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brooklynite

(94,974 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 02:47 PM Jan 2019

Here's Video of Beto O'Rourke Singing Blitzkrieg Bop in a Sheep Mask and a Onesie

Because, why not?

Mother Jones:



By now most people who follow national politics have probably heard that Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic congressman from El Paso who is contemplating a run for president, once played bass in a punk rock band called Foss. The punk rock ethos seemed to infuse his 2018 Senate race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, down to O’Rourke’s DIY-style of campaigning. During the campaign, O’Rourke performed on stage with Willie Nelson, brought a fog machine to his concession speech, and filmed himself playing air drums on the steering wheel during road trips. The state Republican Party, for its part, mocked him for appearing in a dress on the cover of Foss’ album, The El Paso Pussycats.

But Foss wasn’t O’Rourke’s only musical project. Nearly a decade after Foss split up in the mid ’90s—after he had returned to El Paso, started a web design company, and taken tentative steps toward a career in local politics—O’Rourke and a few friends (including other ex-members of Foss) formed two other bands. One was a rock group called Fragile Gang. The other was a cover band called The Sheeps, which performed punk rock classics. Band members wore a variety of disguises on stage—most notably, tight onesies and sheep masks.

“Our persona was that we were a very famous band from New Zealand and we didn’t want people to know our true identities—that’s why we wore masks,” Ailbhe Cormack, the band’s bassist, tells Mother Jones. “I think people followed along with the mystery of it, but they knew who we were.”

At a December 2003 show at El Paso’s now-closed Moontime Pizza, O’Rourke, the group’s rhythm guitarist, wore a white onesie and tried on a bad Kiwi accent for good measure:
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Here's Video of Beto O'Rourke Singing Blitzkrieg Bop in a Sheep Mask and a Onesie (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2019 OP
Thank god he wasn't in Gwar. n/t FSogol Jan 2019 #1
LOL underpants Jan 2019 #2
I never saw Gwar, but I saw all those guys when they were in Death Piggy. FSogol Jan 2019 #3
Who cares? Gothmog Jan 2019 #4
Why did you post this? murielm99 Jan 2019 #5

underpants

(183,018 posts)
2. LOL
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 02:56 PM
Jan 2019

I've lived in Richmond over 20 years and have never seen a Gwar show. What have I been DOING with my life,!?!!!

Actually I really wish I had.

FSogol

(45,586 posts)
3. I never saw Gwar, but I saw all those guys when they were in Death Piggy.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 03:10 PM
Jan 2019

Good times.

My fav song by them:

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