Originally posted by eddie1960 Ha been a long time since i thought of them. 7 seconds still tour though musically they have changed a bit. still the brothers but the rest of the band has changed
i was listening to them at work and though i should post a tune and that was the one playing. Like the sound they were always a little on the straight edge side for me though (particularly in the eighties when i was a long way from straight edge
Yeah, we had alternative lyrics to some Minor Threat songs, I was once known for my rendition of one, it went, 'I've got the straight edge,' *hic* I've got the *straight edge, *hic*...'
There was some great surfeit of silliness, there, but I still don't lace my boots up all the way.
Ah, the 'lace laws,' It's how I somehow managed to develop an eye for social politics. It's as well we got it out of the way.
Heh. Pinning mikes like it was meant to be.
'Out on the road today, I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac:'
Heh, speaking of Black Flag, not getting it, and lace laws, check out this dweeb in the white braces:
He'd be fighting a war he can't win from both sides of what those meant. I think I'd be like, 'Child, I'm going to give you the gift of either a nobler understanding of your ethnic heritage, or, failing that, epaulets which I will staple *down* if you hope to survive to become a music critic.'
Yes, I know there are a limited number of people in the world right now who'll have any idea what I'm talking about, there, or admit to it if they happen to be in office or business) but so it is. I'm proud to have personally scared the... (vernacular word for yellow water) out of a famous racist skin who thought he could put on a suit and grow his hair out and spin the same crap for the Young Republicans, just by saying, 'Hi.' (The local sharps had dubbed me 'The Killer Bunny' around then.) He was... about as short as I'd expected.
And, of course, apparently not so tough on his own.
All the things he wanted, apparently no match for a stripe of eyeliner, a dangerous smirk, a fixed eye, and ...
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