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  • Steven Page: Just About The Last Person You’d Expect To Be Busted For Drugs

    Never thought you’d hear the words “Barenaked Ladies” and “drug bust” in the same sentence? Well…

    Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page. Photo courtesy of TheHypo
    BNL lead singer Steven Page

    Steven Page, lead singer of Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies was busted last Friday for possession of a controlled substance in Syracuse, NY (Syracuse? Really?). Cops, suspicions aroused by a car with one door open (?), found married dad Page (whose band just released a children’s album, for crying out loud!) along with two women (??) in a nearby apartment with cocaine and pot. I wonder if the ladies were barenaked??? BWAHAHHAHHAHHA…

    (For those who aren’t really up on their BNL, they are the guys who sing “One Week”, and “If I Had $1,000,000”. Of the group’s two main singers, Steven Page is the fairer, sort of chunky one with the big voice, while Ed Robertson is the darker, more nerdy-sounding one)

    But anyway, I won’t say anything bad about Steven Page. I’m actually extremely fond of BNL..well at least I was until that “Barenaked Ladies are Men” crap. They’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen (and the only rock band I know who could get away with a cover of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious”, as they performed the night I saw them). But seriously…who’d have thought that the singer of songs like “Be My Yoko Ono” and “Brian Wilson” was capable of Winehousity??

  • Snoop Redux – Chronic You Don’t Need

    Reports out of Cali are that Snoop has been busted…again.

    The charges? Weapons and narcotics…again.

    This time, Mr. Broadus allegedly had coke, pot and a gun.

    Burbank has been bad for the rapper. He was arrested there in October on weapon and narcotics charges. Filling out his trifecta was an arrest in the OC for attempting to bring a telescoping baton (yes, a weapon) on a plane at John Wayne Airport.

    There’s street cred, and then there’s just dumb cred. If Snoop doesn’t believe yet that every cop in SoCal has his picture on their dash, he’s in dreamland. In his case, we should refer back to the original meaning of the word “chronic” — as in “repeated”.

  • Snoop Busted

    Snoop Dogg, which is what he calls himself these days, was arrested over the weekend at Burbank Airport for weapon and drug posssession charges.

    Initial media reports said that the ground-breaking rapper originally was found to have a baton similar to the kind riot police and private security guards use, but that was actually an older incident at another airport, and Snoop was not charged.

    He was charged in Burbank, though, when police searched his car after he left it at the airport too long. Police reporting finding a gun and marijuana in the vehicle. Snoop has a long history of arrests and scrapes with the law — a self-destructive path that could eventually consume the 35 year old just like Jimi, Janis and so many others before him.

    Spinning In The CD Today:

    I’m still liking Death Cab for Cutie’s Plans, which still sounds fresh to me a year after its release. Ben Gibbard just doesn’t get the praise he deserves — critics yawn, the songs go nowhere on the charts and the band’s following is too small to influence either.