Cheap Trick: ‘We got asked to play for the Republicans – we would have got swastika guitars made’

The Guardian ^ | 4.21.2016 | Michael Hann

[TakebackGOP]

Robin Zander lead singer of Cheap Trick, “The Republican National Committee called our office and offered us $100,000 to play at their convention in Cleveland [this summer],” Zander says. “We turned it down. Then we had second thoughts. Maybe we should have accepted it – but we would all have got swastika guitars made.”

[ifinnegan]

Yeah sure.

RNC are pathetic so maybe it is true they’d be so stupid as to waste $100k on an old pop rock band.

Either way they’re all idiots.

[mylife]

mommys alright.. daddys alright.. zanders a littl wierd..

[Levy78]

Ohhhhh so edgy. STFU, you washed up old men. Mediocre band at best and that’s probably an overstatement.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Wow! Washed up AND so witty.

[Regulator]

Knew I never liked them.

[Prole]

The thing that is truly “cheap” here is the mentality of these washed-up idiots.

[jacknhoo]

Fried brains.

[TakebackGOP]

It’s over the line to say that. They’re supposed to be a Midwest American band.

[SaveFerris]

$100,000???

WAY too much

By $99,900.

At least.

[Da Coyote]

Yup, we should always take political advice from ...er...musicians.

I will regretfully admit that yes, I am a musician (but also a productive citizen as a geek). But let’s face it, most of these clowns don’t know how the pickup coil in a guitar works.

[Pollard]

Get it right. Metrosexual old guys and at least one gay maybe.

[CrappieLuck]

Sad how the right allowed themselves to be painted with the left’s history.

Socialism, famine, genocide. etc.

All from dictators. Left, tyrannical dictators.

[xp38]

Trying to remember the last time I even heard about Cheap Trick. Been a while.

[Track9]

I doubt any of them read VDH or are familiar with any kind of critical analysis. More like la la land.

[Night Hides Not]

This is a group I never got into. I've never looked to musicians for much of anything, except for good music.

For example, John Lennon was my favorite Beatle, and I recognize he was a terrible human being.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Yes because Republicans are the ones all acting like Hitler with COVID shutdowns. Go tongue Newsome you peroxide poisoned jerk off

[Telepathic Intruder]

Right, the Nazis were so unlike the Democrat party because they weren’t into socialism like they are.

[Huskrrrr]

I hope Rick breaks his neck someday with that multi-necked guitar.

[Salvavida]

Reprobate minds unable to think.

They had no problem playing at Camp Lejeune after Desert Storm.