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10-09-2011, 11:37 AM
| | | | Why does Nick Beggs wear a skirt on stage?
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Amazing bass and chapman stick player...famous for one of my favorite riffs "Too Shy" Kajagoogoo. I started researching his videos and wonder why he often wears a skirt on stage?
thanks, mike
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10-09-2011, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Athens, Greece | | | A Kilt and a skirt are two very different concepts.
But yeah, he wears skirts. and dresses occasionaly.
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10-09-2011, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: ottawa, ontario, canada | | | "executive" cross-dresser ? |
10-09-2011, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by fraublugher  "executive" cross-dresser ? | And an "Action" Transvestite as well! |
10-09-2011, 01:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London, UK | | | Why does Nick Beggs wear a skirt on stage? Why not?
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10-09-2011, 05:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North Port Fl. | | | Possibly a "lava lava"????? Samoan wrap?? I've been wearing them around the house for many years. They were given to me by the famous wrestling tag team the "Wild Samoans" Afa & Siqa used to have an instruction pro wrestling center in Hamden Ct. and I met the boys through a friend who attended their "school"!!! As soon as I get a little more "detatched" from society I plan on wearing them 100% of the time as they do. Not sure what the tradition is for under the Lava but at the time I decide to wear them out who cares whats going on underneath. Its a great look in that you kinda stand out yet no one bothers you, I like that. Doc or Somba!!! |
10-09-2011, 05:21 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey | | | I saw him play Chapman stick and guitar with John Paul Jones. And I was pretty sure that it was a kilt. |
10-09-2011, 05:21 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | Skirts are comfy under hot stage lights. The only times it's bad to wear a skirt are when riding a bike, climbing a ladder, skydiving, that sort of thing. It doesn't impede playing a Stick.  |
10-09-2011, 05:28 PM
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10-11-2011, 10:56 AM
| | | Well, first of all, it is a Kilt, second of all, he plays a STICK!  |
10-11-2011, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Athens, Greece | | Quote:
Originally Posted by randy clere Well, first of all, it is a Kilt, second of all, he plays a STICK! | He doesnt always wear a kilt. Sometimes its a skirt.
Unless this counts as a kilt: Nick Beggs a | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Being half Scottish, I dont concider it a kilt, but it may be just me.
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10-11-2011, 11:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver, CO | | | interesting... trey gunn wears a kilt when he plays with KTU and TU. i suppose one has to be a little out there to play touch guitar. |
10-11-2011, 11:59 AM
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Its showbiz man.. and everyone needs a shtick to set themselves apart... see it worked, you are talking about him....
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10-11-2011, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by svtb15 .. and everyone needs a shtick to set themselves apart... | But he already has the Chapman shtick....
Oh-oh, this means Warr. |
10-11-2011, 01:52 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Karl Hoyt Basses | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: upstate NY | | | Nick was openly out when that was far from cool, and has worn dresses/skirts/kilts on stage for virtually his entire career.
Thanks for noticing damn near 30 years later.
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10-11-2011, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by bigfatbass Nick was openly out when that was far from cool, and has worn dresses/skirts/kilts on stage for virtually his entire career. | You say that as if there's some connection between being "out" and wearing skirts. |
10-11-2011, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Roscoe East You say that as if there's some connection between being "out" and wearing skirts. | I wore Utilikilts fairly regularly until my girlfriend took them when she moved out. |
10-11-2011, 04:13 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Karl Hoyt Basses | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: upstate NY | | | I should have expected this here.
Weak attempt to turn my praise for Nick's inner strength into an argument over whether or not cross-dressers are perceived as gay.
I couldn't care less if he liked doing toads in a football uniform.
I'm just happy to see a famous person so comfortable with themselves in an era when people were burning Culture Club/Boy George records.
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10-11-2011, 04:17 PM
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10-11-2011, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bigfatbass I'm just happy to see a famous person so comfortable with themselves in an era when people were burning Culture Club/Boy George records. | Dude, there were gay people burning those records. 
The original post kinda begs the question you seem to be taking exception to. As someone who's worn a kilt in public quite a bit I know from experience the question is ALWAYS there in a lot of people's minds so it shouldn't surprise you it's come up here. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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