Newsflash: Jann Wenner’s a cunt

[Gil Bang 26050]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/arts/jann-wenner-the-masters-interview.html

[G650 14278]

I'm not sure this is a news flash

[Celery Man 21004]

Ok but what about Gene Weener

[jimmyjazz 46242]

14 minutes ago, G650 said:

I'm not sure this is a news flash

It was a news flash some 50 years ago, though.

[jimmyjazz 46242]

But seriously, some of the things he said are so remarkably tone deaf and untrue that it boggles the mind.  I guess when you get insanely wealthy you get used to sniffing your own farts and thinking they're lavender.

[G650 14278]

33 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Ok but what about Gene Weener

Gene Ween is a national treasure

[G650 14278]

I fell like the phrase OK Boomer was basically invented for Jann Wenner. He has been such a dipshit for so long I've tuned him out to the point I forget he exists.

[Rimbo 26153]

31 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

But seriously, some of the things he said are so remarkably tone deaf and untrue that it boggles the mind.  I guess when you get insanely wealthy you get used to sniffing your own farts and thinking they're lavender.

Has that magazine ever been about anything else?

[ScottS 1075]

https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/16/rolling-stone-founder-jann-wenner-removed-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/

[G650 14278]

Lulz

[mdmost 43056]

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In the interview, Wenner seemed to acknowledge he would face a backlash. “Just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism.”

Last year, Rolling Stone magazine published its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and ranked Gaye’s “What’s Going On” No. 1, “Blue” by Mitchell at No. 3, Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” at No. 4, “Purple Rain” by Prince and the Revolution at No. 8 and Ms. Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” at No. 10.

Edited September 17, 2023 by mdmost

[Whitewater Horn 968]

23 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Has that magazine ever been about anything else?

No kidding. Surely this is only “news” outside of the music fanatic community. 

[Rimbo 26153]

1 hour ago, Whitewater Horn said:

No kidding. Surely this is only “news” outside of the music fanatic community. 

I'd put quotes around "music fanatic" there. Rolling Stone was always about advocacy for a certain style, a certain age, and never, ever about quality. And God forbid if you've had a different style than what they thought you should; they ignored Led Zeppelin during their heyday, were utterly oblivious to the rise of hip-hop and metal, and deliberately so.

[Deej 76957]

They didn't ignore Led Zeppelin, they were openly hostile towards them.

[CooterBrown 18033]

Gene Ween is a national treasure

But Dean thinks he’s a cunt.

[oSuJeff97 3435]

Yeah he's always been a fucking douche.

His best contribution to pop culture was giving Cameron Crowe his start.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9358]

I downloaded his autobiography because it was getting strong reviews & let's face it, the guy's hung with some of the biggest names of the last 60 years so I figured there'd be some great stories.

In the end, the entertaining stories don't make up for how self centered and vapid he comes across throughout. He was born affluent & became rich almost out of sheer luck & timing. He worked hard-and had some amazingly talented people who REALLY worked hard to build RS-but in the end it was more stories of him having lunch with Jackie O, Yoko being a petty bitch, and how many A-list celebs he could gather for a party by flying them around on his private jets.

[hullabelew 3724]

42 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

I downloaded his autobiography because it was getting strong reviews & let's face it, the guy's hung with some of the biggest names of the last 60 years so I figured there'd be some great stories.

In the end, the entertaining stories don't make up for how self centered and vapid he comes across throughout. He was born affluent & became rich almost out of sheer luck & timing. He worked hard-and had some amazingly talented people who REALLY worked hard to build RS-but in the end it was more stories of him having lunch with Jackie O, Yoko being a petty bitch, and how many A-list celebs he could gather for a party by flying them around on his private jets.

Pick up Bernie Taupin's autobiography, "Scattershot".  It will cleanse your mental palate.  The audio book is very well done.