicans finally find someone "from the fold" to sing for them.
Uwe
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Ahhhh..........Thank You Uwe!
That really brings back some great memories for me..............Alice Cooper a big influence in my life?
*No way!*
I saw him in 1973, Billion Dollar Babies tour, it was the first concert I ever went to........was actually the first time I went out on a date too.....What a great show, cost $10.00 for the 2 of us. I was too young to drive, had to have my Mom take us. Those were the days!
"Why does no one ever campaign to this song?
From the lyric.......
"I promise the formation of a new party, a third party a wild party...............(and further)
"I know we have problems in the North, South, East and West.....and personally I don't care!"
If somebody actually came out and said this.........You'd finally hear some truth!
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Or as Merle Haggard once sang:
When a President goes through the White House door,
And does what he says he'll do.
We'll all be drinkin' that free Bubble-Up,
And eatin' that rainbow stew.
But back to Alice for a minute. I'm a fan of James Randi (http://randi.org/), debunker of paranormal claims. He's the same guy who (as The Amazing Randi) toured with Alice in 1973 and operated the guillotine. In his Feb. 8 bulletin (http://www.randi.org/joom/content/view/160/1/) there's a brief story about Alice's recent 60th birthday party, with photo.
Oh yeah, and here's Alice in a great guest role with none other than Soupy Sales: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJfuWhMQ3Tc. Yeah, you know exactly what's going to happen, and it's still funny. :)
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Herr Randi? So that is where our beloved moderator picked up that agnostic heresy about finish not influencing sound. Make a note of it ...
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Randi would be all over that sort of thing. He recently ridiculed the maker of some astronomically expensive audio cables because of the outrageous claims the company made. They backed down from his million dollar challenge, of course. When it comes to actually proving claims, charlatans always back down.
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Ahhhh..........Thank You Uwe!
That really brings back some great memories for me..............Alice Cooper a big influence in my life?
*No way!*
I saw him in 1973, Billion Dollar Babies tour, it was the first concert I ever went to........was actually the first time I went out on a date too.....What a great show, cost $10.00 for the 2 of us. I was too young to drive, had to have my Mom take us. Those were the days!
Fast forward to 2000, Alice Cooper was the first real rock concert I took my daughter to (then 16). He put on an amazing show by any one's standards, not even allowing for the fact he was over 50 then. He had a lot of fun with some poor kid who came wearing a Marilyn Manson T-shirt.
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They've become friends since:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkmADWFcKM&feature=related
After all, they do have a lot in common: A penchant for too much mascara and eye shadow and a certain happy-go-lucky attitude when it comes to pitching in tune. Annie L., forgive them, they are trying.
Uwe
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::) A penchant for too much mascara and eye shadow "
Me too!
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But Fräulein Rommel, your intonation is always spot on!
That said, you probably wouldn't require too much of a change in outfit should you step in Twiggy Ramirez' (or one of his faceless successors in the Manson band) shoes.
Last I heard, the two are together again, Twiggy and Marilyn I mean. With Jimmy and Robert being their inspiration:
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/01/12/marilyn_manson_aamp_twiggy_ramirez_reuni
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Don't think I wouldn't jump at it if I had the chance..............
I actually did send The Darkness an audition disc after I heard Frankie (Porn Star mustache) Poullain left the band. I mean,what did I have to lose? ;)
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They've become friends since:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkmADWFcKM&feature=related
After all, they do have a lot in common: A penchant for too much mascara and eye shadow and a certain happy-go-lucky attitude when it comes to pitching in tune. Annie L., forgive them, they are trying.
Uwe
They are also both the natural heirs of Screaming J Hawkins, and if you compare Manson's "I Put a Spell on You" to Hawkins', he's a damn site closer than Nina Simone or The Animals.
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Alice should dust off "Elected" for this