It depends. Writers, you can read in an interrogative way, so reading some asshole's writings isn't a bummer for me. It becomes a debate, almost.

Music and movies are more meant to lose yourself in. If someone's a pedophile or racist, yeah, that ruins it for me. I still have some Horna and Mgla stuff that I just have no desire to listen to any more. It's slightly attenuated if some of their work has become part of the culture, in which it takes on more of its own meaning. Like a Michael Jackson song. It's still going to give me pause to hear one, though.

If someone is a dick in the way that my uncle is a dick, like King Buzzo, it might make their music less a part of my rotation. It's not really a conscious choice though unless it comes to buying it, and fortunately the Melvins have been mediocre for years, so it hasn't come up.

As far as conscious decisions, I probably wouldn't check out a new band that tried to be edgy a la Rupture, but I haven't stopped listening to Rupture. I guess context counts too. All their offensive stuff came about after playing with sanctimonious American anarchists, and they had been a leftist band themselves before that.

if the original record came out before he touched those kids, i can still enjoy it.

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speedie wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 5:41 am 25 posts in and no one has mentioned known Pedophile pants shitting draft dodger gun slinger @Tednugent yet...

Seeing that has me wondering if we can tag posters like that. Let's see with @speedie.

Answer: No.

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The thread presupposes some degree of enjoyment of said music but yes let us not waste the opportunity

I actually like the Stranglehold riff. The lyrics though? Nope.
Some of the Amboy Dukes stuff he played on was good too.
Will I actively seek any of it out to listen? No way.

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FYP

Besides, his music makes KISS sound like Beethoven.

I've got a few horror stories of running monitors for a very famous Liverpool band.

The singer is an absolute cunt and coke head and no matter how great their music is I will never be able to enjoy it after the last tour we went on involved him threatening the lives of his bandmates, choking his lighting director and throwing a punch at me mid gig.

It's that cunt Ian McCulloch if your wondering.

The rest of the band are lovely guys though.

AstroRoadie wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:40 am I've got a few horror stories of running monitors for a very famous Liverpool band.

The singer is an absolute cunt and coke head and no matter how great their music is I will never be able to enjoy it after the last tour we went on involved him threatening the lives of his bandmates, choking his lighting director and throwing a punch at me mid gig.

It's that cunt Ian McCulloch if your wondering.

The rest of the band are lovely guys though.

I was actually thinking 'I bet that's McCulloch' then you said it. That he's a prick but the rest of them are sound seems to be a common perception.

Curry Pervert wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:58 am

AstroRoadie wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:40 am I've got a few horror stories of running monitors for a very famous Liverpool band.

The singer is an absolute cunt and coke head and no matter how great their music is I will never be able to enjoy it after the last tour we went on involved him threatening the lives of his bandmates, choking his lighting director and throwing a punch at me mid gig.

It's that cunt Ian McCulloch if your wondering.

The rest of the band are lovely guys though.

I was actually thinking 'I bet that's McCulloch' then you said it. That he's a prick but the rest of them are sound seems to be a common perception.

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