Posted on 05/14/2017 8:52:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Todd Rundgren isn’t bothered that some of his fans might avoid his concerts due to his politics.
The 68-year-old musician and record producer conceded as much in an interview with Variety when asked about an incident in which a couple walked out of a concert in Los Angeles due to comments he made about President Donald Trump.
“No,” Rundgren said when asked if it bothered him. “If I had the power, I’d say: If you’re a Trump supporter, don’t come to my show, because you won’t have a good time. And also, I don’t understand your frickin’ values. Because I’m not singing about that. If you don’t understand that basic thing, you’re just fooling yourself.”
The “Hello It’s Me” singer was talking to the magazine to promote his latest album, White Knight, which is filled with collaborations with artists such as Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Joe Walsh.
One song on the album, “Tin Foil Hat,” is a direct jab at Trump, written and performed with Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen. The lyrics reference Trump’s now-famous descent down an escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential run, and add that Trump tweets “like a teenage girl” and “puts the ‘pluto’ in ‘plutocrat.'”
Rundgren is currently on a cross-country tour, with multiple dates in Florida and Texas, states that Trump won during the 2016 campaign. But the musician told Variety that Trump supporters “will likely be offended” if they attend his concerts.
“Let the buyer beware! I mean, if you can’t take a joke, or you can’t admit that you’ve made a mistake, you don’t belong with the rest of us,” he said with a laugh.
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Don’t worry.
I won’t.
That song I regard as one of the very worst songs I ever heard in my entire life. And that was before knowing this about this guy.
Well, considering that the song he’s most famous for has the following opening lyrics:
I don’t want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
Yeah, I think we can safely say he’s on the liberal side of things and doesn’t understand working. Also, increasingly irrelevant musician.
No worries. Your music has always sucked.
Changing “feet” to “brain” in one of his songs with Utopia:
Brain don’t fail me now
Begging please don’t make a fool of me
Brain don’t fail me now
Why do libs feel the need to ruin everything?
Todd Rundgren: ‘If You’re a Trump Supporter, Don’t Come to My Show’
Your offer is accepted.
Who?
Don’t worry, Todd. I wouldn’t waste my money on a weirdo like you anyway.
Einstein was wrong. The hubris of entertainers is truly unbounded.
Wow, disappointed. I liked Rundgren in the 70’s.
Another drugged-out, burned out one hit wonder old rock “star” who will soon be assuming room temperature.
Multiple dates in Florida and Texas? Senior centers, insane asylums and prisons?
Let’s stay at home and drive steamrollers over piles of his CD’s!!! (Young ‘uns who download all their music will definitely not get the point, though;)
what a moron he is
Todd will be calling out the cadence at gay bathhouse butt sects foam parties.
Let’s face it. These 70’s rockers are all on blood pressure meds, walk around in adult diapers, and mumble about things that could have been. They are lashing out at Trump because at the end of the day, they just wrote songs.
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