Oh come on, Stereogum. He used "snowflake" in an indirect collective "we" sense which included himself, so it really wasn't all that loaded. Context, context, context.
@GarbanzoBean, I hope you see the inherent flaw in calling for news to be censored and public comment to be silenced because you don't think it's pleasant.
They opened for REM in Hartford in 1995 as well. So the photo *could* date back to then too.
Also, I don't think Radiohead have played their own show in CT since the tour for the Bends, at a small club in New Haven. I was too young to go. They should like, come back.
I'm gonna guess that you probably know at least a couple non-Beatles songs even if you don't yet realize it!
I've still never seen him yet either... really kinda should before it's too late.
Common American chocolate by and large really IS terrible though (specialty shops and chocolatiers aside). This is a pretty widely held opinion worldwide, so I dunno where you're comin' from, DeVille. "Horrible taste in candy" would be saying you enjoy a Hershey's or Nestle bar. Hell, compare a UK Cadbury's bar to its bastard US counterpart and the difference is clear.
Peanut Butter Cups, however, are the ONLY exception.
Glad we had this talk.
Yeah as far as big arena rock spectacles go, Muse are one of the few, and they're good at it. Makes perfect sense for a festival.
Hard to believe now, but their first few albums were really really good (Origin of Symmetry gets my vote) and they were insanely good live mostly through sheer stage presence alone. But yeah, it went steadily downhill after album #3.
I guess that would be this dimension... Muse is still regularly headlining festivals. They're probably at a certain phase where their guaranteed status level isn't going to go down right away.
Well... considering what's been said about each of these guys especially during the relevant Zwan years, I'd take the whole thing with a giant grain of salt. Truth somewhere in the middle, etc.
Though I remember Billy distinctly liking Interpol back when they first came out, there's no doubt he was bitter about how SP ended and that people didn't like the last few albums. I was never world-famous-then-suddenly-not, so I guess that may be a pretty big blow. Unfortunately, he still seems to hold a bit of a grudge.
I'm sorry, that "respect motherfucking craft when you hear it" line in the Adele v. Visconti is stupid.
First of all, no one needs to tell Tony fucking Visconti he needs to respect the damn craft (see: his body of work).
Secondly, he was making a broad point and posing it inquisitively, and that was really apparent in the interview. We all fucking know voices are manipulated and he was using Adele as an example but didn't say her voice was faked. She was the one who overreacted.
I don't think the meat is the issue here. I'd be pretty pissed too if I was trying to play (or watch) a gig and there was just some random guy chowing down RIGHT THERE. It's rude and unprofessional at the very least.
Also it'd be a big stretch to say Peter Murphy is "coasting" on Bauhaus' one hit... they never really had a very big following, always more a cult one, so it's not quite the same. The guy had more hits as a solo singer, also a while ago, but for some perspective, his last album did chart in the Billboard 200. * Enter argument for artist/musician making a living doing their thing *
I think some details are missing here... I think the guy was fired not so much because he was eating a burger near the stage -- which itself is a dick move during a quieter set (and apparently something that wasn't a proper thing to do, per management) -- but because he responded to Murphy's tantrum by stepping up and escalating the situation further, and apparently by kicking some of the band's gear. As a security guard, that's not exactly part of the job.
Saw one of the shows on this tour though and Peter definitely seems to have been in a bit of a mood, but that's probably nothing new.
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