Dee Snider To Paul Ryan: We’re Not Gonna Take Your Use Of Our Music

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

Rock singer Dee Snider is incensed with Paul Ryan for playing his 1984 hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as his intro music at a Pennsylvania rally on Tuesday.

“I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan’s use of my band Twisted Sister’s song, ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It,’ in any capacity,” Snider told TPM in a statement relayed by his manager Tuesday. “There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with except the use of the P90X.”

Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/dee-snider-to-tpm-were-not-gonna-take-paul-ryans-use-of-my-music.php

[spooky3]

1. I like his statement - and boy, he looks better than he did 30 years ago!

[dawg]

2. For some reason I thought Dee was a Republican.

Either I was wrong, or that has changed. Either way, more power to him!

[Mike Daniels]

6. I recall him speaking at the PMRC hearings and he was very anti what the group stood for

Apparently, he was also quite the hit and very articulate about his points.

[JoeyT]

66. Everyone in music opposed the PMRC though.

I'm not sure that would make someone more likely to be a Democrat or less likely to be a Republican.

The PMRC was pretty much Tipper and a bunch of her friends on a holy crusade.

[ET Awful]

67. Don't forget that one of the prime shakers and movers in the PMRC was Tipper Gore

That entire battle wasn't always a party-line battle

[tanyev]

3. C'mon, GOP, you've got the whole Ted Nugent and Lee Greenwood catalog ripe for picking.

What's the problem?

[cr8tvlde]

5. You forgot Hank Williams and Kid Rock ... LOL

[tanyev]

7. Ooh, and Megadeth!

[D23MIURG23]

55. Yeah, if there was any question about whether Dave Mustaine has done to many drugs...

it got settled when he endorsed Santorum.

Megadeth sucks anyway. On the (rare) occasion I want to listen to speed metal, I'd take sepultura over them any day.

[pstokely]

62. He traded one addiction for another

nt

[mike dub]

27. you might mean Hank Williams, Jr. ...

Hank Williams (daddy) had more talent, and probably wouldn't have spouted teabag nonsense to the press like Bocephus does.

[WestWisconsinDem]

28. Hank Williams Sr. would be disgusted

No way he would in any way be associated with this teabagger crowd. And yes, Hank Williams had more talent in his pickin' fingers than Bocephus has in his whole bloated, ugly self.

[frylock]

29. HW3 seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders..

looks to take after his grandad rather than his dumbass father.

[RT_Fanatic]

30. Hank III...

Great musician. Racist overtones, unfortunately.

[HiPointDem]

54. he looks a lot more like his grandfather than his father.

[IrishAle]

57. thats good, because his dad looks like -->

<-- My Stool, if I soaked it in booze and coke for 30 years.

[OnyxCollie]

63. You can't fall off a mountain

and land on your face and expect to win beauty contests.

[cr8tvlde]

45. Yes, indeed I did.

[Raine]

9. Bwahahaha slim pickings there! nt

[Fumesucker]

10. Oh I don't know.. I think this tune is perfectly appropriate for Ryan..

[Cha]

11. Yeah, mini mitt needs to pick one

of ted nugent's songs. Certainly there's something there?

Can Dee Snider make them stop using their music? I remember some music john mccain was using that was protested by those who created it but I don't know if they actually Stopped.

Edit: spelling

[bongbong]

16. Songs

> Yeah, mini mitt needs to pick one of ted nugent's songs. Certainly there's something there?

How about his multi-platinum hit "I'm A Shit-Filled Coward"?

[Cha]

19. Here's some more music the rotmoney campaign

is being told to stop playing it..

snip..

"Washington (CNN) -- Mitt Romney's campaign can now point to at least one thing it has in common with Ronald Reagan's -- a musical act is asking it to stop using its music at campaign stops.

The rock band Silversun Pickups this week served Romney's campaign with a cease-and-desist order after it says Romney's campaign used its song "Panic Switch" at an event earlier this month.

"Seems as if the GOP is once again whimsically ignoring our great nation's laws to do whatever it wants to do, and shooting itself in the foot in the process," band representative Ken Weinstein said in a statement."

More..
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/politics/music-in-campaigns/index.html

[pacalo]

17. Don't forget MEGASTAR Pat Boone!

[japple]

33. Oh god you made me gag and spew

all over the keyboard. I'ma sue you for that.

[reformist2]

18. Ugh. Will they EVER stop playing Lee Greenwood? It's so cringe inducing.

[woo me with science]

25. +1 And don't forget Kirk Cameron and Marie Osmond!

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[cr8tvlde]

46. Say what you will ... that girl can sing !!!!

[immoderate]

51. What an endless and drab production.

Yes Marie can sing, and in not too many years she will be as old as me.

--imm

[calimary]

37. Nope, they'd rather poach the better stuff. They don't have anything on their end

that makes sense, goes over with the blue-haired crowd, or isn't run into the ground like lee greenwood's smarmy nausea-anthem. And it's just very much who they are, intrinsically. Just Plain Dishonest!

[Siwsan]

4. Wow. I really thought Dee Snyder was a major conservative

Didn't he support McCain?

I think the GOP is going to have to resort to playing playing Pat Boone and Hank Williams music, with a touch of Chicken Hawk Nugent.

[Gregorian]

14. Same here. They played for Schwarteneger's inaugural.

But then that may not be indicative of their politics.

[RT_Fanatic]

32. Don't forget FatAss Limbaugh's wedding

Elton John played there.

[JI7]

61. They were getting Paid for the Limbaugh Wedding

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. It seems like hardly a week goes by

without some GOPer using music without permission and then getting a stern letter from the band's lawyer or an equally stern lecture from the musician.

Maybe it's because the GOPers don't have any good music - all they have is Ted Nugent, Hank Williams Jr. and a few other washed-up country singers.

But you'd think by this time they'd at least have enough sense to get permission before using a song. Yet they do this, over and over. Aren't they a teeny bit embarrassed? I guess it takes a lot to embarrass a GOPer.

[Cha]

15. I like that when they've used it without permission

The Band gets up and calls them out and tells America they stand for nothing like paul ryan does.

I hope they have legal standing to make them cease and desist. I know if the Obama Campaign was using some music that the copyright owners didn't want played and associated with them..they would stop. Course, the O Campaign might even check it out FIRST.

Here's a bunch of bands that didn't even want mccain and palin playing their music at campaign stops..

"In 2008, the band Heart asked the campaign to stop playing its song "Barracuda" in honor of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's nickname on her high school basketball team, "Sarah Barracuda."

The band even went on national television to express its outrage.

"Sarah Palin's views and values in no way represent us as American women," Ann and Nancy Wilson told Entertainment Weekly. "We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image."

McCain also settled out of court with Jackson Browne for using his 1977 hit "Running on Empty" in a campaign ad without the artist's permission.

Foo Fighters, John Mellencamp and Boston asked McCain and other candidates to stop using their music."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/politics/music-in-campaigns/index.html

[Cha]

21. That's a damn good question to ask the rotters..

when they're playing music that belongs to Reality Based Musicians.. "Don't your supporters have any songs you can play WITH PERMISSION?!

[cr8tvlde]

12. Romney, Ryan and Akin need to get a Music Permission Slip

Good luck with that! Maybe they need to try Mitt's musical tastes. Pat Boone? Andre Crouch? There's a whole genre of religious music out there, some of it not half bad. But Rage Against the Machine and Twisted Sister ... LOL

[hollysmom]

13. what is thie "ryan's group is reviewing the rewuest" crap?

Just stop using his music - how rude they are. I hope he charges them an arm and a leg for each time they used it so far!!!

PS, met him, he is a sweetheart.

[Politicalboi]

20. Stanley Steamer says NO!

[starroute]

22. I've thought for a while that poison pills might be the answer

Let the band re-record the song with lyrics that say derogatory or even obscene things about the Republican candidate who's ripped them off. Release it on YouTube as a freebie, encourage it to go viral -- and at that point, nobody will be able to hear the tune without having the new lyrics run through their mind.

Artists have more power than they realize.

[Drum]

59. +1...great idea!

[Skittles]

23. THANK YOU MR. SNIDER

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Lines: "We've got the RIGHT TO CHOOSE and There ain't no way we'll lose it". Ryan's team can't read

Ryan's team can't read or think.

Lines 4 and 5: [font size = +1]"We've got the right to choose and There ain't no way we'll lose it".[/font]

Ryan's team endorse pro-choice lyrics in the week that Akin breaks and the GOP denies abortions to rape and incest victims in its platform. They are nuts.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. Akin's team is illiterate too:

[Initech]

26. Silly Republicans - when are you going to learn that most musicians are liberals?

[SunSeeker]

31. Well that just leaves the crap that Nugent and Mustaine play. Hee hee hee.

[Historic NY]

34. Thank you Dee...

[zappaman]

35. HAHAHAHAAHA

Let MEGADETH soundtrack the campaign.
Dave "Moran" Mustaine could certainly use the money!

[DemInBuckhead]

36. Great to hear, and not the first time he's been right on these issues.

John Rocker used to come into Braves games to "I Wanna Rock". After the whole controversy with Rocker's Sports Illustrated article, the guys from Twisted Sister made it clear they did not want Rocker to continue using that song.

http://articles.courant.com/2000-01-19/features/0001191221_1_snider-gays-and-minorities-sports-illustrated

[The Wizard]

38. They probably could use

Charles Manson's "Cease to Exist" without much opposition.

[skeewee08]

40. WTG Dee

[Zoeisright]

41. Why do repukes ALWAYS steal music?

This has come up in every single campaign. They either think they're above the law, that what they want they can just take, or they are really that stupid.

[IDemo]

50. I'm convinced it's just another P.O. the Left tactic

This happens with far too much regularity for it to be just a mistake.

[cbdo2007]

58. Not to defend the Repubes....but the music they play before the show is like a radio station....

and all the music is just there and available for them to choose from, pretty much any song you can think of and they pay a miniscule royalty to be able to play, like 10 cents per song or whatever.

It's unreasonable for them to ask every artist if they agree with the music being played during the 3-4 hours they spend herding people in there and having the show and herding them out. If a song is on the list they consider it fair game, which it is. It is up to the artist to specifically state if there is an event they would prefer not use their songs. As far as I know, they may not always win, depending on who the publisher of the music is. The publisher can usually use the songs however THEY want.

For the record, I love it when artists do this and tell the Repubes to stop playing their music and it is great publicity for our side....but unfortunatly it isn't really stealing.

[SemperEadem]

60. no, it's not unreasonable

it's called doing their due diligence.

and no, they just can't pick a song and play it with the attitude of "fuck you, we're playing it".

You need to educate yourself on P.R.O.'s and the law concerning them.

[cbdo2007]

68. I'm plenty educated on it but you're putting words in my mouth.

I never said they coudl say "fuck you" and play whatever they want against the artists wishes.

Most musicians are happy to have as many fans as they can get and are happy to have anyone playing their music. It is only a small handful over the past 10 years who have risen up and asked for their songs to stop being played at particular times. For all we know, this is a ploy by Dee Snyder to just get publicity, one of his MO especially after seeing the other band do this and make front page news a few weeks ago.

Again "due diligence" makes the assumption that all artists have an opinion on whether or not their songs are played, and seeing as how we only have a handful of musicians stepping up to have their music removed from certain playlists, there really is no need for "due diligence" here. They aren't breaking any laws or trying to tie musicians to their campaigns, they are using their music to get people excited, which is what the artists created it for.

[sarcasmo]

42. Right on Dee

[hifiguy]

43. Some waggish muso should come up with a pro-Repig

song, hang a name like "Cleveland Steamer" on it and donate it to Willard. Laffs galore!

[sadbear]

44. Wayne Newton is a republican.

He plays well with the young hipsters, doesn't he?

[rasputin1952]

56. Wayne Newton is an alien...

hasn't aged in 45 yrs...

[Tx4obama]

47. Since no one else has posted this yet ...

[cr8tvlde]

48. No Wonder Hank Jr. is all wrought up and spoutin' off...

he's saying all the right things for these guys and they just don't want to "take him to the prom". Honky tonk beer-drinking bar music has its sh**-kicking place, but it's hard to imagine Mitt and Paul running onstage to .... "Are you ready for a Party....." LOL

[Lifelong Protester]

49. Love it!

I don't know enough about this, but can they make him cease and desist?

[hifiguy]

53. You bet your ass they can.

Heart did it in 2008 when Grifterella was using "Barracuda." Ann and Nancy Wilson went ballistic and sicced their intellectual property lawyers on Grampy's campaign. The song was promptly dropped.

[Dawson Leery]

52. Romney will always have Hank Jr., Ted Nugent, and Pat Boone.

[rks306]

64. Wow

Another band vetoing the GOP.

[upi402]

65. I liked that guy

even when I was mostly into jazz and R&B.

Now I find out he hates Paul Lyan and is a fitness nut. Looks like he might be pretty cut.