KORN Boycotts Use Of BP Oil On Buses/Vehicles During Summer Touring Season
I find these boycotting stories interesting. We can’t cover them all, but this feel like a typical press move. Bands who tour on the road should easily be able to get their hands on bio diesel. It could save you a lot of money and you could stop buying diesel almost completely. I wish people with large spotlights on themselves would actually do something positive rather than make a stupid statement and go on with business as usual. After all, every oil company has a history of disasters. So, who will they buy their fuel from? Is that company innocent? Even if they were, how many wars, how much blood has been shed to fuel up that tour bus with 200 gallons of diesel? Someday, we will all actually start doing something instead of just trying to make ourselves feel better.
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otivated by the BP disaster and its devastating effects, heavy rock outfit KORN, which has sold more than 30 million records worldwide, takes a stand by launching a boycott against using the company's gasoline while on tour this summer. The band has formally announced that it will not be fueling any of its touring vehicles with BP products and is strongly encouraging other touring artists to do the same. "The daily images are hard to watch," says KORN frontman Jonathan Davis. "We need to do our part to let BP know there are consequences for causing something like this. We want to send a message to corporations like BP so that they will take more preventative measures in the future. The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure disasters like this don't happen again. It's plain and simple capitalism." In a timely coincidence of life imitating art, KORN's new album artwork, photography and stage set imagery reference the band's hometown area near Bakersfield, California and its bleak landscape littered with oil rigs. The video for the first single "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)" reveals a poverty-stricken area situated among the rich oil fields and tells a story of a young boy's desire to escape. The video story echoes the band's own struggle out of Bakersfield. Davis adds, "It was one thing for us to grow up near such poverty. But the situation in the Gulf takes things to a whole new level where people's lives and livelihoods are affected forever." |
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