You may be about conformity, but rock isn't. Get it through your thick skulls already.

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Imagine - the musical -in for a ten second spot disclaimer notifying the fans and general public of the disregard and utter theft of the recording rights to the infringed songs by the RNC and other parties. It may help to sway the "tide".

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it's more suited to their century old thinking.

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Listening to the music last night, it just didn't seem to jell with the applause lines and the appearance of the audience in general. I wondered if most of the audience even recognized the songs they were playing.

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...at the RNC's pirating other people's intellectual property---the new intellectual property rights must mean that it's OK for Corpos to steal anything they want, right?---I wonder about some things:

The first being that John Hall is a state legislature member. To me this signals that he is IN the system, and to be in the system one must necessarily consent to a certain amount of "buggering", as it were.

As an aside, Peter Garrett from the band Midnight Oil is now a Minister of The Environment in Australia, but Kevin Rudd won't let him speak!

I also wonder about Van Halen---their tune "Higher and Higher" has been used by the Air Force for a long time, and Cabo Wabo has become a very profitable "brand" for them.

Heart stands squarely in the commercial center of Rock Music, taking no stands on anything, doing endorsements for Epiphone guitars, despite their early years in Canada with U.S. band members staying out of the draft.

That would SEEM, at least, to make these musicians fair game for the killer-Orc pirates in D.C.

Jackson Browne is the only performer in this article who has consistently defined himself as progressive and anti-war, and who now works consistently in that field.

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But that is a perfect description of McCain:

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

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Tom Petty tells Bush to Back Down

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How about the Imperial March theme from Star Wars? It's a great piece but would suit the repuklicans major themes. Don't cha think?

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They'll pimp out their songs to anybody and everybody.

For McCain, I'd suggest "Uncle Ernie" or "Slip Kid".

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Sue McCain for violation of intellectual property laws. Remove some of that campaign cash from him and emphasize the fact he's not above the law no matter how important he thinks he is. Since Bush has acted above the law for the past eight years it doesn't bode well for McCain to start acting outside the law even before election day. Since Congress doesn't seem to be willing to hold Bush accountable for violations of the constitution maybe the musicians can start reminding our policitians that American laws apply to them as well as to the rest of us.

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...using a Dixie Chicks song is out of the question.

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John McCain's 2009 theme song will be CCR's "Someday Never Comes".

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I betcha' Nugent could have cared less if McCain's campaign used any of his deafening, torturous dribble. He's supporting him, anyway. bwahaha

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About the kerfuffle involving the John Mellencamp song during the primaries - seems like it should only have taken one of these embarrassments before they'd start going about borrowing songs correctly.

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Heart should rerecord their song Barracuda.


Ooooo...Bara..aack Obama.

;)

Leroy

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Ah, what a shock. Republicans breaking the law, any law. Is that like Bush 1 or 2 who should be in the Hague Court? Or Cheney? Or the warmonger McCain who can't get it up without a war? Or Pit bull, full of bull, Palin?

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So they use a freakin' song. Holy crimeny, you'd think that they'd be glad that someone would remember them. Libs are whiners.

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