Oh, yeah, I see his point:
The Hipster crowd is MUCH better dressed. And yelling FOR socialism.
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.
About 5 years ago, I saw Lou Reed at a festival in Seattle. Not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t him reading Edgar Allan Poe. And he didn’t even do that well. People were walking out, pissed off that they’d spent the $50 bucks to see an aging hipster read his favorite poems. You could see Reed’s jaw twitching as people were screaming, “Wild Side! White Light!”
Exactly.
I forget who it was exactly, I want to say Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, said people shouldn’t idolize rock stars, a lesson he learned the day he met Lou Reed.
He has made some really good stuff, but definitely not one I would want to meet, and his concerts are probably too erratic to spend money on.
Oh, yeah, I see his point:
The Hipster crowd is MUCH better dressed. And yelling FOR socialism.
LOL, another kid fresh off the Daily Collegian weighs in.
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my comment on the page of the story:
Yeah, because the counter-culture is about how you dress and not thinking independently.
Holy shit - get a grip. The Tea Party - for individualism and freedom - is not the enemy.
my comment on the page of the story:
Yeah, because the counter-culture is about how you dress and not thinking independently.
Holy ####- get a grip. The Tea Party - for individualism and freedom - is not the enemy.
I should but that book. Johnny convinced Joey to voted for Reagan? I remember reading a NY Times review of The Filth & The Fury video by Julien Temple about the Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren. The NY Slimes said “it was a backlash against Thatcherism” which is total nonsense. The first 3 minutes of the film/documentary - John Lydon is bashing the British Labour Party.
The Pistols were working class or really poor kids lashing out at the “elites” almost like the Tea Party.
John Lydon said that “Bodies” was neither a pro or anti abortion song it was more about personal responsibility. Sure sounds anti abortion to me. It starts as a song about a mentally disturbed girl he knew who was a fan of the band/groupie but goes into the horrors of abortion. All written by poor kids in London around age 18 to 20. 30+ years later the songs hold up.
The murder of Joe Cole and how Rollins ran away leaving Joe Cole.
The dreadful old union guys and washed up poverty pimps who put on the dem rally is Washington are really cool... yeah. Right...
Did you hear something different from this story:
“He and Cole were headed home from a grocery store in Venice, California when they were held up by two armed men. After taking their money, the thieves forced Rollins to unlock the door to his house. As Henry finally reached the main hallway, Joe turned around and attempted to flee. Cole was shot in the face and Rollins escaped through a back entrance of the house.”
What was the brave thing to do? Stay where you are unarmed after the person you were with has been shot? That isn’t bravery it is stupidity.
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Hey Moe, don’t let those lefties get you down. I’M STICKIN’ WITH YOU!
They didn’t live the life of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and Roger Waters and David Gilmour and Eric Clapton.
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