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Dee Snider on Why Donald Trump Can Use 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
Newsweek ^ | 8 Sept 2015 | Zach Schonfeld

Posted on 09/08/2015 5:27:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Donald Trump has been using an unlikely soundtrack at speeches and rallies for his presidential campaign: Twisted Sister's 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It."

When Paul Ryan tried using the same track during his 2012 campaign for the vice presidency, he drew a stern rebuke from Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. So why does Trump—who is also running as a Republican—get away with the song usage?

The rebellion anthem might seem better suited to a disaffected teenager than a 69-year-old billionaire making a bid for the White House, but Snider says he won't be calling foul this time. In fact, he considers Trump's run to be in the spirit of the track.

"He asked me," Snider tells Newsweek. "He's a friend. He didn't want a Neil Young situation. So he contacted me and said, 'I'd like to use "We're Not Gonna Take It."' I said, 'Look, we're friends, and I really like you, but we don't see eye-to-eye on everything.' We do agree on a number of things, but not everything!"

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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KEYWORDS: deesnider; trump; twistedsister; werenotgonnatakeit
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To: bigbob
All he needs is a public performance license

No, you are wrong. Check out ASCAP's brochure on Using Music in Political Campaigns: What you should know

There's an issue called "False Endorsement" whereby playing a musician's identifying work may imply endorsement of that candidate. A musician may sue based on that.

21 posted on 09/08/2015 6:05:06 PM PDT by ConstantSkeptic (Be careful about preconceptions)
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To: 11th_VA

Since USAtoday articles can’t be posted as threads on Freep, I thought I would post this article that Trump wrote here..Dee Snider I believe is half Jewish which is enough to get one beheaded under the Islamo Nazis. He may want to take a glance at it...

Donald Trump: Amateur hour with the Iran nuclear deal

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/08/donald-trump-amateur-hour-iran-nuclear-deal-column/71884090/


22 posted on 09/08/2015 6:08:50 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: dp0622

I know what HRC is but not IIRC. Please educate me cause I am really confused.


23 posted on 09/08/2015 6:18:53 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: Catsrus
Too bad the current squatter in the WH hasn’t had one person come forth and call him a friend in nearly 7 years. Strange, isn’t it?/s

Well Reggie Love...but not sure if that counts as a friend or something else...

24 posted on 09/08/2015 6:19:12 PM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: 11th_VA

I will put 2 cents in here because I love Rock music.

Trump should have known better than to use the Young song. Neil Young is a leftist first, last, and always. He’s a flower in the hair, patchouli smelling hippie that played at Woodstock.

Dee Snider (they could have used a more up to date picture in the article) is a “rip your face off, saw your neighbor in half Rocker”. He’s also one of the Rockers who went to Capitol Hill to tell Tipper Gore, and her PMRC to shove it “real deep”.
Gotta Love Dee!!


25 posted on 09/08/2015 6:20:25 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you can't make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: 11th_VA

Didn’t he endorse Al Gore after the PRMC hearings? Wait, didn’t Rolling Stoned put Candidate Gore on their cover with an airbrushed alpha male ‘package’ after the PMRC hearings? Didn’t Frank Zappa’s kids endorse Al Gore after the PMRC hearings?

It’s all professional wrestling.


26 posted on 09/08/2015 6:24:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: certrtwngnut

I THINK it stands for If I Recall/Remember Correctly, but i could be wrong.

it took me 15 years so dont trust me :)


27 posted on 09/08/2015 6:25:07 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: vpintheak

“If that’s your best, your best won’t do”


28 posted on 09/08/2015 6:27:30 PM PDT by wbill
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To: dp0622

Thank you. I will try to remember.


29 posted on 09/08/2015 6:40:16 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: BenLurkin
I like my version of California Dreaming, California Recall as the best song out of the Davis recall.

I'm told that Michelle Phillips liked it even if she didn't agree with it.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

30 posted on 09/08/2015 6:45:36 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: DouglasKC

And people think that’s a bad thing. Networking is a useful thing and he’s the king of it...


31 posted on 09/08/2015 6:47:46 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: DouglasKC

And people think that’s a bad thing. Networking is a useful thing and he’s the king of it...


32 posted on 09/08/2015 6:47:50 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: 11th_VA

This is great.


33 posted on 09/08/2015 6:51:24 PM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: mumblypeg
ROTFLMAO!

You don't have a clue about “redneck” voters, do you?

Mr. Trump has access to any number of prominent Country music stars, and they would be the first to tell him, they keep on top for one simple reason - they shut up and sing.

It ain't USA rednecks keeping low class, trashy, nasty people like the Kardashians and Miley Cyrus on cable TV!

34 posted on 09/08/2015 7:05:04 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: rikkir

Didn’t Tipper Gore’s group *Parents Music Resource Center* rail against the lyrics of Twisted Sister, Prince, et al.

BTW, where is she now? Nevermind. I don’t care.


35 posted on 09/08/2015 7:30:56 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: BenLurkin

So what, the Dem campaigns are going to use “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” from the first Bush41 run?


36 posted on 09/08/2015 7:42:08 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Daffynition

Didn’t Tipper Gore’s group *Parents Music Resource Center* rail against the lyrics of Twisted Sister, Prince, et al.

Oh yeah, but remember it’s not censorship if a Democrat does it.

Just to torture you:

Gore has been a long-time advocate for the LGBT community.She represented the Clinton Administration in the Washington, DC AIDS Walk in 1993 as one of the highest-ranking public officials ever to participate. She has continued to participate in such walks and, in 2013, she was an honorary chair of the Nashville AIDS Walk & 5K Run.She was a public opponent of California’s Proposition 8 to ban same sex marriage in 2008.

She serves as co-chair of the advisory board of the Diana Basehart Foundation which assists homeless and low-income people with animal care. In 2014, she created an exhibition of her photographs at the Wall Space Gallery to support the Pacific Pride Foundation that provides services to the HIV/AIDS and LGBT communities of Santa Barbara, California.


37 posted on 09/08/2015 8:05:41 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you can't make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: rikkir

I thought Tipper died several years ago


38 posted on 09/08/2015 8:28:48 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: rikkir
I guess Albore hasn't got the guts to divorce her yet.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/al-gore-confirms-dating-article-1.1768863

39 posted on 09/08/2015 8:35:56 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: sarasmom

Well actually, I think I am one.
But YMMV.


40 posted on 09/08/2015 8:40:45 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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