Gordo Wrote:
I read a couple of reviews, Todd, that mentioned a somewhat anti-semitic overtone...I think mainly in a new song called something Beirut. Anything noticable in your show?
I didn't get the antisemitism.
Certainly a Lebanese sympathy, but that does not necessarily equal a hate of the Jewish people.
He did tell of a story of hitchiking home to England from the middle east and of a Lebanese family in Beirut that took him in one night and treated him like family. That was the lead in to "Beirut".
Could antisemitism be implied?
There are people of all persuasions who love to jerk their knees.
There was not even anti-Israel sentiment in the story. Perhaps one could imply that, but you would have to be looking for it, or be foolish enough to believe that to sympathize with one is to hate the other.
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Paul Caporino of M.O.T.O. Wrote:
I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.