Gary Glitter to Tour?

The news came up this morning on Twitter. Gary Glitter has a twitter page and is said to be planning to tour again. It hasn't been fully confirmed, but my suspicion is that this is no joke or lie- apparently, Gary Glitter regained his passport this November. Apparently it is him. It's messed up, it's really him too, apparently, and he's hanging out on twitter. It's all kinds of messed up- especially since he was convicted of having kiddie porn, chased out of a few third world countries, and convicted of child molestation in Vietnam. It's really him, too. He's on their asking folks for suggestions on his new album title! There is an autobiography coming out, too. Tweets Gary: " The media scum sadly only focus on the aspects that sell papers and boost ratings." Last time he got busted for his pedophile fun I wrote a short story about him (incidentally not very good) for my second book Hollywood Wiretapping. I'm not a big fan of my own work from this period, but this is a deal big enough for me to care about. As I commented recently, I'm dead sick of writing about musicians and bands for the most part. The thing is that I absolutely will bend to do what I can to get hits, and since people feel the need to check periodically on the rumor that the black metal band Akitsa are neo-nazis, I end up writing about this and that metal band and goth band and then I get sick of that very band a week later and wish I hadn't blogged on them. It's grown beyond tedious. I've had this lifelong affection for Joy Division and for Voivod, but you can only write about those two bands so much, and then I'll write about some relatively minor metal band or goth band, then I'll go back and think "why did I do this?". Also, as I have commented earlier this week, reading rock criticism is like watching flies fornicate. Gary Glitter is different though. If Gary Glitter comes to Vegas I'll go see him play. In fact, I'd probably take the bus down to LA if he does an LA show and not Vegas. 70's Gary Glitter is actually fairly rocking musically. As a matter of fact, it was so rocking it's ridiculous how rocking it was. Easily one of the greatest performers of all time. He protests his innocence on his twitter page. Do I believe him? Oh hells no! But if Vietnamese authorities have released him, and British authorities gave him his passport back, let him do his little "Rock and Roll Part 2" bit. There are those who believe that pedophilia should be treated with a bullet to the head, and I wouldn't debate the point. However, this is not the legal reality, so the perverse and disturbing spectacle of a Gary Glitter comeback tour is set to go. Michael Jackson's dead and it wasn't clear what exactly was going on there, although his former PI Anthony Pellicano, himself in prison forever, said Michael was doing something worse to little boys than molesting them, whatever that means. Phil Spector is never going to get out of prison and he was primarily a studio guy anyway. Fellow pedophile Philip Garrido was actually probably a better musician then Gary Glitter and has the added hilarity of being perpetually high on crystal meth, but he's in prison and never getting out and very little of his musical catalogue was ever made publicly available. Glitter is out, and ready to rock and roll! Yeah! Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!!!