You’re trolling with that stuff about Grohl being one of the five best drummers in rock history, right? He’s good, yeah, he keeps time well, but he’s kind of monodynamic, and he doesn’t exactly swing. He has very little soul, as a drummer, and a very limited range.

And he’s never been any of the “drummers whose playing can achieve a frontman-level presence”. That’s a short, short list. Arguably Budgie, definitely Moon and Bonham and Peart (you may not like him, but if what he does isn’t “frontman-level presence”, nothing any drummer ever did ever was — and Grohl’s a huge Rush fan btw). Then… let’s see… drawing a blank here. That’s about it.

But greater drummers than Grohl? Watts, Moon, Bonham, Peart, Budgie, Paul Thompson, Martin Chambers, Bruford, Orestes Morfin,. Jim Sclavunos, Nick Simms from Cornershop, SCOTTY FUCKING ASHETON, Nicky Headon, Eddie Kalwa, Andy Newmark, Tom Bazylak, at least half a dozen others that don’t spring to mind right now.

All of them are more musical, more interesting, funkier, and have more personality than Grohl. NEIL PEART is funkier than Grohl.

I doubt Grohl would disagree with much of that list either, if any. The guy’s not an idiot.

Your white privilege is showing.

Perfect fucking timing.

Where did I say they’re not? I sympathize with Kim Gordon.

I mean, they never do grow up emotionally, but they’re definitely human, in their own funny little way. Hell, I live with one. They’re fun to have around, and the good ones are lovable little critters as long as you keep them in line. Just don’t take them too seriously, or they think you’re desperate and not worth their time.

Stay thirsty, my desperate little friend.

You have it right. Put up with an open marriage, or tough shit. Women hold all the cards when they’re young, and the hot ones — like Kim Gordon at that age — generally take full advantage of it. Can you blame them? Maybe you can, but nobody does.

Well, a rock star Thurston Moore’s age holds all the cards now. Fair’s fair. You don’t say “my way or the highway” to somebody who’s holding all the cards.

“Anyone in any creative field should be perpetually working towards environments that are inclusive of all identities and backgrounds”

Why? Why should anybody waste an instant of his time on that? Audiences accept anybody who makes music they can relate to, and they won’t buy anything they don’t like, whether you tell them to or not. Record labels sell anything that sells. Women are at no disadvantage either way. If fewer women are playing indie music, that’s because fewer women want to piss away the best years of their lives in poverty trying to get almost not quite moderately kinda semi-famous among a small subset of white middle-class collage graduates under 30. Why would they bother? They have infinitely easier ways to get laid, and are far less likely to be driven to the stamp-collector compulsion that makes obscure bands seem disproportionately cool.

And there’s music for them already: Top 40 is predominantly by, and/or for, girls. Is it Adele, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, or Justin Bieber who you consider to be evidence of unfair male domination of the record industry? Or maybe the cast of Glee? Coachella is for second-tier commercial music, music that (mostly) sells reasonably well but not like Adele or Beyonce. You know, the stuff that men can stand to listen to. Indie music is a small corner of the record business, and it survives by serving the needs of customers who do not want to listen to Adele all day long: Namely, a small subset of disproportionately male white middle-class collage graduates under 30.

Relax.

I’m not bitching because music that men can tolerate is of secondary commercial importance; how is that a problem? That just means grown men on average spend less money on music than girls do. The girls are paying the bills, so they get what they want. If that’s not fair, nothing is. The customer who spends the most gets the vendor’s attention. Duh. If the women of America want to show up at Coachella in vast numbers and demand more girl acts, they will, and if they do, they’ll get what they want, because Coachella wants to make money. And if that’s what happens, you’ll go apeshit, because what they want is going to be a schmaltzy estrogen-miasma like Adele.

But they don’t give a shit about Coachella, because their needs are already being met elsewhere, on a much grander scale.

Of course, I wouldn’t go within a mile of Coachella at gunpoint, so they can do whatever the hell they want. But if they do dumb shit that alienates the paying customers, they’ll lose money.

Looked like it was folded back under the bandage. Good rock star theater all around.

I would think he’d have been favoring the hand more if it were really that badly injured. But you can shut down a lot of pain with opiates.

That word “guttural“… bit of an IQ test, isn’t it?

Cool, they got high and copied some words out of Adbusters. I can hear The System crashing to its knees already. I only hope the power structure lasts long enough for me to finish posting this comment celebrating its demise.

Thanks!

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Don’t be dense, white men don’t get to do that shit. Diversity stuff is about who’s the bigger victim, and therefore gets to shit on the other guy.

So the question is whether black trumps gay or vice versa. A black football player recently got sent to re-education for saying something about gays, so gays apparently outrank black men. Black women, however, are women as well as black, so that’s two diversity points to one. On the other hand, “woman” doesn’t outrank “black” either. So it’s two low-ranking diversities vs. one high-ranking diversity. Are “woman” and “black” each worth more than half of “gay”? From the reaction on twitter, it looks like the two add up to less than one full “faggot”.

Good thing she didn’t get in a fight with a black gay man. A black gay man would massively outvictim a black straight woman.