Seriously?
I was looking into the bands playing at Boston’s Freedom Rally next month and gave up after clicking through half of them. The only ones that seemed tolerable were Onyx and some hispanic rapper who drops the N-word a lot. The rest are these awful, dreadlocked white people who list the following under the musical influences sections on their linked Myspace accounts: “Life, Love, Sex, Drugs and Death,” “MOSTLY OLD SHIT!!!!!!!!!”, and a Rage Against the Machine cover band called Age Against the Machine who, interestingly enough, does not list Rage Against the Machine as an influence, but rather a picture of a little boy giving the middle finger.
Where is the folk music? Where are the easy guitar players, the blues bands, where are the musicians that list classic rock as their musical influences on their Myspace accounts? Are we really pushing forward the issue of legalized, recreational marijuana by subjecting others to musicians who have probably attended one or more Insane Clown Posse concerts? Do we really think that will work?
The biggest mistake in forwarding the legalization of marijuana movement is allowing ignorant, uneducated potheads to participate.
