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Godspeed questioned as possible terrorists

Jack Fear

16:27 / 24.03.03

Full story at Pitchfork.

In Oklahoma, nine scruffy dudes in a couple of white vans and a panel truck = terrorists, apparently.

My favorite bit: Kranky Records rep says, "They get hassled by The Man all the time."

"Hassled by The Man."
I ask you.

Wonder if the FBI checked their liner notes for subversive messages.

Pirate Ven Will Teach You To Lambada (The Forbidden Dance)

00:59 / 25.03.03

This anti-terror-panic stuff is getting just plain ridiculous.

Rage

06:40 / 25.03.03

They'll sell more records.

Seth

07:37 / 25.03.03

Yeah. They probably arrested themselves, the publicity seeking bastards.

rizla mission

09:41 / 25.03.03

Well this is a bit scary.

Not to be facetious, but I bet there's an impossibly intense 25 minute musical response on the way..

D'you think it's got something to do with them thanking a few scary underground organisations on the sleevenotes to "Skinny Fists.."? Or more of a random "'They were looking a bit shifty so I gave 'em a good hassling' says The Man" incident?

Seriously though - being hauled in and detained for several hours on the basis of .. absolutely nothing at all? Isn't that pretty fucking disgraceful police behaviour, if not, y'know, actually illegal?

Baz Auckland

11:45 / 25.03.03

I think the Patriot Act allow pretty much anything to be done (including being detained indefinitely without access to legal counsel) on the basis of suspicion alone. Pretty damn scary.

_pin

20:47 / 26.03.03

Chances that the police knew what they looked like to go after them for the liner to Skinny Fist?? I'm thinking that's pretty low...

And have you seen Efrim?? I personally pray tat the picture in The Wire was a fake, on the grounds that he looks like five completely different mad-as-fuck bastards who frequent my supermarket. At the same time. And I'm not talking bad mad-as-fuck, not not mad-as-fuck, or even bad-as-in-good mad-as-fuck.

Jack Fear

12:33 / 27.03.03

To be fair: recent history has given Oklahomans good reason to fear wild-eyed young fellows in panel trucks.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:45 / 27.03.03

Godspeed have played live there before, you mean?

Jack Fear

18:45 / 27.03.03

I don't know about that, but a fella named Tim McVeigh put on a hell of a show in OK City a few years back...

Jack Fear

18:46 / 27.03.03

(Yes, I know you know: this is for those who don't know, or don't remember.)

Seth

00:18 / 28.03.03

The picture's not a fake, pin. That's really Efrim. Visually, he's rock'n'roll's very own Alan Moore.

rizla mission

12:36 / 28.03.03

That picture didn't look that bad did it?

Just some scraggly semi-dreadlocks and an under control beard.. more like 'neo-hippy graduate student' than 'mad fucking woods dwelling caveman bastard', surely?

Baz Auckland

14:51 / 28.03.03

From their concert last night: "As time goes on the line between comlicity and resistance will become clearer, and we hope that when the time comes more people will choose to resist."

They then played their encore with images of the NYC protests in the background with the words 'hope' on top.

Damn, that was a good concert!

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