Great old songs

[Robby321]

And ya know DAMN well..Woodstock, 69..(missed it me, some BS going on in Nam)..the famous, "I'm Going Home". Well, heres 2004 , Mr."Quick Fingers!"..not much differnt!. Simple me, Alvin Lee ROCKS!

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[E-tec1]

check this out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is what some kids are actually doing in thier rooms now days?????????DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K7Q5u4FVLM

[Robby321]

DAMN..had to back and look when started. Thread been going over TWO YEARS now!

[E-tec1]

and we is gettin old too.................

[MDevrow]

Grand Funk Railroad 1969-1971 The Album

[Robby321]

and we is gettin old too.................

OUCH! Yep, I was 59 then, now 61?

[Robby321]

How about the not great, but worst songs, the 70's! Oldies radio station here, did a poll, 1000 people that are old enough to know. Hmmm?..."Disco Duck!" won

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[phil blomquist]

Robby, please no thanks! by the way hope you have a great and safe birthday! lol i think you might be having some weird flashbacks or something Ha

[Robby321]

Robby, please no thanks! by the way hope you have a great and safe birthday! lol i think you might be having some weird flashbacks or something Ha

Wrong on BDay, that was in June..(62 next year! who would think last this long??) And seems my whole life a "weird flashback!" Been a gas though, and aint slowing down! (much!)

[Robby321]

Still like this one..simple raw 70's rock...

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[Robby321]

think you might be having some weird flashbacks or something Ha

Could NOT resist this .......again!

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[SCT]

The Ballad of the Green Berets....Sgt Barry Sadler

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[Robby321]

The Ballad of the Green Berets....Sgt Barry Sadler

Yes Sir, but, as a old Nam Vet, that "well earned, Green Beret", has been .."tarnished", over the years since, more "colors". Have a damn good friend, from HS, one the toughest bastards known, piss him off, only a 5 foot, 9 dude, 180 ponder, but FAST AS crap, slapping ya stupid. If needed. Anyway, we both went to Nam, 1969, he did the GB training..(VERY FEW, come out the toughest "training", on earth. only the best of the best, get the "honor", to wear that Green Bennie!).
Anyway, seems now, military, red, brown, ?..too many colors, that "Beret"...NOT saying those have earned it...aint "done the "course", to get in, but if you ever see a "Green Beret", some old fart now....? They fuccing earned it, training, and THEN? Went to the worst "hell pit", on earth, called Nam. And yep, we both are still cooking fine, and STILL, take crap spit from no one..never did, never will. Sorry if I get a little "touchy", subject, but...lived it, and so few really know the truth, that BS war. And also, not "old songs", but damn good books, Nam.

Should be Amazon, "Letter's home from Vietnam"...READ THAT!...and a true story..(very graphic), 400 pages..(I can't get past page 100, reading..simple very bad mems)..Written Ketwig, "And a hard rain fell"..Nam Vet. Let me find some links. READ those two books, and many will REALLY understand..'Nam Vet's". Lost a damn good childhood friend in Nam too. 'Stevie". Born on News Years day, killed Christmas Eve, in Nam, 19 years later..(not fighting anyone either, but way in the bush, under sniper fire, called in Artillery fire, someone did the wrong coordinates, and as them a outpost bush, temp Firebase, well...the damn rounds came in heavy. On them. 13 killed. RIP, Stevie, my great old friend..(and HE was one tough SOB TOO!) Pic Steve, next..

[Robby321]

Damnit!...heres story, Steve..(sent to his family)

My best memory of him was when we were in Little League. We took that game day VERY seriously. We would suit up, and lay down for 1/2 hour to relax and concentrate. Then walk a mile to the game to loosen up. Believe it or not, I remember one day I made an outstanding play at shortstop, and was cheered by all. We come in to go to bat, and Steve comes up to the plate and points at the fence just like Babe Ruth would do.........sure enough, over the fence! Yep, and we won the game too! He was very athletic.
He was (as I was too) a "Rebel" as the old folks called us, but you know, that kid was a gentle giant. A heart of gold, and really a old softy. He survived not the best of childhoods, and this latest news is heartbreaking, to say the least
And going "Airborne"? I don't think he would have had it any other way. Sad that he was killed by friendly fire on Christmas Eve. I believe he's in a special place now, and deserves it. He had a short, hard life and died at a young age. Rest in peace my friend.....

[Robby321]

Also, just tossed out the shop, gearhead friends, my.."Famous Happy Hours Partys", every Friday, be here, or be be square! Did too much beer, great times "bench racing".
Anyway, link the books...(read, learn..NOT fiction!"..and closing in on FOUR DECADES, ago! (Yeah, few remember "history"..long ago, not lived, and somehow I remember that, but what I did yesterday, was..??????????)

http://www.amazon.com/Dear-America-L.../dp/0393323048

"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."—David Halberstam
More than twenty-five years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of more than 200 letters, they share their first impressions of the rigors of life in the bush, their longing for home and family, their emotions over the conduct of the war, and their ache at the loss of a friend in battle. Poignant in their rare honesty, the letters from Vietnam are "riveting,...extraordinary by [their] very ordinariness...for the most part, neither deep nor philosophical, only very, very human" (Los Angeles Times). Revealing the complex emotions and daily realities of fighting in the war, these close accounts offer a powerful, uniquely personal portrait of the many faces of Vietnam's veterans. Over 100,000 copies sold.

http://www.amazon.com/hard-rain-fell.../dp/157071987X

Another recovered war memoir this one with a first printing of 15,000 is John Ketwig's ...And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam, first published in 1985. Enlisting to avoid the draft in 1966, Ketwig ended up a platoon sergeant in Thailand, "in charge of 43 Americans and numerous Thais." He is articulate and perceptive throughout, voicing doubt, witnessing horrors, trying to fit in on returning. Ketwig has supplied eight pages of new photos and a new introduction for this edition; the press chat notes that Ketwig will do an NPR affiliate tour, and that the book is a "staple" in campus Vietnam courses.

Rock on, ya all..Robby...