Moe Tucker Bummer.

Well this was a pretty dispiriting thing to wake up to on a Monday morning.

Apparently, sixty six year old Georgia resident Maureen Tucker thinks taxes are too high, and is ‘furious’ that America is drifting toward socialism.

I don’t usually feel the need to make a fuss about this musician or that getting old and cranky, but this is a stone drag for me, given that Maureen Tucker is one of my all-time, list-topping musical heroes, and particularly in view of all those great, righteous songs she sang on her solo records about how much she resented having to work at Walmart to feed her family, and getting screwed over by bosses and corporate double-talk.

I guess her legitimate frustrations with the sorry lot handed to the working class in America must have found some slightly different outlets in the fifteen years or so since she made those records.

It’s a bit like if Jonathan Richman shaved his head and started punching people, or if Fred Cole signed to Vice, or…. hang on, scratch that last one. : (

Quoth this guy in the comments on the Guardian piece on this;

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but Yes, this is indeed "The" Mo Tucker from the Velvet Underground. […] I am a huge VU fan, and sadly, it is her in this video. I am actually the person who posted it on Youtube. […] I still love Moe for her contributions to music, her kindness to a fan on 2 separate occasions, and I can only hope that she, like so many others, are being misled into voting against their own interests. Love you Moe; don't be fooled.

Indeed.

It’s funny isn’t it, how so many right-thinking people’s worldviews seem to go completely haywire when they hit sixty-ish..? It always seems ridiculously patronising to going around telling people over twice your age what they should be thinking (maybe they know something we don’t, for chrissake), but c’mon Moe – forty years as one of the coolest people on earth and suddenly you’re hanging out with these swine? Pull yourself together.

Will try to post something a bit more cheery for tomorrow.

Labels: bad news, impotent rage, Maureen Tucker, politics