Covidiots in music

I'd rather be subjected to NSFW anime fan art than Learn to Fly

In 2006 Cannibal Corpse changed their name to ENTOURAGE

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/bruce_dickinson_recalls_ultimatum_he_gave_steve_harris_in_order_to_join_iron_maiden_says_he_strictly_refused_to_be_like_other_guy_paul_dianno.html

Is Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden, few lines in this seem suspect

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on COVID battle: “It’s not just a flu – it makes your willy shrivel”

“Honestly, it’s my personal opinion – I’m not forcing anybody to go and do stuff – but I would advise anybody to just go ahead and get the vaccine.”

whew

I don't think it's sus to hate things associated with post-COVID reality such as the stupid elbow bump. I'm glad to hear he seems not to be, though. He's something bordering on a hero to me (at least in the way he's aged).

Dickinson is a small-c conservative, but not a frothing-at-the-mouth lunatic.

unperson I've seen things here and there that uh one might not want to look to deeply into Steve Harris's personal beliefs, is that true?

Couldn't say for sure. He doesn't seem to talk politics in interviews; he's very on-message at all times. I do know he's got a side project called British Lion, but that's probably just old-man-pines-for-the-good-old-days metal, nothing darker.

I once interviewed Carlos Santana, and there was a extremely well known professional present at the time: he is more or less dominant in another part of the rock business, like to the extent that every single ILXor who loves Maiden knows who this guy is, and he was doing his thing right before I interviewed the rock star…for extremely ill-advised reasons, he was talking epic amounts of shit about AC/DC-GnR-Priest level artists in front of me…and yes, he said that Harris is hideously racist…I have every reason to believe him, but again, was baffled that he was talking this amount of shit in front of me, who he knew was a journalist…

is he a big forest?

he is more or less dominant in another part of the rock business, like to the extent that every single ILXor who loves Maiden knows who this guy is

Is his name a dick joke?

R*** H*****

ah wow, that must have been amazing to hear him talk shit, i'd imagine he could regale you for days

he was absolutely hilarious and hugely entertaining, and would have gone on for far far longer cause he clearly liked the appreciative audience he had in me, but of course he and I had to work, but one would think someone of his stature would be far far more discrete in front of some rando scribe like me…

That doesn't sound much like Ralf Hutter to me.

Rutger Hauer was kind of a gossip tbh

Ron Howard is well known for his tales

Rock Hudson probably did have some tales to tell.

Rolf Harris... never mind.

I'm going to be thinking about who on earth is R*** H***** for the rest of the week now!

Rod Hardwank, obv.

I'm going to be thinking about who on earth is R*** H***** for the rest of the week now!

― calzino, Friday, 10 December 2021 21:29 (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like it's probably the guy from Friends, assisting someone

Reny Harlin

Found this on a forum:

Steve Harris was most likely goaded into it, but he made a comment in the 80s about "darkies" and how he felt the races should be separate. Also how his biggest nightmare would be if his son was dating a black guy. Apparently his crew and band mates tease him about his attitudes now, according to one of my friends who is an Iron Maiden fanatic. I read the interview he showed me years ago, and I wasn't a fan at the time so I didn't care. I love them now, despite Harris' "Archie Bunker" attitudes. Its not like he is a neo-nazi, just kind of ignorant.

Lots of people like this around the remnants of the NWOBHM scene, from anecdotal evidence.

a racist west ham fan, whatever next?

Didn't his nickname used to be R... Halfwit?

I didn't think he was a Nazi but being "goaded" into saying darkies and coming out against race mixing I mean....

zero surprise that steve harris may have these views.

https://i.imgur.com/CBTHDqp.jpg

I walk past this farm fairly often. It's a 'pick British' farm, natch.

I think the guys from At The Drive-In and the Mara Volta are covidiots, their other band is called… Antemasque (anti-mask).

Yeah, but "ante" means "before". And the band predates the pandemic. So in the spirit of holiday generosity I'm gonna assume you're joking.

pretty safe bet it's a joke, lol

Anton Corbijn posted a statement on his Instagram account in support of Djokovic and individual rights over vaccine mandates and everything fell into a depressingly predictable fight before Corbijn turned off comments with a "I never said I was anti-vax, some of my best friends were covid victims."

What a load of shit, ignoring that Djokovic found out he was infected, then went out in public and did press meetings and shit without ever wearing a mask or even bothering to tell anyone.

Clapton

Yeah, I'm a huge Corbijn fan, and when that post came up in my feed yesterday I had to do a double-take.

this is a horrible story:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/czech-folk-singer-hana-horka-dies-after-deliberately-contracting-covid

I posted it in the Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread (I thought posting it on this thread might be a bit on the cruel side *gulp*)

It's pretty fucking sad. I'm not posting it here for laughs btw, more out of exasperation that we're still seeing this shit happen on a regular basis after almost two years of covid

Yeah, it is really sad. This is what I posted in the other thread:

Reading that just made me incredibly sad for her son. Imagine how painful that would be to watch the entire process play out in front of your eyes with the predictable tragic result.

Alas, it would seem Meat Loaf likely belongs in here:

https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-dead-dies-singer/

The singer's manager, Michael Greene, confirmed Meat Loaf died Thursday night. Sources with knowledge tell TMZ ... he was supposed to attend a business dinner earlier this week for a show he's working on -- "I'd Do Anything for Love" -- but the dinner was canceled because he became seriously ill with COVID. Sources tell us that his condition quickly became critical.

Our sources say Meat Loaf has been outspoken about COVID, railing with folks in Australia recently about vaccine mandates. We do not know if he was vaccinated.

Don't do drugs kids

It sounds like Danny Rampling will be turning up to vaccine centre soon with an expired crime number and a load legalese word salad with the way he’s getting worked up about his sovereignty pic.twitter.com/EELJDe4DpC

— Lister (@marclister3k) January 22, 2022

"I'm a sovereign human being, I stand under common law only" - Thread of Freemen

back in the day even close friends of his used to call himn danny dumpling as he is such an idiot.

Boy we have a ne plus ultra here

Guitarist ‘Big Merv' Shields of notorious #Nazi band #Screwdriver, instrumental in the notorious Blood and Honour neo-Nazi music network, had died from #Covid.

He was unvaccinated and called Covid a ‘Leftie Jewish Plot.’ pic.twitter.com/kSFLWfv04Q

— John O'Connell (@jdpoc) January 23, 2022

so happy he's dead

Critical support for comrade rona