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Title: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Louis Lame on April 08, 2009, 04:19:53 PM
Q is a show on CBC radio hosted by this jerk Jian Ghomeshi, this guy is a class A hack. He played in sort of a "proto Barenaked Ladies ish band" called Moxy Fruvos, absolute garbage. Anyways, today he had Billy Bob Thorton's band The Boxmasters on and took a lickin'. This is maybe the first time I've ever felt anything resembling sympathy for the dude. This kind of thing is always happening, you give a guy like this a guitar and he starts saying things like "I grew up pretty much a music historian... so." Plus anyone that plays a "fusion" of some billy genre with MOD totally stinks.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw[/youtube]


The uncut interview is here:

http://www.cbc.ca/q/
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Bryan on April 08, 2009, 04:25:14 PM
Oh, Jian's all right. This interview really is quite shocking.

"Would you ask Tom Petty that?"
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: cutout on April 08, 2009, 04:46:43 PM
When women angrily yank off each other's weaves/wigs on Jerry Springer, I always think it's gratuitious. In the case of Billy Bob in this interview, I think it would have been totally acceptable retribution.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Matt on April 08, 2009, 06:24:55 PM
To be fair, he had been told that Kris Kristofferson would be conducting the interview. He was thrown off his game.

I have so many thoughts about this I don't know where to begin. I'll just say that 9:09-9:12 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Those poor bastards. 
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Jason on April 08, 2009, 06:33:36 PM
I made it to 25 seconds.
I was overcome with nausea and an intense compulsion to smash that guy in the face with a frying pan.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Martin on April 08, 2009, 06:46:14 PM
I didn't even press play.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: J. Garbage on April 08, 2009, 06:51:47 PM
Jason's nausea is real.  I felt it too.

The important thing is, everyone's having a lot of fun his band members look like kids at the dinner table when dad's about to break out the belt on mom.

The D.J. should've asked "So what was it like coming up in Jacksonville, Florida?"

or "Tell us more about your friendship with Dave Stewart.  How has that informed you, musically?"
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: KickTheBobo on April 08, 2009, 06:55:10 PM
he's faking it, and it's hilarious.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Regular Joe on April 08, 2009, 07:58:03 PM
he's faking it, and it's hilarious.

It does seem fake, I agree! I don't know about the hilarious part though. Why would you go to Canada and call them mashed potatos without gravy? How rude. I thought fake soul-patch cowboys were supposed to be charming.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: buffcoat on April 08, 2009, 08:16:28 PM
I would have stopped the interview and started asking the most exploitative questions about Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston I could think of.  If he'd gotten up to leave or to fight me, I would've pulled out a gun and said, "SIT DOWN AND ANSWER MY QUESTIONS, MOTHAFUCKA!"

I bet Billy Bob wouldn't be expecting that response, especially from a Canadian.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Sploops on April 08, 2009, 09:04:35 PM
It's called viral marketing.  Y'all just been Billy Bob'd!
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Louis Lame on April 08, 2009, 09:16:25 PM
That would conveniently explain this undeniable urge to drape myself in Boxmasters merch.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: jbissell on April 09, 2009, 02:18:59 AM
he's faking it, and it's hilarious.

Seems like he's been studying Joaquin.

Plus, now everyone knows the name of his band.  Smart guy.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Pat K on April 09, 2009, 09:58:28 AM
he's faking it, and it's hilarious.

I agree that it feels fake, but I think that's more just because he's a huge phony.

Q is a show on CBC radio hosted by this jerk Jian Ghomeshi, this guy is a class A hack. He played in sort of a "proto Barenaked Ladies ish band" called Moxy Fruvos, absolute garbage.

Oooh, I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that about my favorite band when I was 10.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Bryan on April 09, 2009, 10:20:59 AM
he's faking it, and it's hilarious.

In a situation like this, what's the difference between pretending to be a huge asshole and really being a huge asshole?
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: J. Garbage on April 09, 2009, 01:15:13 PM
he's faking it, and it's hilarious.

In a situation like this, what's the difference between pretending to be a huge asshole and really being a huge asshole?

Exactly.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Phantom Hugger on April 09, 2009, 01:39:39 PM
I would have stopped the interview and started asking the most exploitative questions about Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston I could think of.  If he'd gotten up to leave or to fight me, I would've pulled out a gun and said, "SIT DOWN AND ANSWER MY QUESTIONS, MOTHAFUCKA!"

I bet Billy Bob wouldn't be expecting that response, especially from a Canadian.

I thought he should have just kept feeding Billybob 'Music Historian' Thorton classic monster model kit questions and never mention the Boxmasters name again.
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: cutout on April 12, 2009, 09:49:06 PM
Hooray for Toronto -

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/11/billy.bob.thornton/index.html

Quote
The trio was the opening act for Nelson until they were loudly booed in Toronto, a day after the actor-musician's bizarre interview with a CBC radio host. Ironically, the comments that offended Canadians included Thornton's assessment that they were "very reserved" and "it doesn't matter what you say to them."

"It's mashed potatoes with no gravy," Thornton told CBC host Jian Ghomeshi.

"We tend to play places where people throw things at each other and here they just sort of sit there," he said.

The audience at Thursday night's show in Toronto loudly booed the Boxmasters, with some shouts of "Here comes the gravy!"
Title: Re: Modbilly? Billy Bob Thorton on CBC
Post by: Matthew_S on April 23, 2009, 09:57:05 AM
It goes on and on....

http://www.najp.org/articles/2009/04/billy-bob-tv---do-celeb-interv.html