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Post by raphael on Sept 12, 2011 11:00:50 GMT -5
The controversial song............... Okay which one of you PoPo pulled the plug?
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Post by Sgt K USMC on Sept 12, 2011 12:56:47 GMT -5
The "Victim" of censorship?
I'm just gonna take a stab in the dark here and assume this is the same kinda person that gets pissed when the word 'Muslim' is added to 'Terrorist'
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Post by vahalla on Sept 13, 2011 15:12:49 GMT -5
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Post by emanon on Sept 14, 2011 10:07:12 GMT -5
I am not getting the "censorship" or "violation of his rights". From what I understand, the venue asked him to not play that song, he started to, they cut the sound. Is that not the venue's right? They own the club, they can do what they wants. If the guy wants to get mad at them for cutting his mike, fine, but it is not censorship, their club, their rules.
Oh, and the guy at the end tossing the symbols, what a tool.
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Post by Sgt K USMC on Sept 14, 2011 13:58:09 GMT -5
I'm really curious as to what actually happened that inspired this song.
Cant seem to find it anywhere so if one of you has a linky I would appreciate it.
I know the guy himself has his side of the story but I'd like to see the other side as well if it is out there.
Prison is full of innocents that did nothing more than have a busted tail light after all.
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Post by raphael on Sept 14, 2011 14:07:32 GMT -5
I'm really curious as to what actually happened that inspired this song. Cant seem to find it anywhere so if one of you has a linky I would appreciate it. I know the guy himself has his side of the story but I'd like to see the other side as well if it is out there. Prison is full of innocents that did nothing more than have a busted tail light after all. He said the song was about an incident in 2003 when he was arrested at a roadblock and put in jail for using the F word. He said he has a number of police officer friends now, but he said the police department in his hometown at the time was "corrupt". That was from the article and all I could find. Em I can't find anywhere where they told Smith beforehand not to play the song.
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Post by vahalla on Sept 14, 2011 14:54:16 GMT -5
he told them he was going to play it. Cop that is on the beer board ordered it shutdown. that's the word on the street.
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Post by raphael on Sept 14, 2011 21:44:40 GMT -5
Corey's new Chattanooga song...........
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Post by Diremaker on Sept 14, 2011 21:46:06 GMT -5
he told them he was going to play it. Cop that is on the beer board ordered it shutdown. that's the word on the street. Word on the street is backwards. Track29 told him before he ever even went on stage that due to the trouble in the club the week before, they did not think the song would convey the appropriate message and requested that he not play the song. You can watch the video of the incident and even hear him say that they told him not to play it. Sorry, but your rights are limited sometimes. They own the place, they got the right to decide what kind of image they want portrayed.
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Post by Diremaker on Sept 14, 2011 21:48:04 GMT -5
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Post by raphael on Sept 14, 2011 22:22:38 GMT -5
I want to see a statement from the Track 29 management on this. Perhaps they stated that they pulled the plug and I missed it.
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Post by emanon on Sept 15, 2011 0:16:18 GMT -5
Dire has it nailed. Dude was told to not play the song by the club, he chose to ignore that. No rights were violated, nobody was censored.
Edited to add - look at all this publicity he is getting for telling falsehoods. A lot more people know who Cory Smith is now, hmmmmm.
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Post by Sgt K USMC on Sept 15, 2011 4:01:40 GMT -5
And that again gives me reason to want to know more about what inspired the song other than his own word on the matter.
He obviously has no issues with violating the house rules in order to speak his mind and doesn't think he should be afforded any consequences for his actions to the contrary of them.
That being said…
I really find it hard to believe that all he did was tell a cop to F off and end up in prison for it. Pretty sure there is more to the story that is being withheld.
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Post by vahalla on Sept 15, 2011 16:25:51 GMT -5
I want to see a statement from the Track 29 management on this. Perhaps they stated that they pulled the plug and I missed it. They have a statement on their Facebook page, the only one in which they will release no further comments. they appear before the Beer Board to answer to the opening nite melee, and underage drinking complaints. The song was wrote because in 2003 Corey Smith was stopped at a road block and said "fuck' to a police officer was arrested and charge with disorderly, charges were later dropped. That's the story I've heard..
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Post by Diremaker on Sept 17, 2011 23:20:49 GMT -5
I want to see a statement from the Track 29 management on this. Perhaps they stated that they pulled the plug and I missed it. They have a statement on their Facebook page, the only one in which they will release no further comments. they appear before the Beer Board to answer to the opening nite melee, and underage drinking complaints. The song was wrote because in 2003 Corey Smith was stopped at a road block and said "fuck' to a police officer was arrested and charge with disorderly, charges were later dropped. That's the story I've heard.. That is indeed what the story is. Now he screams censorship because he was doing exactly what they TOLD HIM NOT TO DO. I guess when he worked at McDonald's he probably advertised for Wendy's to customers in the drive through. It's a shame that someone that has sank that much money into creating a decent live music venue for Chattanooga, a venue that the same people that are bitching blindly have been BEGGING to get, has to put up with this kind of bullshit.
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Post by Fredo on Sept 18, 2011 11:12:30 GMT -5
According to Styles the band and this particular ABC guy had already been at odds from an incident a few years ago.
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Post by Diremaker on Sept 20, 2011 4:07:47 GMT -5
That however is irrelevant if the people writing the check say "Don't play that song." I'm reasonably sure that anyone here wants what they ask for, what they PAY for. If you were standing at the burger counter and said "No pickle" and saw them putting on pickle, you would stop them. No means no, especially if it's my checkbook.
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Post by CoffeeShooter on Sept 22, 2011 8:26:44 GMT -5
Mediocre performer makes headlines. Go figure.
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