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Have been a huge fan since the early days. Was super excited to finally see them at Aftershock this year and it was a huge let down. Maynard was hiding somewhere on stage while the rest of the band just stood there playing.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Theres no line to read lol theres no reason to act like that lmao

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my generational divide is impossible to explain.... look man, they faked their own deaths as a joke at one point, they said the point of their band was to evangelize a made up philosophy or new religious movement they invented that was about crying all the time, they were on comedy TV show. at some point Maynard was in a full on parody band before he met Adam, I assure you, you can't take him seriously. the context of the statesmen your talking about he was saying all their fans were unwashed virgin idiots who wouldn't leave them alone, but they were a band for just cool people only. he was being very sarcastic. it was a bit. I've seen the whole thing in context, he was clearly doing a bit. I could spend forever trying to explain the pre YouTube world and how Beck and Thurston from Sonic Youth did a whole TV interview being dumb and it was glorious because you know... they were in TV and TV was dumb and teenagers got that they were doing a bit and it was funny but when people TODAY see it they're like 'wait these guys are mean and they seem like they are dumb and suck' and it's like.. no they were actually really cool, but you had to be there... maybe?

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, if you're gonna write analytical shit through lyricism and someone, even if you think they're annoying, professes that your work changed their life, at the very least you throw up a peace sign and dont say anything. Making fun of them when you made the deep magic is just being a cunt no matter how much The Humbling River fucken slaps. Its almost wild to hear the dude write shit like this and then turn around and be like "yeah fuck you guys, you guys are weird, fuck you I wrote this for me." I have no words to describe it.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I see I wrote too many words for you to read. I'm sorry. He was doing a comedy bit. It was all a goof. He's a little goofball.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 week ago

I read the entire thing, it had little relevance to a permissible excuse to being a cunt