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Edited Sep 05, 2010, 14:26
Re: Another racist morissey rant
Sep 05, 2010, 09:54
Sin Agog wrote:
By the way, I just read this blog article which may be worth taking with just a pinch of salt (it probably wouldn't be concrete enough proof to justify column space in a newspaper), that claims that Magma's Christian Vander's a pretty hardcore Neo Nazi.


What's that quote about there being no innocent pleasures in life?

I couldn't get through the whole thing but one kind of monomaniac expressing admiration and identification with another kind of monomaniac is a pretty common trait among rock n rollers. It is certainly not the first time Vander has faced this kind of accusation.

I don't know if all this gossip makes Vander a Nazi or whether he is just one of those child-men who hasn't heard the word "no" often enough and acts out when facing the slightest resistence. Maybe one or both or neither. Maybe he enjoys / enjoyed a flirtation with the dark side of humanity. That's hardly uncommon in the arts either. Especially among rock musicians.

If the quotes are accurate it certainly sounds like Stella Vander has had to turn half a blind eye to some kind of craziness.

Magma's music remains glorious regardless. And perhaps some kind of internal battle in Vander's psyche between a humanist who loves Coltrane and a man who is attracted by totalitarianism and consipracy theories is what makes the music what it is. That's where we enter the old moral maze isn't it?

For a leftist it is hard to imagine that someone who plays the piano and drums with such sensitivity might actually be one of the bad guys. It is one of the great popular fallacies of socialism that its adherents hold all the cards in the arts and that the right has the monopoly on cruelty.

That said it is just as well that every amped-up rock n roller who has ever used a homophobic, misogynistic, racist or anti-semitic slur when haranguing a promoter, crew member or record company lacky isn't a card carrying Nazi otherwise the BNP wouldn't ever be any kind of fincancial trouble!
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