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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Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 3rd, 2012
10:04 am
Thank you Jamvet.
This will be what happens to our shape shifters after Tuesday…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9a4W2FZnpc&feature=related
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 3rd, 2012
10:11 am
This is what I would sing to the Grand(?) Old Party in general and to Mitt Romney in particular…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_7lKX1xUs&feature=related
Doggone/GA
November 3rd, 2012
10:12 am
“But, guns don’t kill people, people kill people!!!!!”
That’s exactly right.
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
10:14 am
Giddy-up.
There is a problem with my horse.
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
10:17 am
Where’s Tonto?
Could use some help here….
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
10:20 am
I’m not your run of the mill cowboy.
Baked beans? Yuck. Arugula salad for me…
Connnnnnggggresssss…. Where are you?
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 3rd, 2012
10:25 am
Bronco,
All you need is for Tonto to saddle soap your horse…then you would feel better…
JamVet
November 3rd, 2012
10:26 am
Very cool oldie at 10:04, C.
I remember the days when that hopped-up harmonica sound in those early rock-n-roll/garage rock songs drove the kids crazy.
Then there was that badass sax intro in this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_WqVSDofg
indigo
November 3rd, 2012
10:26 am
Doggone/GA
Who could have foreseen that phallic inadequacies of pathetic men, runaway greed of weapons manufacturers and the best Congress money can buy would result in thousands of gun murders every year well into the foreseeable future?
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
10:28 am
They call me buckaroo bronco bamma.
National sovereignty? Ha! That’s why I have drones.
They work better than Congress.
I put Congress to pasture and love my trusty Drone.
Doggone/GA
November 3rd, 2012
10:28 am
“Who could have foreseen that phallic inadequacies of pathetic men, runaway greed of weapons manufacturers and the best Congress money can buy would result in thousands of gun murders every year well into the foreseeable future?”
anyone familiar with the depravity of some people, and that fact that weapons – of any kind – exist
JamVet
November 3rd, 2012
10:31 am
Flo & Eddie/the Turtles were some killer early Hebe rockers, huh?
An early pop fave of mine written by Cat Stevens…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQXbtlbQX70&feature=related
JamVet
November 3rd, 2012
10:37 am
A little ray of sunshine
A little bit of soul
Add just a touch of magic
You got the greatest thing since rock ‘n’ roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo6zBKMQO7w
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November 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8IqkRbxcTA&feature=related
indigo
November 3rd, 2012
10:42 am
Doggone/GA
If I have to choose between a crazy person coming after me with an AK-47 or a knife, I choose knife.
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
10:43 am
Yippie ki yay, yippie ki ooooo
Sherman captures Georgia starring Eminem
November 3rd, 2012
10:49 am
….headed South towards Savannah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s
Bronco Bamma
November 3rd, 2012
10:55 am
My name’s Bronco Bamma and I approve this message.
Yeeeha!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 3rd, 2012
10:56 am
In case someone hasn’t already posted this:
NORMAL LIBERAL VS. CONSERVATIVE DOUBLE STANDARD:
“Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time Friday might have said one of the most disgraceful things uttered during the 2012 campaign season.
“If you’re thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea: black people know who you are and they will come after you”
Imagine for a moment the outrage if a conservative commentator said even jokingly to Obama supporters, “White people know who you are and they will come after you.”
That would be the end of that person’s career. Period. No questions asked. Done!
But Maher who’s adored by the Obama-loving media can say this with total impunity.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: HBO should be ashamed to have this disgusting man as one of its on air personalities. Period. End of story.”
Article and video:
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/03/maher-if-you-vote-romney-black-people-know-who-you-are-and-will-come#ixzz2BAhbuJbI
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 3rd, 2012
11:03 am
“When civilized man can no longer stand the horror of war and refuses to fight,
then he will surely be killed or enslaved by the uncivilized who can.”
Author Unknown
Mick
November 3rd, 2012
11:10 am
Why do we distrust republicans so? I just spent three hours in line for early voting, yes got up at 6 am to do my civic duty, one hour before the polls opened. Arrived at 6:30 and the line was wrapped around the building! The republicans that control our legislature got 11 state referendums on the ballot which was 10 pages long!!!! Unfrickenbelieveable…what a tactic,,discourage voting…yes that’s the way to win by default…unfortunately for them they will fail because the people know the stakes and they are showing up in force; in my neck of the woods not to damn many for romney…thank the lord…
Jm
November 3rd, 2012
11:12 am
Hey scout
Watch this and share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2QtDExs6lM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 3rd, 2012
11:16 am
Jm:
Thanks. I will.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
11:17 am
Romney’s supporters in Ohio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY0M7IdNl7U
Mick
November 3rd, 2012
11:18 am
0311
P.S. Ann coulter is every bit as disgusting as maher with one exception; he actually is funny sometimes…
Mick
November 3rd, 2012
11:29 am
kam
I think the meatloaf was burnt…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 3rd, 2012
11:37 am
mick
I agree
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November 3rd, 2012
12:44 pm
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0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 3rd, 2012
12:46 pm
Mick:
In “your” opinion …………. and I don’t think she has her own network t.v. show.