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Garth Brooks Explains Why He’s Not Performing at Donald Trump’s Inauguration
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Posted on 01/18/2017 8:17:28 AM PST by Fido969

After initially indicating that he’d be open to the idea of performing at Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration ceremony this week, Garth Brooks is now explaining why he won’t be on hand for the swearing in of the 45th President of the United States.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: brook; brooks; countrymusic; fakenews; garth; garthbrooks; inauguration; neverasked; trump; trumpinaugural
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To: Fido969
This is not the first time Brooks was all about the $$$$. Concerts are cancelled and rescheduled all the time. Presidential inaugerations are not.

Taylor Swift's Streaming Rant Nearly Identical To Garth Brooks' Used CD Rant

Brooks said that because no royalties are paid on the sale of used CDs, writers, labels, publishers and artists were being cheated. He said he would only supply chains that sell used CDs with his cassettes, and hinted that he might be working on another "format" to thwart such sales.

61 posted on 01/18/2017 9:37:28 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: CodeToad
the demand for tickets allowed him to sell three additional dates that then bumped into the 20th.

Well, personally, if I say I'm going to do something, I do it, even if it is inconvenient for me. The millennial "blow it off" crowd is useless to me.

62 posted on 01/18/2017 9:39:22 AM PST by Fido969 (IN!)
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To: CodeToad

Reading the story is too much work . . . and why wait for all the facts to be sorted out before posting. It’s a family tradition.


63 posted on 01/18/2017 9:41:42 AM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: jazminerose
Wasn’t he an Obama voter?

Garth Brooks on Obama: I Love Him to Death; It's Got to Be Hell In That Office

64 posted on 01/18/2017 9:41:49 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Fido969
I just saw part of an interview with Jennifer Hudson; and, she is getting death threats from people. This is scary stuff. Yeah, its easy for us to say, just do it; but, we are not the ones getting death threats.

Let's put the onus on the people who are really the problem. The Left in this country will not allow anyone with a viewpoint that doesn't completely, and I mean completely, agree with their POV.

65 posted on 01/18/2017 9:45:22 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: Gaffer
He became that when he took on his alter ego singing persona.

Oh...I totally forgot about that. "Both" guys were total tools.

66 posted on 01/18/2017 9:47:37 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: pepsi_junkie

I googled: why is music so bad these days?
https://www.google.com/#q=why+is+music+so+bad+these+days

Many many articles on why!


67 posted on 01/18/2017 9:50:26 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Fido969

Garth Brooks is generous

I know this personally

But he’s a good works gen X PC loon

I knew this immediately from the Dance video and all the PC imagery


68 posted on 01/18/2017 9:52:00 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Hieronymus

“It’s a family tradition.”

lol. Yeah, people tend to bark like dogs that bark because the neighbor dog is barking.


69 posted on 01/18/2017 9:52:47 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Fido969
"Well, personally, if I say I'm going to do something, I do it,"

Again, you didn't read the story. Garth never said he would do it, he never committed to doing it.

He said he was interested in doing it. That's a far cry from being committed.


70 posted on 01/18/2017 9:54:17 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Bitsy; Squantos

Yukon Oklahoma

Quasi southern

Unlike Texas the further west you go in Oklahoma the less Reb it gets

You can stand in Texline TX and know it’s Dixie

Cross over to Clayton New Mexico and its Yankees with a splatter of southern talk

in Oklahoma once past El Reno southerners fade quick and it gets more like eastern colorado fast

But eastern half Oklahoma is very very southern God bless em


71 posted on 01/18/2017 9:59:18 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: LibertarianLiz

The left is primarily these days four distinct minorities that are loud

Blacks and resultant thuggery

Latino La Raza sorts

The Homosexual and other sexual weirdness mob

Secular Anti Christians who predominate the media and Hollywood

thats the American left in 2017 or at least 80% of it


72 posted on 01/18/2017 10:07:06 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: MamaDearest; PGalt
Brooks said that because no royalties are paid on the sale of used CDs, writers, labels, publishers and artists were being cheated. He said he would only supply chains that sell used CDs with his cassettes, and hinted that he might be working on another "format" to thwart such sales.

Be a shame if somebodys were to buy a couple of 100-CD blank stacks and copy Garth's albums onto them, and leave them out in public places.

73 posted on 01/18/2017 10:53:34 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: wardaddy

Baloney. Oklahoma is the only state where EVERY SINGLE county went red in the last 2 presidential elections. The panhandle (western-most part of the state) is extremely conservative.

Not sure about ‘Reb’, but conservative and Republican - western part of the state definitely is.


74 posted on 01/18/2017 11:02:17 AM PST by Sooner Gal
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To: Sooner Gal

But I don’t claim Barf Brooks - never have.


75 posted on 01/18/2017 11:03:22 AM PST by Sooner Gal
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To: wardaddy

I guess not being from OK and TX I would assume most is southern but I am wrong. But it is a lot like Louisiana. New Orleans with the black population and colleges, is democrat/liberal while Metairie is a suburb is conservative.
I am SO glad I live in a conservative part of LA!


76 posted on 01/18/2017 11:10:54 AM PST by Bitsy
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I lost touch with country after the mid 70s, even then I only listened that old school honky tonk stuff.


77 posted on 01/18/2017 12:08:31 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its egg roll.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Faux country is right.


78 posted on 01/18/2017 1:03:00 PM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Fido969
He was never asked, neither was Kiss or Motley Crue. More fake news...

So, when Garth was asked about the chances of him singing at Donald Trump’s inauguration, we weren’t surprised when he answered back a vague answer.

Oh I haven’t been asked… but, it’s always about serving. It’s what you do.” http://newsbake.com/entertainment-news/music-entertainment/garth-brooks-officially-says-no-to-donald-trump-will-not-play-for-the-inauguration/

79 posted on 01/18/2017 1:11:48 PM PST by conservative98
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To: BlueDragon
Sounds like it could be the band name

Sudden Deter would work well also.

Only problem on my end is I can't play, sing or dance.

How 'bout could I be the manager?

80 posted on 01/18/2017 1:39:43 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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