Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow "Bob" Livingston Jr.is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995–1999, and he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, but instead retired over concerns his extramarital affair would inhibit his efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1943
CountryUnited States of America
I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.
We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.
I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.
The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.
I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.
Education, for me, has helped me in my music.
I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.
I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!
To those who are investigating me or others of my colleagues, please understand that I will not be intimidated by these efforts, ... These efforts will not deter me from performing my sworn duty under the Constitution as a member of Congress.
I don't anticipate a significant diminution of support for Republican efforts,
Music was big in the circles that I ran in, and they certainly weren't leftists or alienated. All the high school kids went to The Music Box and The Village Swinger every weekend, and they danced their asses off. These were Dance Bands, again. Otis Reading was big with the college people then.