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Lamb Of God Doing Their Bit For Democracy

posted Oct 22, 2004 at 11:40 AM by blacksun.  (6 Comments)

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Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler has told Vancouver's Straight.com that he and his bandmates have been paying close attention to the presidential debates of the past few weeks. What they've seen isn't going to change their votes, though, mostly because they've already done their bit for democracy. Adler, singer Randy Blythe, guitarists Willie Adler and Mark Morton, and bassist John Campbell, all filled out absentee ballots before they left their home state of Virginia for their current North American tour. Asked who they supported, the articulate and thoughtful Chris politely takes the Fifth.

"That's an interesting question to ask, and I'm not necessarily going to answer it," said the timekeeper, on the line from a Whistler, Massachusetts tour stop. "I'm only opposed to telling you because recently we've been getting a lot of politically themed questions. I guess that's to be expected, because that's what we write about. But our lyrics don't tell people to vote for George Bush, or John Kerry, or Ralph Nader — we're saying to people, 'Think for yourself.' And I'd rather that people do that when they go to the polls."

Read the full article at Straight.com.

Source: Blabbermouth

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6 Comments on "Lamb Of God Doing Their Bit For Democracy"

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1. vehementa writes:

respect, man respect. zall i'm sayin...stay hard!

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2. Plan2Damage writes:

cool...its always good to see GOOD musicians voting...

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3. Rue writes:

Ive seen more and more musicians in these past few years incorporate political events or problems throughout the world into their lyrics. I think its something of an added bonus to see bands like Lamb of God say something about what they think (the things that drove them to write Ashes of the Wake) and encourage people to think, or vote....but thats because I agree with what they say. Not everybody is going to...I hope that politics will not take over the band or change what kind of music they make....Anyways, its always good to have politcally aware musicians out there.

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4. darkstar writes:

I just wanted to add that the entire article is available at http://straight.com/content.cfm?id=5770.

# Oct 22, 2004 @ 8:05 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. Spanky writes:

Funny, Randy always wears the anti-bush t-shirt, and in an interview with metalinjection.net, he tells people to get bush the f@#k out of office, but to think for themselves..............

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6. wanky writes:

funny, there's no such interview

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