No, I Do Not Want To Interview Bassnectar.

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sorry, friscans. didn't mean to be negative from afar. i will say only nice things from now on. :) i don't mean to malign any of you, of course. (well, except for employees of the communist bay guardian, which of course is the mortal enemy of my sometime employer, the new times! haha.)

heywood, write me with your questions!

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 16 September 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

phil i ran into yr ex-roommate K()rtnie at the plastikman show, she says hi! it's not all mediocrity here!

vahid (vahid), Sunday, 18 September 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha. welcome to the party, josh. did you guys ever use any of my photos of the shopping cart races?

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, we did. How's the West Coast? Are you in Seattle? Portland? Something like that? Good on ya for getting the fuck out of Michigan.

js (honestengine), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...
well, someone did...

http://www.sfbg.com/40/10/x_local_live.html

that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been seeing his name in print a lot recently. Maybe he's good.

seeing the number of absolutely outstanding, near vacant SF shows I've seen this last year, reading a bunch of critics griping about occupational hazards & taking it out on the musicians makes me resent every single time any of you have ever been paid for your opinion

milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

And may I add how fucking relieved I am to no longer live in Breaks Capital, USA

You lived in Seattle?

dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

(meanwhile, Simply Jeff and Uberzone are flying off to some mega rave somewhere in the world to fly back to L.A., which, in 1997, outlawed any music with breakbeats made with software, as opposed to sampled at a hip-hop tempo, to be played at any club within the greater basin.)

dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

(I still like me some breaks, btw.. just not buying everything that botchit, marine parade, or fuel releases anymore, that's all)

dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Being a music critic AND DJ/promoter who put on lots of near vacant shows in SF just makes me resent every music critic who promotes things I think are of lesser value - and makes me want to work that much harder on both activities. I don't see any problems here, really. Resenting music critics for half-empty shows is like blaming restaurant critics for bad service.

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Resenting music critics for half-empty shows is like blaming restaurant critics for bad service.

Change "service" to "attendance", and I think your analogy works better.

Is it weird for me to completely empathize with both milton *and* the music critics?

Seeing fellow artists get grossly underrated vs. getting paid to write about music while having to deal with a flood of musical diarrhea (relatively speaking) in your mailbox every day, which after a while is really fucking annoying and justifies the pay. I dunno... which is worse?

dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

..having been/being "artist" and "promoter" as well.

dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck, what about hyping the hell out of a show, going there an seeing an amazing set with three other people, one of whom is probably just working the merch table between sets?

If critics had any real power, everyone would own a Pere Ubu album.

js (honestengine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

outlawed any music with breakbeats made with software

Um, what? LA has its own Criminal Justice Act? Can you point me to more info?

Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...
In the event you're in Los Angeles or have a writer in town, please let
us know if you'd like to cover this press conference.

Note: If you have already RSVP'd, please respond to this email to let us
know you've received the revised press conference time below.

KORN

INVITE YOU TO 'SEE THE OTHER SIDE'

THIS FRIDAY, THE 13TH

AT THE HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY

WHO: Trend-setting and Grammy-winning rock icons KORN--who've
sold over 25 million albums--to announce major North American tour.
KORN is JONATHAN DAVIS (lead singer and a former coroner's assistant),
lead guitarist JAMES "MUNKY" SHAFFER, bassist FIELDY and drummer DAVID
SILVERIA.

WHAT: The tour is in connection with KORN's new and seventh album
SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE (EMI/Virgin). The critically acclaimed album
entered the Billboard pop albums chart at #3, marking KORN's sixth top
five entry on this chart. The disc features the smash "Twisted
Transistor."

DATE: THIS FRIDAY, THE 13TH OF JANUARY

WHERE: HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY, next to Cathedral Mausoleum

6000 Santa Monica Blvd. (between Gower and Van Ness)

When entering the cemetery, take the first left and
then the first right. Area will be on the left at the next street.

Founded in 1899, this is the resting place of
hundreds of

Hollywood's greatest stars.

PARKING: Free on site at event

TIME: 3:00 PM Media Arrival

3:30 PM KORN Arrival

scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I WILL SEND ONE OF MY WRITERS IN TOWN!!! WHO WANTS TO GO???

scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Many of the people who go to Burning Man are awful and it has definitely created a half-assed art culture where one didn't exist before, but some of the pieces that have been developed at/for Burning Man have been really beautiful and for me have validated the entire enterprise.

I guess it depends on whether you like Christo or not.

polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i get that email every day!!

cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

READY THE HOVERCRAFT

cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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.

lukas, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Spencer Chow, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link

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

chaki, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Display Name, Friday, 3 August 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

APPEARING AT DEMF '09

Andy K, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

That's MOVEMENT 2009 (excuse me)

Andy K, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah but do you want to interview him?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

free mummy in every box of count chocula

― amon (eman)

velko, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

sexual predator apparently

carin' (map), Thursday, 9 July 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link

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

peace, man, Thursday, 9 July 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link

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

The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link

eight months pass...

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

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 10:06 (three years ago) link

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.

armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 10:14 (three years ago) link

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

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 10:18 (three years ago) link


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