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Riddle me this, Batman: how can every leftist musician “deny” Trump the “right” to play their songs at his rallies, but Eddie Vedder et al can mashup Stranglehold to their gun control desires with impunity?

By the way, Stranglehold is one of the greatest guitar-driven songs ever. The solo is iconic. Toe Jam isn’t fit to shine Nugent’s shoes.

And Eddie Vedder tries to come across as some great guy, yet he refused to let into the Rock Hall Toe Jam’s inaugural drummer Dave Abbruzzese because he hates Dave, even though Abbruzzese‘s drumming arguably helped put that band on the map.

Eddie Vedder can suck it.

In most cases, people pay a license to play a whole bunch of songs, or in some cases a specific song. But generally, politicians will stop playing a song if the musician asks them. Do they have to? Probably not, but I guess it looks bad.

There is also another aspect: Usually it's the composer of the song that has the rights.

But Celine Dion asked Trump to stop playing, My Heart Will Go On. She did sing it, but she did not write it. (The man who wrote the words it passed away a few days ago.)

Again, in most cases it's the musician who wrote the song who hold the rights. For example, about ten years ago at Coachella, Prince played Creep by Radiohead. Someone posted a video of him playing it on YouTube. Prince contacted YouTube and asked the video to be pulled. When Radiohead found out the video was pulled, they contacted YouTube and had the video restored. So, that shows the writer has more power than the performer. [Radiohead had to credit Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood on that song, because it was similar to a song by them.]

Could Ted Nugent ask them not to play it? Sure. Will he? I don't know if he should.