wow this has gone toooo far.
i remember when the site was just a plain and simple geocities site.
this is how i goes, which i believe to be about 98% accurate.
this is a real group of mothers and they setup a simple geocities site to promote their cause, it spread throughout the internet like a virus and they couldnt handle the traffic that was going through their site considering geocities only gives you something like 50 MB of bandwidth. so some kind soul offered them hosting and a domain name at
www.mothersagainstnoise.org, this kind soul turned out to be a noise musician himself and highjacked the website and used it to promote some compilations and things of his own. if you go to
www.mothersagainstnoise.com it forwards to it aswell.
so the true mothers moved to
www.mothersagainstnoise.us. if you do a whois lookup on that site it returns
Quote:
Registrant: Mothers Against Noise 1200 N Street, NW Apt #2155 Washington, DC 20009 US Domain Name: MOTHERSAGAINSTNOISE.US Administrative Contact , Technical Contact : Smith, M. mothersagainstnoise@hotmail.com 1200 N Street, NW Apt #2155 Washington, DC 20009 US Phone: 201-538-5591 Record expires on 02-Jan-2009
Record created on 02-Jan-2006 Database last updated on 02-Jan-2006
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call the number, see who picks up.
ok, i looked it up... that number doesnt exist
and according to
www.mothersagainstnoise.org
Quote:
And here's some facts about www.mothersagainstnoise.us...
If you are wondering who are the people behind the original M.A.N. (the supposedly real "anti-noise crusade") represented by www.mothersagainstnoise.us, you can do a 'whois' search and would get these results:
until 2006/01/06 the mothersagainstnoise.us website was registered to the address
Administrative Contact Organization: Mothers Against Noise
Administrative Contact Address1: 825 Eighth Avenue
Administrative Contact City: New York
Administrative Contact State/Province: NY
Administrative Contact Postal Code: 10019
According to http://betsie.tripod.com/literary/id161.html", this is what is located at the address above:
Universal Music Group
825 Eighth Avenue
New York
NY 10019"
Who will soon be releasing a To Shave And Live In LA album with Andrew W.K., who happens to be on the "MAN"'s list of "most dangerous noise acts".
Everything indicates that, originally, "Mothers Against Noise" (as represented by www.mothersagainstnoise.us) was a marketing hoax to build hype for a Big Record Company "alternative" release.
As usual, it would seem that the public is taken for idiots who can be royally fucked on a regular. Feel free to gobble all the mindless hype you were fed at www.mothersagainstnoise.us. Or feel free to send them a big "fuck you".
Nowadays, www.mothersagainstnoise.us is registered under a false name, a false address in Washington and a Nextel (cellphone operator) phone number in Jersey. Draw your own conclusions.
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now im starting to second guess myself, its not so much that i dont believe its fake as much as i dont believe universal did it.
there was a thurston quote on it, ill see if i can find it
Earlier this year, when Wolf Eyes toured with Sonic Youth for three weeks, they met up with proof that they were doing something right in the form of M.A.N. — Mothers Against Noise — a group of middle-aged mothers picketing outside a California venue. Quote John Olson :“We pulled up to the venue in San Diego and there’s all these women outside with M.A.N signs. And (Sonic Youth’s) Thurston (Moore) was like, ‘That’s not for us, dude. That’s for you.’”
ive heard aaron dilloway say that this maybe a fake website/hoax but these picketing mothers exist... he has seen them.
now i dont know...