No, I Do Not Want To Interview Bassnectar.

Nate's review in Pitchfork yesterday is causing a stir among my SF friends (breaks fans all, one of the reasons I haven't moved there.)

Although one of them had a nice retort:

right or not, i could barely get past the first 50+ word sentence:

"Bassnectar is the brainchild of String Cheese Incident opener and
Burning Man fixture Lorin Ashton, who claims to be more of a
metalhead than a hippie but comes across in interviews like the type
of guy who got into music as a means of changing the whole entire
world and denotes his anti-establishment philosophy with phrases like
'Mainstream Culture is the dildo of choice for the apathetic.'"

i think the whole 4-paragraph article has, like, five periods in it.

OH MY GOD this stuff is comically bad. Even the name makes me cringe.

did they want to destroy their computers?
http://www.furnation.com/Acru/commissions/Image18.jpg

Wow, California is so awesome.

The only thing sadder than that paragraph is that people in Austin consider crap like this to be the barometer of cool.

Oh well, at least there isn't much competition for old Detroit and Chicago records at Barney's Smoked Pork Pit And Vinyl Hut.

APPEARING AT DEMF '09

That's MOVEMENT 2009 (excuse me)

Yeah but do you want to interview him?

free mummy in every box of count chocula

― amon (eman)

sexual predator apparently

Yeah, I had posted something on the Weinstein thread about him, but probably should have posted it here. I do feel like we should maybe have a metoo thread for ILM so the totality of it doesn't end up on individual threads for musicians that people around here don't care much about. Bassnectar, Ryan Adams, Front Porch Step... Wasn't there some NYC indie show promoter who was sexually assaulting women a couple years ago?

Here is the link I posted on the other thread. Admittedly, this instagram mostly shows a lot of partial screenshots of things, but they have text of the original links in the descriptions.

https://www.instagram.com/evidenceagainstbassnectar/

Here’s your proof about @bassnectar and how everything that was “untrue” is actually true pic.twitter.com/LkYNJ2ubQJ

— 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 (@FMUOASL) July 4, 2020

Beyond being a sexual predator, apparently he is a total asshole in many aspects of his business as well.

My thoughts on Bassnectar and the truth about why I stepped away from it all, for those of you who don’t have me on fb but are interested! pic.twitter.com/NXDSC6WwNn

— Sage Storm 🌩 (@SageStormDavis) July 3, 2020

LONG THREAD. my Bassnectar story & how it affected me.please RT & share on other networks b/c despite being a "legend" i dont have a lot followers here or on FB. my ordeal with Lorin is yet another reason why you haven't seen new releases or me at events. #BlackTransLivesMatter

— Jordana (@jordanalesesne) July 7, 2020

I do feel like we should maybe have a metoo thread for ILM so the totality of it doesn't end up on individual threads for musicians that people around here don't care much about. Bassnectar, Ryan Adams, Front Porch Step...

Tim Westwood = AWESOME

reviving this thread but yeah there should def be a general thread for this stuff:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/07/bassnectar-edm-dj-denies-allegations-of-sexual-abuse-and-human-trafficking

There was one started in response to that post - can’t copy on zing, but it has “bassnectar” in the title and has been active in the past week.

you're right, sorry I totally missed that. reposting the above link on that thread.