Taken from their newsletter -- I thought it was funny!
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Please do me a favor and forward this to Dennis Lyxzén. Thank you.
Dennis Lyxzén :
I did not get to personally hear you address the evils of ALTERNATIVE PRESS (and our current cover stars My Chemical Romance) from the stage of the Grog Shop during your recent visit to Cleveland. I hope that you would come back to Cle soon to school me, but it doesn't look very promising. The fact that well over half of the audience left after the vastly superior Circa Survive played that night doesn't say much about (STI) NC's ability to engage an audience. And I'm not sure if you've actually heard it, but Armed Love helps your cause like a union of sex workers campaigning for abstinence.
Regarding your attack on "eyeliner bands on the cover of AP," the day you and your comrades can write a song as stirring as any of MyChem's singles, you then might be able to foment that social revolution you like to preach about to dullard music journalists. I doubt that will ever happen via your appropriation of historic American rock forms from the late-'60s and '70s. Hell, the vehicle that launched your career in the first place, Refused, was a distillation of ideas stolen from American underground bands as Nation Of Ulysses and Born Against. You wanna talk shallow? A walk through the ocean of your soul would be similar to being trapped in an hourglass.
I'm sorry J. Bennett didn't like your album. I'm sorry the thing was such a disappointment in the first place in the ears of many people who bought your previous releases. I'm sorry Sara Almgren left you so you felt that need to put that mewling Lost Patrol dogshit out into the marketplace. On the other hand, everybody wins: You've got Rick Rubin on speed dial; I have replacement jewel boxes when your assorted projects hit my desk; and Sara got to spend some time with a guy in a band whose music is actually conducive to mattress thrashing. (I'm sure she had a lot of lost time to make up for.) If you're the "sexiest man in Sweden," as voted by the readers of Braille Gazette or whatever, Sara's got to be in the upper percentile of MENSA members.
Do all of us a favor and take a rest—whether it's under a communist moon or under the moving wheels of a tanker truck.
Cordially,
Jason Pettigrew
ALTERNATIVE PRESS"
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