Thank you, George Couch! (page 4)

charonsdog

I'm pretty sure the "Another One Bites the Dust" thing was pretty widespread. Don't know if it was from an actual outline for the CO's, but I remember that one being talked about a LOT in the congregations in Northern Florida.

Now, I didn't hear this next one personally, but at a local gathering I went to, one of my friends was telling the story of a visiting elder spending a great deal of his 45-minute lecture dissecting Don McLean's "American Pie" and actually "explaining" it and how it was dangerous. Hell, even Don McLean didn't explain it until decades later, and it was still pretty much ambiguous.

smiddy3

I remember seeing Joe Cocker concert at World Expo 88 in Brisbane 1988 I was still very much "in" at that time and enjoyed it very much the concert that is.

respectful_observer

My rather self-righteous (at the time) elder cousin decided that his nephew's Beastie Boys CD (and the rest his CD collection) was so bad that in the middle of his rant he threw the whole thing out the window of the car at highway speed.

This is the same elder who was blissfully unaware at the time that one of his kids was an active opiate user, and the other was dating a coke dealer and had a secret abortion while she was a teen (he still doesn't know about that one).

zeb

Talk about whacko comments. I was at a convention when a speaker from Australian bethel said we should not watch the movie "E.T." as he resembled the anti-Christ.

The biggest "HUH?" came up from the audience and I think he realized he had laid a bad egg.

ttdtt

I remember in my hall in the 80's that George (Brother) Bensons song "The greatest love of all" was about Masturbation, and no Christian should listen to it.

wannaexit

I had to get rid of Paul Anka because of the "put your head on your shoulder" song.

TD

Lisa

I once heard a talk on music in the nineties that went on and on about how horrible the song "Mac the knife" was. It's a jazz standard from the sixties about a professional killer, but obviously done tounge in cheek and actually a really great song.

That's just sad.....

I wonder if it was part of the outline or if the speaker had just gone off the reservation.

Mack the Knife is an English adaptation of the German song, Die Moritat von Mackie Messer which dates from the late 1920's. It was the opening piece of an opera and there's actually a story behind it.

sir82

we should not watch the movie "E.T." as he resembled the anti-Christ.

That was actually in the Awake magazine in the early 80's. The article didn't use the word "antichrist" but it did rant about how the movie presented a "substitute Messiah" or some such tommyrot.

Back to music & COs:

We had a CO, a bit earlier than my other experience here, who, in every talk, somehow, some way, would work in the expression "rock and ruin music".

He said it every....single....talk. He could be talking about the types & antitypes of Solomon's temple, but sure enough....

"And the temple singers....were they singing rock and ruin music? NO! They were praising Jehovah....."

Anybody remember the "rock and ruin" CO? Maybe it was a DO. Anyone recall his name?

Thank you, George Couch!

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