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
thanks, mike
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Why does Nick Beggs wear a skirt on stage?
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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!!!
bongomania
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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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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.
Thanks for noticing damn near 30 years later.
You say that as if there's some connection between being "out" and wearing skirts.
I wore Invalid Link Removed fairly regularly until my girlfriend took them when she moved out.
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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.
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.
bongomania
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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.
