The Awl has introduced us to a fine musical talent today: Winterband, a group of Pentecostals who specialize in freak-folk and classic rock songs, about morality. This one, “Obama Muslim 9/11,” is just an acoustic; do you know what it’s about? “He says he’s a Christian/ a good faithful Christian/ but he sounds like a Muslim to me.” SING IT! After the jump, an instrumental track you’ve all been waiting for… the “McCain Boogie”!!!!
That is some FILTHY SHREDDING; give it up to the ancient forest wingnuts!
[The Awl]
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It’s like ZZ Top’s musical uncles raided the remainder bin at the Color Me Badd estate sale.
Is that camo carpet?
Wow, just wow.
OK Newell. The only way I’ll watch either of these is if you promise me that around 2:40, no later, they’re all nekked.
Grampa Pink Pants is gonna need longer arms, and soon.
Looks like ZZ Top really went to shit…
OH MY GOD SO MUCH SHREDDING. It’s like Dimebag never died, he just became an Old. And got a lobotomy. And decided to suck.
[re=550494]norbizness[/re]: Damn, Beat me to it…
[re=550500]Katydid[/re]: Plus an elderly man that close to giving birth should not be on his feet for so long.
Um, not sure I’d be going around suggesting that somebody else was a radical furriner freak if I looked like THAT.
I’m glad to see he decided to rock the wah wah pedal!
[re=550501]upstateNY[/re]: my thoughts exactly.. oh god, another Wonkette video I simply cannot watch or listen to for more than 10 seconds
…
Why are they trying to dress like Gandalf, except with pulled-up tube socks without pants or shoes?
They’re right, Osama Bin Barrack Hussein does not love their country of Dumbfucktardistan.
This is what happens when you fall down the wrong rabbit hole at a Dead concert…
The review from the Wonkette office chat-room:
Ken L.
oh man …
Ken L.
it’s pretty awesome!
Ken L.
hippie on grandma’s wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmTxOxcdKco
Ken L.
reminds me of … oh man, some kind of weird sci-fi late ’60s blues
Ken L.
kind of taj mahal on “rock ‘n roll circus” mixed with spirit in the sky & who knows what else
Apr 7
1:40 PM
Jim N.
these guys are going to nuke washington
Ken L.
no man they are too busy SHREDDING
Ken L.
“that hippie on a stick ain’t him”
Ken L.
so good
Jim N.
hahahaha
Jim N.
I will now listen to the mccain boogie
Jim N.
maybe I will just post one of these.
… and then I ended up watching this awesome thin lizzy/the hold steady video from ’73 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIdQFuLbh8k
“Smells like a Muslim to me…”
What exactly does a Muslim smell like? Since *they* don’t eat pork, I know for sure it’s not hot dog farts, which is exactly what these fools smell like.
Remember when Sweatpants McTuckyboots and his Whistle Stop Orchestra played their Mccain Boogie for Mccain, who unfortunately was fatally injured attempting to boogie to their song and Sarah Palin emerged from his husk like a chick from an egg and the Tea Party movement was revealed to be the most surreal and successful piece of performance art in the history of the form, and all of the tea partiers got bored by the irony and went back to their fixies and coffee shop jobs?
These guys related to Edgar and Johnny Winter?
A clean shirt, new shoes
And I don’t know where Americuh goin’ to
Silk suit, black man (black man),
I don’t need a reason why.
They come runnin’ just as fast as they can
‘Cause every lib’s crazy ’bout a muslin man!
Fake Birf day, darkened skin,
I ain’t missin’ not a single thing
Nazi, Health Care (Health Care),
Census guys I’m gonna do you in
Blakcs come runnin’ just as fast as they can
‘Cause every lib’s crazy ’bout a Muslin man!
Commie, Muslin,
I worry ’cause my Trucknutz will be taxed
Black skin, (in the) WHITE House!!!!!
Actin’ SMART and lookin’ to tax
People come runnin’ with their guns as they can
‘Cause every lib’s crazy ’bout a Muslin man…
Old wingnuts are old.
I’m gonna go out
And let myself
get absolutely
John McCain’d.
It’s rainin’ McCain!
Hallelujah! It’s rainin’ McCain!
Uh-uh-huh!
Gee, Mr. Newell, this if from September of 2008. It’s not that these Taliban-faced gents aren’t amusing, but isn’t there supposed to be some newsiness here in the Wonkcave? What have these guys been up to lately? I’m sure they’re all teabaggy by now.
They just don’t make protest singing hippies like they used to.
In the second one, are they even all playing the same song?
[re=550511]JMP[/re]: Right? I was kind of getting down with it and then I noticed the white socks. Total buzz kill.
From there You Tube posting:
“Special thanks to Hayseed on guitar and vocals and especially the Dept of Corrections for allowing him to do this as part of work release.”
Perfect
Sometimes i think we’re a third world nation. How come there is so much stupidity around??? I mean this isn’t garden variety stick your finger in the socket shit. This is full blown jumping in the bath with the hair dryer shit. sigh is it just other countries hide it better??
[re=550502]MLHencken[/re]: Do NOT besmirch the memory of Dimebag Darrell like that. Guy reminds me more of Marty McFly in Back To The Future.
In their defense, it was really unfair to post this hidden camera footage of their rehersa… what? They knew they were being filmed? Well then this is all unforgivable. I mean, put on some shoes or take off the socks.
clinging to guns, religion, AND GUITARS!!!!!
So, ZZtop is doing the soundtrack for the remake of Deliverance?
I am revising my civil war prediction, from sometime in the next 25 years to next year. This is evidence that we are rapidly approaching the tipping point, where those opposed to knowledge, science and progressive policies force an armed conflict. Just hope the military stays on the civilian government side of that shit storm.
The wall that separates parody and reality grows ever thinner.
I’ll never play guitar again. How can I hope to compete?
I found out in the end it was a PIECE OF CRAP!
[re=550517]FindFuckandFlee[/re]: Please, could that happen now?
What is this? Music by the Pound?? Can I get it at iLoons?
It’s from September 2008? And it didn’t lead to Obama’s crushing defeat? I just don’t understand.
Obama Muslim 911? What the fuck?
[re=550496]pondscum[/re]: Its a pattern the Carpet Outlet catalog calls “Redneck Shitstains” and its recommended for incontinent old rednecks.
My mom always told us kids to stay away from the men who didn’t wear pants under their choir robes. Just sayin’.
Oo-kay.
It’s like we’ve entered a wormhole into the Bizzaro 60′s. Bob Dylan’s there, but he turns out to be a fat, old, ignorant, tragically unhip, xenophobe.
pretty
I met a Pentacostal guy on one of my first days of college. I hadn’t heard of it before, so (just making conversation, always a bad move) I asked a follow-up question like, “Oh, is that Protestant?” Him: “We’re the ones who shoot abortion doctors.” Me: “Oh.” (backs away from Pentacostal guy)
needs moar crotchless otter costumes
From their “website” thingee:
WinterBand is a father and son Christian rock/blues/metal band. We are Apostolic Pentecostal Acts 2:38 Christians.
We are now on Twitter http://twitter.com/winterband
News: WinterBand is looking for a new bass player to allow Bobo to fulfill his long term ambition to pursue a career as a greeter for a well known discount chain. We will miss him but must agree that it is for the best. It would be nice if the new bass player was better than him and, of course, must be a real Acts 2:38 Christian.
Teh Pentacosties twats teh twittahs?
Needs less pickin’ and more grinnin’.
And he can’t be convicted
He’s earned his degree
And the most he will do
Is throw shadows at you
But he sounds like a Muslim to me.
Oh man, the senile guy on the right has the most amazing falsetto. Wait, is he a eunuch? But the guy on the left looks alright.
Safari hat , blue bathrobe, stocking feet guy / Palin 2012!!
After actually listening to the crap, not only is the song based on a bigoted assumption that there’s somehow something wrong with being a Muslim, but it only has one verse, repeated over and over again. Would it kill these morans to write a few more lyrics?
[re=550515]nappyduggs[/re]: These kind of bigots probably think Muslims smell like hellfire and brimstone.
[re=550530]Diana Davies[/re]: [re=550534]eyetooth[/re]: I’ll admit, I have worn socks like that at times; but when sitting around the house, by myself, not in public or while being recorded.
And I’ve never worn wizard robes like that. Maybe they just came back from LARPing?
[re=550494]norbizness[/re]: [re=550537]Pithaughn[/re]: [re=550501]upstateNY[/re]: ZZBottom.
[re=550556]PerhapsSo[/re]: Lets hope these good ole boys/screeching clowns are part of one of them Southern snake handling. poison drinking Pentecostal churches.
Uh, gentlemen — the High Priestess of Urantia would like her sacramental muumuus back, please.
Catchy tunes.
Jesus H fucking Christ on toast. Get the hook.
[re=550558]freakishlystrong[/re]: Wow. Passive-aggressive tendencies, anyone? Also, I thought the drummer was the bigger problem – I have no idea what he was up to in the second clip.
Needs moar cowbell.
Jesus wept
Check their basement for missing cub scouts now!
skoalrebel gives these guys three out of four tins
[re=550563]JMP[/re]: I think their whole lives are a LARP.
this is why I was mad about Matt Taibbi’s book — the right-wing Jesus-freaks are far crazier & nuttier than what he can come up with on the left (i.e. “hippie tree huggers” and “9/11 truthers”).
Typical wingnut, washing his white sweatpants with his red socks
[re=550558]freakishlystrong[/re]: OK, now that’s gotta be a parody; a long term ambition to pursue a minimum-wage “career” for pitiable shells of what were once men and women, in a chain where hope goes to die, likely to end in being trampled to death by a deranged mob of crazed rednecks rushing in at 5AM on Black Friday?
We’re thin necks. We’ll keep our guitars…
[re=550532]BklynIlluminati[/re]: Other countries would have to hide it if anyone cared.
I’ve met Polyphonic Spree. Polyphonic Spree was a friend of mine, and you, sirs, are no Polyphonic Spree.
Wheeen ya wake up in the mawnin’ and the hooch still hurts ya head
Ya call up yer buddy Bobo and start the webcam in the shed
You complain about the black man cuz you’re the lower of the two classes
In your old bathrobe and cheap sunglasses.
[re=550564]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Yeah, I thought these guys looked like the Foggy Bottom Boys, from “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?”, except stupider.
OK now my trusty laptop has been in the shop for a few days rendering me unable to partake in the Wonkette, so imagine my horror, upon eagerly logging in to see what you have been up to, I come upon these two. Why are his legs spread so wide, I can smell his breath, and what is he sitting on? Dear Lord the horror.
20 years listen to that bad preacher. Yep definitely a Muslim.
These people are just plain stupid.
One can use rock n roll as packaging for anything.
[re=550577]JMP[/re]: RAPTURE!!1
NEEDS MORE COWBELL.
What I would give for a punishing dildo mallet right about now.
So proud of being so stupid!!! It’s Americu!
I was so afraid that the man in the bathrobe would move his legs and I’d see something that would turn me off the menz 4-evah.
In all seriousness, stuff like this is why freedom of speech is awesome; it permits, nay, encourages unintended comedic moments. Nobody in Iran is posting unintentionally hilarious videos about Ahmadinejad being a Jew or smelling like a Zionist or anything like that.
USA USA USA
[re=550558]freakishlystrong[/re]: So is like one son and his two dads? (Or three in the case of “Hippie On Grandmas Wall” which is actually a pretty great song, although I have no idea what they’re singing about).
It wasn’t that long ago that I was watching videos of Prince dancing around on stage in assless pants. Just look what YouTube has done to the music video. Screw you YouTube.
Speaking of crazy, the Michele Bachmann + Sarah Palin rally is live now, and the attendees are on the Twitter:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23RPMRally
According to their twatter, this is the latest song “Bound and Determined to Burn”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PnH38v4To&feature=youtu.be&a
Did anyone else see the guys and think of the Folksmen from the movie “A Mighty Wind”? …or was it just me.
[re=550594]Noonan[/re]: These creeps are the same the world over. Thanks for reminding about the Ayatollah’s and their beards. If somebody in Iran posts a video calling for death to the dictator it won’t be somebody with a long white beard.
No self-respecting teabagger wingnut codger is going to let his Depends show while strumming his guitar. That’s why they have those beautiful robes.
[re=550601]betweenstations[/re]: Its one of those times when one neutron bomb, judiciously applied, could raise the average IQ of America by about 30 points.
I prefer their earlier hit, “To Sister With Love”.
[re=550594]Noonan[/re]:
Ha!
Oy Vey, the perfect perfume for smelling like a Zionist. The smell of corned beef with lox.
[re=550592]marioninnyc[/re]:
Are you implying what you can see is not enough?
Sigh. Can’t we please see more pictures of Becky, the cleavage lady from California?
[re=550604]AustinHippy[/re]: But the Folksmen songs were intentionally funny; and musically were fairly good.
So if I understand their logic right, he’s a Muslim because he won’t say the Pledge and doesn’t wear a flag on his chest? Geez, the standards for Islam have really slipped.
[re=550571]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]:
Jeebus [laughed until he] wept.
/no charge
[re=550595]sezme[/re]: Hippie on Grandma’s Wall? Well that’s Jesus, of course. Which reminds me, if you’ve never hear Hayes Carle’s “She Left Me For Jesus” you must.
So Barry’s not a real Christian because somebody else criticized America? Sounds like their nationalism has precedence over their religion. Hmm, what other group puts nationalism over religion? Hmm, maybe Al-Qaeda? If your religion’s only purpose is to support your bigotry and false sense of superiority, then you’re DOING IT WRONG!
[re=550621]Ruhe[/re]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkHG-oKCEU
Great song by a great songwriter.
DON’T SHRED ON ME!
I know it’s easy to forget, with what all the hippety-hop they listen to, but didn’t blacks (aka muslins) invent Rock n’ Roll (aka Satan’s music)?
They should by rights convey their disgust through a rendition of Der Ring des Nibelungen, where Wizard costumes would be more welcome.
Back-up vocal dude is vying for Tiny Tim’s demographic with his falsetto.
They’ll be appearing at the Bismarck Ramada Inn all next week. Try the veal and remember to tip your fundamentalist.
When did Pentecostals start buying their clothes at the Papal Second Hand Store?
Dr. Livingstone + Captain Birdseye rhythm section is AIR-TIGHT!
Ahh, it’s the two Winter brothers Edgar and Johnny don’t like talking about!
Well now that you mention it, no, I’ve never met a black Pentecostal.
Obviously, it makes sense to layer the bass solo over the drum solo and the guitar solo over bothe of those, ie “McCain Boogie.” That way Winterband can end their set five minutes early and make sure they get to Home Town Buffet before 4 p.m.
I wish someone would rapture their asses outta here…
[re=550682]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: Blacks *invented* Pentacostalism in Los Angeles, on Asuza St, early in the 20th Century. Everything goes to hell once whitey gets it.
I’d like the pickin’ better if is was guitar rather than ass.
But the Snuggie and white socks look never goes out of style.
Needs more snake handling.
[re=550550]freakishlystrong[/re]: Obama Muslin 9/11 rhymes, okay? Moran.
Now, what was that about how video killed the radio star? Suddenly, and intensely, I yearn from the days when music didn’t come with visuals.
And also, “Single Ladies” is still the better video.
I don’t care what anyone says. The lead guitarist is good.
Holy jeesus that’s a whole lot of out of tune and behind the beat awkwardness. Someone put them out of their misery and inform them they are attempting to mimic the music the slaves were forced to syncretize in order to remain sane and human. That will cause them to put down their instruments forever.
You have to love those tricked-out snuggies that they’re wearing.
With scraggy long white beards,
and Wallgreens sunglasses,
In mumus for the world to see!
They say they are artists
And Christian crusaders,
But they look like old racists to me!
Old Rip Van Winkle rips it up pretty good on the rock video.
[re=550533]GOPCrusher[/re]: I’m not gonna watch this, so I’m not gonna do any comparisons to ZZ Top, Pantera, or even Nashville Pussy. I just wanna know, better or worse shredding than the Shags doing My Pal Foot-Foot?
I did want to pass this along, since I hadn’t seen it before:
“Teatards”
That is all.
I been up, I been down.
Take my word, my way around.
I ain’t askin’ for much.
I said, lord, take me downtown,
I’m just lookin’ for some brains.
I been bad, I been good,
Dallas, Texas, Hollywood.
I ain’t askin’ for much.
I said, lord, take me downtown,
I’m just lookin’ for some brains.
Take me back way back home,
Not by myself, not alone.
I ain’t askin’ for much.
I said, lord, take me downtown,
I’m just lookin’ for some brains.
Two things, evangelist fuckwits:
1. You don’t put your hand over your heart when you sing the national anthem. That’s for the pledge of allegiance. The only people who do that during the national anthem are morons, or holding a hat.
2. He won. Huge. Suck on it.
Talk about vomit-inducing! I couldn’t finish listening after Thing 2 started his falsetto.
Thanks alot Jim! You be da man!!!1
excuse me while I continue to vomit…….
Thank God China is censoring the Internet and won’t see this.
If they saw it, they’d attack immediately.
Dawg. It’s just bit pitchy.
[re=550514]Ken Layne[/re]: Are you saying that Philip Parris Lynott was also a closet muslin?
Wait, isn’t this the band from the Hutaree wedding video?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Vomit inducing — YES!
I’m glad to see that the two guys from the “Hillbilly Hare” cartoon found Jesus.
As someone whose dad is an amateur musician, I can tell you that the real title of the second piece is “Check Out The Amp I Got At The Pawn Shop”.
[re=551015]PsycGirl[/re]: Actually that amp looks likes it might be a Vox AC30ST, a seriously rare and awesome amplifier. Just don’t expect the tone to come through on a typical YouTube video.
So sorry, my wonkette. But there’s no way I’m wasting five minutes of my life watching a video that’s preemptively described as “Pentecostal Rock Zombies” singing about my Messiah, Barry X Hussein, so forget it. And a warning about an instrumental titled “McCAIN BOOGIE”? Oh I am so sure. Why do you hate your commenters? Good God.
Not to mention been waitin’ on the bus all day. And Jesus left Chicago a long long time ago, like when Barry X became prezdent.
These snuggy fags look like musilums to me. No insult meant to muselmen, I mean, these guys look like the bad kind, who live in caves or stone other people to death for breaking religious law. These guys and those guys should all get together and fight some damn eternal desert battle in robes.
[re=550558]freakishlystrong[/re]: I, too, possess a “long term ambition to pursue a career as a greeter for a well known discount chain”. That fucking Bobo, stealing my thunder.
[re=550556]PerhapsSo[/re]: Jesus, I hope you didn’t tell him you were pre-med.
[re=551057]MsNicky[/re]: No actually you really have to watch McCain Boogie because it is seriously the kind of laugh you can only fully appreciate within the overall context of Wonkett.
[re=550589]YesWeKant[/re]: More cowbell is not going to help these guys
[re=550566]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I think their white sheets must have been at the cleaners..
I just need to know where they’re holding auditions.. sign me up! Wait, do I have to provide my own snuggie?? I guess as long as I get creative control of the bedazzler I could get down with that.
But the were so much older then, they’re even older than that now
Paging Dr Kevorkian. Dr Kevorkian.
I don’t get it. Are we supposed to be surprised that there are bigoted wingnut assholes out there that have talents of some fucking worth outside of being close minded douchebags? Clint Eastwood is a Republican, but he’s still one of the finest one-note actors (and maybe three-note directors)of the 20th century.
Tube Sock Boogie.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille… I got to a minute out of sheer willpower
Grand Wizards of Tube Socks
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