Coulter interview taints my favorite online music magazine. DAMMIT.

"Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren't":
An Interview with Ann Coulter
Taylor Hill
2006-06-23

When I called the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, whose chairwoman gives speeches on topics with titles like "The Failures of Feminism", and told the gatekeeper there that I wanted to do an interview with Ann Coulter solely about the Grateful Dead, there was a small pause. Then she recovered and politely told me to send her an e-mail, which she would forward to Ann. That, I expected, would be the end of it.

When I got home that night, and saw an e-mail in my box from Ann Coulter, I thought "how polite of her to send a rejection letter rather than simply ignoring my proposal." Instead, I found that she had somehow written "I'd love to! Good website!" While she was delayed by a round of speeches to make up due to strep throat, and other events life throws out, we kept shooting e-mails back and forth and I discovered a secret that I will reveal despite the damage to her reputation that it may cause: Ann is really cool and really funny. The few friends I talked with about this said "What? You of all people are getting along with Ann Coulter?!" It was easy and simple to do: we never talked policy. It was a joy talking with her, even if we don't agree on everything (most politics, and "Alabama Getaway" sucks).

What followed was the most surreal interview I have ever done in my life. It involves smearing oneself with purple Crisco, Kanye (Ann's a fan), slews of Reagan and Bush appointees leaving the Justice Department to go to Dead shows, lamentation for the neglected "Pride of Cucamonga," getting inside info on the Monica Lewinsky scandal by being a Deadhead, and saying goodbye to Jerry in Golden Gate Park. Some of her answers WILL piss people off, but there's no doubting her tie-dyed credentials – even if the dye is much more red than blue. Her latest book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, was published earlier this month.

Taylor Hill: When and how was your first Dead show?

Ann Coulter: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome.

TH: When and how was your last Dead show?

AC: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome. Actually, my last Dead show wasn't quite a Dead show since Jerry wasn't there, but I flew out to the Jerry Garcia memorial in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco with a fellow Deadhead from D.C. the weekend after Jerry went to the great psychedelic rock concert in the sky. The rest of the band played and it was great to be with my fellow Deadheads. It was very sad after Jerry died, not because I felt like I had a psychic connection to him or anything, but only because something really fun I liked to do, I couldn't do anymore. It would be as if all ski resorts just shut down one day. So the Golden Gate Park memorial was a good way to end it.

---snip before I get physically ILL.
http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2006_06_23.06.phtml

That piece of slime is a deadhead like I'm a rodeo clown for fuckssake. I happen to BE a real DeadHead and AVID Jam Band music fan and I'm FURIOUS that Jambands.com put this article in their magazine. If any of you guys are Jam Band lovers or deadheads or just hate coulter, I'd be ever so GRATEFUL if you'd write a short (but scathing!) note to the editor of Jambands.com for tainting a magazine about music with her swill:


Dean Budnick
Online Editor
dean@jambands.com

(Off to REMOVE that jambands.com sticker that's on my door)

don't you have a dead mole in your lap? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=243x19038

Please don't make me think about the taint of Ann Coulter...

as a matter of fact.. I DO!

maybe that's why she looks the way she does.

gave it to a friend

and I am going to make a point to stop by the fucking Jambands.com booth and give them a piece of my mind.

it's pretty interesting, but not that well written....over-earnest, I guess

BUT, aside from the fairly technically oriented passages on musical composition/arrangements, etc., it's a fascinating look at the era he covered in my reading: late fifties through late 60s-very early 70s

I'm not that much of a Deadhead, so some of the cool things I learned: Lesh hung out on Perry Lane, and his group got rousted a bunch of times by Kesey, who lived next door.

Casady driving around, providing stream of consciousness rap, while flipping through the radio channels incessantly, instrumentating his rants, all the while driving maniacally, and SEEING around corners, apparently

Pig making loud, obnoxious love to Janis Joplin in the room directly above Lesh

Dead playing at Monterrey Pop (in BETWEEN the Who and Hendrix), but NOT allowing the footage of their performance to be included in the movie

tons of stuff like that

:thumbsup:

Although I believe she's really a Deadhead in the same way she's really a Christian, which is that she's neither.

'I don't remember my first show or the last one' pretty much says either you were too fucked up or you weren't there. I lean towards the latter.

Here's coulter's answers:


First Dead show? I don't remember.
Last Dead show? I don't remember.
How many shows? I dunno...
Favorite Dead show? ....uhmmmm...

You lying sack of dog drool... EVERY deadhead can answer those questions, in any state of consciousness.

I drove from Atlanta to D.C. with a boyfriend for my first Dead concert, saw the show and then (several hours later after the acid wore off) drove back to Atlanta, all over the course of a weekend. I can't now even remember the boyfriend's last name but I remember everything else, years later.

Coulter's a lying POS Deadhead wannabe. She thinks that it makes her appear human and gives her some street cred. She's wrong on both counts.

and not sully Jerry's memory with her lies.

One of the worst concerts I've ever seen. Two hours of meandering, drug-addled randomness and improv, broken up with a twenty-minute drum duet. They didn't play one thing we'd ever heard of. The next night they played in Gainesville, and apparently did the greatest hits show we were hoping to see. Oh well.

My wife and I are still together, 26 years later, though.

I mean, I could see how could happen. The interviewer would have a hard time discerning which end he was looking at anyway...it's not like Ann has the usual bumps and curves to signify which end is up. And once the interview felt the hot air of her gaseous emissions, he might have just assumed it was her spouting her "opinions" again!