07.02.16
I don’t care how many people you play pop rock for …
If you’ve been bombing them for fifteen years, playing cover tunes in toady countries isn’t spreading good will.
Our men are seriously deluded:
“Until you see what we do, it’s hard to really understand the mission impact music can have,??? Senior Master Sgt. Ryan Carson said in a phone interview from Doha, Qatar, where his Air Force rock band, Max Impact, is deployed. (They can’t even think of a band name that isn’t a grim joke to everybody else on the receiving end.)
“In recent months, he and his five band mates have played in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and a number of what he called “undisclosed locations,??? performing popular songs in Arabic for foreign dignitaries, troops and children, as well as globally recognized American rock anthems by groups like Journey and Bon Jovi.
“We are allowing people to relax, connect, have meaningful interactions. For a lot of these people, it leaves a really lasting, positive impression of our country and our military,??? he said.
And these are not tunes played by the public relations brigade of the American Wehrmacht. Listen, guys, you don’t rock, you never will, no way. It was never about dressing up and doing glee club in the Vichy cities of the Middle East.
Once there may have been a good and noble purpose for military bands. Heck, I saw them when I was a kid. A US Army rock band came and played my high school in Pine Grove. They did James Brown to Jimi Hendrix. But, jeezus, they’ve obliterated all that. What a disgrace, an affront to music. Hang your heads in shame.
Achtung Musikband soldiers. (Note old dude who thinks it’s bullshit and has to be ordered to sing.)