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Touring With Willie Nelson – Bad for Brains

March 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm by Cranky

America’s former favorite small town Bruce Springsteen, John Cougar Mellencamp waxes idiotic. Check out the lonely crossroads where anti-Reagan derangement meets stupid.

In a rant posted on Sunday night, Eighties rock star John Mellencamp unfurled the theory that Ronald Reagan ruined the music business, and now it’s somehow impossible for musicians and bands to “percolate up” from the street:

Reagan’s much-vaunted trickle-down theory said that wealth tricked down [sic] to the masses from the elite at the top. Now we’ve found out that this is patently untrue — the current economic collapse reflects this self-serving folly. The same holds for music. It doesn’t trickle down; it percolates up from the artists, from word of mouth, from the streets and rises up to the general populace. Constrained by the workings of SoundScan/BDS [Broadcast Data Systems], music now came from the top and was rammed down people’s throats….

Sadly, these days, it’s really a matter of “every man for himself.” In terms of possibilities, we are but an echo of what we once were. Of course, the artist does not want to “sell out to The Man.” Left with no real choice except that business model of greed and the bean counting mentality that Reagan propagated and the country embraced, there is only “The Man” to deal with.

Come to think of it, the crossroads is now six lanes wide and runs through the L.A. Basin.

Besides playing up all the obvious cliches, he demonstrates a complete absence of knowledge about the industry that made him.

Reagan’s trickle down policy was responsible for the top-down corporate model? Did he ever hear of Alan Freed?

Surely Mellencamp-Cougar must have noticed that the liberal entertainment biz rejected Reagan’s “Greed is Good” mantra and new just pass on music for the love of it. I’m sure the RIAA was cooked up by Reagan to funnel money and Lonesome Jamboree CDs to the Contras.

I wonder if his small town would have him back?

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2 Responses to “Touring With Willie Nelson – Bad for Brains”

michele Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Funny thing about Mellencamp is that he’s corporate rock’s version of “down home.” That’s the only reason he made it, and that’s why his music gets pumped by classic rock stations through my car speakers until I can practically hear them begging for a quick death.
Nigel Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Mellencamp used to be one of my favorite artists…until a night about 5 years ago when I spent $95 for tickets to one of his shows only to be held hostage by a 5-minute anti-Bush rant.

I purchased tickets to his next concert, but as the date approached I kept remembering his moronic tirade and the day before the concert I simply gave the tickets away to a co-worker…feeling like a fool for giving this turd my money.

I still listen to his music…because I can seperate the artist from his/her art (i.e. Elton John, Sheryl Crow)…but I doubt I will ever return to one of his concerts.