Talk:Beck

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1 Spanish Wikipedia 2 Sing it Again and Johnny Cash 3 Scientology 4 Jewish?

Spanish Wikipedia

Had to attempt a rewrite on this one; I couldn't let the Spanish Wikipedia have SO MUCH MORE "Beck" info than the English one!!!!!!!!

P.S. Thanks Spanish Wiki for the picture :) Iroll 00:24, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sing it Again and Johnny Cash

This is a great article, but I've found one small piece of information that is not true; Johnny Cash never rejected 'Sing it again,' because it never was submitted to him; Beck considered it to be 'rubbish,' (his precise words) according to an interview back in '95. So, I've just straightened that out.Drom 00:24, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Scientology

Removed a reference to the Scientology rumor; not only was it badly formatted, but it has been debated to death on usenet and on Beck's old bbs. Just because a person hangs out with Scientologists does not make them one, and Beck has stated that he is not. Iroll 21:23, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

From the NY times magazine (3/6/05): "Like his wife and his father, Beck is a Scientologist." It goes into more detail too. Here is the link (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/magazine/06BECK.html?pagewanted=5&hp) to the relevant page, registration required. Deadcorpse 02:11, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yup, this should be taken into the article, I think, since it is official now. --capnez 09:24, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Was absent. I added it to the "trivia" section.

I'm going to edit the Scientologist reference. I have never come across any reference to him identifying himself as such. While it is true that many close to him are admitted Scientologists, I have not seen anything in which he states an association with the organization. Whether he is or not, I could not say, but the man keeps many personal issues (his relationship with Leigh Limon, his marriage to Marissa Ribisi and their child, his religious affiliation) out of the press. He has his webmaster, Truck, discourage such discussion on the official Beck bulletin board system. If you show me a reliable source indicating a self-declared affiliation with CoS, I'll relent. (If it's in the NYTimes.com article, could send me a copy? It requires payment now, not just registration.) (One more note: Beck's MySpace profile, which was created by Truck and Interscope, shows J.R. "Bob" Dobbs of the Church of the SubGenius in the background, perhaps a goof on the Church of Scientology (both CoS)). Cigarette 22:00, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I love the edits to the Scientology trivia. It explains perfectly the ambiguity of Beck's relationship to Scientology. Thanks Grza and anon user. Cigarette 15:15, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I edited this section after reading the interview in the Sunday Tribune i Magazine of 12 June 2005. I just thought I'd better register this fact here as well because (a) it's a controversial issue and (b) I don't know of any website offering the content of the interview. RMoloney 21:17, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Jewish?

Why is there a link to famous Jews at the bottom? Am I missing something? Deadcorpse 19:53, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think its from Jewish law/custom, I'm not sure the correct term, where being a Jew depends on if your mother is jewish. (David Cross does a bit about it.) Although I thought I read somewhere that Beck's mother wasn't Jewish, but experimented with it. I'm not sure if it matters. At any rate, I don't think he self-identifies as Jewish. That list has a few discrepancies if you look at it, it includes people who have Jewish fathers, not technically Jews by in the strictest sense, and it also has people who don't self-identify as being Jews. Anyone feel free to correct me if and where I'm wrong. --kanadier 05:54, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC) An addition, googling his mother it says that her stepfather is Jewish and she says she's half-jewish, but is a Scientologist as listed somewhere here, so I don't think he should be considered a Jew. --kanadier 06:04 16 Mar 2005