Posted on 06/09/2010 3:52:27 PM PDT by scottfactor
Dave Matthews...women just fall over over this guy, people spend millions to buy his music, and he obviously thinks that this gives him the right to judge the rest of us. How, you ask?
He so eloquently states in this video, "I think people who don't move around as much as me can take a bike when it's a nice day or walk". This coming from a guy who has a tour bus and a private jet burning thousands of gallons of fuel so that he can "move around".
Why does he move around? To make money. Guys like him don't make their millions on CD sales....they make it on the $150 concert tickets they sell. That's why he "moves around". Another fine example of the Hollywierd people dictating lifestyles to the rest of us little people who aren't as great as they are...yea, right.
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“I have mine, thank you”.....the late, great Jimi Hendrix.
Humanzee poo flinger!
I love to be preached to by an unqualified nitwit with a predisposition of self importance.
LLS
Not that I'd listen to him, personally I think he sucks, but that's neither here nor there.
He's still a damned hypocrite.
But he sucks.
Of course he’s a hypocrite. That’s why he got along so well with John Edwards.
Can`t stand the guy or his bad music, but I must be missing something. He says people should move around, and that makes him a hypocrite?
When he moves around on fuel-guzzling tour buses and private jets, yet thinks that people should ride bicycles and leave less of a carbon footprint...like Al Gore, that makes this guy a hypocrite.
Not only a hypocrite but an idiot. He actually thinks he is helping to save the planet. The planet is just fine Dave, but humanity is in great peril. Not from pollution, but from useful idiot leftists such as yourself.
the South African-born 43-year-old
Report: Underage drinking citations rampant at Dave Matthews show
Officials announced that 145 people were cited for underage drinking during back-to-back Dave Matthews Band [ tickets ] (6/4-5) concerts at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY.
In addition, 18 people were cited for unlawful possession of marijuana, seven people were cited for disorderly conduct and six were cited for having or consuming alcohol without a permit, according to the Albany Times Union website.
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Dave Matthews &
Jane Goodall (Ms. chimpanzee)
Jane said we’re getting to a point where our eco-system won’t be able to recover. Dave told us we need to learn to be in the world rather than consume it.
http://www.bisnow.com/washington_dc_the_scene_news_story.php?p=8581
I see, I definitely missed the point, I thought he was talking about physically moving—suggesting people don’t sit around all day but walk and such in order to stay in shape. Thank you.
Just wanted to chime in on the music.
Can’t stand this talentless clod!
Isn’t his stuff just gawdawful? Some people can and do merge various musical traditions—it’s the basis for countless works of music over time. Matthews just kinda plops coloration from a generic NPR “world music” concept of diversity onto his boring songwriting, and makes a weird-sounding mess.
I have a very personal list of individuals and groups that practice what I call “musical contrivance.”
Almost no one agrees with my list.
I post it anyway. (This is by no means the whole list, just the major players.)
The Who
Heart
Jackson Browne
Coldplay
Oasis
(most of) The Beatles
Dave Matthews
99% of all Rap & Hip-Hop (Exception for the Beastie Boys)
Anything that makes me reach for my son’s insulin
Peter, Paul and Commie
Overly extrapolated guitar solos
...you get the idea.
I don't understand the dismissal of the Beatles around here. I don't own any of their CDs, so it's not like I listen to them anymore, but no pop group has been more imfluential.
Jackson Browne is a real jerk in his personal life, as it's been told to me, but a few songs way, waaaay back were pretty good. Coldplay certainly ape U2, but I enjoy some of their songs--it's no more complicated than that. Similarly, The Who did things a lot of others copy, and they have some good songs.
I don't bring my politics to my enjoyment of art. I'm not saying I don't judge the artist or their work based on politics, only that my ENJOYMENT is unrestricted--I can't force myself not to like something by someone whose politics I loathe. I have thousands of LPs and thousands of CDs, and offhand I can't think of any musician whose politics reflect mine.
Not trying to argue with you, it's just that I'm fascinated by people's reactions to music, so thanks for sharing your position. Certainly I find drum solos across the board more offenseive than most guitar solos. :P
Which examples are you talking about, offhand?
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