The Gun Counter

Thank you. I'd never heard of them before.

That was some kind of special right there. I wish they had made more full use of the backups though.

If you liked that, you might also like The Electric Amish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbe4jIqk ... re=related

One of my favorites from the period.

The original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuxb-m4-ng

Hayseed-dixie is one of those who grows on me like a fungus.

Honestly, I've never cared for bluegrass, nor "twangin' country" - and tend to get evil when someone butchers a classic from my younger-days.

The biggest sin in the history of music was when Run-DMC butchered "Walk This Way" and Aerosmith actually HELPED 'EM DO IT...

"Bohemian Rhapsody" was awesome, but I my blood-pressure shot up a bit when I saw they too had decided to butcher the same classic.

Imagine my surprise when I find it's actually even .awesomer, in fact arguably as good as the original...!

Seriously -- Check it out!.

mekender wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKD7g56DNN0

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Seriously - Try to imagine (if you can) that it's ~25 years ago.

1985

Some guy tells you "

You'll be sitting in your house, with this little TV/Typewriter-combo-looking-thing on your lap... Except it'll be a lot smaller - like under a pound...

Heck - it could even be on this little thing that'll fit in your pocket... Everybody has 'em.

YES I'm "SERIOUS".

No, I haven't been smoking anything -- would you stick with the program here?

You'll be sitting in your house, and some guy you've never met but consider a friend will ...

Huh?

Well, there's this... This whole... network... No - not like TV, it's like...

How in the heck do you describe the Internet - much less a board like this, and TGC??!!

... to your 1985 self?

This has to be the point at which you'd start backing away, thinking "STEP AWAY FROM THE CRAZY-PERSON...

Mind-blowing how far we've come in the first place... but let's >>FF>> to the part where you have some comprehension of all the rest of it, and pick up with:

So this guy will send you a link to a video of a band called "Leningrad Cowboys" - who dress up like characters from Mad-Magazine comics - with the Red Army Choir...

Yes, THAT "Red Army"...

Singing backup as they all perform "Sweet Home Alabama" of all things!

Imagine - the world's big evil is now something to laugh about, and their men are begging for crumbs doing gigs like this, singing the praises of Capitalist-running-dog-redneck-heaven...

Wow.

DD

Apparently the cowboys are HUGE in eastern Europe.

mekender,

Just watched the Leningrad Cowboys. I'm ............... speechless.

Man, those are some of the greatest cuts ever!! Long live the Leningrad Cowboys!!!