Country Music Awards audience gives Hank Williams Jr. a standing ovation

[PM Martin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a75e8uMEk8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDfe9i3bJeM

Hank Jr. claims that Republicans meeting with President Obama is the equivalent of meeting with Hitler, this crowd laughs it off and gives this confederate sympathizer a standing ovation.
The Dixie Chicks say that are ashamed of George Bush, their careers are ruined and lives threatened. The American right is a dangerous group.

These are truly horrible, horrible, horrible people. I am a fan of NO one in that audience or the three douches on that stage. :puke: :mad:

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FILTH!

:argh:

[AtomicKitten]

1. My distaste/disdain for country music (& culture) has been confirmed.

:puke:

[Initech]

12. Oh popular country music BLOWS.

I'm not saying all country is bad though, just popular country.

[immoderate]

16. That's Johnnie, Willie, Dolly, Hank (Sr.), George Jones, Bob Wills, Chet Atkins, a lot of talent.

Baby -- bath water.

Let's not confuse them.

Even Les Paul started as a country act. Then there's country blues. (And middle-aged Dylan.) No country; no rock and roll. At least what we would recognize.

Don't judge them by their dancing. That's all I'm sayin'. :shrug:

--imm

[AtomicKitten]

18. I do make exceptions. I have seen Willie Nelson in concert a couple times.

I did purchase six Dixie Chicks CD's when they experienced the rightwing brouhaha and backlash, but admittedly that was more of a political statement.

However, generally I don't care for the genre or milieu. No sir, I don't care for it at all.

[immoderate]

27. It was an acquired taste for me. I'm born in NYC.

My first love is jazz. I understand that there are some who will never grasp it. That's taste, and some of it may be hard wired in us. (One aria limit for opera.)

But there were country groups and some pedal steel players in Greenwich Village. Some are better than others. And occasionally there is something great. It stands on its own.

"I am not a mollusk," said the clam, "I am myself, and myself alone!" Lewis Carrol

--imm

[Dawson Leery]

44. Nor do I.

[onager]

32. Hank Garland!

One of the best guitarists ever, crossing the genres of country, rock and jazz. That's Garland playing on Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Elvis Presley's "Little Sister," etc. etc. And the Xmas classic "Jingle Bell Rock," which he co-wrote. And on which he got cheated out of his royalties, a typical story in those days.

Racial segregation was also typical in those days, and Garland created a lot of trouble for himself when he started jamming in black jazz clubs. His jazz album "Jazz Winds From A New Direction" is still available, I think.

In 2008 there was a pretty good movie made about his life, "Crazy," with Waylon Payne and Ali Larter. The executive producer was a guy who knows a thing or two about guitar playing, Steve Vai:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443474/

Another great cross-genre innovator was Bob Wills' guitarist, Eldon Shamblin (inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame). Shamblin was one of the first electric guitarists. IIRC, he always said he first learned about amplification from the jazz guitarist, Charlie Christian.

I'm trying to remember a quote about "new country" from Faron Young (who died in 1996). As I remember it, Young said: "Most of that crap ain't country music. It's just bad Seventies rock and roll."

[leftynyc]

2. Not surprised in the least

Are you?

[PM Martin]

6. I am not at all suprised. This event reconfirms what

I have always believed about this (old southern) culture.

[leftynyc]

28. If your stomach and

blood pressure can handle it, check out the comments on any site that mentions that Michelle Obama and Jill Biden are going to be the Mistresses of Ceremony at NASCAR this weekend. A whole new definition of ugly.

[RockaFowler]

3. The music stinks anyway

What's with all of the same bands with different names??
The Band Perry
Sugarland
Lady Antebellum

[PM Martin]

5. When cockroaches attempt to sing.

:scared:

edit: Lady Antebellum (klantabellum) jumped up to applaud as soon as they saw Hank Jr. Now we understand their name.

[harun]

4. American fascists

[hughee99]

7. I know how you feel.

I remember when Roman Polanski got a standing ovation at the 2002 Oscars. Those people are also truly horrible, horrible, horrible people as well.

[Still Blue in PDX]

8. Country music culture sure isn't Wilie and Waylon anymore. nt

[RockaFowler]

9. Or even Johnny Cash

:(

[RebelOne]

19. Johnny Cash was the only C/W music singer I had ever liked.

In fact, I went to a concert of his in Homestead, FL, in the '80s. Otherwise, I have never been a fan of that genre.

[Downtown Hound]

10. Country music is the music of overweight, inbred, morons. n/t

[handmade34]

11. amazing

my story... in 2008 I went to a McCain/Palin event (one day after attending an Obama event) and Hank Jr. performed. The song was "Country Boy Can Survive" and the crowd was pleased but they went crazy cheering and clapping when he sang this line:

...I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
And shoot him with my old 45...
(Cause a country boy can survive)

I was shocked and then and there I knew we were dealing with certifiable types

Hank Sr was good and there may be hope for Hank 3:

“The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.” — Hank Williams III wondering why anyone bothered asking his dad, Hank Williams Jr., about politics. The older Williams’s Obama-Hitler comparison on Fox News got the country star’s song booted off ESPN. The younger musician told TMZ that he respects Biafra (the Dead Kennedy’s frontman-turned-Green Party activist), but he declined to talk politics himself.

[librechik]

13. zombies

that world has been dead a long long time.

[PuffedMica]

14. Honoring a hillbilly that cannot even speak correct English

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. He got a standing ovation without wearing a diaper?

Or consorting with prostitutes? Take that, David Vitter.

[Rebubula]

17. Bocephus

This whole story amuses the hell out of me.


On this very board - from 2000 to 2008 - Bush and his assholes buddies were called Hitler\war criminal\worse than satan\child killers and so many other names\descriptions.


But Hank Jr. (sorry - I am some what of a country fan - growing up in the Mountains of Georgia will do that to you) makes a drunken reference (I do think he was drunk) that, when really looked at, was not that fucking insane (to me, it seemed he was just comparing the gulf of difference between the two groups ...yes, President Obama was the Hitler in this equation - - Meh) - he is all of a sudden some kind of anti Christ.


He got almost as much vitriol directed at him as Sandusky has received.


Just my 2 cents. As always - this is just my idiot opinion.

[LWolf]

20. I've never been a fan, simply because his music is crap.

Hank Sr.? Fine. I grew up on his music. Jr.? No thanks.

[JuniperLea]

25. Hank III is awesome too...

He sounds a lot like his grandad when he's doing that style of music... and he will rock your ass off when he shifts into metal! The kid is amazing.

[Lyric]

43. I liked two songs that Bocephus recorded, and ONLY two.

One was called "I'll Think of Something". The other is "A Country Boy Can Survive". I think I only really liked that last one because it's one that my Dad used to sing all the time. It still reminds me of him.

But yeah, all the rest of his stuff is absolute shit.

[FSogol]

21. Bob Newhart on Country Music....

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who
do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means "put
down."-- Bob Newhart

[WCGreen]

23. That's rich....

[WCGreen]

22. Current country music is nothing more than hats and fringe skirts

and the same song over and over and over again...

Sentimental for a day that never existed and patriotic for a country that never was...

They all sound the same...

[JuniperLea]

24. Exactly...

You can't even smell the corral cookies, but you can hear the twang.

Buck Owens, Faron Young, Flats and Scruggs... Johnny and June Cash... hell, even Conway Twitty. Loretta Lynn. THAT's country music. That's the stuff that played constantly in my grandmother's kitchen in the 60s and 70s, and on TV with Hee Haw and The Grand Ol' Opry.

What we have passing for country now is a disgrace to the foundation the aforementioned artists built, and it's a damn shame.

Edited to say, Hank Williams was a master... his kid is a cheeky swine. His grandson, Hank III, is a miracle! Thank God the genes got through. He's more like his grandad than his dad is!

[WCGreen]

26. I use to love Country Music....

Hell, as mentioned further up the Thread, Rock-n-Roll has it's soul in what was then called Hillbilly Music.

[JuniperLea]

29. Very true.

I recently heard someone on a PBS documentary link Celtic music that came to the South as being the beginning of bluegrass... which in my mind is the root of all American music. From there it was mixed with other cultures, and the blues were born... and Dixieland jazz.

If you listen to pure Celtic, or pure African, or pure Inuit, or pure American Indian music, you will hear a tribal beat... that is the heartbeat of music, IMHO.

All that said, I'm a metal head at heart, but I loves me some bluegrass! And jazz. And blues.

Thank the Cosmos that the elders of my family listened to a diverse selection of music! It was a gift to me that keeps on giving.

[Odin2005]

42. Another Bluegrass fan here!

:hi:

It seems to me that all American popular music has it's origins in the traditional music of West Africa (via African-Americans) and the Scottish Highlands (via the Scots-Irish who settled in the inland South. Jazz, Blues, Country, Rock, and Hip-Hop can be traced to those 2 ultimate origins.

[B Calm]

30. Jr is NOT a Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash. This audience does not represent

all country fans either!

[Dawson Leery]

50. It does represent all present.

Those who stood and applauded are, to put it bluntly, s**t, including Lady Antebellum and the Zac Brown band which has been given many accolades around here. Both are garbage.

[Major Nikon]

31. So much for shut up and sing

[fascisthunter]

33. unAmerican Fascists

[santamargarita]

34. What's a Country Music Award?

:sarcasm:

[mmonk]

35. It's why I quit supporting that industry years ago.

They can go f*ck themselves.

[trayfoot]

36. What did Reba do?

Or was she there?

[Dawson Leery]

45. She too applauded.

[Arugula Latte]

52. That woman absolutely makes my skin crawl.

[Dawson Leery]

37. Surely you were not expecting better of this crowd.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2274283&mesg_id=2282797

I am with you, the genre is garbage.

[Odin2005]

38. Since about 1980 "Country" has degenerated into southern rock with a twang.

[Major Nikon]

39. The origins of rock may be found in country

So that's just everything coming back full circle, really.

[Odin2005]

40. Yup. Rock started as a fusion of Country and Blues.

[immoderate]

41. For example:

Crazy Man, Crazy! by Bill Haley and the Comets!



--imm

[Dawson Leery]

46. kick

[Raine]

47. I always liked WESTERN music but it got lumped into the category of country/western

and country squashed it like a bug. You never hear Western music like Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans etc. I can't stand country music and it's nothing to do with politics. Country music songs are too self-pitying and the singing is too twangy. :puke:

[Dawson Leery]

48. kick

[Taverner]

49. "Haw haw he don' called Obamie a Commie!"

:eyes:

[Mr.Liberty]

51. I'm not a fan of country music anyway...

[BrendaBrick]

53. This is such a MAJOR DISCONNECT

for me. DAMN. I really hate to admit it but like in the late 80's - I swear, I had the biggest crush on 'lil Bocephus! Cranked up his music big time... ~ back in the day ~

Almost hate to admit it now...NOW that I have seen him on the news...what a fricking moran already!!!!!! Really.

Whatever it was that he had 'back in the day' he damned sure ain't even got a whiff...of a hint...of a snippet...of an inkling...of even something even remotely resembling a lost-long nuance of the sorry-ass shell of a man I saw just recently.

Oi!

[mvd]

54. I like some modern country (pop-type included), but..

never cared for Hank Jr. Glad I never did.

[mvd]

55. BTW

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood's routine was very lame. I think we know where they stand politically now. Brad is among the country pop singers I enjoy a lot (others include Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Sherrie Austin, Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride, Vince Gill, Miranda Lambert, Patty Loveless, Taylor Swift, George Strait, etc.) so that was disappointing. If country is such a close-knit community, why aren't the Dixie Chicks being defended? A comparison to Hitler is as bad as you can get for insults.