Posted on 10/06/2010 8:18:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
I'm still in shock from reading this news on Stereogum about primitivist drummer and doll-voiced Velvet, Moe Tucker being a Tea Party fanatic. Say it ain't so Moe.
It's like finding out that Henry Rollins has just been wearing a fake muscle suit all these years and he's really a skinny, mild-mannered pushover. Moe's strayed a long way off from being in a band at center of 1960's and 70's American counter culture. She's best known for her unrelenting, tribal drumming style of the time -- opting to take her bass drum, turn it upright and pound away on it with mallets like a maniac.
Now she's out at rally's with poorly dressed people who can't get their facts straight, yelling about socialism. This is one of the farthest falls from grace in music history.
Yellow journalism is alive and well among the lavender mafia.
From Stereogum (I guess they also have the youtube clip but I can’t see it here):
Finally, if you watch the news on WALB, the local NBC affiliate for southwestern Georgia, you mightve caught an interview with Tea Partier Maureen Tucker, who tells the camera that shes tired of how the country is being led toward socialism. (The broadcast is a few months old, but has been making the rounds only recently.) Maureen Tucker is better known as Moe Tucker, the drummer for the Velvet Underground, who moved to Georgia to raise her family. She joins the small list of right-leaning musicians like Sammy Hagar, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Meatloaf, and Kid Rock. Watch her interview on WALB (starts at 2:40):
The same red diaper doper babies who elevated The Vichy Chicks to celebrity status with “Shut Up And Sing” are now here to blacklist any entertainer who speaks out against socialism.
I saw this article posted on facebook with scores of catty comments.
Maureen worked for IBM. She actually had a desk job and she returned to her old life as the band went away.
Sterling Morrison left to teach and work on a tugboat.
Lou Reed, John Cale, and Nico lived the life of a lesser grade rock stars.
“For All Tommorrow’s (Tea) Parties.” It is a shame Nico is still not alive - they could preform.
Henry Rollins is a coward. I heard a story about him and he is a total coward.
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Lou Reed is a real POS. John Cale at least did interesting stuff and is not an idiot like Lou. Poor Nico just fell off a bicycle and died. Sad.
Lou Reed wishes he was half as interesting as say Iggy Pop aka James Osterberg. Lou is a legend in his own mind.
...What she was at that leftist 10-20-10 rally? ;>
A lot of counter culture music rebels are right wing. The Ramones were Republicans and if you watch Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld he has a constant string of punk rock and rollers who are conservatives or libertarians. It is more rebellious to buck the lib mainstream in the entertainment industry than these losers like Sean Penn and Oliver Stone going along with their mindless following.
John Cale won’t do anything VU related anymore.
Lou Reed, Mo, and Doug Yule gathered at the New York Public Library last year to play (and make librarians go Shhhussshhhhhh!). Actually there was a book release and they did a Q&A and I think some brief performance.
John Cale did do the 1990s reunion tour (which Sterling Morrison was alive to play) but I don’t think Doug Yule was in that (he came into the band after Cale left).
The band seemed to lose a member every album. Nico after the first, Cale after the second, Reed after the third although he still contributed a lot to Unloaded...
Reed, Nico, and Cale did an accoustic reunion in France in 1972 that was filmed.
Also from what I read, even when they were both still in the band, Reed or Cale would back up Nico at some of her solo gigs in New York because otherwise she was singing to a recorded band on tape.
Now she’s out at rally’s with poorly dressed people who can’t get their facts straight, yelling about socialism.
Here is a fact for you douche bag. Your time has come and gone. The American people are taking the Country back this November and the next Presidential Election. Many of the weak and spineless bought into the socialism but they have since found put that it sucks and they got screwed. Now they are crawling back into their holes.
Pssst - Brandon! You’re the establishment now, son. They’re still counterculture. They didn’t sell out, you did.
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Left-wing rock. I may like the music, but I could care less about the political opinions.
The MC5 were "considered" to be left wing radicals because of their manager (John Sinclair) and because they'd played the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago (when the crowd had been promised The Beatles or The Rolling Stones). REAL left wingers called them out as not being fellow travelers and almost killed them at one New York gig. This too is addressed in the above book (begins with accounts of the VU, Stooges, MC5... then moves into NY Dolls, Dictators, et all which are years before The Ramones).
The revisionist take is that Johnny was a Republican (or a fascist if you are to accept the red diaper revisionist take) and that all of the rest were die hard liberals. Except Johnny was able to convince Joey to vote for Reagan in 1984 (which is one reason that Joey was upset by Reagan going to the SS cemetery).
Liberals are sold a socialist Utopian lie that is just as false as being promised 72 virgins in the afterlife.
Question, will the hipster douchebags suddenly become “teabaggers” when the A-list names are tied to the movement?
They will follow any fad like lemmings and trash talk those who don’t adopt their same “indie” mindset.
And what makes Henry Rollins a total coward?
I always thought they were overrated. A couple of tunes Nico sang were interesting but she really could not sing. Cale, Nico, Mo and Sterling were interesting but Lou Reed was such a negative that it was a turn off.
I never really liked most NY bands. The Ramones were good, Blondie’s first 2 albums were okay. The Talking Heads were really a Boston band plus David Byrne is English. They became arty tedious. Our Daughters Wedding a synth band was okay.
Too many NY bands were so busy being hip that the music was nothing special. Calif bands also ss*cked with the exception of The Beach Boys and The Byrds. The Doors were okay.
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