Just listened through all of Black Daisy Wheel stream on Bandcamp and
really like it quite a bit. It's really hard to separate the music from
comments like that :(
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 172 lines Well as long as I stirred the shit I might as well follow through with the> Well as long as I stirred the shit I might as well follow through with the
> shit show.
>
>
>
> From one user:
> im getting oddness too, think someone may have deleted something?? but
> just to stop conspiricy stories, i happen to still have it in another tab.
>
> it was me, it was real,
>
> I cant tell you if its still there, because he blocked me,
> but go back to the 17 or 18/12/2017 and see if its still there.
> his exact comment was along the line of "Gay men are cancer for kids"
> i think, if i recall, it was all based on a case of an adopted child being
> killed by the adopted parent ?
>
> which descended into a new world order, trump love-in with a huge "all gay
> men are paedophiles and murder kids" twist.
>
> As a gay guy, i was quite open in arguing with him, he lost it, posted a
> load of stuff on my personal page (we were FB friends), then deleted it all
> and blocked me.
>
> i shoudl add, i wasnt intending to shit stir either, its water under the
> bridge, it was a comment on a FB friends post, which happened to be in this
> group, about the new BlackDog album, which i made the comment on, in
> passing.
>
> its not like ive got some axe to grind as such
>
> But, re:above, yes i can seperate artist from art,but when said artist has
> attacked you personally online, and it becomes personal, that does tend to
> colour your view. its not an abstract concept.
>
> I -am - a huge fan of the early black dog stuff, I bought it all , BYTES
> was my go to album for a good while, i loved that stuff, I still do,
> nothings changed there
> ---
> he deleted the lot.
> it certainly isn't me that's posting it to the IDM list, but at the same
> time, i'm not going to deny it happend, because it did
>
> i dont have grabs etc because he deleted the personal stuff he posted on
> my page (i woke up to a wodge of notifications of page posts) and blocked
> me.
>
> I do have the message i sent, to someone who knows him, who i dont want to
> involve in this, asking if they wanted to check on Ken, make sure he was
> ok, was this out of character etc,
> but i'm not about to share that and drag someone into year and a bit old
> drama!
>
>
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> anyways unless someone hears more about this ,please assume it's totally
>> bullshit and false and my apologies for bringing it up in the first place
>>
>>
>> Clint Anderson
>> Systems Engineer
>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Apparently it was on his Facebook profile, if anyone has him on their
>>> friends list then maybe it's still there?
>>>
>>> On 22 May 2018 18:08, "Chris Bellevie" <c.bellevie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That would freak me out too, just would never, ever expect that,
>>>> although I guess that it's not anything I have ever actually seen him
>>>> comment on at all in anyway. But BD is something personally really invested
>>>> in (I actually still had and just handed down to my son the BD live
>>>> cassette Ken sent me years ago that I dubbed for free for anyone on the
>>>> list)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Once again I'm kicking myself for not screenshotting it, someone had
>>>>> posted a message about getting the two new black dog albums today in
>>>>> World's Greatest Electronic Music Albums group iirc
>>>>> and on it a guy was saying "oh gee, i don't know, ken downie recently
>>>>> went off on a huge rant on facebook about homosexual men being pedophiles
>>>>> and a bunch of his pals jumped on the band wagon"
>>>>> now of course that FB post is deleted, there's nothing on the Black
>>>>> Dog group, and i'm not a facebook friend with Ken Downie
>>>>> i just sort of freaked out when i saw that because maybe i'm a little
>>>>> too personally invested in the black dog and it would really break my heart
>>>>> so, i just wanted to hear right away that it's all bullshit
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Clint Anderson
>>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Chris Bellevie <c.bellevie@gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Where did you hear this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And to unintentionally sidetrack this, I'm curious, have the band
>>>>>> ever commented on the level of input each has member has? Do they all work
>>>>>> jointly, or is it more in the vein of BD of days gone by where individual's
>>>>>> tracks were included?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if someone is trying to spread untrue rumors about ken to tank their
>>>>>>> album sales or something that's just messed up
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Clint Anderson
>>>>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i dunno i can't believe it
>>>>>>>> would be totally counter to everything he's said in the past
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Clint Anderson
>>>>>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>>>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Chris Bellevie <
>>>>>>>> c.bellevie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Say it ain't so!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Ed Tyler <hekula@googlemail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> No, but if true this will literally break my heart :(
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 17:31, Tue, 22 May 2018 Clint Anderson, <clinta@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> i apparently missed this but there's a rumour going about that
>>>>>>>>>>> mr ken downie of the black dog fame recently went on a homophobic rant
>>>>>>>>>>> equating homosexuals to pedophiles, anyone have any more information on
>>>>>>>>>>> this?
>>>>>>>>>>> if true i feel like this needs to get discussed.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Clint Anderson
>>>>>>>>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>>>>>>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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