Is it cool for Jeff Grosso to wear a Skrewdriver tshirt in an interview knowing what we know now.......?


Does Grosso know the history of Skrewdriver? Is it possible Grosso doesn't know what became of Skrewdriver and it's odious reincarnation at the hands of the only remaining founding member, until September 1993 that is? Skrewdriver were a punk band in 1976, they had a Peel session in 1977, Grosso's tshirt shows Skrewdriver in their All Skrewed up era, the well received first lp, when Suggs was the roadie and Mark Radcliffe was in the band....this is pre nazi Skrewdriver....Grosso knows this too. I put it to you that Grosso is also well aware of the later incarnations of Skrewdriver and their driving force in Ian Stuart....Ian Stuart is a racist, Ian Stuart is a Holocaust denier, Ian Stuart is an anti-semite, Ian Stuart is a homophobe and Ian Stuart is actually no longer with us. Why then is Grosso wearing a Skrewdriver tshirt knowing all these things? Shock value? Rebellion? There are precedents to this in skateboarding...Jason Jesse and his well publicised brush with White Power, Duane Peters and his swastika....i don't think any of these skaters are racists, i don't really think they are white supremacists.....just 'rebels' trying to get a rise out of someone....is this cool? i don't think so....funny? How can it be? Watch Shoah, read Primo Levi.....go and visit Auschwitz or Dachau and see where Fascism can lead....Ian Stuart in his wisdom said he has doubts that the Holocaust actually happened....is Grosso aware of this dimwitted view of history? Wearing this tshirt implies much about the wearer.....is he willing to claim ignorance to these facts?
Leni Riefenstahl claimed ignorance of the Holocaust despite being close friends with it's architects. She was a ground breaking film maker yet her work is tainted and she spent the rest of her life covering her tracks and hiding her associations with Hitler and the Third Reich. Skrewdriver's early work is also tainted by what it went on to become.....the music became nothing more than a vehicle for hate....is this really what Grosso wants to associate with? An ill conceived stab at shock, a miscalculation, naivete or just ignorance of the facts....i don't want Grosso's amazing skating tainted with this bullshit, please Grosso....tell us it isn't so!!!!

'Jewdriver is a Skrewdriver parody band based in Oakland California with members of Schlong and frontman, Ian Stuartstein. Bagels and yamaka throwing into the audience is ever-present at every performance because, "The fans have to eat too!"'