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...Charles Crockett...
When Davy Crockett and the hundred-odd defenders of the Alamo lined up against Santa Ana and his 5,000 hired guns, the outcome was pretty much guaranteed: Davy got slaughtered...
...between there was a month break when he cancelled because his wife got sick. In that break we went to England and Germany for about a week. We actually were going to do ten days in the U.S., but we did like five or six shows when Cordell [Crockett, UKJ's bassist] broke his leg. So we cancelled the last few shows and got back on the Ozzy tour, with Cordell sitting on a stool for the first part of the tour...
...great advantage, and his coziness with insiders could tarnish his outsider appeal. He has promised specific solutions, but he clearly believes they are unnecessary -- because prescription implies promise, and "everyone knows" that political promises are hollow. In this anti-intellectual stance the Jacksonian Democrat whom Perot resembles is Davy Crockett. Almost everything about Crockett is myth. (Is it uninteresting that Perot once said, "I'm not a living legend. I'm just a myth"?) Like Perot, Crockett regularly exalted common sense above what he called "law learning." He also accepted demagoguery and deception as required for political success...
...band that rehearsed next door to another new group which included guitarist Roger Lahr. After the bands played a couple of gigs together, Lahr accepted the invitation to join Eichstadt, Crane and Davis since, as Lahr laughs now, "My band sucked anyway." With the later addition of bassist Cordell Crockett, Ugly Kid Joe as we know it was complete...