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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, September 05, 2008

Let's play Jeopardy

The answer is, "Frankie Valli, Chuck Berry, Orleans, Abba, Jackson Browne, Van Halen, and John Mellencamp."

Now let's add Heart.

(No rock band wants to be associated with this guy.)

(Add Boston, the Rocky theme copyright holders, and Mike Myers.)

posted by mikevotes at 8:15 AM

4 Comments:

  • That's good.

    I think of the Republican Party in much the same way as I think of country-western music: about 20 years behind, and under the impression that they're the cutting edge.

    All the good ideas of the last hundred years have been liberal/progressive:

    abolition of slavery in the 1860s, all the way up to gay marriage in the 2000s.

    But if you add 20 years to each of those dates, the conservative side has accepted each of them as dogma.

    (with the interesting exception of Social Security, though.)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:31 PM  

  • Add to it that in the next 20 years we'll likely go to a "majority/minority" country, meaning the very white Republican party will be in a different spot.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:26 PM  

  • You left out Boston.
    McCain knows one guy who played with them after they moved off the charts, and he got that guy's permission to use "Don't Look Back" - not Tom Scholz who wrote and owned the rights to the song. Scholz blew up and they settled out of court.

    I vaguely remember a controversy in the Spring over a Bruce Springsteen song, too.

    As a long-time musician and songwriter, I don't blame any of these artists. You really don't want your creative work and performances to be thought of by the public as some kind of endorsement for the McCain campaign. It's a kiss of death. It screams "uncool" and "washed up". Nobody wants people to think of John McCain coming onstage whenever they hear your song.

    By Blogger Todd Dugdale , at 5:27 PM  

  • Oh yeah. I forgot about the Boston thing.

    And, yeah, I don't think I can blame them. Do you want a McCain image idelibly tied to your song if you're targeting anybody non-country under 65?

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:47 PM  

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