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We're voting on Vincent Gallo based on his musical output (arranger, composer, performer, etc) only.

Voting on Prince Vince?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8BUoygZVA

The Word is crap. Word.

I like his recorded output. I like the way he plays guitar, the way his records sound, and his minimalist sensibilities. There's some really good stuff on the collection of his music for films. The album "When" can get a bit tedious at times, but there are some pretty beautiful moments, and it doesn't really sound like anything else I've heard.

not an emphatic NOT CRAP, but a NOT CRAP nonetheless

What Simmo said.

Come on, he sticks to the establishment, When is a good record. Ok he can be a bit if a cunt but better that than being a MOR non-entity.

I saw his performance at ATP, and I just heard pisspoor, meandering, content-free wank-jam nonsense. The sort of thing my rubbish sixth-form band used to do when stoned.

I find his schtick overall mildly amusing. His music was just juvenile.

He seems to persuade good people to work with him, so perhaps there is something I am missing. Or perhaps the Emperor really does have no clothes.

He was in Grey, an art-punk band here in NYC. Other members of Grey: Jean-Michel Basquiat.

I never saw them, but have heard a recording of one of their shows, and it wasn't crap.

So for me, that is the waffle factor.

As crap as the brown stuff that comes out of your arse.

I've never heard his music, I don't think, so I won't vote on this. But...fuck Vincent Gallo. He'd be so much fun to pummel, or just beat about the face and neck.

Here's a quote from him in an article about him being a Republican who wears women's clothes.

"A lot of those rockers wore their girlfriends' clothes. It comes across as very masculine -- not soft. I wear it to attract as many girls as possible, so that I have more choices."

And here's a pro-American/anti-European quote from the same article.

"It's going to take hundreds of years for it to transform itself out of its role as the leading nation," he says. "The homogenized, mediocre Europeans had better brace themselves for the next few hundred years, because it'll be hard for them to tan in the shadow of the U.S."

And here he describes his political awakening.

"The Baltimore Colts were a hardworking, team-spirited, conservative, Johnny Unitas-led team," he says. "They were up against the young, modern, individualistic, stylish and self-centered Joe Namath-led New York Jets." The Colts lost. "I was an emotional wreck, bawling throughout the game. Somehow I understood that the end of a period in American history had come, and this football game was the metaphor for that."

Which makes no sense to me really, since he seems to be arguing for the group/ aggregate and against the individual, while at the same time espousing conservativism.

And here's a link to something you can buy if you're an idiot.

So, fuck Vincent Gallo. His sort of errant douchebaggery exemplifies a whole lot of what sucks about everything. Sorry to deviate from his music, but that probably sucks too.

i heard one of his records, crap for that, though some of his music works well in his films.

as for the video above: small waffle for his educated use of mellotron/chamberlain