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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.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016; cheaptrick; losers; okboomer; oldnews
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To: SaxxonWoods

Yeah he seems like he acts like a teenage singer.


61 posted on 04/09/2021 7:55:04 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: TakebackGOP

Hopefully, what is left of their careers will die.


62 posted on 04/09/2021 8:09:06 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: ifinnegan

They hated Reagan too...always cracks me up with liberals and their absolute love of Nazis....Nazis where not free market capitalists, they believed in massive gun control, and they crushed dissenting opinions... I swear every single one must have a copy of Mein Kampf on their dresser


63 posted on 04/09/2021 8:39:48 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: TakebackGOP

This actually says far more about Cheap Trick than Republicans.


64 posted on 04/09/2021 9:01:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TakebackGOP
Let's go over history one more time for this dumbass, Mr. Zander.

Slavery-the Democrat party

the Trail of Tears-the Democrat party

3/5 compromise-the Democrat party

Dred Scott decision-the Democrat party

Liberated African Americans from slavery-the Republican party

KKK-the Democrat party

Jim Crow-the Democrat party

Japanese internment camps-the Democrat party

Dropping nuclear weapons on Asians-the Democrat party

Segregation-the Democrat party

Bull Connor-the Democrat party

the assassination of MLK-the Democrat party

Get to the back of the bus Rosa Parks!: the Democrat party

Assassination of Medgar Evers-the Democrat party

Little Rock 9 crisis-the Democrat party

Integration-the Republican party

over a hundred years of election fraud-the Democrat party

65 posted on 04/09/2021 9:03:25 PM PDT by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: TakebackGOP

I liked Cheap Trick in high school, late 70’s. So did everyone else I hung out with. Long time ago, why can’t they just shut up. Times change and they need to “stay in their lane”. Why ruin memories 40 years later, shut up guys and enjoy your winnings. Nobody cares what you think anymore, if they ever did.


66 posted on 04/09/2021 9:33:22 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: TakebackGOP

I swear - I saw them as a bar band in the early 70s - before they “made it”. I thought they sucked then and walked out of the bar. Never got what people liked about them.

And around the same period of time - saw Steve Martin as a small club comic - thought he was great. Still do.


67 posted on 04/09/2021 9:35:52 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: TakebackGOP

Hey, stupid soy boy Brit wankers;The Nazis were Leftists, like the Democrats. And like you are.


68 posted on 04/09/2021 10:23:14 PM PDT by jmacusa (The result of conformity is everyone will like you but yourself.)
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To: TakebackGOP

They share Joes cognitive capabilities and Hunter’s crack.


69 posted on 04/09/2021 11:31:48 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Capitol surrounded by troops vetted to shoot us. Never again ask why the Jews walked into the cars.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Cheap Trick? No way Jose. They’re a two-bit rock band. Who suggested them?

Try KISS. They’d rock the casbah and the convention. or Tobey Keith?

Get good quality and entertaining groups/people, not second-rate hacks with instruments.


70 posted on 04/10/2021 12:54:24 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: xp38

Re “trying to remember the last time I even heard about Cheap Trick”. Perhaps in Hunter Biden’s book on who he picked up for paid sex.


71 posted on 04/10/2021 12:55:55 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ifinnegan

This is certainly One Cheap Trick, doubled.
No accounting for the “good taste” coming from both
sides of the fence.


72 posted on 04/10/2021 3:13:27 AM PDT by V K Lee (Resist, we will! Remember, we must!)
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To: TakebackGOP

Irrespective of this comment, they really sucked as a band.


73 posted on 04/10/2021 5:01:57 AM PDT by trublu
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To: TakebackGOP

Sounds pretty low rent to me!


74 posted on 04/10/2021 5:32:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: TakebackGOP

Virtue signaling... nobody asked them to play squat, so this a mental exercise in the land where “what if’s” dwell...

BTW Bun E. Carlos, their original drummer quit the band years ago.


75 posted on 04/10/2021 5:38:03 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: TakebackGOP

Mediocre band with a few hits back in the 80’s says what?

Way more talented bands from that time period.


76 posted on 04/10/2021 6:10:38 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: TakebackGOP

Why waste the money? The RNC doesn’t need a rock band. And being the entertainment industry is largely leftist, it is sort of a hopeless endeavor to go looking for a band.


77 posted on 04/10/2021 6:42:29 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GenXteacher

Ted Nugent would play for free.


78 posted on 04/10/2021 6:46:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jmacusa

Brit? Rockford Illinois Chicago Machine brainwashed democrats. Their parents were Democrats, there parents parents were democrats and Republicans are evil, mean capitalists that caused the great depression that FDR saved us from. Its what their teachers and their Priests told them. Seen it first hand.


79 posted on 04/10/2021 7:17:01 AM PDT by UNGN
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To: TakebackGOP

I am always amazed at how STUPID just about everyone in the entire Entertainment Industry really is.

THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY is the Bastard Child of the DEMOCRAT PARTY and Always has been.


80 posted on 04/10/2021 8:17:37 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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