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james t kirk said:
Well, as sad as it may be I now have no choice but to know the following things that I did not know before:

BBT is able to play drums (I did not know that)

BBT is in a band that actually tours (I did not know that before)

The name of BBT's Band is Box something or other ( I did not know that before)

BBT doesn't like Canadian Audiences (I did not know that before.)

BBT is defending his stupidity (dumb move)

Anyway, it's the old adage, "Any publicity is good publicity" and to that end, BBT has been sucessful.

Maybe he's about as dumb as a fox.
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Excellent post:) . I agree with what you are saying. Before BBT's controversial interview I for one had no idea he was even in a band. I loved this interview as I love controversy.

As the Toronto star article stated. BBT's interview was very similar to JP's bizarre interview on Letterman. Joaquin Phoenix was the talk of the internet for months after that crazy Letterman interview. I'm sure BBT will be as well!
 
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james t kirk said:
Maybe he's about as dumb as a fox.
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I would not give him that much credit. I think he is a narcissist and it has served him well.

I saw his band first night of the Toronto stint. He was horrible. He has a 5 guitar lineup that is over-amplified and a mess, he stands there like a stump when he is not playing drums, and lyrics and any sort of stage presence were unintelligible (including mundane canned stage banter). Given this is Massey Hall where numerous other bands have tore the place up with similar acts, my conclusion is he is just plain bad.

Compare this to Ray Price who was fricking amazing at 83.
 
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james t kirk said:
Speak for yourself.

I listen to CBC Radio every day.

CBC 2 while I'm working in the office helps calm my nerves.

I got into listening to CBC 1 while I was on the road working all over Canada. When you're in the Gaspe Peninsula, you don't have a lot of radio choices so you end up Listening to the CBC. After a while, you get into it and some of it is really great stuff.
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I'm sure the CBC is wonderful stuff

But you miss my point, if you're gonna pull a PR stunt you want as large as possible audience.
Canada is only 30 million, USA = 300 million
 
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Good old boy Billy Bob is off the remainder of the Canadian tour.

I feel it just might be his lack of interpersonal skills. And of course, the possibility of him tarnishing Willie...:)
 
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Haven't heard anyone actually spell out the hypocrisy of BBT's stance. He can't have it both ways. He must know that the Boxmasters would not be receiving very much attention without the benefit of his Hollywood past. That's just a fact. Now, BBT is within his rights to want interviews focused on his music while he's wearing that hat, and I think Gomeshi fairly obliged him on that count. All he did was mention that the guy has won an Oscar and made plenty of movies. He appeared prepared to make the interview about the music.

BBT really put the last nail in his own coffin with his comment that 6:00 A.M. was too early for him to have his drums there? HuH?? What a primma donna. If he's serious about wanting his band to be taken seriously, and not get by on his rep as an actor, then he should behave just like any other aspiring band member and bloody well bring his instrument to an interview where he's going to be playing live!

As for his talent as a musician...well I just hope this isn't representative of his best. "Two panthers on the prowl....we just looked at them and growled." Holy fuck....good lord that's pathetic.
 
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He's stupid too, if he wouldve just apologized and said it was 6AM, I was tired and I'm sorry, that be the end of it.
Instead he makes it worse when he tries to justify his rudeness.

What a dumbass
 
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In watching the Youtube clip, it was obvious that the other guys in the band (much younger than BBT also) were very uncomfortable with the way BBT was behaving and the way the interview was going.

If they were smart, they would drop his ass out the band. The old guy maybe famous, but it aint worth the price of admission.
 
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More bullshit from BBT's publicist.
This guy doesnt know when to shut up

I highlighted what I think is bullcrap in red

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/616937
Maybe the mashed potatoes don't want any gravy.

Billy Bob Thornton and his band the Boxmasters, after being booed by Toronto fans angered by his likening Canadian audiences to "mashed potatoes with no gravy" in a bizarre interview with the CBC, dropped the two remaining Canadian dates of Willie Nelson's tour – Montreal last night and London tonight.

Reached last night by the Star, Thornton's publicist said cancelling had nothing to do with Thornton's reception in Canada after the interview.

"It is absolutely not because of the CBC interview. One of the band members and several of the crew have the flu and need a couple of days off to recuperate," said Arnold Robinson. "Billy does not have the flu. The band is only concerned about giving the audience the best show possible, and when one of them is down with the flu, they can't do that.

"As Billy said before and during the show last night, he loves Canada," Robinson added.

Nelson's publicist Elaine Shock did not want to offer any comment from Nelson, saying the announcement on Nelson's official website about The Boxmasters' departure was a statement.

"This is a Billy Bob thing and not a Willie thing," Shock said.

About 1.2 million viewers had watched the YouTube video of the CBC interview by late last night and there were 10,500 comments, the vast majority criticizing Thornton.

When it was announced at the Nelson concert last night in Montreal that Thornton was no longer in the lineup, which also included Ray Price, there was loud applause, according to several concertgoers.

"We don't appreciate as Canadians to be treated like that," said Larry Paquette, of Magog, Que.

"He's just another actor, no big loss there," said Paul Schmieder, complete in open-collared shirt and cowboy hat.

Wendy McLoughlin called Thornton a "baby" for not showing up. She noted that Billy Bob would have seen in Montreal – widely considered Canada's biggest party city – that "we're the gravy!"

"It's cowardly," echoed Olivia Chia, visiting from Vancouver. "If things don't go his way, it's not his fault."

The CBC interview with arts and culture program Q this past week veered at times into the absurd, with Thornton refusing to answer questions and becoming increasingly belligerent.

Jian Ghomeshi, Q's host, made reference to Thornton's long, award-winning acting career in his introduction to the show, something he had apparently been told not to do by Thornton's cohorts.

Speaking at Toronto's Massey Hall Thursday, Thornton told the crowd that Ghomeshi, whose name Thornton said he couldn't remember, was an "a--hole."

"I sat down and talked with this guy," Thornton said from the stage. "He and his producers say, `We promise you we won't say that' (meaning references to Thornton's acting career). The very first thing they said was that... If you look someone in the eyes and promise them something, and you don't do it, you don't get the interview."

This joust at Ghomeshi, who was praised across the web for his calm approach to Thornton's on-air sulking, was greeted by the Massey Hall audience with jeering and shouts of "Here comes the gravy!"
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The interview wasn't at 6, it was at 10 or 11 which is when the show airs. Maybe he had to GET UP at 6 to put on his foundation??? :eek:
 
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I think the video is hilarious. Everyone is supporting the CBC host; but, I support Billy Bob.

Compared to commercial radio, CBC is a massively bloated bureaucratic organization with massive numbers of producers bumping into each other all over the place.
One of them was tasked to write a long tedious intro for Billy Bob's band and they made the host read the whole long winded overly scripted epic in front of the band who were all sitting there waiting to be interviewed which is bad form.

In commercial radio, they don't do that crap. They don't have the budget to pay people to write massive bloated scriipted intros which in this case is just so much tedious CBC intellectual masturbation anyway.
Commercial radio just cut right to the interview with whoever is in front of them.

Plus CBC violated a promise they made to BBT and the band in that tedious bloated CBC intro not to delve into BBT's acting background and to focus everything on the band and the music.

Since CBC broke the promise and commitment they made I totally take BBT's position. He was clearly fuming over the whole epic intro thing and spontaneously decided to stonewall the douchebag CBC dude.

As for Canadians being offended about BBT suggesting a lot of Canadians were mashed potatoes without the gravy; well, stop being so sensitive and self important. Get over yourselves.

The guy is a creative artist and can have any opinion he wants. No need to fit him into a straight jacket and curb his creativity. I want to hear his artistic opinions and not some sanctimonious, offended, douchebag CBC asshole.
Again, the CBC started the whole thing by violating the promise and commitment they made to BBT and the band and deserved to get fucked over by BBT. Good for him for sticking it to them. The sensitive douchebags.
 
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Kilgore Trout said:
I think the video is hilarious. Everyone is supporting the CBC host; but, I support Billy Bob.

Compared to commercial radio, CBC is a massively bloated bureaucratic organization with massive numbers of producers bumping into each other all over the place.
One of them was tasked to write a long tedious intro for Billy Bob's band and they made the host read the whole long winded overly scripted epic in front of the band who were all sitting there waiting to be interviewed which is bad form.

In commercial radio, they don't do that crap. They don't have the budget to pay people to write massive bloated scriipted intros which in this case is just so much tedious CBC intellectual masturbation anyway.
Commercial radio just cut right to the interview with whoever is in front of them.

Plus CBC violated a promise they made to BBT and the band in that tedious bloated CBC intro not to delve into BBT's acting background and to focus everything on the band and the music.

Since CBC broke the promise and commitment they made I totally take BBT's position. He was clearly fuming over the whole epic intro thing and spontaneously decided to stonewall the douchebag CBC dude.

As for Canadians being offended about BBT suggesting a lot of Canadians were mashed potatoes without the gravy; well, stop being so sensitive and self important. Get over yourselves.

The guy is a creative artist and can have any opinion he wants. No need to fit him into a straight jacket and curb his creativity. I want to hear his artistic opinions and not some sanctimonious, offended, douchebag CBC asshole.
Again, the CBC started the whole thing by violating the promise and commitment they made to BBT and the band and deserved to get fucked over by BBT. Good for him for sticking it to them. The sensitive douchebags.
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Puh-lease.

We can watch the video for ourselves and make our own calls. Simple as that.

BBT behaved like an asshole. People are entitled to their opinions.

My guess would be he was in a sour mood for whatever reason (couldn't smoke where he wanted to (waaa, I'm a celebrity, I should never be told no), he was fucked up, he was hung over, whatever.

Over inflated ego and sense of self importance.

Oh, and get over yourself.
 
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Kilgore Trout said:
I think the video is hilarious. Everyone is supporting the CBC host; but, I support Billy Bob.

Compared to commercial radio, CBC is a massively bloated bureaucratic organization with massive numbers of producers bumping into each other all over the place.
One of them was tasked to write a long tedious intro for Billy Bob's band and they made the host read the whole long winded overly scripted epic in front of the band who were all sitting there waiting to be interviewed which is bad form.

In commercial radio, they don't do that crap. They don't have the budget to pay people to write massive bloated scriipted intros which in this case is just so much tedious CBC intellectual masturbation anyway.
Commercial radio just cut right to the interview with whoever is in front of them.

Plus CBC violated a promise they made to BBT and the band in that tedious bloated CBC intro not to delve into BBT's acting background and to focus everything on the band and the music.

Since CBC broke the promise and commitment they made I totally take BBT's position. He was clearly fuming over the whole epic intro thing and spontaneously decided to stonewall the douchebag CBC dude.

As for Canadians being offended about BBT suggesting a lot of Canadians were mashed potatoes without the gravy; well, stop being so sensitive and self important. Get over yourselves.

The guy is a creative artist and can have any opinion he wants. No need to fit him into a straight jacket and curb his creativity. I want to hear his artistic opinions and not some sanctimonious, offended, douchebag CBC asshole.
Again, the CBC started the whole thing by violating the promise and commitment they made to BBT and the band and deserved to get fucked over by BBT. Good for him for sticking it to them. The sensitive douchebags.
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You're in the tiny minority that sees it that way
 
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james t kirk said:
Puh-lease.

We can watch the video for ourselves and make our own calls. Simple as that.

BBT behaved like an asshole. People are entitled to their opinions.

My guess would be he was in a sour mood for whatever reason (couldn't smoke where he wanted to (waaa, I'm a celebrity, I should never be told no), he was fucked up, he was hung over, whatever.

Over inflated ego and sense of self importance.

Oh, and get over yourself.
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Typical, offended, sensitive, sanctimonious Canadian response.
And please get over yourself too dude, because it's all just so much of a preachy, generic, boring, CBC position.
You've been assimilated and absorbed into the Borg collective mindset and don't know it.

Canadians worship at the altar of the CBC too much. The place is a stiffling, smothering, suffocating institution that kills creativity and demands mindless adherence to "CBC mindset" .

As an artist I'm sure Billy Bob sensed the oppressive environment right away and had a natural artistic response to it.
So in addition to being lied to and getting fucked over by CBC producers, he had a natural response to the bland, flat, generic, soul destroying bureaucratic atmosphere in the dump.
So my position is: You go Billy. You're a great artist and fuck the sensitive, sanctimonious, preachy douchebags.
 
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Change CBC to BBT, and Candian to Kilgore on everything here...

Kilgore Trout said:
Typical, offended, sensitive, sanctimonious Canadian response.
And please get over yourself too dude, because it's all just so much of a preachy, generic, boring, CBC position.
You've been assimilated and absorbed into the Borg collective mindset and don't know it.

Canadians worship at the altar of the CBC too much. The place is a stiffling, smothering, suffocating institution that kills creativity and demands mindless adherence to "CBC mindset" .

As an artist I'm sure Billy Bob sensed the oppressive environment right away and had a natural artistic response to it.
So in addition to being lied to and getting fucked over by CBC producers, he had a natural response to the bland, flat, generic, soul destroying bureaucratic atmosphere in the dump.
So my position is: You go Billy. You're a great artist and fuck the sensitive, sanctimonious, preachy douchebags.
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Fuck BBT and his "artistic" response. You could tell from the get go that he did not want to be there...too stoned/drunk/hungover to even make coherent responses to questions.If he believed the interviewer was not living up to a pre arranged agreement, a curt "that was agreed to not be discussed" would have sufficed...instead he talks typical boring, self important,but nearly nonsensical bullshit... He is trying to use his celebrity to promote his skills as a musician/songwriter...which from most accounts... are rudimentary at best. This guys has fancied himself as a self important asshole for decades.....and looks like Willie figured it out too....doesn't want to carry his sorry ass abilities on his tour...Again...a hearty FUCK YOU and CHOKE ON IT ASSHOLE to BBT


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Billy Bob Thornton acted like an ass in the interview - other than the poster above, I think we can all agree with that. In fact, he seemed more stoned than nasty.

But let's be honest here, Jian Ghomeshi is a talentless, only-in-Canada-on-the-CBC hack. A terrible musician, a piss-poor writer and a clown masquerading as a TV/radio host. Scary thing is, he's even more annoying and self-important in person as he is in his other endeavours.
Just look at how poorly he handled the interview ... he wouldn't have a job anywhere else in the world if not for the "corpse."

Just like the Boxmasters wouldn't be talked about without Billy Bob Thornton's involvement and cinematic background.
 
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