Drummers beware

Dave W · October 16, 2009, 05:53:17 PM

News from San Antonio: Man shoots son for drumming

I guess Dad figured if he didn't shoot him now, next thing you know he would be demanding more than one mic.

rahock · October 17, 2009, 05:31:13 AM

Those Texas boys play rough

Rick

Pilgrim · October 17, 2009, 10:19:14 AM

Having lived in TX for 13 years, any further comment from me would strain the bounds of the strict decorum in this forum.

"Hey!! He said 'Decorum in the Forum'!" Nyuk, nyuck, nyuck!!!

Lightyear · October 17, 2009, 10:35:43 AM

It's OK, he wasn't aiming at the son after all - just a warning shot through the bedroom door

Dave W · October 17, 2009, 12:05:25 PM

Too bad we can't do a ballistics match with the bullet from Uwe's EB-0L.

Highlander · October 17, 2009, 12:54:32 PM

There's decorum in the forum, so let's toast the 'post...

Dave's being brave... "Fire in the hole...!"

Gonna have to get past Uwe's security first; just watch-out for his stash of stick-grenades...

uwe · October 19, 2009, 03:36:40 AM

He was probably playing odd meters. Dave's temper with prog is short too.

Dave W · October 19, 2009, 08:40:18 AM

Quote from: uwe on October 19, 2009, 03:36:40 AM
He was probably playing odd meters. Dave's temper with prog is short too.

I reach for the OFF button, not firearms. A lot less messy that way.

Highlander · October 19, 2009, 01:55:29 PM

"Just where did you put the fuse-wire, dear...?"

patman · October 20, 2009, 07:59:05 AM

No prog or funk in Texas?

Dave W · October 20, 2009, 08:45:41 AM

Just not on my property.

uwe · October 20, 2009, 09:34:48 AM

That is why property needs to be protected against prog trespassing and intrusion of privacy. As non prog-rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd put it so succinctly on their newest epynomous album and not ramming it down anyone's barrel at all:

God and Guns

Last night I heard this politician
Talking 'bout his brand new mission
'Liked his plans, but they came undone when he got around with God and guns

I don't know how he grew up
But it sure wasn't down at the hunting club
Cause if it was he'd understand a little bit more about the working man

God and guns
Keep us strong
That's what this country
Was founded on
Well we might as well give up and run
If we let them take our God and guns

I'm here in my back of the woods
Where God is great and guns are good
You really can't know that much about'm
If you think we're better off without'm

Well there was a time we ain't forgot
You caressed all night with the doors unlocked
But there ain't nobody save no more
So you say your prayers and you thank the Lord

For that peace maker
And the joy

God and guns (God and guns)
Keep us strong
That's what this country, Lord
Was founded on
Well we might as well give up and run,
If we let 'm take our God and guns.
Yeah, we might as well give up and run,
If we let 'm take our God and guns!

Yeaaah
Ooh
God and guns

Don't let 'm take
Don't you let 'm take
Don't let 'm take
Our God and guns

Oh God and guns
Ye keep us strong
That's what this country, lord
Was founded on
Well we might aswell give up and run,
If we let 'm take our God and guns!

Wohoho
God and guns
Wohohoo
Ooh

Yup, Lynyrd Skynyrd, masters of harmony guitar and light-handed poetry!

Ignoring the lyrics***, their new album is good though. Not wishing to speak ill of the dead, I by now like the voice of little Johnny van Z better than that of older and late brother Ronnie van Z, more depth, but of course you never know how Ronnie's vocals would have developed over time.

*** Painful $:-\$ to a European liberal wuss like me, even more painful $:-\$ $:-\$ to put the belief in God and the belief in the 2nd Amendment on equal footing, one has very little to do with the other ... at the very least I seem to have forgotten all the Bible parts where Jesus carried arms, but Skynyrd choose to differ. But unlike Nugent's inane diatribes, the Skynyrds at least voice an opinion coherently even if I don't share it.

Dave W · October 20, 2009, 02:21:00 PM

Too bad they've chosen politics over music. But I guess they see it as a way to revive themselves. Sad.

Highlander · October 20, 2009, 03:58:57 PM

Only one (sort of) them left to revive...

Thank God I got to see them the first time round, 11th row Hammy O (everyone jumping up and down on their seats during Freebird - crazy scene) in '76 and a Rainbow circle view for '77... I just loved them and I will never forget that Friday when the news broke here...

Johnny's a great singer, but he just ain't his brother...

On discovering their influences, then discovered Duane and Berry, etc... blah, blah, blah... best not go there as I will go into full blown tangential mode...

Does anyone know their Farm Aid version of an old hit, "Gimme Back My Pullets"...?

uwe · October 20, 2009, 05:33:16 PM

Lynyrd Skynyrd are meeting the expectations of what they perceive as their non-urban constituency. I don't think they don't mean it, but they've certainly become more vocal (in a heavy-handed way) on the last few albums about it. But since I don't criticize SOAD for naïve leftism, I don't damn Skynyrd for naïve conservatism. "Sweet Home Alabama" wasn't exactly a leftist anthem either (and I never dug the story how it was to be ironic at the time) and IIRC then they were also the first Southern band to drape the stage with the Confederate flag. None of this I especially like, but it's still in the tolerable zone for me, while the Detroit motormouth making snide remarks about the Rodney King beatings is intolerable to me.