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loog droog
Lighten up.
This was not meant as an endorsement of A.H.
At the time, it was an outrageous rock star move, and it meant nothing more than that.
There are photos of Brian Jones and Keith Moon in full Nazi getups. Brian's pic (stepping on a baby doll) was spun as an "anti-fascist protest" and Keith Moon...was just being Keith Moon.
There are pictures of Jimmy Page onstage wearing an SS officer cap.
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waterrats
"Swastica" is a Sanskrit compositum, made of "su-" and "asti". "-ka" is the nominative affix, If I recall correctly... ;-)
It simply means "(it) be good" or "may it be good". The sign is understood in Buddhism as a symbol for stability. That's why it's shown at right angle, with one 'foot' firmly on the ground.
The Nazis just mirrored it and turned it around for 45° - maybe that's why their 1000 years only lasted a few years. Which is exactly a few years too long, IMHO...
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loog droog
There are photos of Brian Jones and Keith Moon in full Nazi getups. Brian's pic (stepping on a baby doll) was spun as an "anti-fascist protest" and Keith Moon...was just being Keith Moon.
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loog droog
Lighten up.
This was not meant as an endorsement of A.H.
At the time, it was an outrageous rock star move, and it meant nothing more than that.
There are photos of Brian Jones and Keith Moon in full Nazi getups. Brian's pic (stepping on a baby doll) was spun as an "anti-fascist protest" and Keith Moon...was just being Keith Moon.
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In my opinion, none of this is as perverse as Bowie playing the Thin White Duke.
But everything was a role for him.
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guitarbastard
has probably been a topv before, but ive been to the stones exhibition in london today and on the 5string newman guitar that is shown there are small swasticas signs among other signs. does anyone know why?
we were a bit irritated...
Simply to provoke. I grew up in Holland, and we wore German army stuff all the time at school, it was just our way of being punk in the late 80's. Just to provoke teachers and parents.
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guitarbastard
has probably been a topv before, but ive been to the stones exhibition in london today and on the 5string newman guitar that is shown there are small swasticas signs among other signs. does anyone know why?
we were a bit irritated...
Simply to provoke. I grew up in Holland, and we wore German army stuff all the time at school, it was just our way of being punk in the late 80's. Just to provoke teachers and parents.
Mathijs
was it original german clothing from WWII or replica?
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riffcliche69
with the war only a quarter century old, and, in outskirts the debris still remaining, shortages that lasted through the sixties , and one generation from the then-most advanced civilian-targeted rocketry, the seeker of this material would have found it rather daunting. He would have been hung up on phones and thrown out of shops.
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waterrats
"Swastica" is a Sanskrit compositum, made of "su-" and "asti". "-ka" is the nominative affix, If I recall correctly... ;-)
It simply means "(it) be good" or "may it be good". The sign is understood in Buddhism as a symbol for stability. That's why it's shown at right angle, with one 'foot' firmly on the ground.
The Nazis just mirrored it and turned it around for 45° - maybe that's why their 1000 years only lasted a few years. Which is exactly a few years too long, IMHO...
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Mathijs
Simply to provoke. I grew up in Holland, and we wore German army stuff all the time at school, it was just our way of being punk in the late 80's. Just to provoke teachers and parents.
Original, which in the '80's was very easy to find in Holland. I wore a (fantastic) black German officers overcoat, and black leather German tank boots, a Canadian belt and American T-shirts. We where allowed to wear German insignia (wings etc), but not swastika's. My belt with swastika got confiscated at school.
In those days it was cheap, readily available, and it looked cool.
Mathijs