tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post3187904415464818529..comments2022-11-08T04:59:19.198-08:00Comments on Hillgrass Bluebilly News and Updates: Hillgrass Bluebilly on XXX, the Stupid Idea Shooter Jennings Had...Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-36513734052994325872011-01-25T18:08:08.226-08:002011-01-25T18:08:08.226-08:00Thanks brother. We sure appreciate that!Thanks brother. We sure appreciate that!Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-24782450383296480052011-01-24T20:43:01.214-08:002011-01-24T20:43:01.214-08:00Junkrock Americana. Patent pending.
But seriously...Junkrock Americana. Patent pending.<br /><br />But seriously, the name XXX is terrible and doesn't portray anything. I know it's hard to put a specific sounding music into words, but atleast try. Also I don't see what the big deal is, why do we have to all of the sudden make a name for the stuff we've been playing and listening to all this time? You say roots rock, I say country rock, blues rock, whatever. It's all the same and it's really the music that matters not the label.<br /><br />I'm a huge supporter of everything I've heard Hillgrass do, and will continue to be until I have a reason not to be.killerados tjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09293214715875172900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-10945104535706068112011-01-24T16:16:37.113-08:002011-01-24T16:16:37.113-08:00You ain't got some writer to put me in my plac...You ain't got some writer to put me in my place Shooter? C'mon man. It's very disrespectful to have the XXX site up, and still not havin' heard back from you....Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-69015135483141683662011-01-22T17:47:59.553-08:002011-01-22T17:47:59.553-08:00Thats what I thought, no follow through. I win!Thats what I thought, no follow through. I win!Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-56505730361413033632011-01-21T07:23:33.090-08:002011-01-21T07:23:33.090-08:00Shooter,
I am officially calling you out. The publ...Shooter,<br />I am officially calling you out. The public demands your response. You said you'd continue to address my concerns HERE and on my blog, and I need you to come with all you got! Fair Warning, it better be good.Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-299084174269470962011-01-21T04:28:50.816-08:002011-01-21T04:28:50.816-08:00Ha Ha... look what I found, ROOTS of ROCK, http://...Ha Ha... look what I found, ROOTS of ROCK, http://www.rootsofrock.co.nz/home, an informative site that surpasses anything YOU could have done. This is a truthful man abiding website GEARED to take care of ROOTS ROCK business,<br /><br /><br />Winner, KEITH, because there ARE winners and losers.Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-27852949895797130942011-01-20T07:18:05.159-08:002011-01-20T07:18:05.159-08:00Why dont you call it Roots Rock. Everyone knows th...Why dont you call it Roots Rock. Everyone knows the term, it has never had a home, and it has never been beatin down. Roots Rock explains ALL the names on your list. Country Rock does not. It looks like a struggle with country/rock. Roots Rock. I can get behind, I would have and would be 1st on board, if you could present to the public like that. Something wholesome. Something to care about, my roots rock, not my xxx. I have never really had to explain myself, im always doing, and exaplaing what I did. I have spent $67,132.47 on Hillgrass Bluebilly since late 2004/early 2005. I am in the negative, about as much as a lot of our fan base makes in 2 years. I have never misguided, I have only bled, fought & cried at my shows, and this is my job, and I do not have a good fucking time doing it. I do, but I dont. it can be described as a labor of love, best. It's not new, that I am passionate about what I do. It is all I know. So you will find extremities with me you are not going to find everywhere. With that, me, folks like me in this movement, will always promote, reflect & record very solid somethings to say. Sure, Im kind of emberrased for my supporters that read some of my extreme comments, but HB fans get me, & I caused no harm to my label here, Plus every artist knows exactly who I am, and this, surprises none of them. As I have not changed in 6 years. Shooter, you still have not addressed the positive I spent my time writing about, to make things work. Thats my point. You said "That was a common frustration of the lacking support of outlets". NO SHIT, you are feeding a system that does not belong to us. These outlets are the venues and weeklys you play at, & are on every page of. C'mon man, who knows better than me. Booking agents arent at shows, venue owners are rarely at shows, they dont give a fuck WHO you are at 2am, NONE of them do. You are creating more outlets for people to use YOU.... & me.. and everyone else that goes to shows. Look, I said some bad things... I get childish, yes, sucks to admit, but I am genuinally angry in my heart with this. My stomach is upset with this & I already told you I had a headache...<br />Something doest add up man... Im too good. & for XXX to make me feel this way, really sucks for me & a lot of other people that enjoys this music but says fuck this scene. Im thinkin this will backfire in a few ways. Its going to show in attendance friend... I hate to say it. With all my back and forths, I really am sorry I couldnt say what I feel and come off as educated, but I said what I said & I am anti fluff. Me and you are just going to be one of those things. If you can change it to "Roots Rock", I think then you could have a stab at success Rxxts Rxck even.... something man. Just dont hokey shit out with XXX, I dont give a fuck if XXX doesnt bother some folks.... they probably dont get the actuality of it as it pertains to a household name...which is what Im working for. You need to maybe work with us more, and not tell what YOU are doing. Every movement maker has responded, except the Farm, we just dont want you to be hokey with what we all got.Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-56072376004563166842011-01-20T07:17:49.838-08:002011-01-20T07:17:49.838-08:00I am back and forth a lot & all or nothing. E...I am back and forth a lot & all or nothing. Everbody keeps adding fluff, still my point. Since when are we supposed to have anything other than the music do the walkin & talkin for us? My fight is to strip things down, that is hard with XXX, it's confusing & your replies of AAA are good for people that accept that, I do not. I find community is the best answer, but not with XXX refrences. There is no figure, thats going to lead us out. As little as hank III fan I am these days, I personally feel its who he surrounds himself around, I call that XXX. And blame the naturally occuring concept of the term XXX on that. You are coming in with a name and a concept, in a genre where the music needs to be solid, everything about it. There are things I know, that not everyone is going to get here, so they think I am extreme, when all of my answers are simply "listen". Are we going to have the wrong writer speak of XXX in the same article of referencing an actual court matter involving a band where facts can still be miscontorted, or a story about a can of beer smashing into a girls face on accident during a show, then it fucks us and everything we have been trying to build? Its these little things that people can use about this to turn it off to the listeners. Very few people are label readers, and anyone that does, see's that XXX is just short of, a manufactored movement. People are not gravitating to it naturally and you are using a shiney coin trick to get attention. I am sick and tired of shiney coin tricks.Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-81453535171300956432011-01-19T23:06:58.580-08:002011-01-19T23:06:58.580-08:00Keith,
Man, I'm sorry this all turned for the...Keith, <br />Man, I'm sorry this all turned for the worse. All the hard knocks aside I do like your passion and your creative way of putting shit. You've got a big imagination and it shows in all the best ways. I'm not trying to kill anybody with kindness, as I'm personally just not a mean-spirited dude. I do respect the work you've done, and my original post was not meant as a dig on that, more just disappointement, as this whole XXX was NEVER manufactured or intended as some way of getting recognition, it came from a very real place among alot of artists who I've talked to that are really frustrated. In fact, I'm happy that others are becoming part of it and helping it along, because I know my part of it can be kind of polarizing (as with you). But I don't want to start wars on this side of the field. Even though you think I'm part of the system, I'm far from it, and everything I've accomplished, I've accomplished on my own, much like you. So whether or not you continue to hate on me and our causes, I'm not gonna engage that way with you. I still respect HBE, I still love the records you put out, and I'll still continue to say that. If you want to bash me against the wall again, go ahead, Just know that at the end of the day, I still believe we should not be in-fighting, whether or not you support XXX. We are all cut from similar molds, and I think that's why we can all butt heads in moments. When this conversation was much more civil, you really have a lot of light to shine on the topic and a lot of passion and experience driving it. NO ONE is trying to cut in on the work that you, SCM, or any of the groups that are discussing this have done. I re-iterate, this only came from ONE PLACE. That was a common frustration of the lacking support of outlets on a national level for a lot of these artists... I hope you can continue to provide useful criticism for XXX in the future. Or if you choose not to engage at all, that's fine too.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388885484793021073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-54243080404192786252011-01-19T19:32:48.387-08:002011-01-19T19:32:48.387-08:00Shooter,
First off, why didn't you reiterate t...Shooter,<br />First off, why didn't you reiterate the part about if your name was Shooter Smith, and noone would give a rats terd? But seriously,I would love to had carried this on over at SCM, that's actually where my favorite chair is. I simply couldnt add in any posts, and I talked to the web master today and informed me to change my info up blah blah blah, but by that point, the beauty had already been done. <br /><br />You are a 5000lb anchor I said, not a 500lb. I really do not appreciate it when words are taken out of my mouth and twisted by you to misweigh what I really said. Not cool man. Wishy washy was explaining myself in full detail with only fraction hearted responses from you where your only goal is to kill us with kindness because we are just short of having your head? Every response you give to people I care about still have no substance what so ever except your good intentions of plastering XXX on what we work hard for. I also did not leave out my apology or anything else in the copied and pasted segment of my blog, so here's to you, while everyone reads your bullshit telemarketing rubuttal list you have hangin on wall in front of you that you read to me and everyone else. That doesnt explain your pigheadedness about starting something manufactored, cheap, slutty & shitty.<br /><br />Don't start in with oh Im Shooter Jennings and I respect you and your label bullshit. Nobody I know gave a shit about you in your Seattle prag metal stage (not even the good shit), and nobody did until you marched in here with all you flashy names and concepts and visions, when you support the system that is not built for everybody. You and your creative artist agency booking status, and your songs noone believes. I am not angry, I am actually bored with you already. I figured it out... I believed in Jesus and asked myself please guide me with my thoughts of Shooter Jennings trying to grab onto some community with some balls and backbone. Friend, I saw a vision.... I saw an anchor, and I was curious how heavy it was, to see if I could pick it up, and carry it with me. But as I walked closer I clearly read 5000lbs and it was spelled out Five Thousand Pounds on the other side. I tried Shooter, but you are too much of a risk. The only reason why you are still here is because you aint got shit figured out yet and we AMAZE you and you can't wait til this is all over so you can show people you meet for the first time all these balls you have now.<br /><br />I request you take Hillgrass Bluebilly off of your links. I dont want your help. I believe my vision and accomplishments have more substance than anything you have done to date. (hint: everybody is a judge, down at the local record store)<br /><br />Now..onto business. You are officially on my shit list. Not only you run your cocksucker on MY blog, you prove again that you do not know SHIT. you stupidly say: "if you want to keep them in your corner so only you get credit and the checks for their success"<br /><br /><br />youtube Hillgrass Bluebilly and what is the 1st thing you see... hmmm, lets look...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fb-ZnKNKig<br /><br />key phrase.. "you know they don't take no money"<br /><br />dumbass. keep talkin'... you are the one digging for manufactored credit. not me. This will be the case where man wins, Keith wins. <br /><br />Go brush your tounge dude.... I still smell your cockbreath. you dont belong here man.Hillgrass Bluebilly Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450219764325047604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948198606042687633.post-57603147324089775752011-01-19T11:48:28.942-08:002011-01-19T11:48:28.942-08:00Keith, I'm taking the high road here (which yo...Keith, I'm taking the high road here (which you are obviously incapable of doing). The fact that you'll come on SCM and be so wishy washy, and then eventually civil, apologizing for having a grudge towards me because of an ex, etc, and then come back here and write such a childish piece really sounds like you're more angry and jealous than anyone i've ever encountered. Adam and I are only trying to HELP and we welcomed your input and collaboration because we have respect for you and HBE. But to say I need to be "spanked" and i'm a "500 lb anchor". Come to SCM and say it to my face, don't run to your blog and write a slander piece. We are only trying to help out all these artists, by getting them heard, but if you want to keep them in your corner so only you get credit and the checks for their success, then god bless them and god bless you. We are still open to your help and collaboration, but only if you're going to fight fair. You said it best, you don't know me, and you judge me like you do, and that my friend makes you look like a fool. So maybe, step back and look at how angry and affected you sound before you write another piece like this. <br /><br />So sorry it had to go this way.<br />ShooterUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388885484793021073noreply@blogger.com