Musicians Who Have Served in the Military

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i want to make a discworth's of recs by ex-serviceppl for a friend - yr suggestions pl - i'll get Elvis, Hendrix, Billy Bragg, Sgt. Barry Adler and Albert Ayler out of the way to start w/

(we all know of at least two rock crits/ilxors who served in the military, maybe there are others...)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Terence Trent D'Arby!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I presume you like this friend and don't want to include James Blunt

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Tons and tons of jazz musicians.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Mystikal

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Shaggy
Archie Bell

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

KISS

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

also (includes navy)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash (Air Force)

― James, Friday, 24 March 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Tito Puente (navy, WWII)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Gary Lewis
Archie Bell

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

haha i'd totally forgotten abt blunt! and D'Arby!

Shaggy?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Shaggy was a naval something or other, I believe.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

LOL @ that Rick James story on that quiz page I linked to just then

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Formed while serving:

The Monks (Army)

The Exciters (Marines)

The Spiffys (Navy)

Shaggy was USMC.

― brianiast (briania), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

this dude:

http://www.signaltonoisemagazine.org/page4.html

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter may not have served in the military (??) but is currently working for George W. Bush as sort of a defense advisor/weapons expert.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Elvin Jones, Kenny Clarke, Lester Young, Fred Wesley

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter may not have served in the military (??) but is currently working for George W. Bush as sort of a ~~defense advisor/weapons expert~~ herbal procurer.

― brianiast (briania), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

- Bill Dixon
- John Fogerty
- John Coltrane

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Tons of country artists: Charlie Louvin, Freddie Fender and Norman Blake off the top of my head.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Ice T

― Gunderson (Gunderson), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

A few of the Detroit Techno dudes were in the military. Mike Grant was in the army (and led a salute, in uniform, on memorial day at DEMF one year) and Kenny Larkin was in the Air Force.

― tylero (tylero), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

I believe George Jones was in the service. Marines?

― Bren (Bren), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Canibus

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Mystical

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Mad Cobra, I think.

Michael Nesmith, briefly. (Air Force.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Marvin Gaye
John Fogerty
Bill Withers

― musically (musically), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Wattie from the Exploited

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

dave brubeck

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Bob Mosley, the great singer in Moby Grape, quit the group and joined the Marines in 1969.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Country Joe

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Maynard Keenan from Tool (Army)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9417/mjkusma5ml.jpg

― pinder (pinder), Saturday, 25 March 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

there ya go!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 March 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

this guy:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0542,smith,68918,22.html

― xhuxk, Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman = flight surgeon in USAF (or Navy)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

tom hazelmyer from halo of flies. marines.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

oh, and anyone who ever came from israel, right? or do they have an alternative service thing like germany?

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA (and possibly Benny Andersson too). Sweden and Finland have compulsory military service, so a lot of musicians from here have served in the army - though many have chosen the alternative civil service too, or gotten a release due to health or psychological issues.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

The dude from Snap!

Considering that National Service was only abolished in 1963, I'm assuming that a fair few 50's and 60's musicians served. And in many othere countries it hasn't been abolished at all/until quite recently.

― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Craig Bell (Mirrors, Rocket From The Tombs, Saucers)

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

quite probably laibach. borghesia managed to avoid military conscription due to excessive leather wearing and tom of finlandness about them. and the campest moustache since freddie mercury's

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I know Per Gessle of Roxette has at least. During his time in Gyllene Tider, Gessle had already served, so while his bandmates were all serving, he recorded his first solo album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Jerry Garcia was in the US Army, at least for a few months, in 1959.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

borghesia managed to avoid military conscription due to excessive leather wearing and tom of finlandness about them. and the campest moustache since freddie mercury's

LOL!

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 26 March 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Lee Hazlewood (twice!)

Roy Harper (R.A.F.)

Hans-Joachim Roedelius:

"Hans-Joachim Roedelius has packed a lot into his seventy years: a child actor in pre-war Berlin, teenage conscription into the post-war East German army, desertion, capture, a five year prison sentence with hard labour (he served two) followed by escape to the west just before the Berlin Wall went up."

― Dadaismus sinks his soul in Mother Nature's bower (Dada), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Sidney Youngblood

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Kris Kristofferson

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Woody Guthrie was a merchant marine.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

someone mentioned Detroit techno: don't forget Richard Davies (aka 4070, or something like that), Juan Atkins' partner in Cybotron...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

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