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Godsmacked
« on: May 05, 2006, 03:14:59 pm »
Godsmack lead singer Sully Erna gets a dick slap in a recent Interview for Arthur magazine.

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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2006, 03:43:28 pm »
oh my, that's simply priceless.

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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2006, 04:06:25 pm »
Not that I'm a fan of Godsmack or anything, but that dude was baiting the singer. The singer fell for it, too. He should have just been like, "Of course we support the military. What the fuck are you gonna do about it?"
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2006, 04:31:05 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on May 05, 2006, 03:14:59 pm
Godsmack lead singer Sully Erna gets a dick slap in a recent Interview for Arthur magazine.

If by "a dick slap" you mean "ambushed by an asshole reporter with an agenda who is trying to twist a rock musician's words around to try to make him look stupid" then yeah, I guess that was a dick slap.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Godsmack, and the interviewee here seems like he's not too bright a fella, but that interview should have ended after the third or fourth question.  That he held in there for as long as he did is impressive.  I hope the interviewer gets fired for harrassing someone in the name of journalism.

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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2006, 04:34:11 pm »
Oh, also, the "magazine" he claims to be writing for doesn't even exist:

http://www.arthurmag.com/

Funny!
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2006, 04:38:00 pm »
I think Sully sent his virtual Apache heela-copter to bomb the mag's server.

Sure, the reporter is a dick. But Godsmack sucks 666 kinds of ass, so that made my day.
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2006, 04:43:22 pm »
I'm with Jough.  If I've ever heard Godsmack I'm not aware of it.  I'm about as against this war as I can be and I question whether a rock musician who promotes military service really "gets" some of the fundamental philosophical bases of the genre.

All that being said, as a trained journalist that interview turned my stomach.  That wasn't an attempt to get information from or insight about the subject.  It was an attempt to manipulate and embarrass the guy.

Note to Godsmack:  It's OK if you want to support the military.  Just don't be mealy-mouthed about it.  Lprkn has it exactly right.  When that jackass asked if you were promoting military service among your fans, you should have said "Hell Yes, and Fuck you if you don't like it."  Would Keith Moon have engaged in a session of Scott McClellan-esque double talk if that's what he felt?  No.  No he would not.  Have some stones.  Have some dignity.

Of course, my real take on it is that the members of Godsmack never really thought about the political implecations of allowing the US Military to use their music.  They saw the check and that's all she wrote.  'Course, if that's what happened the guy could have said that too.  "Dude, we don't give a shit about the military, but their money's as green as anybody else's.  So Fuck You."
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2006, 04:49:28 pm »
I'd take an uninformed, misguided hypocrite who doesn't know any better (strangely-named Godsmack fellow) over an arrogant, blindly patriotic hick (most modern country music singers) any day.  I'm just sayin' is all.

But we are ignoring a delightful and important point: the US military uses a song called "Sick of Life" in their recruiting advertisements.
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2006, 04:52:32 pm »
IF YOU ARE SICK OF LIFE...


JOIN THE ARMY!
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2006, 05:07:34 pm »
I think the world needs a TOUAMB style word filter.

Whenever someone uses the phrase "My Friend" in any sort of confrontation it needs to be replaced with "I am a douche."

The reality for Godsmack is that it's likely that they didn't even know their music was going to be used, since they probably don't even  fully own it, and if it came down to it, and they didn't want it sold to the US Govt, they likely wouldn't have a say in the matter.

On a unrelated note, I'm going to be gone for a little while, I've accepted a freelance job from ArthurMag.  They're sending me to go punch some school kids in the mouth for supporting the war via the dairy industry in their school cafeterias.*


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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2006, 05:24:11 pm »
Yeah, I realize that the interviewee was a dick, I almost pointed that out in my original post, and I was also pretty impressed that Gobsnack dude hung in there for so long, but I was more interested in watching him dig his own grave.  It was funny because his band makes such terrible music.

And yeah I agree that it's ok to be pro military if that's how you feel, but you shouldn't beat around the bush (get it) when an interviewer ask you about it.  The interviewer wasn't very professional and i'm sure he never expected to get as far as he did.  Why the Godsmack dude didn't hang up sooner is a mystery.  I think Sully Erna's mealy mouthed answers agitated him so he kept asking more and more pointed questions trying to get him to commit to a solid opinion.

Of course if you say anything anti war (Dixie Chicks) you get lambasted, so it's good to see the shoe on the other foot.

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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2006, 06:36:02 pm »
"They’re gonna go and join the Navy because they want to jump out of helicopters and fuckin’ shoot people! Or protect the country or whatever it is, and look at the cool infra-red goggles."

Great quote.  I kind of thought the interview was funny, but it was pretty lame when they were just yelling at each other.
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2006, 08:03:12 pm »
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I question whether a rock musician who promotes military service really "gets" some of the fundamental philosophical bases of the genre.


It's just music made by people.

People have different beliefs. If they didn't, there would be no controversy about the war in the first place.




Between this and the thread Q started that seemed to be about religion, some (a few)  of you are really starting to look like closed-minded, intellectually arrogant culture nazis who can't conceive the possibility that A) other points of view can have any possible worth and B) there might be something bigger than you out there. A value or an ideal or something-forbid, even a God.






 
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2006, 08:16:37 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on May 05, 2006, 08:03:12 pm



Between this and the thread Q started that seemed to be about religion, some (a few)  of you are really starting to look like closed-minded, intellectually arrogant culture nazis who can't conceive the possibility that A) other points of view can have any possible worth and B) there might be something bigger than you out there. A value or an ideal or something-forbid, even a God.
 

Man.. I didn't even post in this thread and I got implicated.

I don't care what ANYone believes as long as they are good people.  I don't think one has to be an athiest/agnostic to admit that that video link I posted is retarded.
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Re: Godsmacked
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2006, 08:29:37 pm »
I'll admit to arrogance.  When the promoters of what they call "Christianity" seem dead set on promoting ignorance, intolerance and hatred AND forcing it on the rest of us through the ruthless exploitation of the political process, I reserve the right to be arrogant.  I think I'm better than those amoral fucks.  For what it's worth, I think you are too.

Why don't you read the rest of the damn thread?  If you did you'd notice that nobody is mocking the military or people who support the war.  What I read in this thread was that people thought the so-called "reporter" ambushed the musician guy and that the musician pretty ineptly handled the questioning.  In fact I think I read several times, from several posters, that it was perfectly OK for Godsmack to support the military/war.  We just said if they did they should be stand-up guys about it.

And where I come from, Rock-n-Roll is about youthful rebellion and indviduality.  It's about raw emotion.  In my opinion those aren't qualities that are highly valued by the military.

As far as other points of view having worth, here's what I'll do.  I'll continue to evaluate them on the basis of how much solid evidence they're based upon and how they are rationally and logically derived from that evidence.  I reserve the right to laugh at a smarmy lightweight like Kirk Cameron and a smirking pseudo-Scientist with an agenda fondling bananas.

You know what?  Sometimes people do funny, stupid stuff.  Sometimes liberals & intellectuals do stupid stuff.  Sometimes conservatives do stupid stuff.  I reserve the right to laugh at all of them, even the ones on my side, when they do something stupid/funny. 

One more thing:  People can have all sorts of conceptions of God.  Some of us conceive of God as something other than a white-bearded berobed guy who's itching to damn us.  There are also lots and lots of values and ideals.  I value honesty -- intellectual and otherwise, kindness and love.  If the only God you recognize is Pat Robertson's and the only values you recognize are what the Republican party calls "Family Values", well then, now who's being arrogant?
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