(xp) A few too many braincells have gone bye bye.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
God, he seemed really clear-headed just a few years ago.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
thank god computers are safe
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
Not even just drugged-out, but people who have spent their lives exercising the part of their brains that deals with abstract thought, and then on top of that spending their lives living on the margins of "normal" society - out on the road all the time, working off-hours in night clubs and stuff. It's disappointing, but not surprising. I'm more surprised when someone who has lived this kind of life suddenly gets all conservative in their old age.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
that oldham article is really poorly written, it's so hard to understand the context and his intent behind the comments
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
There's a screen behind every screen except the screen I'm looking at right now, thank god.Yeah, dude is fucken gone.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
haha yeah ditching your TVs because you are worried about being tracked to opt for....a PC....is an interesting choice
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
Lanegan goes on to talk about software stuff in that SPIN interview (something that particularly sucks about it is how the interviewer kind of makes a show of agreeing with his points and egging him on, especially re: Covid restrictions).
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
Look, he didn't say he was worried about having his head measured by a webcam, just by the underlying screen of a television set. This isn't hard.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
xpost
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
how thick was her head
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
I really mean to leaaarn
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
that oldham article is really poorly written, it’s so hard to understand the context and his intent behind the comments
Exactly. Does he mean people who refuse to wear masks are cowards? Or the people who don’t want to leave the house because of all the assholes not wearing masks, etc? Kind of important to be explicit about that, like.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
As for the Lanegan thing… anyone who’s read his memoir should understand the kind of person he thinks he is.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
yeah I guess with some of these...I don't care that much? in that I see really zero real world chance that Mark Lanegan's views on Covid matter at all and I sort of assumed he was real out there personally?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
PNW ‘90s rock dudes in general tend toward yikes. King Buzzo’s hero is Thomas Sowell.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
guy from Candlebox allegedly recited Goebbels quotes on-stage for 45 minutes before the band would play a song
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
The Foo Fighters protests come to the West Coast: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-06-16/covid-19-foo-fighters-concert-protest-canyon-club-agoura-hills
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 17 June 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
such a weird thread
― DT, Thursday, 17 June 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
i really hope Mad Professor is not saying what i think he might be saying
https://www.dubvendor.co.uk/mad-professor---covid-illusion---herd-effect-dub-ariwa-12-112954-p.asp
― stirmonster, Thursday, 17 June 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
I don’t really care that much if someone whose music I like is a covidiot, but I don’t think I could sit through a song about expressing those views.
― beard papa, Thursday, 17 June 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
Student Vaccination Time
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
No lyrics on the Mad Professor A-side, but the video at least hints that he may not be a denier? (Maybe there are some words in one of these five mixes, if anyone wants to listen through.)
B-side has a couple of vocal adlibs but nothing that gives the game away. This Earl Zero b-side might be a version of it, but appears to have horns instead of lyrics, at least in the sample clip. (It's pretty sick, but that's probably not a clue either.)
Verdict: uhhhhh, hurry up and release your Roisin collab before we get a definitive reason to eschew listening to you?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 17 June 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Play it backwards and you can hear "oh sweet covid conspiracy, I sing for thee many many conspiracy."
― everything, Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
I must admit I did read the Will Oldham interview as ... fairly unpleasant.
― djh, Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
can someone please link the Lanegan and Oldham articles? I don't feel like searching but I do feel like reading!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Oldham
Lanegan
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
FWIW, the same writer did a brief follow-up interview w/Lanegan in December:
Having disappeared down the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole in our last chat, he was much more reserved, grounded, and altogether stress-free during this Christmas-season exit interview. That doesn’t mean he’s stopped looking over his shoulder, though — otherwise, how would his best, most sinister slithery songs ever get written?
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
thank you!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
Lanegan's paranoic apophenia + technical ignorance seems pretty commonplace as it goes.
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I can think of at least a couple of examples in my extended family.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
Here's one that really hurts for me: Joseph Arthur. Someone I always put on a pedestal and considered to be one of the greatest artists of all time.
A year ago he already occasionally raised questions regarding measures such as lockdowns and masks, commented against Fauci and Gates, sympathized with conspiracy theories. Over the last few months it's gotten so much worse, as he (while saying he's not anti-vax in general) believes people are pressured via media propaganda into taken experimental bad vaccines. His own social media accounts feature several sessions each day of unloading 'information' in validation of his stance (generally: misinformation, or uncorroborated disputed statements from doctors or whatnot). He shared and supported comments from Ian Brown and Eric Clapton. He's been going on about how anything other than the main narrative is being silenced and how people deciding not to get the vaccine are 'segregated'.The nature of the statements & the sources hint at alt-right roots, even qanon, which is especially disappointing as he wrote a heavy anti-Trump/Trump supporters song during the US presidential campaigns 6 years ago. It's clear that he used to be different. He himself said a while ago that he turned 'right' as he came to experience the 'left' trying to put limits on freedom. Many fans and even friends of his are alienated by his ways of late, I also had to unfollow his social media as it got too extreme.
Among other collaborations, he's been in a band with Jeff Ament (as RNDM), in another with Peter Buck (as Arthur Buck), one more with Dhani Harrison and Ben Harper (Fistful of Mercy). I wonder if all of those will be able to discern professional work from politics/worldview, if bridges are being burned in silence or if anyone will still speak up against this BS or smack him on the head or whatever.I personally hope that if I give it some distance, I may eventually want to listen to his old work again & enjoy it as I used to, as he really seems to have become a different person over the past few years.
― Valentijn, Monday, 21 June 2021 08:05 (two years ago) link
Re the plague rave in Zanzibar.
How much difference is there between that and Aaron Ramsey flying out to play in Baku?
― anvil, Monday, 21 June 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Agreed on Joseph Arthur. Well-articulated. Also unsubbed from his social media. Love his music and his odd artwork, but not his recent takes.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 21 June 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
Azerbaijan appears not to be denying that COVID exists, and to be requiring both proof of vaccination and a negative test for foreigners to enter, so it's different on that account. How big were the gigs this guy was playing, and were they indoors or outdoors, with assigned/distanced seating or open?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
30,000 and outdoors. Good point on the vaccine requirement
― anvil, Monday, 21 June 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Some fans turn against Foo Fighters after hearing concert-goers need proof of vaccination― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, June 12, 2021 3:30 PM (one week ago)
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, June 12, 2021 3:30 PM (one week ago)
turns out they welcomed covidiots who hold super-spreader events to this, just not in the audience
Fully vaccinated… Gets you into a concert… To see the Foo Fighters… And David Chapelle singCreep pic.twitter.com/XxCqVgorpO— ⚡️✨🌟💥⭐️💫🔥☄️⚡️✨🌟 (@JIMrichards1010) June 21, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
One of the two competing versions of UB40 has required their touring members to be vaccinated, so: a backing singer that you have never heard of announcing his refusal on twitter has resulted in randos yelling at the other UB40 for betraying their working class ideals.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 2 July 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
New nominee for the most 2021 sentence yet.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 July 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
What's it got to do with working class ideals though?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
What does logic have to do with anti-vaxxers?
Right Said Fred are in the replies advising him to "Issue a notice of liability, their position is unlawful." Turns out that as of Monday, the other UB40 is without a lead singer, so perhaps this guy is angling for an invitation to level up.
(having replaced the original lead singer with his big brother in 2008, the elder replacement suffered a stroke last year and retired due to ongoing ill-health this week.)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
Chapelle is a Covid denier?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
not a denier, but moved to another state in order to hold spreader events during lockdown, gave misinformation about testing, got a freelance photog and his child infected, crowed that anyone who was wearing masks or not attending crowded indoor events with strangers was a pissbaby (once he caught it himself and did not die), etc
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 2 July 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
Richard Ashcroft strikes again, with support from none other than Ian Brown:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/06/richard-ashcroft-quits-tramlines-festival-owing-to-its-covid-research
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
Nick McCabe further proving by way of contrast that he was the most based member of the Verve.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
a lucky escape for ticketholders for tramlines festival
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 10:04 (two years ago) link
Ashcroft has a six foot sign with the words ‘natural rebel’ outside his house at all times
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 10:12 (two years ago) link
naturally mystified rebel
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 10:52 (two years ago) link
he's just been doing that bittersweet sympathy walk around the north all year breathing really hard in people's faces. PROPER LAD ROCK AND ROLL.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
Despite Morrissey's views on 'Con-vid' and agreeing that restrictions to limit transmission of the virus fit the “precise description of slavery”, nevertheless these masks are available to buy at Mporium - the official #Morrissey store #MoneyChangesEverything https://t.co/ulsTaYSYVQ pic.twitter.com/Uk6HSVOTw2— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) July 6, 2021
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link