uh-oh, If they aren't on the NRA damned list, Beastie Boys are now

[Wickerman]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1289017

Thanks, ann_coulter_is_a_man


In "Right Right Now Now," the Beasties lament Columbine and call for "more gun controlling" over tense rolls of Muzak harpsichord, then twist the chorus of their biggest hit into a free-speech cheer, retrieving Public Enemy's inversion from 1988: "We're gonna party for the right to fight." The Beasties pour the Pink Champale and Riunite here, but they're not drinking to forget. They turn the dis on "a president we didn't elect" in "It Takes Time to Build": "Is the U.S. gonna keep breaking necks/ Maybe it's time that we impeach Tex."


I'll be looking for that CD.

[mithnanthy]

1. I LOVE The Beasty Boys

....and I'm a 57 years old woman, married 28 years to an entertainer. They're not afraid to speak out and have a huge following.

[Wickerman]

2. ya got a year or two on me, but I love 'em, too

I appreciate their politics.

[colonel odis]

3. how do i get on that nra list?

i'd be keeping pretty good company, i believe.

[T Town Jake]

4. I was always partial...

...to Frank Sinatra, myself...You should just hear me hum my own version of Strangers in the Night sometime.

:headbang:

[Wickerman]

5. Nah, now Gene Autry, THERE was a singer a RKBAer

could go have a beer with!

[TX-RAT]

6. Tex Ritter, Bob Wills, Hank Senior

Thats who i want to have a beer with.
Damn i forgot Dolly.

[Wickerman]

7. Bob Wills, Doug Sahm, Willie

yep, them Texas boys...

[TX-RAT]

8. Man after my own heart.

I'm looking at my Luke The Drifter album now. Seen Willie play at the Greune Dance Hall in New Braunsful, years ago.

[Wickerman]

9. Arrrgh - I have never had the pleasure - just missed a few times

and never got to see Doug, either. I'd see pretty much anyone at Gruene.

[iverglas]

11. and of course the other Hank

http://www.hanksnow.com/
The Canadian one.

And Wilf Carter (not of the Carter/Cash crew), for some reason known as "Montana Slim":
http://www.canuck.com/~trcr/bigwilf.html
(Oh look, I found a site with "canuck" in the url, and luna should note the spelling.)

I had lunch at Mickey Gillies' place somewhere in Texas once - his restaurant, that is. The Texan ex-co-vivant was apparently wont to sleep on Jerry Jeff Walker's floor and hang out with Stevie Ray Vaughn in his earlier days.

Me, I had a beer with Stan Rogers once before he died (duh ... and of course in a small-plane crash). Now there's a voice. Have a listen if you don't know him:
The "Northwest Passage" track here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003BTZ/qid=1087511714/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-8025882-4395210
(the clip unfortunately ends just as the good part starts)
and "Barrett's Privateers" here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003BU7/ref=pd_sim_music_2/002-8025882-4395210?v=glance&s=music
(god damn them all, I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold ...)

Then there's Ian & Sylvia, or more precisely Ian Tyson, who did go out to Alberta ("Weather's great there in the fall ... Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run wild ...") and has spent the last 20 years ridin' 'n ropin' things. Texas, Alberta, you know.

I won't mention Gordon Lightfoot, because he was apparently a hawk during Vietnam, I was told by the Texan who had gone to see him once back when he, the Texan, was living in Haight-Ashbury, and heard him do his hawk shtick. Maybe, like Neil Young and Reagan, Gordo was just temporarily insane.

[iverglas]

10. grr

Unfortunately, there is apparently a Dutch punk band named NRA, which makes it rather hard to search for "beastie boys" nra and find anything useful.

But here's the Beastie Boys' discussion board conversation about Michael Moore: http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=7747&page=2

(Inexplicably, there is a reference to Bob Rae there -- the NDP former premier of Ontario widely regarded as in the extreme right wing of our social democratic party and blamed for the crushing defeat of the NDP govt after only one short term in the early 90s. The canuckistani who did this had obviously lost his/her mind momentarily.)

... Okay, enough of that place. Looks just like here, and one is enough.

http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=215292

"Not so long ago and in a pasture too uncomfortably close to here, a flock of sheep lived and grazed. They were protected by a dog, who answered to the master, but despite his best efforts from time to time a nearby pack of wolves would prey upon the flock.

One day a group of sheep, more bold than the rest, ... ... ..."

[pa28]

12. It's a great record

Calls to "impeach tex", allusions to voter fraud, divisive politics and the Kyoto treaty among other gems. Go to Napster now and get it.

[WilliamPitt]

13. .