Prince, bad; guitarist from Guns N Roses, good. (No musical commentary here...)

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http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61897387
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61885758

Prince comes out against LGBT equality.
Slash from Guns and Roses comes out for LGBT equality. He and his wife even make a video in support of the No on 8 aftermath movement.

[tekisui]

1. I never knew prince was such a bigoted idiot.

He thinks god came here and told people to stop sticking wherever? yikes.

[Bicoastal]

4. He's also HYPER-protective of his music.

Someone uploaded a YouTube video of their 4-year-old dancing around with his music playing in the background. His lawyers had it removed.

[readmoreoften]

6. Which may be why it doesn't get much play anymore.

[iamincali83]

18. Yeah he's kind of an asshole....

when it comes to stuff like that. I know that he doesn't want his videos om You Tube or someother stupid shit like that. Talk about being greedy.

[Toasterlad]

32. I Don't Believe He Used to Be

He became a Jehovah's Witness not all that long ago. Funny how it doesn't stop him from playing his overtly sexual hits. He's yet to release a christian album, as far as I know.

[ronnykmarshall]

38. He was probably thing about sticking something

when he was crusing me at a gay club back in 1982 in LA.

[lightningandsnow]

2. Oh, irony.

Listen, I'm not doing the "everyone we hate is gay" thing, but...

Is it just me, or is Prince one of the queerest straight musicians out there? I mean, the high heels and everything.

Way to alienate your fanbase, dude.

[readmoreoften]

5. Yeah, Prince is genderqueer whether he discriminates against teh gay or not.

[Genevieve]

8. yep. nt

[lightningandsnow]

3. Deleted

Dupe.

[Ecumenist]

7. Prince the pervert? Ae you kidding me?

When he first started hitting it real big in the late 70's early 80's, he actually sang about incestuous relationships with his sister, for crying out loud. He has a very debased catalogue of music and this idiot has the nerve to make this opinion? Oh my God, this is cheeky beyond belief..

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11. "I knew a girl name Nikki, I guess you could say she was a sex fiend"

Then God came down and smite her for 'sticking it in wherever' with a magazine.

That's how that went right?

[Ecumenist]

14. Pitifully and ridiculously hypocritical....

Almost unbelievably so. WOW, JUST OH MY GOD WOW!!!

[Deja Q]

16. I wonder if he still sings that same song or other songs...

[FreeState]

23. He does not - I saw him about 10 years ago when he became a Jehovah's Witness

and he did not play any songs that had any raunchiness to them - he preached about getting ready for the end of the world however. One of the worst concerts ever, if it had not been for the very straight man behind me that kept buying me beer I would have left! LOL:) To whomever that man is - thank you!

[Critters2]

9. Really? The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?

Methinks he doth protest too much.

[mrbarber]

10. Kudo's to Slash!

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12. It's interesting. Rock guys for gay rights is something we wouldn't've seen 20 years ago.

It wouldn't've been as acceptible. But folks realizing that...uh.... Queen (huh-LLO!) and Rob Halford of Judas Priest and other Juke Box heroes were gay. Not to mention Iggy Pop and Bowie's whole fling. Homophobia in the rock word seems like a weird masculinist hysteria from planet 1980s now. I think that's a good thing.

[davidinalameda]

13. I have no idea how anyone can think that Iggy Pop is remotely attractive

yick

[readmoreoften]

21. Well... he was a younger man back then.

And come on, he's Iggy Pop.

[Jamastiene]

35. Blasphemy!

:mad:

Iggy is GOD.

[bluedawg12]

15. Here is the link to the New Yorker interview with .....

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/11/24/081124ta_talk_hoffman

Soup With Prince
by Claire Hoffman
November 24, 2008
>>Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. “We started talking red and blue,” Prince said. “People with money—money like that—are not affected by the stock market, and they’re not freaking out over anything. They’re just watching. So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this.” He pointed to a Bible. “But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”

When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ” <<

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. My, he is eloquent--NOT

Jeez.

[iamincali83]

17. Prince has become really religious.

He's a Jehovah witness or whatever.:eyes::eyes: It's to bad he feels that way but then i'm not that surprised.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Prince has always been a paranoid freak

I am saddened to see that he is so homophobic since he pretty much breaks my gaydar.

[readmoreoften]

22. He's not a gay male...

but he may be transgendered and non-self accepting. He could be a femme lesbian who prefers other femmes yet enjoys the social power that comes with being male. That's always been my take on him anyway. Not all homophobes are straight tho, right? One thing is for sure. He ain't the brightest bulb on the Christmas Cross.

[FreeState]

24. My partners collage roommate dated Price right before Purple Rain came out

He is straight as can be - he is also, or was back then anyway, a very sexist abusive person. He treated my partners collage roommate like she was a disposable vagina.

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26. What a psycho.

[Moloch]

25. Prince has really gone downhill since he became a religious freak...

its a shame as he used to make such great music.

[Touchdown]

27. So GNR isn't going to play that "immigrants and faggots..." song on tour?

"...spread some fucking disease." Slash gets kudos, but I'd like to hear if Axel has had a change of heart.

And Prince? He was a Jehovah's Witness for a while. He's also a dick! Good musician, but a dick, none the less.

[readmoreoften]

28. Geez, missed that one. Honestly, I missed their entire body of work past Sweet Child O Mine.

Which was unavoidable.

[mrbarber]

29. Axel Rose is a fuckwit.

I hate him with a passion. Abusive drug addicted waste of organs.

[Jamastiene]

37. Kindred spirit here.

I can't stand Axl Rose either.

[Moloch]

30. Slash always hated that song (One in a million)

and never wanted to release it in the first place.

[Jamastiene]

36. Slash left GnR.

Axl Rose is one of the biggest assholes in the world.

[bluedawg12]

31. No on expects

The Lesbian Cat Brigade of the WASOTSI

[RetiredTrotskyite]

33. Has Prince Looked In the Mirror Lately?!

If this guy isn't genderqueer then I'll eat my hat! That guy looks so genderqueer it's PITIFUL. Another one of these self-hating closet cases.

[Jamastiene]

34. W00t, Slash RAWKS!!!!!!!!

Prince, aka His Purple Freakiness, can stuff it.

I'm so glad Slash is on our side. I love Slash.

The video with Slash and his wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bun4J3OhwQc

[mrbarber]

39. Isn't Slash half-Jewish?