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BigmanPigman

(52,344 posts)
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 11:06 PM Sep 2017

If you are watching Vietnam on PBS can you name the tunes in 3 notes or less?

Am I alone? The only good thing to come out of that horrendous nightmare is great music.

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If you are watching Vietnam on PBS can you name the tunes in 3 notes or less? (Original Post) BigmanPigman Sep 2017 OP
I said that to my wife - the strife birthed some legendary music for sure NRaleighLiberal Sep 2017 #1
The 1960s produced about the best "pop" music, if I can call it that, ever. pangaia Sep 2017 #2
Yeah, then it mostly went to hell in the 70s when the suits horned in Warpy Sep 2017 #3
Yeah, late 60s/early 70s the suits lost control of the airwaves. argyl Oct 2017 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2017 #4
No problem whatsoever... Ohiya Sep 2017 #5
Bought the DVD set. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #7
I'm glad Ken Burns covered the My Lai massacre. BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #8
I DVR'd every episode when it was running on PBS ooky Sep 2018 #9

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
2. The 1960s produced about the best "pop" music, if I can call it that, ever.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 11:27 PM
Sep 2017

I have often thought I was born at the right tine.

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
3. Yeah, then it mostly went to hell in the 70s when the suits horned in
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 01:36 AM
Sep 2017

and insisted on first formula stuff and later disco. Plus, everybody started to grow up, especially the bands.

argyl

(3,064 posts)
6. Yeah, late 60s/early 70s the suits lost control of the airwaves.
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:15 AM
Oct 2017

Hippy FM DJs would play whatever the fuck they and their audience liked and wanted to hear. We’d call in and request tunes we wanted to hear and the DJs were more than happy to oblige. They sure weren’t going by any set playlist.
When “Frampton Comes Alive” came out I knew the good times were done for. Couldn’t hit a station that didn’t have a song from that mediocre at best LP.
Then “Saturday Night Fever” and The Bee Gees. The final nail.

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BigmanPigman

(52,344 posts)
8. I'm glad Ken Burns covered the My Lai massacre.
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 11:45 PM
Aug 2018

I took a class while in Art School called Vietnam in film and we studied the Pinksville Massacre. Horrific crimes occured and the criminals received almost no punishments. Calley is still alive, I tracked him down to Georgia. Medina died a few months ago in his 80s.

"My Lai was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were massacred by the U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.[1][2] Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.

In a separate trial, Captain Medina denied giving the orders that led to the massacre, and was acquitted of all charges, effectively negating the prosecution's theory of "command responsibility", now referred to as the "Medina standard". Several months after his acquittal, however, Medina admitted he had suppressed evidence and had lied to Colonel Henderson about the number of civilian deaths.[92]

ooky

(9,613 posts)
9. I DVR'd every episode when it was running on PBS
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 07:52 PM
Sep 2018

and couldn't part with it when I finished the last episode. So am storing all episodes on my DVR until I can watch it again.

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