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twicehappy -> Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 4:57:24 AM)
Recently i made a post and included the name Sonny Barger in my post which led to me being asked" Who is Sonny Barger a real person or somebody made up?". Damn did that make me feel old. So i started this thread, how many of you can remember some folk icons or heroes from the past and how many other know who they are? It could be a musician, politician a war protester etc. I'll start; Patty Hearst.

MmakeMme -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 5:16:11 AM)
Timothy Leary

twicehappy -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 5:23:10 AM)
" Turn on, tune in, drop out" He was the LSD doctor.

MmakeMme -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 5:35:24 AM)
Ira Einhorn. Famous ... and later ... infamous.

yourMissTress -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 5:45:24 AM)
Patty Hearst : Newspaper heiress kidnapped in 1974 and later joined her kidnappers (the SLA) in bank robbery. Ooops, forgot to add my own...Adrian Cronauer.

NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 6:00:39 AM)
I love my Joni Mitchell. She counts, right?

KatyLied -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 6:32:55 AM)
Dashiell Hammett

twicehappy -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 7:19:19 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: yourMissTress Patty Hearst : Newspaper heiress kidnapped in 1974 and later joined her kidnappers (the SLA) in bank robbery. Ooops, forgot to add my own...Adrian Cronauer. You are right. Wasn't Cronauer the Viet Nam radio guy?

windchymes -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 1:44:28 PM)
George Carlin? Is he considered "folk"?

mnottertail -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 1:55:25 PM)
Rufus (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) The Bishop (Dogma) The Hippy Dippy Weatherman............a comedian Claude Dallas

Aileen68 -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 1:59:20 PM)
Gumby <image deleted>

IronBear -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 2:03:40 PM)
Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith ~ R.I.P. July 1, 1995) Wolfman Jack--indisputably the world's most famous DJ--was the master of ceremonies for the rock 'n' roll generation of the '60s on radio, and later on television during the '70s.

SavageFaerie -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 2:08:30 PM)
Of course I have to say Audrey Hepburn, not only was she a delight to the older movie age, she was a strong mother and later a wonderful humanitarian for UNICEF. I cried when she lost her life to cancer. I often go to sleep with Breakfast at Tiffany's playing on my TV.

sleazybutterfly -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 2:08:32 PM)
Janis Joplin

UtopianRanger -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 3:29:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: twicehappy Recently i made a post and included the name Sonny Barger in my post which led to me being asked" Who is Sonny Barger a real person or somebody made up?". Damn did that make me feel old. So i started this thread, how many of you can remember some folk icons or heroes from the past and how many other know who they are? It could be a musician, politician a war protester etc. I'll start; Patty Hearst. Gerry Spence & John Madden - R

Arpig -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 4:03:36 PM)
God I must be old, I know who they all are [:(] here's the ones that didn't get described..... Ira Einhorn: Hippie-turned-killer Claude Dallas: "mountain man" who shot some game wardens Gumby: Plasticene character in a kids' show Janis Joplin: Bisexual alcoholic junkie singer from San francisco Gerry Spence: Famous lawyer & author. He won the Silkwood case (good movie based on it) Checkers John Madden: Footbal coach

Emperor1956 -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/9/2006 4:21:50 PM)
Oh Man....Twicehappy you WOULD post this just a few days shy of my turning 50. OK, folks...I want some IDs NAME THESE PEOPLE (...Arpig, you're up!) You want FOLK icons? Peter Yarrow? Phil Ochs? Pete Seeger, of course. Janis Ian? You want murderous American Icons? Charles Whitman? Karl Armstrong? (Ok, probably not fair to put those two in the same class). William Calley? Richard Milhouse Nixon? You want just good old ICONS? Kukla, Fran...and of course, Ollie. Baba Ram Dass. Noam Chomsky. Fred Hampton. David Dellinger. Shari Lewis. The Fabulous Furry Phreak Brothers (NAME 'EM). Newton N. Minow. Julius J. Hoffman. Honor Blackman. BONUS QUESTION...SURE, Patty Hearst is Easy. What was the name of her kidnappers AND...who was her counterculture lover/radical/big black stud man? NO GOOGLING! NO WICKIPEDIA! GET THESE OUT OF YOUR MUSTY OLD MINDS. E. I warn you....this game can go ON and ON.

Estring -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/10/2006 12:17:26 AM)
Boxcar Willie

Emperor1956 -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/10/2006 11:31:55 AM)
Estring: Boxcar Willie Country & Western singer, known as "America's Hobo". Pretty much created the "hobo music" subgenre. His real name was leeland travis martin (or something like that...doing this from memory). Member of the Grand Ol' Opry and suprisingly popular up to his death, which was about 6-7 years ago? E

LaTigresse -> RE: Americon folk icons. (8/10/2006 11:44:44 AM)
Good god people, I have trouble remembering my own name and what I am doing. Asking me hard questions like that might cause some sort of cosmic surge in the universe or something or other. I do remember Boxcar Willie because my daughter thought he was funny when she was a wee one, oh so many years ago. I also met him once in Elko Nevada when I had to go on a lame gambling junket for the nightclub I was managing. He was performing there. I am just terrible with names. I often will say something like "oh was that the dude that did/said/sung?" I am terrible I know. I really need an assistant/slave/submissive to remember this stuff for me. I would be the person that would go to a "play party" and walk out the door, drive 50 miles, only to reach for my Bag-O-Toys and remember that I left them on the sofa........in plain site, right where I would not forget them.[:D]

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