Comments on: Free Dave Matthews concert is a hoax

By: Jim Lang

Jim Lang — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:34:09 +0000

Mr. Bass, it looks like you were right. It just shows there are idiots of every political persuasion, I guess.

By: morgan

morgan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:37:23 +0000

Damn it. I was so stoked. I got up on stage with Franti at his concert in September and I was hoping to do it again

By: Jim Lang

Jim Lang — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:43:53 +0000

Mr. Bass…. who do you think was the target of the hoax? Who was it that was supposed to be ‘pranked’?

By: Jon Bass

Jon Bass — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:06:00 +0000

The notion that “right wingers” pulled this off is probably one of the most laughable, poorly-considered hypotheses I’ve ever seen. Seems much more like a “culture jamming” thing from the anti-consumerist left to me.

By: Jim Lang

Jim Lang — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:16:17 +0000

Well, who was this botched joke meant to be played on? The people who would want to see those bands. As in, hippies like me. The newly laid off workers in this case simply being used as pawns. (Of course, in the mind of the right wing nutcases, those layoffs are the fault of ‘liberals’.) And then throw in a couple of Democratic politicians that right-wingers hate for their popularity.

I could be wrong – it certainly wouldn’t be the first time. Hopefully we will find out.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:32:39 +0000

I’ll admit it. I calle d the number, I believed/hoped it wa true! I love Franti, and DMB too, so I am following this blog and the comments over on the Trail radio station site pretty closely. So first off, thanks Missoulian for looking into it.
Second, to Nathan: the bands listed are all socially conscious and might just think, hey that would be a great move for these corporations that just laid off almost 500 families. And BTW that’s why they have a media department, to handle….umm….media.
Third, to Jim: why assume this hoax is to “exploit the suffering of these newly unemployed workers”? Maybe it was the ‘Missoula hippies’ to whom you referred behind this, wagging a finger at the corporations (with the new regulations, lets call them Mr. Smurfit-stone and Ms. Macys) and asking for accountability to the affected families. I’ll be watching and hope that the real motive is revealed soon. Don’t slide down that slippery slope of cynicism yet.

By: Nathan Stephens

Nathan Stephens — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:21:11 +0000

Franti has been here numerous times, he might get a kick out of something like this, but Dave Matthews hasn’t ever been here and I can’t image his management was thrilled with being bombarded with media requests about the validity of the hoax.

I don’t know if it’s illegal to do something like this hoax, but I hope there is some kind of justice. At the very least I sure would like to know this Edwin Rose’s motivation.

By: Jim Lang

Jim Lang — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:17:21 +0000

PS, will the Missoulian find out who is behind this?

I have a job doing other stuff but hopefully someone has a job investigating questions like this.

By: Jim Lang

Jim Lang — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:13:38 +0000

Of course the most interesting question is the motive… why would someone spend all this money to promote such a lame, unlikely, and easily exposed hoax?

But to anyone who is familiar with the level of discourse in this community, the dots don’t seem hard to connect. Some right-wing nut or group of nuts th0ught it would be funny to exploit the suffering of these newly unemployed workers by making some incomprehensible joke at the expense of the ‘Missoula hippies’ who like Michael Franti, Dave Matthews and Slightly Stoopid.

Frankly it is a disillusioning comment on our society. And I am again proved wrong in my belief that I cannot become more cynical