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Eagles' Joe Walsh: I'm dropping out of GOP convention show
MSN ^ | April 21, 2016

Posted on 04/21/2016 4:40:19 AM PDT by detective

Eagles keyboardist and guitarist Joe Walsh says he's pulling out of a Cleveland summer concert he thought would be a nonpartisan event for veterans' families because it's actually a launch for the Republican National Convention.

Walsh says in an emailed statement he's "very concerned about the rampant vitriol, fear-mongering and bullying coming from the current Republican campaigns." He says he "cannot in good conscience endorse the Republican party in any way."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; gopconvention; joewalsh
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To: detective
Hey Joe, Take it easy.

Very clever.

21 posted on 04/21/2016 5:21:19 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Meeping Great Again! Meep! Meep!")
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To: detective
So What
22 posted on 04/21/2016 5:23:10 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: detective

JOE WALSH NET WORTH = $65 MILLION

Yet he's still a member of "The 99%"

23 posted on 04/21/2016 5:25:04 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Jeff “the Skunk” Baxter might do it


24 posted on 04/21/2016 5:27:21 AM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“The Dude was right about The Eagles.”

Joe Walsh joined the Eagles after some of their very best work. Walsh joined for their fifth album (Hotel California). They became much more pop-commercial rock after that. No offense to him as a musician.


25 posted on 04/21/2016 5:28:32 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: detective

Charlie Daniels


26 posted on 04/21/2016 5:29:03 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: exit82

Walsh had nothing to do with ‘Take it easy’.


27 posted on 04/21/2016 5:29:50 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: CaptainK
He needed to get this in a press release because nobody even knows he’s still alive.

Seriously, did not know he was still alive.
28 posted on 04/21/2016 5:33:14 AM PDT by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: detective

Life in the fast lane fried his brain long ago.


29 posted on 04/21/2016 5:33:52 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

I know—but it is an iconic Eagles song.

Greetings from Winslow, AZ. ;)


30 posted on 04/21/2016 5:34:31 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Meeping Great Again! Meep! Meep!")
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To: akalinin

I’m shocked he outlived Glenn Frey.


31 posted on 04/21/2016 5:36:23 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: newfreep
I saw an interview with Don Felder who mentioned Walsh and TBSchmit were hired as “employees” and not given partnership status that Felder had with the group.

It is correct that Schmit and Walsh were hired as employees rather than partners. Frey and Henley stopped paying Felder, an original member, as a partner also, which is why Felder quit the band. Felder had to sue them to get the money he was owed. (Frey was a major league as**ole and Henley isn't much better.) The Eagles sucked after Felder left. Walsh didn't come anywhere close to filling his shoes.

32 posted on 04/21/2016 5:39:11 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: detective

Eat Shyte and die slowly Joe.


33 posted on 04/21/2016 5:40:45 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: KevinB

Agree 100%

Also, “Take it Easy” was written by Jackson Browne although Frey added the “Winslow” verse.


34 posted on 04/21/2016 5:50:46 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: detective

Joe Walsh must be a Ted Cruz fan. It’s the “Rocky Mountain Way”.


35 posted on 04/21/2016 6:03:11 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: detective
Seems to me he don't want to talk about it...
36 posted on 04/21/2016 6:05:49 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (We have leaped off the cliff toward madness and we are still falling...)
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To: detective

Joe plays a heckuva guitar, but I think all the drugs have left him a little addled.


37 posted on 04/21/2016 6:07:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: detective
Good for Joe Walsh. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. I would just assume celebrity entertainers of ALL stripes, stay the hell away from politics. And truth be told, I'd rather listen to Joe Walsh play than have to listen to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie, Hillary or any of the self-anointed idiots in Washington, on the interweb chat sites or on cable TV news, spewing lies and empty promises.

"If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." - Alice Cooper

Just shut up and sing, right?

38 posted on 04/21/2016 6:08:06 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: fieldmarshaldj

39 posted on 04/21/2016 6:10:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: detective

I’d cancel too. The streets of Cleveland are gonna be one jumpin’ ugly place if the GOPe tries what I think they are going to try. I’d be very concerned about being able to get out of the arena.


40 posted on 04/21/2016 6:10:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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