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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: HoyaSaxa03 on April 30, 2008, 12:32:00 pm
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[from the April 2008 issue of Harper's]
From a solicitation posted January 11 to the Federal Business Opportunities website:
Professional Celebrity Rock Music Band, sought for tour of Forward Operating Bases in Kuwait and Afghanistan. Musical repertoire should consist of Southern rock, pop rock, post-grunge, and hard rock. At least one member should be recognizable as a professional celebrity.
The Government will conduct a performance risk assessment based on the quality, relevancy, and recency of the Offeror's past performances as they relate to the probability of successful accomplishment of the required effort.
Performers shall be wholesome and adhere to the standards of good taste; profanity, vulgarity, or connotations of sexual depravity and perversion will not be used. Female entertainers shall be displayed in ways not offensive to the host nation.
Protective military equipment, such as Kevlar, body armor, and eye and ear protection, will be provided when the group is traveling on rotary or fixed-wing aircraft.
Any criminal conduct, unexcused tardiness, indecency or obscenity, drunkenness, use of narcotics or hallucinatory drugs, or damage to Government property will be grounds for termination of the contract.
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"Female entertainers shall be displayed..."
Way to go, Armed Forces! Show 'em how we treat women in the good ol' USofA. Keep 'em passive.
I had just watched Soylent Green for the first time the other day. Pretty average movie, but the above quote reminded me of how, as depicted, pretty women deemed "furniture" come with apartments for the rich.
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maybe it's because i've seen the movie a few dozen too many times, but i immediately thought of spinal tap at the air force base
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JiQCIzCZA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JiQCIzCZA)
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there is no such thing as too much spinal tap. there just isn't.
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Live Nation isn't being handed a fluffy no-bid to stage these shows? I mean, that'd fit in with how everything else is done over there
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I caught Lee Greenwood in Afghanistan a couple of years ago. A current band would have been nice, but we were happy with whatever distraction they provided us.
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Rollins Band
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they should get prince doing covers of beck doing covers of flaming lips doing radiohead.
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Originally posted by killsaly:
I caught Lee Greenwood in Afghanistan a couple of years ago. A current band would have been nice, but we were happy with whatever distraction they provided us.
there ain't no doubt that i love this place......
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
Originally posted by killsaly:
I caught Lee Greenwood in Afghanistan a couple of years ago. A current band would have been nice, but we were happy with whatever distraction they provided us.
there ain't no doubt that i love this place...... [/b]
He did that song twice in his set.
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My friend's band does those tours. They've been to Asia Pacific, Northern Africa, Central Asia. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
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Also...
Myyyyyyyyyyy War! You're one of them...
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Originally posted by econo:
My friend's band does those tours. They've been to Asia Pacific, Northern Africa, Central Asia. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
is he the one who's "recognizable as a professional celebrity"??
i love how specific the genre requirements are ("post-grunge", etc)
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He's nowhere near celebrity status and the stuff they play sounds more like Dave Matthews than Nirvana.
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motley crue with opening cage matches for pam from tommie and kid rock.