Posted on 05/04/2016 7:32:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
We go through this every election year, I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to educate themselves. Type “ASCAP Public Performance License Politicians” into Google and you’ll get all the right information. As long as the venue has such a license there is nothing the performer can do about it except whine...and cash their royalty checks.
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/02/29/147592568/music-in-political-campaigns-101
Ah, ha ha ha!
Good ‘un.
If there’s enough money involved...or Trump made a yuge donation to Alice’s Solid Rock Foundation.
Alice is a pure capitalist and oddly enough, most of his wealth comes from real estate investments, *not* music.
:)
Too bad so sad Stones, he pays the royalties, he can broadcast the song.
And the REALLY funny part is that the lyrics aren’t remotely patriotic. Its a very dark song.
And Keith Richards has got about another 50 years to go. I’m convinced he’ll never die.
Stupid move? Mick Jagger only is worth a couple hundred million. how is this going to hurt him?
One of his last public gigs was playing at the Palm Springs Follies back in the early 1990’s. My mother had the job of babysitting him. He couldn’t find his way from his bungalow to the stage but once he got on stage, he would do a perfect skit. She would take him, wait in the wings, take him back etc. She said he was so nice and she was amazed at how once on stage he was spot on every single show (2 shows a day 6 days a week).
I remember when Palin was running as McCain’s VP pick (her nickname was “Barracuda”) and it was an unofficial theme song for her campaign until Heart put a stop to it.
If you read the article you would see that yes they do. Most musicians don't allow either party to use their music but they can't really do anything legally if the music is played.
Stupid move as in, alienating yourselves from a guy who is likely the next President of the United States. But the Stones are free to do what ever they want. They got the big dollars, right?
“Hmmm. I can think of a more appropriate Stones’ song for Hillary Clinton.’
The Rolling Stones do have a song called “Bitch”
Good article.
Wow, thanks for sharing that.
Does Dean have his class of Apple Juice?
class + glass.
TTGTB.
oh you WOULD like THAT wouldn’t you?
The song is titled My City Was Gone. It's about Chrissy Hynde's home town, Akron.
From Rolling Stone, August 28, 1999:
The standoff between CHRISSIE HYNDE and radio right-winger RUSH LIMBAUGH is finally over. Since 1984, Limbaugh had been using the "My City Was Gone," the Pretenders lament about the mallification of America, without Hynde's consent. According to Hynde's manager, Limbaugh had not licensed the song for his nationally syndicated radio show, nor had he even asked for permission to use it -- something that didn't seem to bother Hynde all that much until Limbaugh told a pair of reporters in 1997 that "it was icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist, and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time." Last month, Hynde finally got Limbaugh to pull the song but then did an about face on Aug. 18, telling him that he could use the song if he donated all the royalties to the animal right's organization PETA, after PETA campaign manager Dan Mathews told her Limbaugh had a soft-spot for animals. She fired off the following missive to PETA to let them know of the recent developments. "In light of Rush Limbaugh's vocal support of PETA's campaign against the Environmental Protection Agency's foolish plan to test some 3,000 chemicals on animals, I have decided to allow him to keep my song, 'My City Was Gone,' as his signature tune and to donate all proceeds from the deal to further PETA's efforts in that regard" ...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/05/13/origins_of_the_eib_theme_song
Maybe “Sympathy for the Devil.”
Heart is rare - they actually kept the rights to some of their songs, so they could do that.
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