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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26 2006 1:00 PM

Submitted by Dr_Frank. Edited By Dr_Frank.

"Rock musicians really are a pathetic lot," says Ben Weasel, commenting on the Grammys, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc.:

Playing in a band is itself nothing more than a convoluted way to stroke your own ego. How much is enough? What does it take for a multi-millionaire rock star to say to himself, gee, maybe it's a bit silly for me to accept the award for the best album of the year considering that I'm the beneficiary of a rigged system that isn't even vaguely interested in the existence of the hundreds and hundreds of amazing albums that were released in the same year just because they committed the sin of existing outside the magic circle of the Big 4?

Think about the unmitigated hubris it takes to stand up on national television and shake your own hand for ostensibly having made a better record than everybody else that year (according to the people who need to sell the idea that your record is brilliant in order to make more money). Now consider that most of the great records released that year never got a chance to be heard solely because the people who made them weren't as good at being businessmen as the guys mugging for the cameras at the podium. Doesn't it kind of make you want to puke?

I second that emotion, if emotion is the word I want...

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TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

FEB 27, 2006 03:19 AM

Skank_Zero said:
Also, the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title was the movie "She-Devil" when the maid quits: "Up with this bullshit I will not put!"

Poor old Winston. Nobody gives him the credit he deserves these days.

Skank_Zero

Chicago, IL

December 2005

FEB 27, 2006 03:39 AM

TheFuckOffKid said:

Skank_Zero said:
Also, the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title was the movie "She-Devil" when the maid quits: "Up with this bullshit I will not put!"

Poor old Winston. Nobody gives him the credit he deserves these days.

I know, I know. It's just that I was addicted to that movie as a kid

webfoe

Panama City, FL

December 2004

FEB 27, 2006 07:16 AM

I started playing in a punk band in '77 and I know who Weasel is...but what's this "Grammy" thing your all talking about...maybe I should get my broke pathetic ass working so I can get a TV too...

MrShanghai

Australia

February 2006

FEB 27, 2006 07:39 AM

ferrofluid

Brooklyn, NY

February 2004

FEB 27, 2006 09:21 AM

i thought that it was screeching yoda,
but then it turned into winston churchill.
those wacky punksters.

LePoseur

Missoula, MT

October 2005

FEB 27, 2006 10:14 AM

For a punk duder, Ben made his point pretty well. Usualy it's just a sneer and a 'fuck off!' a la Johnny Rotten.

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

FEB 27, 2006 10:31 AM

I still don't understand how that particular quote is relevant to the article.

Buster_Bluth

Los Angeles, CA

January 2004

FEB 27, 2006 11:40 AM

quodlibetor said:

belkins666 said:
If you don't know who Ben Weasel is, you don't belong 'round these parts. Get a clue.

and even if you don't know who he is, which i didn't, this is the internet, look him up before you go all ad hominem ignorantum on his ass, claiming that what he says isn't important because you haven't heard of him.

I'm assuming that you're directing this at me. My comment had less to do...in fact it had almost nothing to do with not knowing who Ben Weasel is (apologies to all the Screaching Weasel fans out there) but had everything to do with the fact that he was making such an obvious fucking point.