![]() ![]() ![]() So anyway, I tried searching, but there is a lot of crap on the internet, and the only argument anyone seems to have about why this song would actually be about Budd Dwyer is "Why would they lie. (Asher has since admitted guilt) 2) it just seems impossibly random that anyone would write this song about a not super important state politician who killed himself seven years before This seems much more likely because 1) the song makes way more sense if it's about Kurt: "What you could've taught me", "You'd fight and you were right", etc. Given how hard Filter "sold out" (I hate to use that term, but really) less than five years later, this doesn't seem out of character for Richard Patrick. So now what I'm thinking is that because of the backlash, they decided to go with the more acceptable subject and stick with that. And then over a year later, they say, "Nah, it's about Bud Dwyer" and it's mostly cool.īut what I didn't know, is that some fans were suggesting Bud Dwyer before the band said anything. And there's no way the song isn't about Kurt, it makes no sense.įrom my memory, and checking just now, some fans were angry that Filter would write a song about Kurt so soon after his suicide that seemed to look at it positively in some ways. When the band said the song was about Budd Dwyer's suicide, and not Kurt Cobain's, I just accepted it and moved on.īud Dwyer was mentioned in a frontpage post today (can't find it sorry), and it got me thinking about this again for the first time in over 15 years. At his speech about leaving office and appologizing to the people, he. Dunno if this is the right subreddit, but there doesn't appear to be an r/askmusic (I mean, there is but nobody on it) or something like that.Īnyway, when I was a teenager, I really liked Filter and of course Hey Man, Nice Shot. The song is about a senator who got caught in illegal activity and is going to prison.
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