They have aligned themselves to my thinking and so I've been backing Democrats ever since. "I've been voting all my life, but for the past 10 years the Democrats have kind of sounded like the inside of my head sometimes. Richard Patrick considered himself "kind of conservative" after 9/11, but his experience since and his immersion in the issues has moved him much more left. "This is the far right wing extremism that this country does not need, and that's all I'll say about that." He's playing to the lowest common denominator of people that are so angry, and they don't even know why they're angry, and they're mad at immigrants, and they're mad at brown people, and they're mad at Muslims, and they're angry and they want their guns," explains an exasperated Patrick. I mean he quotes Mussolini for god's sake."Īfter ticking off a list of Donald Trump's platforms that trouble him and labeling him a con man for such ventures as Trump University and Trump Vodka, Patrick crests to his reasoning for the candidate's popularity. I think that a lot of his stuff sounds like Hitler.
"It's like the Frankenstein's Monster that just broke free from the table, and I think that it's incredibly scary. Nice Shot - Filter is set to rock the Deadwood Jam Stage Shoving a fist in the face of tradition has been Filters modus operandi since. "It's amazing how much like Fox News played into this, because Rush Limbaugh and Fox News have been wailing on the President for so long that they've gotten everybody all revved up," he continues. It's a nod to something else Patrick has a lot to say about, as he calls it "absolutely a joke on the Republican front-runner Donald Trump." Next week, Filter will hit the road to support Crazy Eyes on what they've dubbed the "Make America Hate Again" tour. These are all things that Patrick thinks about with great concern, and over the course of a twenty minute talk he expands on all of it in such a curious and thoughtful manner that it's amazing he manages to pare down such ideas into song-sized slices. The new album features Patrick exploring everything from heaven and the passing of his father, to the racial and political climate of America. I feel like industrial music gives me a platform to reflect." But there's so much more to think about in the world. I'm gonna leave Taylor Swift and her lovesick stuff with Bieber and Adele - I know she's twenty-one and she's learned a lot in her life, she wants to talk about relationships, great. "The great mysteries of life are amazing things to talk about in music.
"I've always been extremely honest," explains Filter frontman and founder Richard Patrick via phone a couple weeks before the release. It's a tradition that continues more ferocious than ever this week when the band releases their seventh studio album Crazy Eyes on April 8th. Digital Sheet Music of Hey Man Nice ShotComposed by: Richard PatrickPerf. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - There's been something menacing and authentic about Filter since the bassline of "Hey Man, Nice Shot" first emerged from murky feedback in 1995. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers.