Covidiots in music

I was just the other day blasting out the opening track on the latest Alexander Hawkins and thinking this old bastard can still play with some fire, it's a shame really but I'm not often surprised that most musicians are complete arsewipes these days.

Someone needs to poll these. Or maybe not.

1. « Follow the money. »
2. « The CDC hadn’t had a decent plague since polio. »
3. « Cell biology is a bunch of magic. »
4. « The number of cases went up epidemically, you know, exponentially, because the number of tests went up exponentially. »
5. « Lives have been totally ruined by this thing. »
6. « We don’t really know what it’s going to do. The immune system is incredibly complicated and immunologists’ brains are not complicated enough to deal with it. »
7. « There are no Old Wise Men up there at the top of Science. »
8. « The Science is being judged by people, the funding is being done by people who don’t understand it – and who does? Fauci?! Fauci doesn’t know enough. If Fauci wants to get on television with somebody who knows a little bit about this stuff and debate why, he could do it, because he has been asked. »
9. « It might not be such a bad thing to have sex. »

10. « It might not be such a bad thing to have tenor sax. »

Anyway, fuck it, I've seen the guy play dozens of times, I don't need to see him ever again. So that's fine.

Why would you not want to see him again just because he's come out with this crap? Seems like a weird position to take.

Not going to give this dick any of my hard earned money.

... any more, that is.

Why would you not want to see him again just because he's come out with this crap? Seems like a weird position to take.

If I was a big fan of his it might be considered a weird position to take? I suppose? But I'm not. He's someone I'd go and see sometimes when my main jazz buff friend suggested it, if he was playing with someone interesting usually, and he used to play all the time - pre-plandemic.

I have no problem with supporting artists whose work I admire but who then come out with nonsense like this. Doesn't bother me in the least tbh.

I suppose I don't admire him enough then.

Given that the guy's 76 now I wonder if he accepted the offer of vaccination? On the quiet, like.

The COVID/AIDS link up is the most reprehensible aspect.

Anyway, the piece is called "Rockets for Kary Mullis", which is appropriate because, having just read up on Kary Mullis, he would appear to have been, what they would call in Glasgow, a total fuckin' rocket.

Well, that’s disappointing.

As someone in Glasgow, I can confirm everyone here woulkd say that Kary Mullis was 100% a total fuckin' rocket.

Evan Parker can go fuck himself. i think not going to see a Covid denier perform is the only reasonable position to take. As he is also an AIDS denier I might consider actively picketing any gig he played in my town.

I'm fine with continuing to enjoy music by ppl I dislike but going to see them live implies giving them money and that's a red line, nothing strange about what Tom said at all.

Penny Rimbaud of Crass

Covid-19 is the result of genetic tampering, as are the so-called vaccines being employed to counter it. Beneath all this, there is the underlying stench of eugenics. Watch out for Big Pharma brainwash. We are as we are as nature that so we be. pic.twitter.com/etsgr6jZaj

— penny rimbaud (@pennyrimbaud1) February 16, 2021

Another non-surprise. A guy I know really well from an 80s anarcho band seems to have gone the same way, it's the pivot point where anti-authoritarianism meets excessive weed abuse.

Penny Rimbaud! :(

Gratuitous name drop : I am working on a project and he has been extremely helpful in making sure it comes together. I think i will have to challenge him in our next email conversation.

And suggested in the responses to that Penny Rimbaud tweet, Jaz Coleman which I guess wouldn't be surprising given he's (amongst other things) a 9/11 Truther - as (he claims) persuaded by genius of Michael Meacher - ironic, given his 2020 project with Ondrej Smeykal was held up while Smeykal recovered from COVID.

Then again, "it's the pivot point where anti-authoritarianism meets excessive weed abuse."

Yes, I can't say I'm surprised about Penny Rimbaud. I saw him play at one of the worst gigs I've ever been to in my life so it's unlikely I'd have had to boycott any of his future engagements.

I'm dissapointed nick hasn't made some ten a penny pun yet!

"so-called vaccines"

Yes, they are indeed so-called.

You see, taking Big Pharma to task for its inhumane profiteering is simply impossible if you don’t also reject the validity of medical research and incriminate the gays in the process, that’s just how it is. It wouldn’t be logically consistent otherwise!

Despairing snark aside, I have never seen anyone use the phrase ‘follow the money’ who didn’t turn out to be a massive antisemite. I’m not saying it’s systematically the case, but it happens a bit too often for comfort.

entirely useless trivia what i learned today: 'He appeared on the b-side to Vic Reeves and The Wonderstuff's UK 1991 number one hit "Dizzy", performing saxophone on "Oh, Mr Songwriter" (based around "Vic Reeves Big Night Out" TV show end theme song).[13] At one point during a sax solo, Vic can be heard shouting "Pack it in, Parker!".'

do they owe us a vaccine?
of course they fucking don't

My favourite piece of Rimbaud trivia is still the one where he appears on Ready Steady Go! and meets the Beatles.

💫 pic.twitter.com/sJy9BRYfzH

— Big Boi (@BigBoi) February 20, 2021

Big Boi?

aw c'mon maaaaaan

so fresh, so dumb

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvLvELvWQAclwHd?format=jpg&name=medium

Talk out self-clowners, every time this chump opens his mouth...

He is now basically the straight man for an entire nation of internet comedians. He sets 'em up, they knock it out the park.

xxp Wouldn't Ian Brown have to learn to sing first?

ffs big boi

as somebody who's always known he's shit this is mildly enjoyable

Richard Ashcroft getting in on the act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlONI6Rbck

Why am I not surprised.

Thankfully Nick McCabe dodged those brainworms.

apparent non-covidiot:

Bobby Shmurda stayin’ masked up and substance freepic.twitter.com/rpE5Os8sim

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) February 26, 2021

it just pisses me off as most of these assholes are just aggrieved that there was a massive interruption to their daily lives (nevermind the millions dead globally), and then you're given options to re-open like getting vaccinated or just wearing a mask and they balk "NO!, if I have to make any concessions I'm not doing it!"

I would pay people not to attend his shows. in fact, if he books a show and you decide not to go, let me know and I will reimburse you.

xxxpost

Nothing surprises me about dickie. Thankfully the rest of the band are not like him at all.

the song though is a john lennon cover presumably for a tribute album

if I had to travel on public transport every day to work in some covid unsafe environment for poverty wages while people are dropping like flies. I'd be telling this addled fuckwit where he can stick his freedom.

These People

I dunno, he seems pretty serious about it here:

COVID-19: Allocation and withdrawal of ventilation - the urgent need for a national policy https://t.co/VviAwZLZ6Q

— Richard Ashcroft (@ashcroftethics) April 3, 2020

CD1
Latest Record Project
Where Have All the Rebels Gone?
Psychoanalysts' Ball
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Tried to Do the Right Thing
The Long Con
Thank God for the Blues
Big Lie
A Few Bars Early
It Hurts Me Too
Only a Song
Diabolic Pressure
Deadbeat
Saturday Night
Blue Funk

CD 2
Double Agent Double Bind
Love Should Come With A Warning
Breaking The Spell Up
County Down
Duper's Delight
My Time
After a While
He's Not the Kingpin
Mistaken Identity
Stop Bitching, Do Something
Western Man
They Own the Media
Why Are You on Facebook?
Jealousy

Half conspiracy half site new answers.

He's Not the Kingpin

Morrison just listing off different Daredevil villains.