Positive Action With The Nuge

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machineryelf Aug 20, 2010 19:14:52
Replying to IanB

Search around on line and you can find plenty of examples of the Nuge being a dick, one waving a couple of machine guns about and saying these are for Obama, the man knows his audience and is slipping into becomimg one of them.
Do I care? Not enough to stop me listening to his music, admittedly I don't think he's done anything worth listening to since about 1978 and on his present form I doubt that I would see him live if he played locally.
But I listen to plenty of music by people who are/were dicks of the highest order, and read books & see films etc. I don't care if entertainers have dodgy ideals, it's part of the remit to be outrageous.

I IanB
IanB Aug 20, 2010 19:33:43
Replying to machineryelf

machineryelf wrote:
But I listen to plenty of music by people who are/were dicks of the highest order, and read books & see films etc. I don't care if entertainers have dodgy ideals, it's part of the remit to be outrageous.
Absolutely. My listening and reading would be badly limited if there was a "no assholes" rule. I don't know about the idea of remit to be outrageous as that seems to be giving idiots carte blanche for political Jedwardism but I do think that artists have to be given latitude to be truthful. And I am not sure sure how truthful Nuge is being here. That might be my biggest problem with his Tea Party crap - that it is just a commercial calculation and sucking up to the gallery. Having heard him talking to Dave Lee Roth on the later's chat show a few years back I fear as much. As he really tuned down the bigotry and cranked up the ecological.

I love his s/t album and Free For All. The rest not so much.