Scars on Brodway

The Scars are not just on Broadway

For those who don’t know why the band calls themselves “Scars on Broadway” (but I hope that everyone here does)

In that interview Daron said that he’s “not sure that they're the Nazi Swastikas” and I can say that they are not. I haven’t seen those light posts in real life, only on photo (which appears later on in this message), though I think I have an explanation for the swastikas on the light posts:

As many of you know the swastika today represents Nazism, but the origin of the swastika has really nothing to do with Nazis. From the beginning, it was (and still is) a religious symbol used in major world religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. It represents the sun and light. And what else gives light? That’s right, light posts do.

Now, back to the headline. These “scars” are found on light posts over here in Europe as well (or at least in Sweden, where I’m from). Here we had a company known as ASEA, who used the swastika as a logotype in the late 19th – early 20th century. They made light posts and they put their logotype on them, of course. FYI, they changed their logotype in 1933. I think you can guess why. Anyway, in the town where I live we have these light posts, but not on the streets but in a cemetery (!). And for anyone who might wonder, yes the cemetery holds both people from the Axis and the Allied forces (they were shot down by us ‘neutral’ Swedes).

So, in conclusion:
The swastikas are religious symbols and perhaps the light posts on Broadway Street are made by ASEA or another company which used the same symbol back before the symbol lost its original meaning.

Here are some pictures of the swastikas on the light posts.

On Broadway Street:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8672/swastikasonbroadwayzk9.jpg

And in Sweden:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6113/dsc07690fk5.jpg 

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3961/dsc07689wn7.jpg

Thanks for reading.

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Thanks for the post, bro, but there's already a bunch of articles on this forum. Including the one where the name of the band is explained HERE

Being new and all, it's cool you didn't see them. But take a look on the other 2 pages of this forum (see the page numbers at the top left-hand of the forum main page) and you'll find a bunch of other articles and interviews.

Cool pictures  :-)