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How profane was that profanity?
Posted by Fired Fred on October 31, 2007 5:30 PM
A country radio station in Austin cut loose Sammy Allred for dropping a little something on the airwaves. He'd been there 35 years. That sounds like purgatory to me.
If it was a classical music station, I'd think it was one of Dante's circles of Hell. With country you can at least fantasize about Carrie Underwood or Shania Twain. The second chair tuba player, not so much.
Country's supposed to be a rougher music genre anyway. Johnny Cash probably would have left the bodies of Dashboard Confessional in a ditch somewhere if they crossed paths. The Man In Black took one of Trent Reznor's songs, and now if you hear NIN doing "Hurt" it sounds like a bad Cash cover.
So what did Allred say to the audience in Austin, which was in Texas last time I saw something about South by Southwest. How do you offend Texans? Did he say 'gun control'? 'Vanilla latte'? 'Cowboys suck'?
I bounced through a bunch of blogs to see if I could find out what he said on the air. F-bomb? C-bomb, which would be more like a nuke, really. He's not talking, and no one seems to know. Weird.