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Steven Tyler demands Trump stop playing Aerosmith at rallies
The Hill ^ | 08/22/18 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 08/22/2018 8:47:29 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Rock legend Steven Tyler has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the White House demanding that President Trump stop playing Aerosmith songs at his rallies.

Tyler’s attorney, Dina LaPolt, sent the letter after Trump’s Tuesday night rally in West Virginia, as first reported by Variety. The band’s “Livin’ on the Edge” played as Trump supporters entered the Charleston Civic Center.

LaPolt’s letter, a copy of which was obtained by Variety, notes that Trump was previously asked to stop using Aerosmith songs twice during his campaign.

“Mr. Trump is creating the false impression that our client has given his consent for the use of his music, and even that he endorses the presidency of Mr. Trump,” the letter reads.

LaPolt writes that Aerosmith fans have mistakenly believed that Tyler endorses Trump’s presidency and expressed as much on social media, and says that Trump’s use of the song is a violation of the Lanham Act.

LaPolt said in the first two cease-and-desist letters, which were related to Trump’s use of “Dream On,” that the issue was neither personal nor political, but an issue of copyright. Tyler is a registered Republican.

Trump said in 2015 that he had found a “better” song to play instead of “Dream On,” and boasted that the scandal gave Tyler “more publicity … than he’s gotten in 10 years.”

A number of musical artists have requested that Trump not play their songs at public events, including R.E.M., Twisted Sister and Elton John.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerosmith; bakethecake; trump; trumprallies
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To: McGruff

Yes..............


21 posted on 08/22/2018 8:58:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hear we go again. It’s election time. The faggots and maggots come crawling out from under the rocks whining about people playing the garbage they call music.


22 posted on 08/22/2018 8:59:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: yesthatjallen
Steven Tyler demands Trump stop playing Aerosmith at rallies

Sorry, Steve, but you can't always get what you want.

23 posted on 08/22/2018 8:59:26 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Shove it Tyler. He will pay the fee.


24 posted on 08/22/2018 8:59:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: yesthatjallen

Are you still getting royalites from your music? Then stfu stevie.


25 posted on 08/22/2018 8:59:51 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump should reply: Dream On.


26 posted on 08/22/2018 9:00:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: bert
who is Aerosmith?

Aeroheads.

27 posted on 08/22/2018 9:01:16 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: yesthatjallen

Your music is a gay wedding cake.


28 posted on 08/22/2018 9:01:39 AM PDT by dead
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To: yesthatjallen

Well that explains why he and Joe Perry were the two Grannies sitting in the front row at the Music Video Awards.


29 posted on 08/22/2018 9:02:03 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m sorry Steve, you look worse than Keith Richards.

5.56mm


30 posted on 08/22/2018 9:03:06 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ok by me. I never liked the music of that Mick Jagger wannabe.


31 posted on 08/22/2018 9:03:10 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Go fk urself Steve.


32 posted on 08/22/2018 9:09:07 AM PDT by Renegade
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Bake the damn cake, Boston boy.


33 posted on 08/22/2018 9:09:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: bert

They are tgat band that came back from the dead in the 80s because a rap group covered their song.


34 posted on 08/22/2018 9:10:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: yesthatjallen

I’ll stop playing Aerosmith songs, Steven.


35 posted on 08/22/2018 9:10:56 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: yesthatjallen

This guy looks like one of those dehydrated mummies they find in caves.


36 posted on 08/22/2018 9:17:46 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: rightwingcrazy
They shouldn’t have published their music if they were concerned that people that they didn’t like might play it, or listen to it.

Versions of this sentence need posted in every sort of social media, and on and on and on.

Artists wanna be artists, until their art becomes part of the culture. Then they decide it needs controlled.

37 posted on 08/22/2018 9:17:54 AM PDT by Sam_Damon
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To: yesthatjallen
Steven Tyler should shut up. Check out this PMJ cover of Dream On. After hearing this, Dream On is no longer an Aerosmith song. It belongs to Morgan James now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq4KA0mUnC8
38 posted on 08/22/2018 9:21:25 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: yesthatjallen

63 million Trump Supporters demand that Steven Tyler learn how to sing and get a face transplant.


39 posted on 08/22/2018 9:21:30 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Here’s a little something about Steven Tyler that you probably don’t know:

https://savethestorks.com/2017/09/rockstar-steven-tyler-pressured-teenage-girlfriend-abortion-now-boldly-pro-life/


40 posted on 08/22/2018 9:22:26 AM PDT by PTBAA
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