Jan 112013
It’s a simple enough question: would you rather have all the dudes (and they are all dudes) from Hear’n Aid or all the men and women from The Cause (aka Christian Artists United to Save the Earth) staying at your house for a week? Remember, you’ll have to share the bathroom.
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
I don’t like either genre but I guess I’ll go with the Christians.
The coolness of having David St Hubbins as a house guest for a week is not even remotely off set by having to put up with d-bags like Ted Nugent or the guys in Motley Crue and Vanilla Fudge. Also, we only have one bathroom and there’s no way the Yngwie is taking less than an hour and a half in there.
Besides, if I have to choose, I would rather be annoying than be annoyed. Living with metal heads would be really grating (bad music, bad gear, melodramatic D&D nonsense), whereas I’m certain that I would bug the crap out of the Christians by week’s end with my intolerance for intolerance, and my love of bourbon and inappropriate humor.
An insightful and brutally honest answer, cdm. Thank you!
I have to agree with cdm — I actually like a few artists that were formerly primarily christian music stars — Sam Phillips and Buddy Miller’s wife Julie Miller come to mind off the top of my head. I would dig spending the week with them.
Side questions that popped up for me watching the videos:
How many of the metal guys are dead? (Dio and the dude from Quiet Riot are dead for sure, any others?)
How many of the christian singers “fell”? (Didn’t Amy Grant help break up Vince Gill’s marriage?)
I thought Christians were against saving the earth? They apparently don’t consider fake over-emoting while miming to pre-recorded tracks ‘bearing false witness.’
I think many people presume Christians are only rightwing. This a terribly unfair misconception. There are liberal Christians who believe in the environmental and ecology movements. Its a darn shame the rightwingers are doing their utmost to make one forget there are Christians who are progressives.
A guy I know refers to Ted Nugent as “The Amboy Douche”.
HA!