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Like some kind of ZZ Top fundamentalist doppelganger, Winterband<\/a> is a bearded Apostolic Pentecostal Christian rock band like no other. Pastor Steve Winter and his son Philip, along with convicts Bobo on bass and Hayseed guitar (the band is part of their work release program), bring a potent, catchy dose of Catholic-hating, sexist, pro-life blues rock that will make you bob and shake your head at the same time. While their music might be progressive, their views are nothing but regressive, creating a considerable WTF? reaction in those who dare to witness the anomaly that is Winterband. Their site features dozens of low-budget rock videos spreading Winter\u2019s dogmatic\u2014and sometimes frightening\u2014worldview. Songs include: \u201cWhere Babies Come From,\u201d \u201cJesus Ain\u2019t No Hippie,\u201d \u201cGod Squad\u201d and \u201cShame, Shame, Shame,\u201d which laments the very serious matter of women speaking in church. The band\u2019s latest release, \u201cWon\u2019t Be Long,\u201d is described by Winter as \u201ca track to entertain the masses and help souls escape the snare of the devil and his polytheistic false-Christianity.\u201d The site also includes insane tirades on the \u201cfalse-Christian scum\u201d who run Tangle.com (formerly GodTube) which cancelled Winterband\u2019s account due to the incendiary song and video \u201cDon\u2019t Diss Mohammed,\u201d where Winter does nothing but diss Mohammed. To add to the bewildering nature of Winterband they have also have an eight minute epic fantasy rock number entitled \u201cJesus Died and Went to Hell,\u201d which has a chorus that almost revels in the death of Jesus. All the songs are copyrighted and not to be reproduced because, as Pastor Winter says, copyright laws are held by \u201cvarious governments with huge armies and bombs and stuff so don\u2019t do anything you shouldn\u2019t.\u201d Other parts of the site include pictures with Winterband fans Senator Zell Miller and former Motown drummer Pete Joyner. Somehow I\u2019m thinking that Joyner and the senator should have reconsidered taking those pictures. (www.winterband.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n![\"Zell](\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/zellandphil-300x241.png\" "\\"zellandphil\\"")
By Kent Davies Like some kind of ZZ Top fundamentalist doppelganger, Winterband is a bearded Apostolic Pentecostal Christian rock band like no other. Pastor Steve Winter and his son Philip, along with convicts Bobo on bass and Hayseed guitar (the band is part of their work release program), bring a potent, catchy dose of Catholic-hating, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[520,1090,1111],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","tag-kent-davies","tag-weird-shit-with-kent-davies","tag-winterband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}