Buckcherry Blame Their Popularity On Fake Pirates
Los Angeles rockers Buckcherry have a new album Black Butterfly. It's their fourth, and you'll be able to hear it at strip clubs across the country this fall. You may be curious why I'm telling you this. Funny story. See, the single, "Too Drunk...," leaked onto BitTorrent sites last week and the band responded by issuing a very amusing press release condemning the leak ("Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first") and quickly making a "down and dirty" video (key line: "young and dumb and full of cum..."). The folks at TorrentFreak got suspicious about the song's "unscheduled arrival":
This is strange to say the least. Not only because their label, Atlantic Records, is known to release (and spam) tracks for free on BitTorrent sites, but also because the press release was more about promoting the band than the actual leak. Without any hard evidence, we suggested that this leak may have been set up to get some free promotion and publicity, which BuckCherry seems to need.
Guess what happens next?
Out of curiosity, we decided to follow this up, to see if this was indeed the case. With some help of a user in the community, we tracked down some of the initial seeders of the torrent. A BitTorrent site insider was kind enough to help us out, because BitTorrent is not supposed to be "abused" like this, and confirmed that the IP of one of the early seeders did indeed belong to the person who uploaded the torrent file.It turns out that the uploader, a New York resident, had only uploaded one torrent, the BuckCherry track. When we entered the IP-address into the Wiki-scanner, we found out that the person in question had edited the BuckCherry wikipedia entry, and added the name of the band manager to another page.
This confirmed our suspicions, but it was not quite enough, since it could be an overly obsessed fan (if they have fans). So, we decided to send the band manager, Josh Klemme - who happens to live in New York -- an email to ask for his opinion on our findings. Klemme, replied to our email within a few hours, and surprisingly enough his IP-address was the same as the uploader.
Stop abusing the Internet, Buckcherry. This is reminiscent of when Metallica popped their Internet cherry.
This is the last time we'll post about Buckcherry.
Posted at 12:13 PM by brandon
Tags: Buckcherry
I'm gonna go download this album and then immediately delete it, just to have the satisfaction of knowing that it stole from total pricks.
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"This is the last time we'll post about Buckcherry."
Promise?
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Yes.
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Excellent
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I decided to listen to the song as a goof. It really is the worst song I have ever heard. By far.
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Seriously. Good god, that song is awful, I had no idea bands like this still existed.
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"as a goof"
HAHAH I LOVE YOU.
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I bet that lead singer thinks he's pretty fucking cool.
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meta-fail: you spelled Buckcherry wrong in the title.
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Damn...
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I can only hope that you misspelled it "Buttcherry."
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I am going to blame that on the server move.
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I'm on the Internet! On cocaine!
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Who on Earth would want Buckcherry tunes?!?!?!? Look at those asshats!
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http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dqrryx&s=4
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what the fuck is a buckcherry?
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it's not a chuckberry.
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Is that Michael Jackson on the left?
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"Guess what happens next?"
Josh Todd fixes the cable?
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Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey
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You'd think that someone with at least enough smarts to create a torrent, seed it and edit a Wikipedia page would know not to reply to an email grilling him about those actions having originated the same IP address... FROM THE SAME IP ADDRESS.
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Do you think he really was trying to cover his tracks? It's entirely possible that the band is a bunch of assholes AND the manager uploaded the track AND the label was pissed about the leak not knowing it was the manager. It's idiots all the way down in this pile.
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Good point...
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one dude has a soul patch and the one that looks like michael jackson is wearing a scarf.
yeah, i'm really going to take this band seriously. hahaha.
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I hope there is one more Buckcherry post in the near future. One involving the entire band in an "O'Doyle Rules!" kind of moment.
Actually used to like that "for the movies" song. sorry.
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man... some serious privacy being violated here, if you ask me.
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That's like saying if someone mails you a letter, you're invading the sender's privacy if you read the return address.
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Not really. If you run a torrent site, you have a right to know who's uploading torrents to it. And you certainly have a right to know who's sending you mail. Nothing was violated here, except maybe the anonymity of douchebags.
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perhaps we should all misspell the band name.
it makes me quite sad to think that pirating has sunken so low that crappy bands are trying to gain fans by fake pirating their tracks...
bit torrent used to just be the *cool* music... now it's like shopping at walmart.
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can't say i'm ready for another profanity-laced chorus from this band but i refuse to believe this story
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"You coming to our show tonight? We do a mean 'Crazy Bitch'!" says every cover band in the midwest.
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"Honestly, we hate it when this s*** happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first"
Does he honestly think that anyone who isn't already a Fuckcherry FAN could be bothered to download their new "songs"?
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I didn't realize Willem Dafoe was fronting an awful whiskey-soaked jizz rock band.
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I haven't laughed that hard in a while, thanks!
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LOVED this post even if it did sting a bit. Man, I really used to like this band way back in the '90s or whenever they were first popular and singing about loving the cocaine. And the guitarist with the soul patch, man his body is super fine But I can't say I am digging the new tunes too much. I mean, do we really have to pander to below the lowest common denominator? At least I can reminisce about the good old days when Buckcherry did not have to stoop to this kind of ridiculousness to get attention. Sad.
http://www.worleygig.com
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Oh man, Jazzbone totally nailed it with the Dafoe thing. Holy god I can't stop laughing.
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Bands like this just drive home the point that talent in completely nonessential in mainstream rock music.
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I just watched about half of the video, and I have some questions:
1. Did he really say something about putting "pussy on layaway?"
B. I'm not a fan of Dead Kennedys, but don't they have a song with the same title?
3. Does anyone else think this song sounds like a slowed-down version of that shitty Rilo Kiley song "The Moneymaker?"
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straight up WHITE TRASH
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What are these guys... 40 at least? and why does the guitarist think he's slash in that video?
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The "dude" on the left looks like a tranny trying to cover up his adam's apple.
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The "dude" on the left looks like a tranny trying to cover up his adam's apple.
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the press release they posted has been taken down..
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You know what I love, that Stereogum readers can all come together to hate on
Buckcherry. It is the most civil post on this site.
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buck fuckcherry! -the fact that i have heard "crazy bitch" more than once makes me lose faith in all of humanity. congratulations buckcherry you just tied w/ nickelback.
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No one could ever tie with Nickleback. Their heartfelt lyrics loved amongst buttrockers everywhere become the instant couples songs to people who meet their significant others at strip clubs and Buffalo Wildwings.
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pirates of the shitmusic! starring: Buttcherry
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i would love to give them a swift kick in the gonads.
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C'mon everybody-- It's Buckcherry... Are we really surprised? They are a product of Los Angeles' vapid and arrogant music scene.
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Is that Chris Cattan wearing a jean-jacket and a black Rod Stewart wig on the left? This can't be real... Also, the guy with the sunglasses profiling the prom pose is amazing...
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I can't wait to hear this played by every drunk group of girls at every fucking bar I go to for the next three years. Congrats on adding another shitty novelty song to your unimpressive catalog of cockrock.
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Good. Fuck em'. Their music sucks.
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