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Cheap Trick: ‘We got asked to play for the Republicans – we would have got swastika guitars made’
The Guardian ^ | 4.21.2016 | Michael Hann

Posted on 04/09/2021 6:17:39 PM PDT by TakebackGOP

Robin Zander lead singer of Cheap Trick, “The Republican National Committee called our office and offered us $100,000 to play at their convention in Cleveland [this summer],” Zander says. “We turned it down. Then we had second thoughts. Maybe we should have accepted it – but we would all have got swastika guitars made.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016; cheaptrick; losers; okboomer; oldnews
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Robin is not a nice guy.


21 posted on 04/09/2021 6:35:50 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: TakebackGOP

So another media act to put on the ‘ol Freeper ban list.

Might as well and go ahead shut off all media.

Most rock, country and pop music going left and woke.

Who’s left?


22 posted on 04/09/2021 6:35:54 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: TakebackGOP

Got your Biden “vaccine passports” guys? Might need those papers to earn a living playing to an audience.


23 posted on 04/09/2021 6:36:34 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: Da Coyote
"I will regretfully admit that yes, I am a musician (but also a productive citizen as a geek). "

You are providing entertainment, honest value, as a musician. That is productivity.

But a musician who spouts their political opinions is cutting their audience in half. Any musician who's paid their dues and worked for tips knows that.

That's a bad business decision.

24 posted on 04/09/2021 6:37:01 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: TakebackGOP

Where is the ADL when TDS sufferers say stupid shit like this?


25 posted on 04/09/2021 6:37:12 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: TakebackGOP

Where is the ADL when TDS sufferers say stupid shit like this?


26 posted on 04/09/2021 6:37:12 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: TakebackGOP

It was in the 60s and 70s that people who had never fought actual fascists decided that a fascist was anyone who interfered with them having their sex or drugs ... or who even suggested having good morals was better than not.

Now they’ve produced more nitwits just like them ... people whose sense of liberty rises no higher that what they are doing with their genitals, whose sense of patriotism is dictated by enemies foreign and domestic, whose idea of responsibility is government handouts and whose knowledge of economics comes from Karl Marx.


27 posted on 04/09/2021 6:38:15 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: TakebackGOP

that would’ve been a cheap trick...


28 posted on 04/09/2021 6:39:40 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: UNGN

I think Gene Simmons ought to have a word with Robin.


29 posted on 04/09/2021 6:40:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Regulator

Me, either. They were boring.


30 posted on 04/09/2021 6:42:10 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: TakebackGOP; 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...

He got dementia from that Indonesian junk going round.

DANG!


31 posted on 04/09/2021 6:44:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Da Coyote

“But let’s face it, most of these clowns don’t know how the pickup coil in a guitar works.”

Most of them may not, but Rick Neilson does.


32 posted on 04/09/2021 6:44:23 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Yes ... National Socialist Workers Party ... actually they were unlike the present Democrats ... who are more like the American Bund ... only it’s the likes of the ChiComs or Muslim Brotherhood that the Democrats serve.


33 posted on 04/09/2021 6:44:29 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

Communists have never used the term “Nazi” even going back to the 1930s, they always used “Fascist”, because “Nazi” implies they were fellow socialists.


34 posted on 04/09/2021 6:47:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TakebackGOP

That would have been a cheap trick.


35 posted on 04/09/2021 6:49:13 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: dfwgator

Yeppers.


36 posted on 04/09/2021 6:49:33 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Pollard

One has a Diane Keaton vibe.


37 posted on 04/09/2021 6:49:47 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Yet they retained more of their money in a GOP tax structure than a demoncrat tax structure.


38 posted on 04/09/2021 7:02:30 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: TakebackGOP

Says more about him than the RNC.


39 posted on 04/09/2021 7:04:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Meh — too mediocre to matter.

Figures the GOP would try to hire these losers.


40 posted on 04/09/2021 7:05:48 PM PDT by Yardstick
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