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Stevie & Lindsey

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Deleted member 268085 said:
Interesting. I'd never noticed before. One over. Two over. Three over. Master. And the officer. The one over has to be the drummer or the bass player. Anybody know? :roflmao::bassist:
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I'm not sure what you're asking…is this in reference to the(rank)insignias on their band costumes? In the first photo, Gary Puckett, lead singer/frontman, is second from left; the guy to his left, in the middle with the beatnik goatee, is the bass player, Kerry Chater. In the second 'circular' pose, Puckett is nominally middle, with Chater to his right; in the third, missing a man, Chater is first on the left, with Puckett, third over.
The band was from San Diego, had about a year and a half run of hits, but were puppets of a writer/producer, Jerry Fuller, and broke up after a while. Puckett had a few solo tunes and faded away, eventually working the oldies circuit; Chater became a Nashville songwriter.
 
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Michedelic said:
I'm not sure what you're asking…is this in reference to the(rank)insignias on their band costumes? In the first photo, Gary Puckett, lead singer/frontman, is second from left; the guy to his left, in the middle with the beatnik goatee, is the bass player, Kerry Chater. In the second 'circular' pose, Puckett is nominally middle, with Chater to his right; in the third, missing a man, Chater is first on the left, with Puckett, third over.
The band was from San Diego, had about a year and a half run of hits, but were puppets of a writer/producer, Jerry Fuller, and broke up after a while. Puckett had a few solo tunes and faded away, eventually working the oldies circuit; Chater became a Nashville songwriter.
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Yup, the ranks. All are "3 down" plus one, two, three or three plus a diamond over, each one showing a higher rank. The 3 over with the diamond in the center would be the equivalent of a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army (which uses downs, not overs), so a one down is a staff sergeant, a two down is a sergeant first class and a three down is a master sergeant. The one without stripes (Gary Puckett) is the officer.
 
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Deleted member 268085 said:
Yup, the ranks. All are "3 down" plus one, two, three or three plus a diamond over, each one showing a higher rank. The 3 over with the diamond in the center would be the equivalent of a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army (which uses downs, not overs), so a one down is a staff sergeant, a two down is a sergeant first class and a three down is a master sergeant. The one without stripes (Gary Puckett) is the officer.
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I never paid attention to that kind of stuff. By the time they came around, that kind of thing was a bit corny and passe'…earlier there had been Paul Revere and the Raiders, of course (plus bands like The Palace Guard and New Colony Six), the Buckinghams tried the Civil War thing for one photo shoot, but by 1968 Revere and Lindsay themselves had ditched the concept, and with the Vietnam situation, any military type clothing worn by other bands was in mockery, irony, or satire.
 
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Deleted member 268085 said:
Yup, the ranks. All are "3 down" plus one, two, three or three plus a diamond over, each one showing a higher rank. The 3 over with the diamond in the center would be the equivalent of a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army (which uses downs, not overs), so a one down is a staff sergeant, a two down is a sergeant first class and a three down is a master sergeant. The one without stripes (Gary Puckett) is the officer.
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Never realized that either. Wow.

I actually met Gary Puckett. My club group was playing a weekend in the lounge at a Hyatt around '89 or '90 and he in town was just chilling there in the bar.

The bartender was serving him and his lady friend at the table and introduced us to him. I would have been ok with just a handshake, but he kept saying he wanted our card and how he was needing a new back up band, etc etc. Yeah, yeah, yeah.:rolleyes: We knew the schmooz when we heard it. Oh well.

But I really dug his vocals. Man, he could really belt.
 
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roccobass said:
Never realized that either. Wow.

I actually met Gary Puckett. My club group was playing a weekend in the lounge at a Hyatt around '89 or '90 and he in town was just chilling there in the bar.

The bartender was serving him and his lady friend at the table and introduced us to him. I would have been ok with just a handshake, but he kept saying he wanted our card and how he was needing a new back up band, etc etc. Yeah, yeah, yeah.:rolleyes: We knew the schmooz when we heard it. Oh well.

But I really dug his vocals. Man, he could really belt.
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Well, he's been a regular on the perennial "Happy Together" tours that were fairly sucessful, so maybe you missed out.
 
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Michedelic said:
I never paid attention to that kind of stuff. By the time they came around, that kind of thing was a bit corny and passe'…earlier there had been Paul Revere and the Raiders, of course (plus bands like The Palace Guard and New Colony Six), the Buckinghams tried the Civil War thing for one photo shoot, but by 1968 Revere and Lindsay themselves had ditched the concept, and with the Vietnam situation, any military type clothing worn by other bands was in mockery, irony, or satire.
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I was an E5 (3 overs, no downs) when I was released on a medical. Guys with downs were REALLY particular about it being recognized. Most lifer E6 one-downs (staff sergeants) were the worst. They knew they were never going to make E7, so they just wanted to pass down as much misery as possible. My E6 in Augsburg was the exception. He was going to do 12 and retire. He had a plan. In 'Nam, he managed the officer and enlisted clubs on his base. He was able to buy 160 acres of land in Arkansas with what he made on the side.

And, yeah, I know what 'Nam did to wearing uniforms in public in the U.S. (not that I agree at all with draftees who had no choice in the matter being ridiculed and harassed). When we were flying commercial on a military fare, we had to be in uniform to board. I boarded as early as I could and then changed into civies before take-off. I kept my fatigue jacket with the 7th Army seven steps to hell patch, but unceremoniously tossed my duffle bag with the rest of my Army gear off a bridge. It would have brought me nothing but grief. Weirdly, fatigue jackets were kind of a thing. I just took the stripes off of mine.

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It would have brought me nothing but grief. Weirdly, fatigue jackets were kind of a thing. I just took the stripes off of mine.
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Yeah, I graduated from high school in 1971 (lottery draft) and remember all of the negative vibes about the soldiers coming home. I never understood that, knowing that a lot of them didn't even want to be there.
 
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