Billy Bob Thornton chickens out
p2pnet news view Music:- This: “”I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Or this: “It does raise questions about the expectations of parameters that people ostensibly think that they put on us as arts, culture, and entertainment journalists.”
The first came from actor/singer (not necessarily in that order) Billy Bob Thornton during an interview with CBC radio guy Jian Ghomeshi when BB also declared:
“It doesn’t matter what you say to them. It’s mashed potatoes with no gravy … We tend to play places where people throw things at each other. And here, they just sit there.”
Thornton and his band, the Boxmasters, were — were being the operative word — opening for the Willie Nelson / Ray Price gig.
The night after his statement, he was booed in Toronto and on Friday, Montrealers were getting ready to tell him what they thought of him when it was announced the Boxmasters had cancelled their part of the proceedings, “due to one band member and several of the crew having the flu,” they said on their site, adding:
“They will rejoin the tour on April 14th in Stamford, CT after they’ve had time to recover. We wish them a safe and speedy recovery.”
Did Willie and Ray have anything to do with Thornton’s decision, do you think?
April 8, 2009
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April 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Jian Ghomeshi is a twit. So is Billy Bob Thornton.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I have the Boxmasters album. An interesting sort of Buck Owens type country with a vintage look and sound and some very modern humor (the hook to one of their songs is “I’ll give you a ring when you give me back my balls”), but in the end it’s just a novelty act. I can’t imagine anyone actually paying money to see them live.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Yeah, Billy’s a strange piece of work, anyway.
But, in this case, it seriously looks like he was on something.
He seemed to be exhibiting signs of paranoia.
(Or maybe he was just “hearing voices”, as usual.)
April 13th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
He had an agreement with the interviewer ahead of time that he (the interviewer) would not ask him about his acting (because he was there about his music), and the interviewer promptly broke that promise, so Thornton responded by pretty much giving the interviewer nothing.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
BBT is a d-bag. Ghomeshi didn’t ask him about his acting, he mentioned it in the lead-in. What, we’re supposed to pretend we’ve never heard of BBT as an actor? It would have been completely strange if it hadn’t been at least mentioned in the beginning. BBT gave the interviewer plenty I’d say. His bandmates looked mortified at his antics.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
“He had an agreement with the interviewer ahead of time that he (the interviewer) would not ask him about his acting (because he was there about his music)…”
How does that explain his curious reactions to such questions as “How long have you guys been playing together?” and “Did you learn anything from Willie Nelson?” (?) I would think both questions have everything to do with music, and zero to do with acting.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
DA – Once the interviewer broke the agreed upon rules (Lee, whatever you may think about the agreement, it was an agreement and the interviewer broke it), Thornton just refused to give any real answers on anything. You break the rules, you don’t get the interview.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
The band should have left the interview rather than let Billy Bob tank the band’s career. Billy Bob likely has money from his ACTING career to fall back on in hard times, perhaps he should have thought of his band mates first before acting like a tit.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
He was a douche right from the start, if he didn’t like that the interviewer mentioned what everyone already knows, then he should have said so and walked out, not sat there going “I don’t know” to questions like “How long have you guys been playing together?” He looked like a Zombie, I think he was on something, not just pissed at the interviewer.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Mr. Billy Bob was just trying to educate us ignorant Canadians on how cool Americans are. He was doing us a big favor. We ought to embrace his ilk and try to absorb all the US culture we can as we don’t see a whole lot of them.