Dave Matthews Rips Bush Apart In New Rolling Stone: "I Can Run The Country Better"

chatsite ^ | 1-2-04

[Joe Anybody]

I used to like him ... but know I understand that he is just confused ...

It's crazy, I'm thinking...
Just knowing that the world is round...
Here I'm dancing on the ground...
Am I right side up or upside down...
Is this real or am I dreaming...

-Dave Matthews

[My Favorite Headache]

Simply by the fact that he has grossed over 1 billion dollars in just live shows since 1994.We are not even at merchandise or album sales yet.

[Dont Mention the War]

By the way, I don't see political stupidity in these excerpts so much as I do a serious case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Notice that almost every sentence he utters turns back to the subject of Dave Matthews himself, and how much better he is than those he is discussing. Notice that despite being a young musician, he claims, without the slightest hint of sarcasm, that he can would make a better world leader than a highly educated professional politican from a family of professional politicians. Why? Because he, Dave Matthews, knows people better and understands the world better than those actually running the world.

If you like his music, MFH, I hope you are collecting as much of it as possible, because DM sounds like he's going to go off the deep end in the not too distant future.

[My Favorite Headache]

Your point is dead on. How nice! Moved to chat! Shocker.

[Dont Mention the War]

Simply by the fact that he has grossed over 1 billion dollars in just live shows since 1994.We are not even at merchandise or album sales yet.

I don't want to get into any real argument about this, because if you think he's the most popular artist out there that's fine with me, but doesn't the DMB have a kind of Phishian/Dead aspect to it? That is, atypically large numbers of tour dates combined with a fan base that tries to attend as many shows as possible?

[My Favorite Headache]

Yeah they do...but still consistantly sell about 2-3 million albums as well and numerous radio hits. His recent solo album is a good example...he is playing with another band and selling out everywhere and I think is double platinum thus far.

[Michael Barnes]

Thanks!

As far as moved to chat, don't be shocked.."Entertainers" coming out of the wood work oppsoing President Bush (Read ANYTHING Republican) is now simply old hat. ""xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx" says (s)he could run the country and the WOT better than Bush.""

It's almost a game now of whose gonna come out next for the "War On Reality" (WOR, tm) award.

[doug from upland]

A new and better version of ROCK'N ME

[Damagro]

Politics aside. IMO, his music is awful

I saw about 10 minutes of his act a few years ago. Awful doesn't begin to describe this talentless noisemaker

[Damagro]

"Great" artists, such as Dave Matthews are the reason the music industry is dead

[secret garden]

Best response yet.

[Elkiejg]

O.K., I give up........who the H*LL is Dave Matthews???

[Stew Padasso]

My kids have an episode of the Muppet Show and I can testify that Dave Matthews has nothing on Kermit The Frogs singing ability. I'll listen to "It's Not Easy Being Green" over a DM tune anyday.

[zeaal]

Well now ... Mr. Matthews is an arrogant, discredited, little poop, isn't he.

[JustPlainJoe]

To quote one of MY favorite thinkers...

"Dave, You have the mind of a four year old boy -

And I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it..."

-Marx, Groucho Marx

[weegee]

Rolling Stone: Do you feel like an outsider in America?

Dave Matthews: A lot of people feel like outsiders, and we are viewed as outsiders by the government. Or as Un-American. I am way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney. They have no f-wurd-symbolizing-a-lack-of-conversational-skills idea what it is to be American. They are f-wurd-symbolizing-a-lack-of-conversational-skills idiots who are programmed to everything in the hands of the few. They think it's right that them and theirs have everything and everyone else get by on good hard work. There is something charming about a simple man in the White House. But that's what is deceiving: He's not a simple man.

Well maybe now Davey understands how Conservatives have been made to feel in America. The 1980s were the decade of "greed" while the 1990s were "prosperous" ("Don't impeach the president over perjury, it's bad for the economy!!!").

We were told how the greatest threat to national security was talk radio and "conservatives" like Timothy McVeigh. We were told how there was religious intolerance in America and that there were a bunch of "mysterious" church fires that needed FBI investigations. Of course that was all smoke and mirrors and there was no agenda behind the fires (or even increase in the numbers). Meanwhile, Al Qaeda was operating in America (bombing the WTC in 1993 and continuing planning and operations culminating in the 2001 attack on the WTC and Pentagon).

Time Magazine asked on the cover "Is Rush Limbaugh Good For America?".

I remember the 1990s even if Mr. Dave Matthews Band was too blissed out to do so. 'Lord Haw Haw' should shove it and so back to singing.

[weegee]

BTW,I stopped listening to current rock music years ago and maybe that is a good thing.

I still listen to currently recorded rock music (and rock and roll). Most of what is on radio is not "rock" (industrial pop, sensitive whine, disco pop, metallic hip hop, etc...).

BTW, Rolling Stoned stopped being about music (let alone GOOD music) long long ago.

[weegee]

I redacted my citation of the quote to say "f-wurd-symbolizing-a-lack-of-conversational-skills". When that redaction appears several times in a brief passage, it really helps to enforce my statement.

[weegee]

He sounds like his "leadership" would be "go along to get along". We would not be a soverign nation, we would be subserviant to the EU-SSR and the UN.

AntiAmericanism is real.

I read Dee Dee Ramone's final writings over my Christmas vacation. It covers 1999 through 2002. Much of it prior to 9.11.2001. He writes of going to Europe (in 1999) and just being hassled with so much antiAmericanism (from crowds, "fans", and boarder agents). He hated Europe in the end and didn't even find any sanctuary in Germany (where he was born). He did seem to like some of the Swiss countryside.

Dave Matthews represents the fifth column in this country trying to tear down America (and certainly deposing the president). This isn't about an elected official, this is blind hatred.

[weegee]

I couldn't even post the blather that the lead guy from Radiohead said about President Bush and election 2004. The site that it was posted on has been blocked in total by FR (as being unwanted trash).