Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Brent DeBoer of The Dandy Warhols and Immigrant Union joins us to discuss music, truth and art. DeBoer shares his experience waking up to the political charade and turning on to alternative media, and talks about the lack of big-name artists tackling politics and protest in an era of sanitized corporate music.
SHOW NOTES
The Dandy Warhols
Nice interview. The question of why musical artists are not writing protest songs was only touched on though; and art being the perfect tool for protest remains largely unsung in the popular music of today. Sad really but foreseeable considering the many reasons that would shut it down. Perhaps in a garage somewhere a band is putting their stuff together or a single performer is ready to take to the stage and tell it like it is instead of the usual platitudes on brotherly love.
I came of age in the late sixties early seventies and revolution was in the air ….before we all sold out. I drummed for a “top 40s” cover group but the Barry Mcquire, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, when we had a female vocalist who could manage, and others of the same sort of stuff was in our repertoire, besides the usual. Or why I’m fairly deaf today with a Fender Bandmaster sitting just off my right ear on too many an occasion….