Posted on 01/01/2004 10:26:30 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Excerpt from Rolling Stone Magazine:
Dave Matthews:
"I'd drink with George W. just to get him out of the White House.
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 fucking idea what it is to be American. They are fucking 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.
He represents the tiniest, tiniest percentage. He got here on the shoulders of giants. I think the Christian world feels an obligation to support him, because he claims to be a Christian. I don't see much of a Christian in him. I think there should be a long line of nuns ready to smack the crap out of him.
Rolling Stone: Do you think you are more capable of running the country than George W ?
Dave Matthews: Yeah, I'd deal with things more delicately.I think I have a much clearer view of the world than he does.
Rolling Stone: How So?
Dave Matthews: I understand people a lot better than he does. And I don't want the job- but there is no shortage of people who can run the country better than him. The most important task in America right now is getting this Administration out of power. I think they are a very dangerous bunch, riddled with dangerous minds. There's a very ignorant view in the White House: a thoughtless, fundamendalist, scary view of how to better the world. I'm truly frightened of this Administration.
Rolling Stone: Do you plan on being more politically outspoken in 2004?
Dave Matthews: My focus is to take them out. Hearing myself say that is sort of depressing. I don't know yet who I want to endorse, but I want minds like Dennis Kucinich. I want variety. But we're sort of in this avalanche, and we have to stop falling before we can fix it. The Bush Administration has squandered everything...they don't have a fucking clue.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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