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I remember hearing a story about how Neil Young wanted to release the Harvest album with biodegradable jackets that would start to disintegrate after the shrink wrap was removed. The lesson may be; don’t try to cross-pollinate your marketing gimmick with your doors of perception.

I thought about that when I read this quote from Asher Roth, author of the underachiever anthem “I Love College”, about his new album release…(from Black Book Mag)

It drops on 4/20 and the first 5,000 CDs—hopefully, because they might cut it back to 1,000—will be wrapped in clear, plastic joint paper, so that you can actually smoke the CD, which is dope.

Clear plastic joint paper?

Just why do they call it dope anyway?

Spark it up Sparky.

I’ve been able to steer pretty clear of the Rod Blagojevich train wreck but now he’s making it impossible.

“Taken out of context…”

“Impeachment process is unconstitutional…”

“The fix is in…”

His lawyer quit and now he’s going on the freak show, media tour circuit. Kicking it off by talking to Diane Sawyer. Wants to call Rahm Emmanuel as a witness. And, he even pulls the Oprah Winfrey card. He considered “O” for the infamous Senate seat.

“She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way to become president, she had a much broader bully pulpit than a lot of senators.”

“she probably wouldn’t take it,”

“If I offered it to her how do you make sure it doesn’t look like a gimmick.”

Pretty rich, huh? The idea that this guy is weighing the gimmick factor.

Remember Taser Guy? “Don’t tase me bro!” Yeah, you remember that guy.

Trivia question: Who was the speaker at the function when the infamous Taser Guy made his entrance into the collective consciousness of the great unwashed?

You remember The Clash don’t you? Angry young men, rebels with causes, thinking man’s punk band? Yeah, you remember those heady, sweaty days.

Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
Love n hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
The hands that slap his kids around cause they dont understand

How death or glory becomes just another story
How death or glory becomes just another story
“N” every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mike to tell us hell die before hes sold
But I believe in this-and its been tested by research
That he who fucks nun will later join the church

“Death Or Glory” (Strummer/Jones)

Now, former member of The Clash, Mick Jones has further immortalized Taser Guy.
From Rueters.

One of last year’s most infamous Internet sensations, the “Don’t tase me, bro!” arrest of an excitable college student, is getting a new lease of life from former Clash rocker Mick Jones.

“It’s gonna go like this, dun-dun-dun … Aaaargh!” Jones said backstage at the inaugural NME Awards in Los Angeles, after he received a special honor for his inspirational work and then played two songs with Carbon/Silicon.

Carbon/Silicon is Mick’s new band.

Jones, along with millions of people around the world, was entranced by footage showing the subjugation of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer during an appearance by U.S. Sen. John Kerry last September…

“It was disgusting,” Jones said of the police reaction.

The long arm of the law and civil disobedience inspired such Clash tunes as “Police & Thieves” and “White Riot.” But in Meyer’s case, the band’s cover of “I Fought the Law” might be more appropriate.

I thought Taser Guy was pretty damn silly myself. Yeah the cops overreacted but, c’mon-”civil disobedience”!!?? To me, Taser Guy was just another cheap hood trying to strike a bargain with the world. Just one more gimmick hungry yob.

Extra credix trivia: What artist/band/songwriter wrote a song that mentioned the infamous Soy Bomb Guy?