Eagles of Death Metal- Death By Sexxxy

credit to the band for being clear, sincere, and saying exactly what they should say about this tragedy (as far as i can tell so far).

forgive me, but imagine the kind of shit the korn lead singer would say "why did this happen to our band, on our night?"

Shared by Mike Patton on FB:

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12096351_10153764435196103_4070977051648135709_n.jpg?oh=118c8145dcbef1dcf9415200ae8106e8&oe=56B00934

eagles of death metal

I don't know why I find this particularly chilling, but I do:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/eagles-of-death-metal/2015/le-bataclan-paris-france-53f50f9d.html

Kiss the Devil

(cut by terrorists attacks and shootings)

fuck.

Would that had to have been uploaded by someone who attended the concert?

Via tcote, a report from Les Inrockuptibles that their writer Guillaume B. Decherf, who had reviewed the EoDM album for them a couple of weeks ago, was one of the victims.

http://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/11/14/actualite/guillaume-b-decherf-a-ete-tue-hier-au-bataclan-11787998/

There are reports their merch guy was one of the victims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34821001

heart. broken.

Oh man, how sad
There's something about this happening at this particular band's show, like just the sheer arbitrary horror of life, like a band that doesn't even really take itself particularly seriously is more forever tied to an event that I fear will have profound consequences

Christ - I can't bring myself to read much more of this stuff. just horrifying. I'm hoping any video that did get uploaded gets taken down - out of respect.

lots of people showing their ass out there too - not that I'm shocked that everyone can't just mutually agree this is a horrible tragedy and offer their condolences like a normal human being (outside of this board, naturally)

There's something about this happening at this particular band's show, like just the sheer arbitrary horror of life, like a band that doesn't even really take itself particularly seriously is more forever tied to an event that I fear will have profound consequences

There's something particularly heartbreaking about that setlist, how you can be watching a not-even-particularly-prominent and basically non-political rock band who you would never in themselves consider to be a target, and they're playing some dumb Duran Duran cover, and maybe you recognise it and laugh along, or maybe it actually sounds pretty cool, and then five minutes later. Fuck.

Merch guy who died, Nick Alexander, was a uni buddy of some friends of ours.

The band has released a statement:

http://bit.ly/1OfgZqo

That is the perfect statment. I love & admire these guys so much.

Yeah, a good statement. I'm apprehensive though about what Jesse will have to say if he ever really opens up about this in an interview.

^I don't want to give the impression that I have anything but love for the dude and sympathy for him through this horrific nightmare. But he has had some opinions, for sure.

hyped for the first "this was a horrific tragedy but let's not lose sight of how problematic this band are" blog post, can't be long now

first weblink on this thread about the terrorist attacks has someone in a headdress ...

to the blogmachine

hyped for the first "this was a horrific tragedy but let's not lose sight of how problematic this band are" blog post, can't be long now

― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, November 18, 2015 1:33 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, perhaps one day EODM will make a musical statement as finely crafted as their twitter statement

There's some really sick shit going around about how this was "payback" for them playing in Tel Aviv...

They and their fans were just (hugely, tragically) unfortunate enough to have been at the Bataclan on the same night as the France-Germany match, which surely was the decider timing-wise. I doubt ISIS had much of an opinion on the Eagles of Death Metal per se.

Make sure to read the comments, in which conservative Christian nutbag Rod Dreher explains that while the Eagles of Death Metal's song "Kiss the Devil" may well have inspired the terrorists to attack, the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" is A-OK, 'cause it's based on litrachoor (plus, the Stones are awesome).

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2015/11/18/eagles-of-death-metal-unlikely-to-rise-again-rayner.html

"If they choose to work again, they’ll look irredeemably insensitive if they simply carry on as usual"

That's a lot of speculative bullshit.

I sure as hell hope Jesse will return to music. This year had been such a triumphant rewritten
for them after what seems like a lot of hatdship. I can't even imagine the psychological ramifications of bring a part of all that. Like, just dealing with the pain and grieving. Fuck. But I hope they find it in them to play again someday.

"Every human being on the planet within reach of the news now knows the band’s name"

Losing a member of your crew to senseless violence for no reason other than that he happened to be selling t-shirts in the wrong place at the wrong time is one thing; witnessing 89 of your fans randomly mowed down by thoughtless madmen in front of you while playing what would have been just another gig on your European tour itinerary is quite another.

I'm not sure how much they "witnessed" - the reports I read suggested they escaped through the back of the building almost as soon as the heard the gunshots, and even before then they weren't able to actually see much because of the stage lights. Although even if they saw nothing it's still an almost incomphehensibly trumatic event.

Worst ever music article thread is thataway ----->.

I doubt ISIS had much of an opinion on the Eagles of Death Metal per se.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 1:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wonder what i would have thought if i'd read this sentence one year ago

I didn't find the article that terrible; likely the editor demanded it. Did a double-take at "being laden"... don't know Rayner's work well enough to know how closely he writes.

If I had to put money on it: they'll stop touring on their own for a while but get support on the festival circuit.

A simple thinkpiece on how awful and difficult it must be for the band, but as soon as you bring in "and of course they can never play again and shame on them if you do" takes it straight through "thanks, desk jockey, how do you know so much about performing?" territory into the land of solipsistic my fear = your morality bullshit..

yeah, i read the article on the guardian website a while after it was posted.

thread BTL was full of deleted comments and closed within a very short space of time !

the thread on the bands facebook page had comments from people who were amongst the chaos, and makes for heavy reading.

http://www.vice.com/read/coming-soon-the-eagles-of-death-metal-speak-out-for-the-first-time-since-the-paris-attacks

Jesus Christ. people getting found hiding in the dressing room and slaughtered.

we played Brussels night before last under a level 3 terror threat and as we were leaving town they upped it to 4. During our show, there were one or two soldiers with machine guns strolling through the building, but when we came back in the morning to get our gear, the whole place had been handed over to soldiers: they were the ones who let us in to get our stuff. the venue then cancelled the next week of shows. there were soldiers on every corner on the way out of town.

Jesus.

Their Vice interview is now live in full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74HBrrFnIc

no words

Not much to say, but it is well worth watching. And very, very hard to watch.

Yeah, definitely - very difficult. Made me realize it must be so hard for anyone there to speak publicly about it given the shock and trauma they might be experiencing.

exactly.
i started watching this at work today, and had to call it quits as i work in an open plan office and within a few minutes i was in bits.
not sure i could face a camera crew/interviewer this soon had i experienced such a situation.
jesse looks totally fucked up, and appears to be struggling with the emotional fallout.
hope they get to fulfil their wish re being the first band to play at the bataclan if/when it reopens.

that was so hard to watch, and so moving

jesus

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/07/458847408/eagles-of-death-metal-returns-to-paris-for-concert-appearance?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

Yeah, a good statement. I'm apprehensive though about what Jesse will have to say if he ever really opens up about this in an interview.

― how's life, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:29 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/bataclan_responds_to_jesse_hughes_accusations_that_security_was_in_on_paris_attacks

ugh.

The article has been updated to include his apologies by the way

i don't blame him... makes sense given his experience & headspace rn...

this guy keeps making himself less and less sympathetic

nah c'mon now, I don't share the man's politics, but if some hundreds of people came out to see me play a show, and 80 odd of them were gunned down by maniacs AT THE SHOW? MID SET? i can't even imagine reacting to that. certainly would never pick up a guitar again, and this guy came back to town to finish the show weeks later. if anybody gets a pass to say wild shit on fox news it is this guy

okay, but don't bands usually have publicists or minders who could tell him to not say that kind of wild shit for a while?

Also, since I was wondering:

Although the hospital’s response does not indicate this, Hughes says Cross also tested positive for COVID, and he was told that hospital visits from family and friends were not permitted because of the risk of spreading the virus.

On the afternoon of Jan. 23, Hughes says he and Cross had cuddled on the couch in their bungalow-style home in LA’s Atwater Village as she puffed a few times on the inhaler she used to treat her asthma. She was exhausted from graffiti tagging the past few nights, and the spray-paint vapor had given her a slight cough.

Cross was “in full cardiac arrest” when ER doctors got to her and that Hughes “reported the patient had recently been smoking crack or meth.” Hughes claims that he didn’t know if she was on drugs but wanted to be safe.

in June 2021, Cross signed a document giving him power of attorney over her health care after a similar incident landed her in Glendale Memorial.

Add all that to COVID diagnosis (and assuming that she is/was as anti-vax as Jessie), this seems like a tragic, but probably avoidable outcome. I just feel bad for any of her friends and loved ones who are trying to navigate this while simultaneously having to deal with Jesse Hughes - The Human Drama Bomb.