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Musicians don’t want tunes used for torture (Musicians admit their music is torture)
MSNBC ^ | 12/9/2008 | ap

Posted on 12/09/2008 6:52:46 PM PST by tobyhill

Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon.

“Stains like the blood on your teeth,” Trent Reznor snarled over distorted guitars. “Bite. Chew.”

The auditory assault went on for days, then weeks, then months at the U.S. military detention center in Iraq. Twenty hours a day. AC/DC. Queen. Pantera. The prisoner, military contractor Donald Vance of Chicago, told The Associated Press he was soon suicidal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: music; torture; wot
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To: mysterio
***Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, has been especially forceful in denouncing the practice.***

Morello should be encouraging the play of their music being no one listens to them otherwise.

It's a joke. Some of these musicians have no problem using their music to help the cause while some others say their music is used as torture which by their standard make their music torture.

21 posted on 12/09/2008 7:11:39 PM PST by tobyhill (No Honeymoon For Obama.)
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To: tobyhill

>> Some musicians, however, say they’re proud that their music is used in interrogations. Those include bassist Stevie Benton, whose group Drowning Pool has performed in Iraq and recorded one of the interrogators’ favorites, “Bodies.”

Love that song! Didn’t know Benton and the DP went to Iraq.

>> “I suggest that they level Guantanamo Bay, but they keep one small cell and they put Bush in there ... and they blast some Rage Against the Machine,” he said to whoops and cheers.

Another pu**y commie this Morello. RATM advocates communism yet here’s the nimrod preaching in the safety of a free-trade and rights society.


22 posted on 12/09/2008 7:11:57 PM PST by max americana
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To: tobyhill

I’m not sure it’s that. Some musicians probably don’t want their music used to cause pain, even to the bad guys.


23 posted on 12/09/2008 7:15:20 PM PST by mysterio
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To: edh

Cool story. Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden (singer) is a a part time airline pilot!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bruce+dickinson+airline+pilot

Nicko McBrain has a house not that far away in Fl and he is a huge golfer. Drummer of Iron Maiden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicko_McBrain

The local golf paper had a picture of him and he looked great - looked much younger than wiki picture.


24 posted on 12/09/2008 7:15:51 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: tobyhill
Pay me sufficiently and I'd oblige!

Photobucket If the prisoners (or staff) paid me enough, I might even tune the pipes.

25 posted on 12/09/2008 7:16:06 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: tobyhill

There’s always Slim Whitman.


26 posted on 12/09/2008 7:16:23 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: tobyhill

It’s best that some of those songs torture terrorists rather than the rest of us....


27 posted on 12/09/2008 7:16:38 PM PST by Enchante (Obama, time to throw your good pal Gov. Blago under that bus!!)
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To: max americana
I knew Dimebag and know he would be proud to have his music played in a way that breaks these scumbag terrorist.
28 posted on 12/09/2008 7:16:55 PM PST by tobyhill (No Honeymoon For Obama.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

Woody Guthrie


29 posted on 12/09/2008 7:17:49 PM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: tobyhill

Heck yeah! He still owns the stripbar in Dallas right? What do they think “Mouth for War” was about anyways? Going to the ice cream parlor?

Hypocrites.


30 posted on 12/09/2008 7:20:51 PM PST by max americana
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To: edh

So true. Im about as straight laced as I can be, and I still listen to metal and even some old punk rock, when I’m doing paperwork. It breaks up the monotony. Maybe I can mix up some special CD’s to send to our troops and help with the effort.


31 posted on 12/09/2008 7:21:31 PM PST by ritewingwarrior (Just say No.)
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To: null and void
Woody Guthrie

For the love of God! We signed the Geneva Protocols. What are we, barbarians?

32 posted on 12/09/2008 7:21:37 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: tobyhill
the ultimate weapon


33 posted on 12/09/2008 7:22:12 PM PST by xp38
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To: max americana
I don't know that he still owns the club being he's dead?
34 posted on 12/09/2008 7:25:09 PM PST by tobyhill (No Honeymoon For Obama.)
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To: xp38

Now that’s just cruel and unusual.


35 posted on 12/09/2008 7:25:13 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: tobyhill

Bar room scuttle butt is that what really makes them cave.....Barry Manilow


36 posted on 12/09/2008 7:27:34 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: tobyhill

It is co-owned by Dimebag, along with Vinnie Paul and Rex of Pantera.


37 posted on 12/09/2008 7:28:11 PM PST by max americana
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To: CIDKauf
Listening to Barry Manilow would make the most hardcore terrorist crack in record time.
38 posted on 12/09/2008 7:30:09 PM PST by tobyhill (No Honeymoon For Obama.)
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To: tobyhill
...It was an itty-bitty teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini that she wore for the first time today.....

Now that is torture!

39 posted on 12/09/2008 7:31:01 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: tobyhill

If they played the Dead Live he would have been grateful.


40 posted on 12/09/2008 7:31:51 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (Waiting for Samson and Voting for Sarah)
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