"mazda616" (mazda616)
10/15/2019 at 15:15 • Filed to: Music
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"mazda616" (mazda616)
10/15/2019 at 15:15 • Filed to: Music | 2
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Sovande
> mazda616
10/15/2019 at 15:35 |
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I saw Steve Earle get booed off the stage at Wolf Trap in VA when he was opening for John Prine a few years ago. He played a song and then proceeded to spout off his political views for a few minutes. People screamed at him until he finally got off the stage. It was kind of surreal as he was yelling back at people. John Prine came out a few minutes later, and in his typical deadpan said “Well, Steve, thanks for warming them up for me.”
I like his music (especially The Moutain with Del McCoury) but his politics seem to get in the way.
His son, who is also great, played at the Birchmere right near my house two weeks ago. I was stuck at work and missed it.
The Ghost of Oppo
> mazda616
10/15/2019 at 15:42 |
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My name’s John Lee Pettimore
And it might be a sin
But I’ll take your bet
And you’re gonna regret
Cause you better stay away from Copperhead Road
Those are the lyrics, right?
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mazda616
> The Ghost of Oppo
10/15/2019 at 16:53 |
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Ha. Combining two excellent songs there.
RPM esq.
> mazda616
10/15/2019 at 17:08 |
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I saw Steve Earle in Seattle a year or two ago, drank a lot of whiskey, and had a great time. H e was fantastic.
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RPM esq.
> Sovande
10/15/2019 at 17:13 |
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What kind of asshole buys a ticket to see a great musician who is also a famously outspoken political activist and then boos them off the stage for expressing political views with which they disagree? That’s fucking insane . If you don’t want to acknowledge that the artist is also a human, just stay home and listen to their albums. And, uh, ignore the lyrics to every single song, I guess.
I saw Drive-By Truckers a couple years ago and Patterson Hood introduced the band by saying “we’re from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and we didn’t vote for that goatfucker Roy Moore.” It was hilarious.
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Sovande
> RPM esq.
10/15/2019 at 17:44 |
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I think the issue was that people went to concert and a political rally broke out during the opening act . I like his music, his politics are his and I don’t care to necessarily know what they are. Being insulted by the guy you paid to hear sing because he assumes your politics differ from his own was a bit more than most were interested in hearing, myself included. He read the crowd wrong. People go to concerts to escape that bullshit, not to be railed at about it.
TLDR; This asshole booed him off the stage.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> mazda616
10/15/2019 at 17:55 |
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Girls with cowboy boots and 4 Truly’s deep everywhere just felt the need to get up and dance.
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> Sovande
10/15/2019 at 19:45 |
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I guess I could sort of understand this i f it was someone whose music is fundamentally apolitical, like Justin Timberlake or something , but man... Steve Earle! W hat did you expect? It’s like booing Willie Nelson off the stage f or saying that weed ought to be legal, or Rage Against the Machine for being, well, Rage Against the Machine. Anyway, it’s too bad, because he’s great live (curmudgeonly observations about politics and failed marriages included, in my book, not that I necessarily agree with many of them ).