Re: ken downie of the black dog -- homophobic rant?

From David Crotty
Sent Tue, May 22nd 2018, 17:00

It was me that posted the message about wanting the new albums - I don't know the guy that responded that well, only from music via FB so can't vouch for the likelihood of authenticity unfortunately. 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Clint Anderson" <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
To: "Chris Bellevie" <x.xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
Cc: "Ed Tyler" <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, "IDM" <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May, 2018 17:57:51
Subject: Re: ken downie of the black dog -- homophobic rant?

Once again I'm kicking myself for not screenshotting it, someone had posted
a message about getting the two new black dog albums today in World's
Greatest Electronic Music Albums group iirc
and on it a guy was saying "oh gee, i don't know, ken downie recently went
off on a huge rant on facebook about homosexual men being pedophiles and a
bunch of his pals jumped on the band wagon"
now of course that FB post is deleted, there's nothing on the Black Dog
group, and i'm not a facebook friend with Ken Downie
i just sort of freaked out when i saw that because maybe i'm a little too
personally invested in the black dog and it would really break my heart so,
i just wanted to hear right away that it's all bullshit


Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
"Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings


On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Chris Bellevie <x.xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
wrote:

> Where did you hear this?
>
> And to unintentionally sidetrack this, I'm curious, have the band ever
> commented on the level of input each has member has? Do they all work
> jointly, or is it more in the vein of BD of days gone by where individual's
> tracks were included?
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>> if someone is trying to spread untrue rumors about ken to tank their
>> album sales or something that's just messed up
>>
>>
>> Clint Anderson
>> Systems Engineer
>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> i dunno i can't believe it
>>> would be totally counter to everything he's said in the past
>>>
>>>
>>> Clint Anderson
>>> Systems Engineer
>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Chris Bellevie <x.xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Say it ain't so!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Ed Tyler <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No, but if true this will literally break my heart :(
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17:31, Tue, 22 May 2018 Clint Anderson, <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> i apparently missed this but there's a rumour going about that mr ken
>>>>>> downie of the black dog fame recently went on a homophobic rant equating
>>>>>> homosexuals to pedophiles, anyone have any more information on this?
>>>>>> if true i feel like this needs to get discussed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clint Anderson
>>>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>>>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>