How I got started writing for Alternative Press: I met editor Jason Pettigrew at a Keiji Haino show in NYC in 1994/95 or thereabouts (this was at the original Knitting Factory), we had a pleasant conversation. I pestered him for a year or more to let me write for the magazine, sending him clips from the NJ alt-weekly I was writing for, with no response. Finally, he called me up one day in late '96/early '97 and said, "Will you interview Godsmack so I don't have to?" I said yes, and have been writing for AP off and on ever since. Thanks, Godsmack!
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
I interviewed a band that he loved and he hated it so much he never let me write for AP again. So fuck you, Deftones!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 27 December 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
So Godsmack have a new song and it's shitty and stupid, and as some dude said on Twitter, it's "like a hysterical nu metal update of Boston's "Rock And Roll Band"" -- really, listen to the lyrics and be amazed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmZz-nrlyg
Kicker -- my friend Jeff Copas of the band Sixteen Deluxe just said this on FB:
True story: Having played The Middle East in Cambridge in 1995, while Godsmack played downstairs, I can rightfully attest that 1) no one was listening; and 2) no one was caring about the empty room they were playing to. We did laugh about them the rest of the tour, however, which was invaluable.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
donkey mallow
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link