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Let there be Truckers

Abstract:
"Excuse me."

"Sorry?"

"Excuse me," said the slightly balding middle-aged man with a look of distress on his face. "Do you work here? Can you help me?"

Though I've never worked at the 40 Watt in my life, my curiosity got the best of me. I asked him what I could do for him....

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dude

posted 1/22/09 @ 5:57 PM EST

fucking great
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progress_Please

posted 1/22/09 @ 7:22 PM EST

Just what this town doesn't need: more hillbilly ignorant redneck bands. Damn rednecks.
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Truckers fan

posted 1/23/09 @ 10:16 AM EST

Originally posted by

progress_Please

 Just what this town doesn't need: more hillbilly ignorant redneck bands. Damn rednecks.


After reading this excellent piece, that's the best you can come up with? Ignorant redneck bands? Please leave Athens forever.
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DBT

posted 1/23/09 @ 11:58 AM EST

Originally posted by

progress_Please

 Just what this town doesn't need: more hillbilly ignorant redneck bands. Damn rednecks.


Just what this university needs: another smart ass, condescending know-it-all who believes his opinion to be fact.
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Darren Fischer

posted 1/28/09 @ 3:58 PM EST

Originally posted by

progress_Please

 Just what this town doesn't need: more hillbilly ignorant redneck bands. Damn rednecks.


I can't believe somebody would be so stupid as to make such a completely idiotic statement - you either have not listened to what this band are saying, or you are a moron who doesn't get it. This band is far from a bunch of rednecks.
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Sharon

posted 1/23/09 @ 12:08 PM EST

I had heard this band was supposed to be the up and coming next great band from Athens. So a friend got me in to the show for free. Progress_please is right on target: WTF? Loud, redneck...I don't know..."Southern" rock? GAG! Reminds me of the local bands kids formed when I was in high school - phucking rednecks with guitars screaming about how "the South gonna rise agin'...hell yeah...yee haw, etc." I felt like I was at Senior Day and it was the local yokels moment to shine and make noise. The crowd was equally rednecks and ignorants...equal parts loud, stupid and obnoxious. I think the entire audience came over after watching that WWF, RAW professional wrestling sh!t. We left after 20-30 minutes. Did they play Freebird at the end? LOL
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D.C.

posted 1/23/09 @ 1:57 PM EST

Wow -- how sad to see university students who haven't yet learned that you have to do the research before you can formulate a coherent argument. It's obvious you know absolutely nothing about this incredible band -- they're actually the opposite of the sort of "south will rise again" rednecks to which you refer. Go to their website, read their lyrics ("Wallace" is one song in particular that might surprise you). Don't let their authentic southern accents fool you into making unintelligent assumptions.

Are there sometimes ignorant, obnoxious people in their audiences? Sure. You were there, weren't you?

Originally posted by

Sharon

 I had heard this band was supposed to be the up and coming next great band from Athens. So a friend got me in to the show for free. Progress_please is right on target: WTF? Loud, redneck...I don't know..."Southern" rock? GAG! Reminds me of the local bands kids formed when I was in high school - phucking rednecks with guitars screaming about how "the South gonna rise agin'...hell yeah...yee haw, etc." I felt like I was at Senior Day and it was the local yokels moment to shine and make noise. The crowd was equally rednecks and ignorants...equal parts loud, stupid and obnoxious. I think the entire audience came over after watching that WWF, RAW professional wrestling sh!t. We left after 20-30 minutes. Did they play Freebird at the end? LOL
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Sharon

posted 1/23/09 @ 2:34 PM EST

Originally posted by

Sharon

 I had heard this band was supposed to be the up and coming next great band from Athens. So a friend got me in to the show for free. Progress_please is right on target: WTF? Loud, redneck...I don't know..."Southern" rock? GAG! Reminds me of the local bands kids formed when I was in high school - phucking rednecks with guitars screaming about how "the South gonna rise agin'...hell yeah...yee haw, etc." I felt like I was at Senior Day and it was the local yokels moment to shine and make noise. The crowd was equally rednecks and ignorants...equal parts loud, stupid and obnoxious. I think the entire audience came over after watching that WWF, RAW professional wrestling sh!t. We left after 20-30 minutes. Did they play Freebird at the end? LOL


Hi my name is Sharon, Im a stuck up B*tch who likes to stereotype and make broad generalizations about people after 20 minutes.
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hanksays

posted 1/23/09 @ 11:45 PM EST

Originally posted by

Sharon

 I had heard this band was supposed to be the up and coming next great band from Athens. So a friend got me in to the show for free. Progress_please is right on target: WTF? Loud, redneck...I don't know..."Southern" rock? GAG! Reminds me of the local bands kids formed when I was in high school - phucking rednecks with guitars screaming about how "the South gonna rise agin'...hell yeah...yee haw, etc." I felt like I was at Senior Day and it was the local yokels moment to shine and make noise. The crowd was equally rednecks and ignorants...equal parts loud, stupid and obnoxious. I think the entire audience came over after watching that WWF, RAW professional wrestling sh!t. We left after 20-30 minutes. Did they play Freebird at the end? LOL


HANKSAYS:
You're the only one that you are fooling when you put down what you don't understand.
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bob

posted 1/23/09 @ 2:17 PM EST

Great read, was a hell of a 3 night stand. Props to the whigs and centro-matic as well!!

And to Sharon below me, go back to hot topic and keep on listening to what pitchfork.com tells you to just like the other hipsters.

Let there be rock
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NoRedneckAthens

posted 1/24/09 @ 11:53 AM EST

Looks like the whole trailer park turned out for these redneck retards. Get drunk, smoke meth, leave trailer park in old Ford Crown Victoria, go downtown, drink more, be obnoxious, go to 70's rehash Southern rock, smoke meth in bathroom, drink more, tear up club, vomit on street, scrape cars on way home. Good time. Not.
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apparently a redneck

posted 1/25/09 @ 10:24 PM EST

Originally posted by

NoRedneckAthens

 Looks like the whole trailer park turned out for these redneck retards. Get drunk, smoke meth, leave trailer park in old Ford Crown Victoria, go downtown, drink more, be obnoxious, go to 70's rehash Southern rock, smoke meth in bathroom, drink more, tear up club, vomit on street, scrape cars on way home. Good time. Not.


San Francisco called, they want you back.
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anonymous

posted 1/26/09 @ 12:37 AM EST

They're from San Francisco? LOL! They aren't even authentic rednecks! Wonder how many of those drunk ass retards know their honkytonky hicks are from San Fran?
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Sam

posted 1/26/09 @ 2:09 AM EST

Originally posted by

NoRedneckAthens

 Looks like the whole trailer park turned out for these redneck retards. Get drunk, smoke meth, leave trailer park in old Ford Crown Victoria, go downtown, drink more, be obnoxious, go to 70's rehash Southern rock, smoke meth in bathroom, drink more, tear up club, vomit on street, scrape cars on way home. Good time. Not.


San Francisco is not Huntsville, Alabama, dumbass.

Spin, Pitchfork, Blender, and a multitude of other music outlets have called this band nothing short of brilliant. None of these outlets are southern-based.

Redneck southern band? Really? "Southern Rock Opera" is the story of Lynyrd Skynyrd in comparison to the economic fall of the south. Show me a redneck country band who can write two hours worth of music based on that.

These guys write storytelling music that can be compared to the mythic, southern eeriness of Flannery O'Connor. Three guitars isn't simplicity.

Get to know this band and their material for passing judgements and making yourself look like an idiot.
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yo

posted 1/26/09 @ 11:09 AM EST

Originally posted by

NoRedneckAthens

 Looks like the whole trailer park turned out for these redneck retards. Get drunk, smoke meth, leave trailer park in old Ford Crown Victoria, go downtown, drink more, be obnoxious, go to 70's rehash Southern rock, smoke meth in bathroom, drink more, tear up club, vomit on street, scrape cars on way home. Good time. Not.


Wow, the fact that you came to the assumption that the band is from San Fran based on that comment shows your complete lack of reading comprehension and proves you are in fact an idiot.

Anywa, DBT has always been too liberal for the redneck crowd (Patterson praised obama between songs last weekend) and too redneck for the hipster crowd. The results are a group of fans low in douchbags and high in easy going, good people who can appreciate great music without being told to by the media like most sheep.
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You too

posted 1/26/09 @ 10:23 AM EST

It's quite ironic that this troll who makes broad sweeping, generalizations about a entire fanbase founded upon 20 minutes of alleged exposure to DBT is blatantly guilty of the exact same kind of closeminded prejudice that would be expected of racists and klansmen. What a miserable soul you must be to live in Athens,Ga and hate "rednecks and hillbillies" and southern heritage. Why not move to Boston or NY, there certainly aren't any trashy people up there.
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Sharon

posted 1/26/09 @ 12:23 PM EST

I'm only in Athens for UGA. Trust me, when I graduate I will be leaving this hick town!
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asdf

posted 1/26/09 @ 12:55 PM EST

Hick town? wow what a smug little thing we are. I am sure there are many fine institutions up north you could transfer to where you don't have to put up with us hicks.
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Cotter

posted 1/29/09 @ 2:47 PM EST

Good lord,

Sharon and you other jacknuts: Do us all a favor and stop making comments, you are removing all doubt that you don't know wtf you are talking about.

Oh, and just for the record, PLEASE DO NOT COME NORTH!! We don't want your attitude up here either.

Perhaps France would be a good option.

And Sharon, if you were only there 20 minutes, and based on the stupidness of your posts, I'm not even sure it was DBT you were watching.

Have a nice day.
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Same schmuck, different name

posted 1/30/09 @ 8:37 AM EST

Originally posted by

Cotter

 Good lord,

Sharon and you other jacknuts: Do us all a favor and stop making comments, you are removing all doubt that you don't know wtf you are talking about.

Oh, and just for the record, PLEASE DO NOT COME NORTH!! We don't want your attitude up here either.

Perhaps France would be a good option.

And Sharon, if you were only there 20 minutes, and based on the stupidness of your posts, I'm not even sure it was DBT you were watching.

Have a nice day.


ONE ignorant schmuck made all of those comments under several different names.
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MP

posted 1/29/09 @ 11:41 PM EST

My favorite band can kick your favorite band's @$$!
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Russ

posted 1/30/09 @ 7:00 AM EST

This is definitely not a redneck band. Yes, they are loud and in your face, but you went to a rock show, not a night out with John Mayer. What more would you expect. I am jealous of everyone that got to be there, and jealous that a Snob like Sharon got to go for free nonetheless.
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uga-vet

posted 1/30/09 @ 10:28 AM EST

Please. No more Southern Rock. Please?! The seventies called. They want their band back.
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Flashing Truckers

posted 3/31/09 @ 12:42 PM EST

Weird name for a brand, should be flashing truckers
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