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Scott Weiland Shocks Label Exec's;Wearing Nazi SS Hat On-Stage
All Headline News ^ | 6-9-05 | Douglas Maher

Posted on 06/10/2005 1:06:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Scott Weiland Shocks Label Exec's;Wearing Nazi SS Hat On-Stage

Douglas Maher-All Headline News Staff Reporter

June 9,2005 4:05 PM EST

New York,NY (AHN)-Yahoo/Launch Radio Networks is reporting that Velvet Revolver vocalist Scott Weiland made the German headquarters of Sony/BMG (the band's label), angry after label executives learned that Weiland had recently been wearing a Nazi SS hat onstage.

According to New York Magazine Online, a letter from the German office of Sony/BMG to the U.S. office read in part, "We absolutely don't want to interfere in how our artists dress (but) any kind of wearing/ presenting Nazi symbols in public is strictly forbidden by law in Germany and can lead to getting arrested"

Scott Weiland responded to the statement,"In no way shape or form am I a Nazi. The Nazi SS hat that I wear in fact symbolizes the loss of democracy and the shift to totalitarianism...one could make an argument that indeed the government of the U.S. is evolving into, or is already, a fascist police state, hiding under the guise of a republic."

Weiland has been arrested numerous times on drug charges,domestic battery,DUI,and has been in and out of rehab for heroin addiction at least three times.

Velvet Revolver is scheduled to perform at the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park on July 2 along with Mariah Carey,Coldplay,The Cure, Sting, Muse, Madonna,Elton John, and a dozen other artists for that venue alone.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idiot; music; scottweiland
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1 posted on 06/10/2005 1:06:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache
Oh... I get it...

IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!

2 posted on 06/10/2005 1:08:16 PM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: My Favorite Headache

Whenever I want to become more informed on the state of our nation, I turn to Velvet Revolver.


3 posted on 06/10/2005 1:08:42 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

What a nimrod!


4 posted on 06/10/2005 1:09:06 PM PDT by cjshapi
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To: My Favorite Headache

These dinks have NO idea what fascism looks like...


5 posted on 06/10/2005 1:10:10 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Scott Weiland responded to the statement,"In no way shape or form am I a Nazi. The Nazi SS hat that I wear in fact symbolizes the loss of democracy and the shift to totalitarianism...one could make an argument that indeed the government of the U.S. is evolving into, or is already, a fascist police state, hiding under the guise of a republic."

Why's that Scotty? Is it because we arrest stupid has-been junkie losers when they score heroin?

6 posted on 06/10/2005 1:10:50 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: cjshapi

He was better when he was with Stone Temple Pilots, but now instead of being a creepy junkie, he's a washed up creepy junkie.


7 posted on 06/10/2005 1:11:27 PM PDT by SoVaDPJ
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To: My Favorite Headache

"In no way shape or form am I a Nazi. The Nazi SS hat that I wear in fact symbolizes the loss of democracy and the shift to totalitarianism...one could make an argument that indeed the government of the U.S. is evolving into, or is already, a fascist police state, hiding under the guise of a republic."


Uh.....Hitler was a pro abortion, pro euthanasia, pro animal rights, pro environment, gun grabbing socialist.


8 posted on 06/10/2005 1:11:43 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Saddam: $25k to suicide bombers = BAD --- Bush: 50 mil to terrorist scum = "GOOD")
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Weiland has been arrested numerous times on drug charges,domestic battery,DUI,and has been in and out of rehab for heroin addiction at least three times.

Buncha jackboots keeping him down.

9 posted on 06/10/2005 1:11:46 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: My Favorite Headache

Back on the junk, eh, Scott?


10 posted on 06/10/2005 1:12:23 PM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

SHHH...don't tell him that.


11 posted on 06/10/2005 1:12:50 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: My Favorite Headache

He's half the man he used to be.


12 posted on 06/10/2005 1:13:03 PM PDT by Cyclopean Squid (Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. --Hector Berlioz)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Mussolini said "For Fascism, the State is an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative...." - sounds more like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush to me.


14 posted on 06/10/2005 1:13:53 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: My Favorite Headache

So, Al Jourgensen wore a Kaiser helmet onstage with Ministry. He also had a bottle of Jack in his hand. OH NO!!!

They're just singers, people.


15 posted on 06/10/2005 1:14:46 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: My Favorite Headache

Has-been rock star uses shock tactics to gain publicity.

*yawn*

Although it IS fun to watch people's reactions to the Nazi paraphanalia. Europeans tend to have a fit over that stuff.

Don't you wish every rock band was like Rush? They shut up and play!


16 posted on 06/10/2005 1:15:38 PM PDT by conservatrice
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To: GoodEvilDontKnow

Is that poster for real? Looks more like a Mayday poster than something one would expect to see in the USA.


17 posted on 06/10/2005 1:15:40 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: My Favorite Headache
So we are treated to a rant about America being a totalitarian police state by an overpaid heroin addict who wears Nazi regalia? GRRRRR...!

Yet another band I can't listen to anymore! And I liked STP and Velvet Revolver ... DAMN! ... am I going to have to sell all my CDs and records except Ted Nugent? It's beginning to look that way :-( (sorry guys, I can't stand country music !!)

18 posted on 06/10/2005 1:15:44 PM PDT by bassmaner (Let's take the word "liberal" back from the commies!!)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Oh I don't think it is the hat that will cause this story to grow legs...it's Scott's words that will do it.


19 posted on 06/10/2005 1:16:10 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: All

"Great liars are also great magicians"
- Adolf Hitler


20 posted on 06/10/2005 1:17:01 PM PDT by TheSorcererwiththeCosmicKey
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