Tom Petty won't back Michele Bachmann's use of 'American Girl'

StarTribune.com ^ | 6/28/11 | Chris Riemenschneider

[Rebelbase]

Crissy Hines of the Pretenders has been pitching a fit about Rush using one of her songs for his intro music for decades.

[Yaelle]

Chrissie Hynde is still not too happy about “back in Ohio” but no matter how she feels about it, when people hear that thumping open, they don’t think “the Pretenders” do they? They think Rush Limbaugh.

[Twotone]

“Not popular with anyone under 150 years of age.”

Play it with an electic guitar & lots of drums & just watch what happens. ;-)

[RobRoy]

>>Song sucks, anyhow<<

Well, as a bass player I love to play that song. But yeah, it basically sucks. I’ve never, frankly, seen the draw of that guy. He sounds like Bob Dylan after two weeks of singing lessons.

And no, that was not a compliment. ;)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

It’s just a ‘tune’ to the vast majority. Nobody pays attention to lyrics.

[RobRoy]

How about “American Woman” by The Guess Who?

Oh, wait...

[John S Mosby]

Nice idea though— some of them could be revived with modern lyrics as applied through our Constitution.

Interesting thought.

From the Civil War tune Root, Hog, or Die

I saw Texas go in with a smile,
But I tell you what it is, she made the Yankees bile;
Oh! it don’t make a nif-a-stifference to neither you nor I
Texas is the devil, boys; root, hog, or die.

Time to call up a level of resiliance and fiber not seen since the Revolutionary War.
Maybe something about Taxed Enough Already TEA

[E. Pluribus Unum]

FUTP

[ez]

How ‘bout “This One’s for the Girls” by Martina McBride?

[Pilated]

He’s a greasy creep anyway. Plenty of other songs out there

[PBRSTREETGANG]

To me, Tom Petty always sounded like he was whining anyway.

[Jim Scott]

I checked. If the publisher has been paid the usual fee for a public performance then the Bachmann campaign does have a legal right to use the Tom Petty song. Mr. Petty can object on the basis that he doesn't subscribe to Bachmann's politics (and hope she respects his wishes) but he apparently has no legal right to stop her from using his song, assumming the publisher has been paid a performance fee. So, I stand corrected. I also learned something about music copyright law.

I think 'CaspersGhost' (in post #31) has a point: conservative politicians should stay with American country music and not have to put up with some ancient, drug-addled rocker whining about them using it.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I actually thought that his best stuff was with the Travelling Wilbury’s...’cause OTHER people got to sing.

[The Sons of Liberty]

How about “Born in the USA”? 0bama certainly can’t use it.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

HAH!!!

[parksstp]

Reminds me of this story about “Conservative” Rock songs:

They should you Twisted Sister’s We’re not gonna take it!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/217737/rockin-right/john-j-miller

[Fiji Hill]

Forget Tom Petty.

Michelle Bachmann's objective is the White House, so perhaps her theme song should by The Little White House by Howard Lanin. Waring's Pennsylvanians have a better recording, but it's not on Youtube.

But to get to the White House, she needs to break away from the pack of also-rans, so an appropriate theme song would be Breakaway by George Olsen's Music. I would vote for her just for choosing one or both of these tunes.

[John S Mosby]

Maybe this:

Dougie Maclean’s “The Gael”

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pCv7k_Hzvg

In keeping with Scots/Irish in America defeating the British and all. Overmountain men at Kings Mountain.

[John S Mosby]

You bet. Roy Orbison.

[Tucker39]

I like the song “Redneck Girl” much better.