“I was prepared to make a difference in this world”
Since I started blogging i think I’ve only changed three minds.
One of them was some punk trying to be provacative just like the ones you mentioned.
Once he got educated on my family and the relationship between Nazis and todays terrorists he apologized and with humility simply said that he had no idea.
Jersey.
The Dead Kennedys were a San Fransisco band that wrote music attacking anything connected with Reagan, his administartion , republicans and most conservative stances.
Seeing as how most looney libs ( which they were) like to call cons and repuclicans Nazis , you can probably bet they were bashing the Reagan administartion with this song.
The point is not made clear by any means of clarity in the vocals which took away its ability to make any sense.
So when you say ” nonsensical and inaudible” the only clue is the title and the groups liberal history.
Good times?
It was good times top call good Americans Nazis ?
I think you missed on this one.
Silliness is to use the dead kennedys as some kind of relativity in this.
Your point seemed to want to back erics posting about liberal punks who minimize Nazis and the holocaust.
If you’re going to try and be funny at least try to be somewhat accurate.
A lot of punk bands are funny in the sense that they were so stupid it was funny.
if you knew the Kennedys and had as many friends as I did who followed them you wouldnt of said that.
I always figured you were more of a Johnny Mathis/Dixie Chicks/Pearl Jam/ Rage against the machine kinda guy
I love this post. I used to love going into chat rooms to mess with people. I especially loved the age/sex/location question that people were asking to try to hook up. I’d answer something like 70/female/los angeles just to be difficult ’cause you know they were out trolling. I was never as spectacular as Eric in my conversations, but then again, most people didn’t care to converse. They were by and large looking to score which I found laughable, but harmless for the most part.
Speaking of The Dead Kennedy’s, my life has intersected twice with their brief vocalist Brandon Cruz. I guess this was just before he joined the band, he enrolled his kid in Cub Scouts and we were at a training together. One of my friends recognized him from their childhood together and started chatting it up. Last year, I took my daughter to a Halloween party and was hanging out when I saw a guy dressed in leathers with all kinds of really cool buttons so I asked if I could look at them. After a bit we discovered we sorta recognized each other from years before and he told me he used to be the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys. I knew of the band, but not anything they recorded, until I just wiki’d them. I’m hugely fascinated by celebrity so I thought it was cool (at the same party my wife refused to point out an actress I would have recognized because she was afraid I’d just walk over and start talking to her — which is exactly what I would have done). So, who knew someone who was lead singer of such a foul-mouthed, anti-establishment band could be such a cool, supportive dad? Anyway. That’s my brush with a kid star and one-time Kennedys lead singer.
“I always figured you were more of a Johnny Mathis/Dixie Chicks/Pearl Jam/ Rage against the machine kinda guy.”
Ewww…
No, I don’t like any of them. When I was growing up, it was Motorhead, Ozzy, Floyd, DK, The Clash, Paul Simon, the Beatles, Billy Joel, Judas Priest – a pretty ecclectic mix. I pretty much have always detested most contemporary pop music, with the exception of only a very few really big stars.
“A lot of punk bands are funny in the sense that they were so stupid it was funny.
if you knew the Kennedys and had as many friends as I did who followed them you wouldnt of said that.”
Said what? I thought the Kennedys were hilarious! My first band, Vomit, emulated them. Our songs often had a political bent, but outrageous humor and pushing hot-buttons came first and foremost. Our “Abortion” song was so extremely nasty (I wrote it, too) we had to stop playing it a couple of times. I won’t even get into the rest of that playlist! But people loved it and seemed to usually get the joke. Our tapes are still floating around out there. Once in a while some old friend will pop up and sure enough – “Hey man, I still have a Vomit tape and I still love it!” Then they’ll go on to sing some of the lyrics – “One minute to lift off, three minutes to doom!” (Take a wild guess what that was about!) I’m surprised no one actually tried to kill us!
Ok Jersey, I am not going to ban you for that remark because technically it is not a rules violation. However, I will strongly request that such topics not be discussed between Noon and 3pm, or between 6pm and 8pm, West Coast time.
I just finished my lunch an hour ago, and would prefer to keep it down.
Sorry Eric. I’ll refrain from further Vomit lyric writing during meal times! LOL!!!
Oh Micky, you said it. After Vomit I created Mass Insanity which was themed as Frank Zappa meets Motorhead – again, not a great path to the top! But then I played in classic rock cover bands, and then finally one last band of my own that was just an ecclectic mix of rock, neo-pagan sorta folk, blues, psychodelia, etc. Finally I wound up as a one man act doing half covers and half my own stuff. Much more mainstream, I suppose. But lyrically I tended to be a little heavy and avoided songs about love and sex (booooooooring). I was never mainstream enough to make it, I suppose, but the crowds used to love me and lots of people in the biz told me that I could have been huge had I just had the drive. But I didn’t. So I quit. I never gigged all that much anyway. It was a pain in the you-know-what and just wasn’t worth the effort. It’s a difficult, and frustratingly sleazy business. That and most musicians are morons.
Yea, love songs should be outlawed. Unless its Morrisey singing about double decker buses running over the couple.
But even other genres especially political get boring after a while.
Which is why I was always partial to instrumentals.
I dont want to hear an opnion or feeling. I just want to jam.
micky2 said,
April 13, 2008 at 11:07 am
“I was prepared to make a difference in this world”
Since I started blogging i think I’ve only changed three minds.
One of them was some punk trying to be provacative just like the ones you mentioned.
Once he got educated on my family and the relationship between Nazis and todays terrorists he apologized and with humility simply said that he had no idea.
Jersey McJones said,
April 13, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I wonder if guys like Weisel and Weisenthal go online and post stuff like this for laughs… hmmm…
The Dead Kennedys had a great song about Nazi Punks. It was virtually inaudible, and nonsensical, but it seemed to get right to the point!
Good times!
JMJ
micky2 said,
April 13, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Jersey.
The Dead Kennedys were a San Fransisco band that wrote music attacking anything connected with Reagan, his administartion , republicans and most conservative stances.
Seeing as how most looney libs ( which they were) like to call cons and repuclicans Nazis , you can probably bet they were bashing the Reagan administartion with this song.
The point is not made clear by any means of clarity in the vocals which took away its ability to make any sense.
So when you say ” nonsensical and inaudible” the only clue is the title and the groups liberal history.
Good times?
It was good times top call good Americans Nazis ?
I think you missed on this one.
Jersey McJones said,
April 13, 2008 at 6:33 pm
“I think you missed on this one.”
No, Micky. I got it. DK was funny. I enjoyed them. Good times. But really, just silliness. You shouldn’t take things so seriously.
JMJ
micky2 said,
April 13, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Silliness is to use the dead kennedys as some kind of relativity in this.
Your point seemed to want to back erics posting about liberal punks who minimize Nazis and the holocaust.
If you’re going to try and be funny at least try to be somewhat accurate.
A lot of punk bands are funny in the sense that they were so stupid it was funny.
if you knew the Kennedys and had as many friends as I did who followed them you wouldnt of said that.
I always figured you were more of a Johnny Mathis/Dixie Chicks/Pearl Jam/ Rage against the machine kinda guy
Joshua Godinez said,
April 14, 2008 at 11:29 am
I love this post. I used to love going into chat rooms to mess with people. I especially loved the age/sex/location question that people were asking to try to hook up. I’d answer something like 70/female/los angeles just to be difficult ’cause you know they were out trolling. I was never as spectacular as Eric in my conversations, but then again, most people didn’t care to converse. They were by and large looking to score which I found laughable, but harmless for the most part.
Speaking of The Dead Kennedy’s, my life has intersected twice with their brief vocalist Brandon Cruz. I guess this was just before he joined the band, he enrolled his kid in Cub Scouts and we were at a training together. One of my friends recognized him from their childhood together and started chatting it up. Last year, I took my daughter to a Halloween party and was hanging out when I saw a guy dressed in leathers with all kinds of really cool buttons so I asked if I could look at them. After a bit we discovered we sorta recognized each other from years before and he told me he used to be the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys. I knew of the band, but not anything they recorded, until I just wiki’d them. I’m hugely fascinated by celebrity so I thought it was cool (at the same party my wife refused to point out an actress I would have recognized because she was afraid I’d just walk over and start talking to her — which is exactly what I would have done). So, who knew someone who was lead singer of such a foul-mouthed, anti-establishment band could be such a cool, supportive dad? Anyway. That’s my brush with a kid star and one-time Kennedys lead singer.
Jersey McJones said,
April 14, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Well, Joshua, Jello (the most famous of their vocalists) ran for president at least once! (He’d of made a better one than what we have now…)
JMJ
Jersey McJones said,
April 14, 2008 at 12:21 pm
“I always figured you were more of a Johnny Mathis/Dixie Chicks/Pearl Jam/ Rage against the machine kinda guy.”
Ewww…
No, I don’t like any of them. When I was growing up, it was Motorhead, Ozzy, Floyd, DK, The Clash, Paul Simon, the Beatles, Billy Joel, Judas Priest – a pretty ecclectic mix. I pretty much have always detested most contemporary pop music, with the exception of only a very few really big stars.
JMJ
Jersey McJones said,
April 14, 2008 at 12:30 pm
“A lot of punk bands are funny in the sense that they were so stupid it was funny.
if you knew the Kennedys and had as many friends as I did who followed them you wouldnt of said that.”
Said what? I thought the Kennedys were hilarious! My first band, Vomit, emulated them. Our songs often had a political bent, but outrageous humor and pushing hot-buttons came first and foremost. Our “Abortion” song was so extremely nasty (I wrote it, too) we had to stop playing it a couple of times. I won’t even get into the rest of that playlist! But people loved it and seemed to usually get the joke. Our tapes are still floating around out there. Once in a while some old friend will pop up and sure enough – “Hey man, I still have a Vomit tape and I still love it!” Then they’ll go on to sing some of the lyrics – “One minute to lift off, three minutes to doom!” (Take a wild guess what that was about!) I’m surprised no one actually tried to kill us!
JMJ
micky2 said,
April 14, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Vomit.
Nuff said.
Jersey McJones said,
April 14, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Our theme song featured a chorus of the three of us making a loud vomiting sound. The song itself extolled the wonders of vomit – as food.
“Just scrape it up off the floor, and put it back on your plate, ’cause people – vomit is good food.”
JMJ
JMJ
blacktygrrrr said,
April 14, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Ok Jersey, I am not going to ban you for that remark because technically it is not a rules violation. However, I will strongly request that such topics not be discussed between Noon and 3pm, or between 6pm and 8pm, West Coast time.
I just finished my lunch an hour ago, and would prefer to keep it down.
I am one grossed out moderator.
eric
micky2 said,
April 14, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Jersey.
Did you guys ever ask yourselves why you never rose to the top ?
Jersey McJones said,
April 15, 2008 at 7:33 am
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Sorry Eric. I’ll refrain from further Vomit lyric writing during meal times! LOL!!!
Oh Micky, you said it. After Vomit I created Mass Insanity which was themed as Frank Zappa meets Motorhead – again, not a great path to the top! But then I played in classic rock cover bands, and then finally one last band of my own that was just an ecclectic mix of rock, neo-pagan sorta folk, blues, psychodelia, etc. Finally I wound up as a one man act doing half covers and half my own stuff. Much more mainstream, I suppose. But lyrically I tended to be a little heavy and avoided songs about love and sex (booooooooring). I was never mainstream enough to make it, I suppose, but the crowds used to love me and lots of people in the biz told me that I could have been huge had I just had the drive. But I didn’t. So I quit. I never gigged all that much anyway. It was a pain in the you-know-what and just wasn’t worth the effort. It’s a difficult, and frustratingly sleazy business. That and most musicians are morons.
JMJ
micky2 said,
April 15, 2008 at 8:02 am
Yea, love songs should be outlawed. Unless its Morrisey singing about double decker buses running over the couple.
But even other genres especially political get boring after a while.
Which is why I was always partial to instrumentals.
I dont want to hear an opnion or feeling. I just want to jam.