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The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by miohtama »

dkarl wrote: post #3

My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook w…

I watched him live in Europe couple of years back. The problem it that a lot of folk see him as a single hit artist.

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by eadmund »

> It was the winter of 1987-88 in South Dallas, or maybe it was the following summer … Tussles were frequent, and being Texas, half the club came strapped.

Texas did not pass its concealed-carry law until 1995. In fact, in 1991 its legislature considered a gun-control law! Great writing, but I wonder at how accurate the rest of the details are.

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by jandrese »

eadmund wrote: post #12

> It was the winter of 1987-88 in South Dallas, or maybe it was the following summer … Tussles were frequent, and being Texas, half the club came strapped. Texas did not pass its concealed-carry law until 1995. In fact, in 1991 its legislature considered a gun-control law! Great writing, but I wonder at how accurate the rest of the details are.

How many people going to a nightclub in a rough part of town frequented by an assortment of career criminals and associates people are going to care?

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by dfischer »

dkarl wrote: post #3

My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook w…

He has an interview with Joe Rogan that’s pretty interesting. You may enjoy it.

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by s5300 »

eadmund wrote: post #12

> It was the winter of 1987-88 in South Dallas, or maybe it was the following summer … Tussles were frequent, and being Texas, half the club came strapped. Texas did not pass its concealed-carry law until 1995. In fact, in 1991 its legislature considered a gun-control law! Great writing, but I wonder at how accurate the rest of the details are.

Hmmm...

If you're saying this with no sarcasm at all, you might be in a bit of a bubble.

While it may have very well been illegal, you can be wholeheartedly assured that the statement of non-negligible strappedness in a South Dallas club circa late '80s is true.

Wouldn't the world be a wonderful place if everybody followed laws. Maybe. Probably not though, if you dig into laws...

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by joering2 »

dkarl wrote: post #3

My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook w…

If you think he's a great musician, then know he is even better builder! For many years he had 2 companies in Miami flipping mansions, he even had his own show on TV. Some episodes show extreme complicated (engineering wise) rebuilt of houses and its always fun to watch before and after. Rob is definitely a man of many talents.

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by quickthrower2 »

fock wrote: post #8
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #4

Maybe it’s just me, but I got about 20% in to the article and had to stop. These articles are written for word count alone - that has to be it. Because otherwise there is no reason to jump a head and back over and over again. Tell a story in order!

it seems to include an eclectic amount of music-references for just filling that wordcount.

Yeah I sort of felt a bit jargoned out. But probably a great read if you were there and into music at the time

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by ramoz »

dfischer wrote: post #14
dkarl wrote: post #3

My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook w…

He has an interview with Joe Rogan that’s pretty interesting. You may enjoy it.

Link? Can't find any immediate search hits

Re: The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice

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Post by poisonarena »

dfischer wrote: post #14
dkarl wrote: post #3

My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook w…

He has an interview with Joe Rogan that’s pretty interesting. You may enjoy it.

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