We really have come a long way from the 80s, where bands like Metallica and Judas Priest had to go to court to prove that they werent responsible for the suicide of some teenager that listened to their music. What James Hetfield said in an interview after a trial (related to their song which addresses suicide, Fade to Black) was golden, and something to the effect of: You know, no court ever considers the thousands of fan mail letters we got from kids thanking us for that song -- saying they didnt think anyone knew that they too had felt that way... And we realized the song addresses feelings that society at large doesnt deal with well. Right about the time they released Vulgar Display of Power, Pantera released a live tour video of some performances interspersed with off-stage happenings. What my friend and I discovered by watching it was that they, like us, were total goofballs, and the video was full of their humorous pranks on one another during life on the road. By far, the most interpersonally violent thing in the video was this snippet here -- which Im thankful someone made available through YouTube. It is a moment when, in the course of their touring, they got a talking to from the religious right at their hotel room. It makes it apparent that some members of the religious right have no idea of the concept of a cautionary tale -- which many metal bands write their lyrics based on, and yet, the intellectually under-equipped group of zealots will interpret these tales as support for unsavory human behaviors, and impose their righteous value system onto the band. youtu.be/WaxvupelwIo
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:23:04 +0000
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