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11-24-2007, 10:25 AM
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I just ordered a bunch of records from the Tee Pee label, a bunch of amazing music, I'm pretty excited.
One of the bands who's music they are carrying is the Brian Jonestown Massacre. I listened to some clips and really liked them, but the whole time, all I could think of was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSm5optFVUw (WARNING: Foul language and fisticuffs ahoy)
Musically, they are very much about carrying on the Haight-Ashbury traditions, but as that video shows... peace and love? Right...
Between an ultra egotistical frontman (This is MY BAND get off MY STAGE), and just the fake fake fakeness of their fake hippy image, I don't know if I can give them a listen, despite the fact that they make music I seem to like.
Any similar experiences?
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11-24-2007, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | DiG! was great.
...and I actually like the Brian Jonestown Massacre. I wish they'd come around here. (and not sell out in 10 minutes!) |
11-24-2007, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | You really need to watch Dig. Great film. |
11-24-2007, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: pitman, nj | | | i dig the band and i'm goign to have to check out that movie, that was ridiculous! |
11-24-2007, 07:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | But that's my problem, even while listening to clips online, I couldn't help but think about what egotistical fake dumbasses they are.
I do think I'll have to watch Dig though.
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11-24-2007, 08:40 PM
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Owner, Iron Ether Electronics | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LA US | | I immediately write off any band who smashes their instruments as total idiots. For one thing, I think it's so played out that I can only excuse time travelers from the sixties for thinking it's still novel. You have to be incredibly out of touch to see a rich person smashing a guitar and think that it is a powerful display of raw emotion. More importantly, though, smashing a guitar is just a lame display of American decadence - cutting down a tree to make a guitar just so it can be smashed and tossed in the trash.
Here's an excellent example of this ridiculous practice: recently, I saw Arcade Fire on SNL. At the end of the song they played, the singer smashed his guitar. Then I read this:
"On this guitar, "sak vide pa kanpe" was written in duct tape across the front. A Haitian proverb meaning "that which is empty cannot stand up" in Creole, this was a reference to the extreme poverty of Haiti, the country of origin of Régine [his wife]."
So this guy really cares about the extreme poverty in Haiti? I wonder if the musicians in Haiti, many of whom cannot afford instruments at all, thought smashing his guitar was pretty rock and roll?  |
11-24-2007, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by conical johnson  More importantly, though, smashing a guitar is just a lame display of American decadence - cutting down a tree to make a guitar just so it can be smashed and tossed in the trash. | yeah?
well, that means american decadence provided the money that allowed me to be raised above the poverty line
and i'm proud of that
long live american decadence
also, "f**king broke my sitar motherf**ker" is the best line ever
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11-24-2007, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Yeah, rich kids smashing there guitars, wikkid punk rawk.
I saw that Arcade Fire performance, first off, the guitar was smashed after a very dull, non energetic song, and why did smashing that guitar help anything? Wow, that's really weak.
It was cool when the Who did it
It was cool when Hendrix lit his guitar on fire
Anything after that... lame ass.
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11-24-2007, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by the_fonz yeah?
well, that means american decadence provided the money that allowed me to be raised above the poverty line
and i'm proud of that
long live american decadence |
Why? Do you build guitars for morons to smash?
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11-24-2007, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Why? Do you build guitars for morons to smash? | well not directly
but we supplied the woods for it
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11-24-2007, 09:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Wouldn't you rather that wood go to something useful? Rather than something that will be used once, smashed, then thrown away? Maybe I'm just a hippie who likes trees. Or maybe I just see those smashed guitars and think how I would kill to own something that they are just smashing. Instead of smashing a guitar, at the end of the night, give it away to a fan and say that you smashed it 
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