And though the Jesus Lizard are still great and his statement was perhaps accurate as a description, it doesn't stand up as criticism. Actually, he was a douchebag who probably has throat cancer now. We thought he was hella cool because he liked the Jesus Lizard and smoked unfiltered cigarettes.
When I was in the early days of high school, a time when kids in my study hall thought the riff in Collective Soul's 'Shine' was, like, totally boss, Depeche Mode were dismissed as a 'gay keyboard band' by a friend's cousin, a sentiment probably echoed no less than 2 million times over the past 20 years.
