Some travelin’ home music for a good cause
As a rule, actors who dabble as musicians do about as well as actors who dabble in politics. Which usually isn’t very well at all.
I wouldn’t try to argue that Gary Sinese is some profound exception to the rule, but he’s put together a more-than-competent cover band that calls itself the Lt. Dan Band, after the character played by Sinese in “Forrest Gump”.
If you recall the movie, Lt. Dan loses both legs in Vietnam but is eventually fitted out with prosthetic limbs, leading to that fateful moment in the movie when a startled Forrest exclaims — all together now! — “Lieutenant Dan! You got new legs! New legs!”
These days, when his schedule allows, Sinese travels with the Lt. Dan Band raising money to help disabled veterans. He and the band will play tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Alpharetta, with proceeds used to help build custom-designed homes in the Atlanta area for Marine Cpl. Todd Love, who lost three limbs in Afghanistan, and for Army Specialist First Class Mike Schlitz, who lost two limbs and was burned badly in an IED blast in Iraq.
Here’s the Lt. Dan Band and Sinese, a native of the Chicago area, performing the much-covered Robert Johnson classic “Sweet Home, Chicago.”
– Jay Bookman
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godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
8:12 pm
Trailers?
http://youtu.be/yDp3YwBmNLc
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
8:17 pm
Continuing the time theme…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGoDFP-LMg
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
8:23 pm
Moribund Mitt.
He gets a chance to thank the blokes for the awesome 2012 Games and then f&cks it up.
Geez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5kmCgVhADY
godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
8:24 pm
Back to you Jam.
http://youtu.be/hOMd7CSt0KU
The time has come
the song is over
Thought I had something more to say.
wet wiccan
November 2nd, 2012
8:27 pm
godless @ 8:12
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
stands for decibels
November 2nd, 2012
8:27 pm
It was all downhill for the Floyd after this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvjaFT62tes
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 2nd, 2012
8:28 pm
Seeing as it is now after Halloween….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBhbDSUyckY
Jay
November 2nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Of course, writers who attempt the music thing are even worse than actors ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dy14yPVjG4
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
8:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVzij4HF4wM
godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
8:33 pm
Jay
November 2nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Ouch!
stands for decibels
November 2nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Of course, writers who attempt the music thing are even worse than actors
oi, that wuz fookin’ ‘orriboowl.
wet wiccan
November 2nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Jay
what are you talkin about? they were great!
stands for decibels
November 2nd, 2012
8:38 pm
anyway, gotta run–pleasant evening, all.
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
8:40 pm
Buncha critics!
I liked it.
Being multitalented, multifaceted ain’t that easy. And I would know! (LOL at me,)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R2PgMiTvw
N.Y.C.
November 2nd, 2012
8:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQD5RT_MPg
josef
November 2nd, 2012
8:48 pm
SFD
Pink Floyd’s best ev-uh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DODKTN3O2s
and, well, we know why I go for this one!
But great lyrics…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGuVa-4BVE
And, yeah, I know I post them all the time. So sue me.
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
8:53 pm
Seeya stands!
The runup to this election has us all a bit wacky…
NYC rocks, no doubt. My life is much richer for having been there. I went to the top of North Tower once. Saw the Statue of Liberty.
Just like pretty much everywhere I’ve been in this great land.
My dad had Leadbelly records…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fmeEzJp1Rs
josef
November 2nd, 2012
8:53 pm
well, I can’t let it rest without a song for all the candidates…probably be what’s rolling about my pointy l’il haid come Tuesday….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKxRS47h1YY
josef
November 2nd, 2012
8:56 pm
K’Chak
@ 8:28
ZamVet
@ 8:53
Another one for my a.m. listening pleasure…thanks…
godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
8:58 pm
NYC rocks, no doubt. My life is much richer for having been there. I went to the top of North Tower once. Saw the Statue of Liberty.
My Big Apple experience. A Sunday AM. Went to the top of the WTC. Rode the subway. Saw Times Square, Walked down Wall Street. Out of there by noon.
IMHO, a sea water flush was what the place needed.
wet wiccan
November 2nd, 2012
9:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwwSh0pbGZ8
Recon 0311 2533
November 2nd, 2012
9:15 pm
This one goes out Jay and his followers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TjWOVUZeJo
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 2nd, 2012
9:16 pm
Just finished watching the telethon for the Jersey Shores on MSNBC. Bruce Springsteen really makes me go…wow. I just have to go pledge some money now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs&list=AL94UKMTqg-9AOlif77rvs3_JPSEzi4cxh&index=2&feature=plcp
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
9:16 pm
heathen, cool.
I slept at the Buick Hilton. (The back seat of the rental car at Coney island).
Wall St, b’fast and 42nd Street porno. Wild times.
Del/Recon predicts a Romney landslide next door…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3cGxlZjMWU
godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
9:16 pm
I saw some Staten Island residents on the tube that weren’t too happy with their high density urban living experience.
Sad that that is all they know.
http://youtu.be/CNPki1WVZdw
josef
November 2nd, 2012
9:17 pm
Oh, and best movie ever…
Forced to make a choice, mine would be “The Lion in Winter.”
godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
9:19 pm
I slept at the Buick Hilton LOL!
You know what you say to a teenager driving a Buick?
So sorry about your grandmother.
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
9:33 pm
I’d like to party with getalife…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVrBzuyhFA
Recon 0311 2533
November 2nd, 2012
9:34 pm
This goes out to Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMc263klrMQ
Mick
November 2nd, 2012
9:39 pm
Hmmm…sinise is pretty damn competent on that bass, certainly not an amateur, donald duck dunn would be proud-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpxNJcNRwFA
Rachel Maddog
November 2nd, 2012
9:48 pm
I hate that when President Obama is re-elected that he will be impeached forObamagate!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 2nd, 2012
9:49 pm
Desperate sock-puppets.
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
9:50 pm
Kam, too funny, huh?
Mick, you USCG badass! Always playing something sweeet. And that Willie Dixon was!
I wanted to join the Coast Guard, but the nearest recruiting station was 250 miles away, in Denver.
So I enlisted in the US Air Force.
I told her that I came from Detroit city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhI_khA8w-I&feature=related
godless heathen
November 2nd, 2012
9:58 pm
This Roy Orbison does make me think of Democrats. Blind and dreaming.
http://youtu.be/raB1K0-qz9A
and gh is off to dream world too.
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:02 pm
a time contribution
“The angry young man learns how to forgive on the river of time
He holds an innocent child in his arms on the river of time
Oh, roll on river of time
Rage on river of time, roll on”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30DNuqb4TU&feature=fvwrel
Recon 0311 2533
November 2nd, 2012
10:02 pm
Stand easy Hard Corps help is on the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99G4Vv-YMJo
Mick
November 2nd, 2012
10:04 pm
jamvet
You can’t do any better than the US Air Force….I enjoyed my time on the ocean, great experience and yes…I do advocate for bayonets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfZG9UzK7E
Martin the Calvinist
November 2nd, 2012
10:06 pm
I was feelin’ this song today. I have a feeling a bunch of folks will be saying it ain’t so November 7th as well….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdpSFQTulo
Mary Elizabeth
November 2nd, 2012
10:09 pm
“This Land Is Your Land. . .This Land Is My Land,” led by 90 year old Pete Seeger, 3 years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4H0k8TDgw
“Nobody living can make me turn back.”
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:11 pm
and for our brothers and sisters Up Nawth…just remember…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KClpLzFftU&feature=related
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 2nd, 2012
10:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9qixMYrOg
Mick
November 2nd, 2012
10:15 pm
josef
I’m an old jersey boy, don’t worry about us, we’ll figure a way to make a buck out of it! Check this out, there are some of these types-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_peSCECc4I
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:19 pm
Mary Elizabeth
That has always been my personal choice for National Anthem…”visionary Native American spiritualism” as it really is…thanks for posting…it’s something we ALL need to remember…
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:21 pm
MICK
Yep. Y’all are a tough lot who know how to make the best of it…one of the reasons you’re probably my favorite Yankees…
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
10:25 pm
jo, I am damn impressed with Bill Miller.
Just fabulous stuff.
Thank you, my blood brother!
(So, I ain’t your fave Yank? LOL. I gotta be close!)
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:28 pm
K’chak
Fogelberg at his finest, imoeiauo…
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
10:28 pm
As for Forrest Gump…my jury’s still out on that one, but a d*mned fine soundtrack…
josef,
Nice observation and there’s a lot of movies like that. The Big Chill was one where I never really cared one way or another about the movie but loved the soundtrack. Somebody should market a box set of the soundtrack from the TV series Cold Case and it would make a fortune.
Probably my best movie quality to soundtrack quality equivalence was The Commitments.
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:30 pm
ZamVet
I’m really getting into Bill Miller of late…
Nyanh, not my favorite Yank, but certainly top on my list of MOT curmudgeons…remind me later to tell you about my invitation from J Street…
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
10:30 pm
A song from an era when we thought we were so cool and free…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQ9MJzeIxw&feature=fvwrel
Mary Elizabeth
November 2nd, 2012
10:31 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it, josef.
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
10:39 pm
Yeah jo, we two hotheaded Hebes both got our panties in a wad earlier this year, but what the hell.
I still dig the hell outtta you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWqD7GyJBVM
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:40 pm
ZamVet
:@ 10:38
Yep. Going for a ride in Unmentionable’s tomorrow…probably up to Indian Country…but really just to see the fall leaves, something G-d made for us all to enjoy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8ez-hGsuU
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
10:42 pm
This one must have found it’s way into a few soundtracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4
Mick
November 2nd, 2012
10:42 pm
RW
The commitments, excellent flick! I’m one of the few who liked this one-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMLG8mnCRM
Gmare
November 2nd, 2012
10:43 pm
Wow, Mary Elizabeth! Thank you for that video. You rock, my dear. As for Seeger, another WOW. He was 90 in that video. I’ve since seen him on another show – Stewart, Colbert? singing & rocking at 93. So take THAT, Fred. And don’t bother to point out that maybe he wasn’t driving. Even at 93, the man BRINGS IT. I hope someday you might do the same, tho I must surmise that you will not because you do not have the heart, the caring, the belief in a united USA that drives Pete Seeger.
Again, thank you, Mary Elizabeth.
Cloudodust
November 2nd, 2012
10:43 pm
Seriously JB, your blog ought to be under the ‘Entertainment pull down’ heading of the ajc. Seriously…
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
10:47 pm
Mick,
The Commitments was a movie that really proves what an enormous divergence in taste we have when it comes to the arts. I don’t know any other your side/my side group that aligns with who likes and dislikes that one.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 2nd, 2012
10:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy1-DRMdfrk
josef
November 2nd, 2012
10:56 pm
“Yeah jo, we two hotheaded Hebes both got our panties in a wad earlier this year, but what the hell.”
But, as we MOTs say,,,
(And, yes, Wa-do Del, even you’re invited!}
Hava neranenah
Hava neranenah
Hava neranenah ve-nismeḥa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHszTGbXR68&feature=related
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
10:59 pm
This got covered in the movie but was one of the few that fell short.
As often as I disagree with JV I know this is one he’ll like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VYxdqt4k3A
Detroit
November 2nd, 2012
10:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwGHZ8lFO8&feature=related
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbJgQ1YaY-I
’nuff said
Mick
November 2nd, 2012
11:05 pm
This is funny-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOr2a9oEzGQ
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:06 pm
And for josef, the language collector, a different version of an earlier link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYQTFudrqc
josef
November 2nd, 2012
11:07 pm
GMARE
Ah, but it’s Guthrie’s song! (White man stole it!
) Hope all is going well and you’re in a positive frame of mind. And, if you’re not? Then get there, Girl Friend…! We’ve got a date and I don’t date nobody that isn’t gay!
just remember, you’ve got…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYKKN3QhlY&feature=relmfu
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:10 pm
Guthrie song?
I present…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17gKw_j6Qq0
Mary Elizabeth
November 2nd, 2012
11:11 pm
You are most welcome, Gmare. I saw Dave Brubeck in his late 80s, a few years back, perform at Emory. He will be 92 in December. He walked out on stage like a feeble old man, but when he sat at the piano and played those keys, he truly became 30 again in energy and impact, and his music was as mesmerizing as ever. He “brought it,” too, because of heart.
I’ll have you in my thoughts and prayers on Monday, Gmare, while I am undergoing my root canal.
I ain’t complainin.’
Be at peace and know that for us all, “. . . though the outward man is fading away, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” 2 Cor. 4:16.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 2nd, 2012
11:11 pm
…a different version of an earlier link.
There is also a live version that shows Nena’s unshaven armpits.
Georgia's Own...
November 2nd, 2012
11:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Febr_t_qa9U
josef
November 2nd, 2012
11:11 pm
RW
Loved that Nena…this is one of those that I don’t know which version I like most….
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
11:14 pm
RW, thanks, bud.
So who do think wins the White House on Tuesday?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLlgs6GY9Q
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:17 pm
this is one of those that I don’t know which version I like most….
josef,
That’s the only song I can think of that whichever version I hear the other version plays in my head, but I love both so I can’t complain.
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:22 pm
JV,
It’s a pretty sure bet that it won’t be Alice.
Since I’m not actively involved in any campaign this year I really don’t have any inside polling numbers but the tea leaves look to me like Romney will take it.
Mick
November 2nd, 2012
11:29 pm
Did bands actually aspire to look like this in the 80’s? Dorks-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK0AmgDGpPo
josef
November 2nd, 2012
11:32 pm
RW
He’s daddy’s boy, all right…I can easily see Papa doing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xL_OVvPn0
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:37 pm
Tie breaker?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE
RW-(the original)
November 2nd, 2012
11:42 pm
I’m going to go with this…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE
declare victory and leave. Goodnight y’all
Tom Middleton
November 3rd, 2012
12:45 am
More Nina Simone…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmCbEbMmeU&feature=related
Tom Middleton
November 3rd, 2012
1:05 am
And…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=CiVDzTT4CbE&NR=1
Orange12
November 3rd, 2012
4:36 am
Here’s an answer to that “age old question” ” can Alabama beat a pro team?
http://collegefootball.scout.com/2/1235581.html
stands for decibels
November 3rd, 2012
5:26 am
mornin’.
and for our brothers and sisters Up Nawth…
haven’t they suffered enough?
will the "REAL" Mitt Romney please stand up
November 3rd, 2012
7:25 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE
Right Wing Bible Thumpin' Gun Nut
November 3rd, 2012
8:33 am
Ain’t it about time we invaded another country?
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
8:58 am
Osama, make my day.
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
9:01 am
Well pardner, maybe time to ride off into the sunset….
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
9:02 am
Hey Buckeye Joe, why don’t heat up some coffee….
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
9:06 am
Tootin Putin hain’t hardly smart ‘nough to know which way to sit in the saddle
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 3rd, 2012
9:08 am
Good morning to you.
In case you’ve not noticed, Corbin Sharpe is a new name here. He’s really an old blogger who is tired of his other persona and wishes to make a change. He felt a little ignored yesterday but then again he figured it’s just that “stranger in a strange land” thing going on. Guess Who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQJ4toj-JY
gdrla
November 3rd, 2012
9:08 am
If this country (& especially the Republicans/right wingers) actually & truly cared about our veterans the Federal Government in the form of the Veterans Administration would build these homes and otherwise provide for the necessities of these lives which were so drastically changed by service to the cause of Freedom and the Tree of Liberty. Oh wait, I guess that is one of the things that Romney & his ilk think can be sent back to the states and the people. I realize it is barbaric sounding but wish that 1 of his sons would get injured in this way. It would be interesting to see how his internal etch-a-sketch redraws that one!
GT
November 3rd, 2012
9:10 am
Seems to me a passion play is being product in NY that plays into the reality of the 1% versus the masses. As the reporters grind on about outlying middle class neighborhoods at each others throats over the gas or electricity it can’t help to be noticed that the wall of high raises are lite up in the background. Two hospitals in NY had their generators go out, babies being hand feed oxygen, yet Goldman is lite up like a Christmas tree never going out. A race run as the social event through the five borrows of NY ignoring the plight of the neighborhoods draining resources of generators and police. A woman running this event says with heavy heart we have decided to postpone this event like her burden is anything compared to the ones in the darkest of New York. There is nothing like a crisis to show the rear end of this country, to reexamine our priorities, to get a dose of reality. You can spend billions to spin the smells into an aroma and then one storm every few years puts us back to the reality of how some people care while others don’t. Some think we are a community and others think they do it by themselves, with lip service to the cake eaters.
RB from Gwinnett
November 3rd, 2012
9:10 am
Right Wing Bible Thumpin’ Gun Nut
November 3rd, 2012
8:33 am
Ain’t it about time we invaded another country?”
Hate to break the news to you, but radical muslims are already at war with us. Leaving Afganistan and Iraq is not going to make them stop attacking our people all over the world and plotting another 9/11. They don’t care if our president has a D or an R after their name, don’t care if we’re in Libya, Kuwait, or anywhere else on the planet, the’re still going to plot to kill as many of us as they can.
Pull your head out and start paying attention to news other than what you get on SNL and MTV. You’ll be a better American for it.
I Get My News From Glenn Beck
November 3rd, 2012
9:17 am
“the’re” still going to plot to kill as many of us as they can.
LMAO
RB from Gwinnett
November 3rd, 2012
9:24 am
““the’re” still going to plot to kill as many of us as they can.
LMAO”
Glad you think it’s funny. Let me guess, it was Bush’s bad foreign policy that led to 9/11 and all the unrest in the middle east? Is that what you think?
Skip
November 3rd, 2012
9:26 am
Be afraid RB, be very afraid.
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
9:27 am
Where’s my trusty steed Congress?
I can’t git too far without ole Congress…. I thought she was so loyal to me.
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
9:28 am
Herrrreeeeee Congress…………..
indigo
November 3rd, 2012
9:41 am
Two more small children have been hit by gunfire. One was killed and the other critically injured.
But, guns don’t kill people, people kill people!!!!!
Right, cons?
GT
November 3rd, 2012
9:51 am
There is a domestic gang very much like the Afghanistan and Iraq crowd, out to get us too. How you roll in bed with night mares about Arabians when you may have witness a terrorist plot at your own Waffle House by a gathering of rednecks is beyond me. Hell you may have rallied this evil group spreading your paranoid interpretations of what you blindly perceive as truth, in essence joined a terrorist organization yourself. Maybe they will roll you off to Cuba and water board you to the point of confession, that you have aided and abided the enemy. That is what happens when you lose your patriotism and share it with people, when you become obstructionist, in the right of way of lies and religion. Better keep that door locked and the gun loaded, they are coming to get you.
JamVet
November 3rd, 2012
9:53 am
Corbin, as long as you are interesting and semi-cogent, who cares?!
It’s our Republican shape-shifters that are as awful in one guise as the next. And as boring as watching Auburn football… (Sorry, Debbie, I still luvs ya!)
Back at ya, C…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K__-YQpjC8s