Elton John at Harley like engine oil in water

Milwaukee JSOnline ^ | 9/3/03 | Jim Stingl

[Paleo Conservative]

You can't make this stuff up!

[cryptical]

I would have thought Bob Seger would be the perfect choice.

[Bikers4Bush]

If someone isn't fired then someone else isn't doing their job.

[laker_dad]

Bruuuuce playing "Born to Run", or Steppinwolf playing "Born to be Wild"

[irish guard]

This has all the earmarkings of some cubicle bond gnome making this decision, but if I had to guess, one of the execs wives is a big Elton John fan and none of the underlings had the ball$ to tell him that having Elton play at this gig was stupid. For claiming to know their clients very well, this was right up there as one of the dumbest decisions they could ever make....and no one will be fired, because the person who made the decision is probably one of the really high up execs.....

[Bikers4Bush]

Him, the Stones, Aerosmith, Kiss hell anybody OTHER THAN Elton John.

What one earth were they thinking putting a cross dressing gay brit onstage for the "big surprise" is beyond me.

"Surprise! We're idiots!"

[putupon]

Maybe the "Dykes on Bikes" group requested him.

[laker_dad]

Oops! Make that Steppenwolf...


Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild

[Moose4]

Hold me closer, Tony Danza...

}:-)4

[1Old Pro]

Yep, the coulda and shoulda done better.

[theDentist]

Elton John was a perfect choice because- ummmm.... because... err.... ummmmmm..... How 'bout them Patriots dropping Lawyer Milloy, huh?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Aerosmith would've been perfect.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

They may as well have featured Nathan Lane in drag as "Evita".....

[babble-on]

you're absolutely right. Elton is an out-of-the-closet homo, and Harley riders are in-the-closet homos. Justin Timberlake would have been a much better choice.

[dead]

I think Kid Rock was a good choice for an opening act. He's got a rebel image, a really hot filthy dirty girlfriend, and he's very pro-USA, unlike most of the rock and roll crowd. He's not a headliner, but he's OK for the Harley dudes younger than forty.

Elton John must have been selected because the Village People broke up.

[sam_paine]

He's a diva in pants who speaks not at all to the rugged, rebellious, road-hardened rockers who ride Harley motorcycles, and those who pretend on weekends to be those things.

Nobody will be fired, perhaps, because Harley actually may have done a GOOD JOB in matching the marketing tastes of their customer base!!

I'd be curious to find how many "road-hard" anythings actually had the resources to finance a trip (especially after forking over for a Harley-brand-name) to such a concert. I suspect a large faction are the wannabe 'pretenders' that could afford the trip. And I'll bet they liked Elton just fine. And I'll bet Harley Marketing gets internal accolades for keeping on top of the changing customer base.

The real "road-hards" probably can't afford a Harley, and ride beat up rice burners to the local quickimart to buy Milwaukee's Beast to drink at home.

HA! (Donning asbestos suit.)

[Servant of the Nine]

This is a Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, Rolling Stones kinda crowd.
Lucky they didn't riot.

So9

[dfwgator]

This would be like Justin Timberlake opening for Metallica.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Merle & Aerosmith, then.