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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Todd Rundgren is playing a new 1,000 capacity club called AURA in Portland Maine on Thursday. Not sold out yet. I won’t be going.
Ted Nugent is playing on August 10. I suspect it will sell out. I have seen Facebook posts calling for a boycott of the show, etc. Not going to happen.
“Trump supporter”? LOL The election is long over.
Never heard of this prick!!!
It’s a 1970s AM Top 40 thing. “Boogie Check” was John “Records” Landecker’s call-in-and-be-funny-on-the-air segment as the evening deejay on WLS radio out of Chicago.
So, it’s a reference as dated and irrelevant to the world of today as the aforementioned Todd Rundgren.
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