Aah Billy Bragg, a great love of mine. In his early years, he was like a Cockney Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger reborn. You shouldn't have been knock-kneed , Lesa. He is so humble & down to earth. A lovely man.
@debutch Seriously - I've meet soo many rockers from the Cars to Iggy - and you know, I was always cool, yeah, you're a rock star, so what, BUT when it came to BB, all my friends had to hold me - weird - I just think meeting a hero vs. a rock star is different:) He was ever so kind to me as this was during the Kerry V Bush Election and he had come to town to get young ones off their asses to vote (I'm a voter) and had made a special limited cd ep of an anti Bush song about big oil:)
@debutch Yes kind and humble; he and I talked for quite a while as I was deeply invested in getting Bush out; but again, the ONLY person I've EVER been nervous about meeting:) Think that goes to show..hero v rock star:) Anywho, a highlight of my life - as we got to chat after all my rocker friends made sure he knew I wasn't a groupie as I was acting so weird; I got some really good one on one about politics and music:) THX to my bro's in bands as they made sure I got to him as they knew...
He used to live very near to me before he began recording. Barking ( which is in Essex, East of London) A local Cockney who always championed the underdog.
@debutch Ur lucky - my thing was I just has soo much respect - different than meeting a rocker...ok..so another story for the "book"- fyi I'm not giving up on that one - an e-book? - all jammers would buy and now loopers:)
@debutch not sure if you caught my intro to my cousins from across the pond story during Thatcher (Oh and BB hated MT)/Reagan years...I am your sister:) GO geezers and birds:) Sigh..missed them (my friends from Brit, Ireland) when they got deported...
@debutch that's all due to the geezers and birds that I knew in the '80's - they came over on student/ other visas and stayed as long as they could...made up most of our crew...until..sigh...had to go home -then no re - entry:( But for the most part, that's who I hung out with in the '80's - your peeps:)
@debutch Seriously, I lived in Boston/ Cambridge (very Irish and during the "troubles") when young irish/brit people could make a living, play in bands, get laid and drunk and have a hell of a good time...unless they had to go home , - did I tell you about my grandfather who used to "vacation" in Belfast in the '70's, every year he would go all by himself - hmm? - who the hell does that unless you are doing something for the IRA, and how he converted to Catholicism after no religion - Jeez.
@lesakramer5 Did your Grandfather have Irish heritage?....Going to Belfast in the SEVENTIES wasn't considered a good idea if you wanted a stress-free break. ...And he went by himself after converting to Catholicism??... hmm, I don't think you need Sherlock Holmes to work out what was happening THERE!!....
@debutch Exactly! When I moved to Boston in '81 I realized what my full Irish grandfather was up to -Robert Emmett Cornwall - go for it who ever is tracking this, he is long gone:) I would be sent every summer in the 70's to stay with my different grand parents and trust me, upon reflection, who the hell has the friends he had, and makes a vacation to Belfast in the '70's? You have to know that my mother's father was always about supporting the those that were beaten down; he was a pioneer
@debutch He worked with Stetson Kennedy, famous for infiltrated the KKK in the 30's my mom told me the stories - tirelessly a man that supported human rights issues, and in the South at that time, it could get you killed. At the age of 10, I would call my Mum and say I just meet the weirdest people:) Anywho - his work with Stetson (very famous) is in the Library of Congress and available for download as is my grandmother, who collected slaves stories) Jeez..no wonder I love Billy Bragg:)
@debutch having said all that, and having, prior to Mr. B, for 18 years a full Irish boyfriend James Francis O'Rourke, and have been to many an IRA bar with the whole martyr signs on the wall etc.,(his name got us into those bars), I never supported taking human life, but felt that Ireland did deserve to be independent. Gotta go back to your history...Henry the 8th who needed his wife - who rules...politics, religion and sex so intertwined:) xo! Gosh I babbled on:)
@lesakramer5 This is fabulous reading, Lesa. Did you tell any of this or your family history to Billy Bragg?. He would have been fascinated......( babble on as much as you like. This is great...) :-)
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debutch
Aah Billy Bragg, a great love of mine. In his early years, he was like a Cockney Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger reborn. You shouldn't have been knock-kneed , Lesa. He is so humble & down to earth. A lovely man.
lesakramer5
@debutch Seriously - I've meet soo many rockers from the Cars to Iggy - and you know, I was always cool, yeah, you're a rock star, so what, BUT when it came to BB, all my friends had to hold me - weird - I just think meeting a hero vs. a rock star is different:) He was ever so kind to me as this was during the Kerry V Bush Election and he had come to town to get young ones off their asses to vote (I'm a voter) and had made a special limited cd ep of an anti Bush song about big oil:)
lesakramer5
@debutch Yes kind and humble; he and I talked for quite a while as I was deeply invested in getting Bush out; but again, the ONLY person I've EVER been nervous about meeting:) Think that goes to show..hero v rock star:) Anywho, a highlight of my life - as we got to chat after all my rocker friends made sure he knew I wasn't a groupie as I was acting so weird; I got some really good one on one about politics and music:) THX to my bro's in bands as they made sure I got to him as they knew...
debutch
He used to live very near to me before he began recording. Barking ( which is in Essex, East of London) A local Cockney who always championed the underdog.
lesakramer5
@debutch Ur lucky - my thing was I just has soo much respect - different than meeting a rocker...ok..so another story for the "book"- fyi I'm not giving up on that one - an e-book? - all jammers would buy and now loopers:)
lesakramer5
@debutch not sure if you caught my intro to my cousins from across the pond story during Thatcher (Oh and BB hated MT)/Reagan years...I am your sister:) GO geezers and birds:) Sigh..missed them (my friends from Brit, Ireland) when they got deported...
debutch
I bet you could settle very easily in England, Lesa....You seem to understand what makes us tick. A kindred spirit.... :-)
lesakramer5
@debutch that's all due to the geezers and birds that I knew in the '80's - they came over on student/ other visas and stayed as long as they could...made up most of our crew...until..sigh...had to go home -then no re - entry:( But for the most part, that's who I hung out with in the '80's - your peeps:)
debutch
@lesakramer5 "geezers & birds" HaHaHa!!! LOVE it!! You've already qualified as a Cockney in my eyes! =D
lesakramer5
@debutch Seriously, I lived in Boston/ Cambridge (very Irish and during the "troubles") when young irish/brit people could make a living, play in bands, get laid and drunk and have a hell of a good time...unless they had to go home , - did I tell you about my grandfather who used to "vacation" in Belfast in the '70's, every year he would go all by himself - hmm? - who the hell does that unless you are doing something for the IRA, and how he converted to Catholicism after no religion - Jeez.
debutch
@lesakramer5 Did your Grandfather have Irish heritage?....Going to Belfast in the SEVENTIES wasn't considered a good idea if you wanted a stress-free break. ...And he went by himself after converting to Catholicism??... hmm, I don't think you need Sherlock Holmes to work out what was happening THERE!!....
lesakramer5
@debutch Exactly! When I moved to Boston in '81 I realized what my full Irish grandfather was up to -Robert Emmett Cornwall - go for it who ever is tracking this, he is long gone:) I would be sent every summer in the 70's to stay with my different grand parents and trust me, upon reflection, who the hell has the friends he had, and makes a vacation to Belfast in the '70's? You have to know that my mother's father was always about supporting the those that were beaten down; he was a pioneer
lesakramer5
@debutch He worked with Stetson Kennedy, famous for infiltrated the KKK in the 30's my mom told me the stories - tirelessly a man that supported human rights issues, and in the South at that time, it could get you killed. At the age of 10, I would call my Mum and say I just meet the weirdest people:) Anywho - his work with Stetson (very famous) is in the Library of Congress and available for download as is my grandmother, who collected slaves stories) Jeez..no wonder I love Billy Bragg:)
lesakramer5
@debutch having said all that, and having, prior to Mr. B, for 18 years a full Irish boyfriend James Francis O'Rourke, and have been to many an IRA bar with the whole martyr signs on the wall etc.,(his name got us into those bars), I never supported taking human life, but felt that Ireland did deserve to be independent. Gotta go back to your history...Henry the 8th who needed his wife - who rules...politics, religion and sex so intertwined:) xo! Gosh I babbled on:)
debutch
@lesakramer5 This is fabulous reading, Lesa. Did you tell any of this or your family history to Billy Bragg?. He would have been fascinated......( babble on as much as you like. This is great...) :-)