Republican musicians.....but you like their music

[Gothic Sponge]

I grew up listening to Ted Nugent. I never knew he was a conservative or a hunter. I'm a leftist vegetarian! However, i do still love his old 70's albums. Anyone else have a love hate attitude with a repug musician?

[vi5]

1. Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty/ All /Down By Law....

May not be familiar to most on here if you're not familiar with the punk/hardcore scene but he's been in some classic catchy punk bands with a good deal of social conscience.

Lately he's taken to posting on-line articles about being a conservative in the punk scene. They are made all the more pathetic by the fact that he attempts to make it sound cool, like being a punk and conservative makes you a "gonzo conservative" as he calls it.

Pathetic.

[sendero]

3. Just what punk needs...

....another f*cking poseur. :evilgrin:

Conservative punk is a bigger oxymoron than compassionate conservative.

[Beware the Beast Man]

21. Michael Graves, too....ex-Misfits singer.

Or Danzig impostor, if you like....recently tried to debate Fat Mike of NOFX on Howard Stern

[vi5]

22. That guys not even worth noting.....

I don't know any true punk fan who didn't think that reunion was an abomination.

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. Agreed

Non-Dazig Misfits=pure garbage :puke:

[Upfront]

2. No hate.

He could have been a real force for good but he went nuts and lost any respect I had for him. Sad.

[vi5]

4. A real force for good?

I'll admit to loving some of Nuge's work, but he was always a loud mouthed, mysoginistic creep who liked girls waaaaaaaayyyy too young for him (and the law). What kind of "force for good" would become a girls legal guardian so he could sleep with her?

[redqueen]

32. the hell you say!

What kind of "force for good" would become a girls legal guardian so he could sleep with her?

Are you freaking KIDDING ME?! Please say yes.

I mean... I seriously despise this guy and find his music beyond revolting, and didn't think I could ever dislike him more, but... this may actually do the trick!!

[AmandaRuth]

34. tis true

happened in the 70's. Ted legally adopted a girl (or became her legal guardian or whatever), to circumvent the legal age issue. yuck.

[lapfog_1]

5. I have only two words from when I was in college (70's) -

Nugent bites.

[Wapsie B]

6. Stan Getz

was a repug, but I don't know if was of the neocon variety. One of the better tenor players in his day.

[Richardo]

I found out the other day that Jeff Skunk Baxter supports missile defense

But I still think he's played some of the best solos ever...

[vi5]

9. Yeah....that guys is a repub through and through.....

I think he campaigned for bush even, and ran for an office himself as an (R).

[Dudley_DUright]

10. Yes, I am afraid I was the one that "outed" Jeff Baxter

as a right winger. Sorry about that. I still love his work with the Doobies and Steely Dan, however.

[Richardo]

7. see above

[TN al]

8. If I find they are GOP...

...I stop listening to their music.

[Taverner]

11. I can't stand Harry Conick Junior

But I do like Chic Corea even though he has a double whammy: Repub AND Scientologist.

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. Ramones

So what if Johnny Ramone is a wingnut sellout...the Ramones still rock

[vi5]

14. I think Joey was pretty liberal.....

He did after all write "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg", which in addition to being my favorite Ramones tune, was also apparently a huge point of contention between him and Johnny.

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. Right, the rest of them were liberal, or indifferent..

But Johnny is a big-time repug....and since Joey & Dee Dee are now dead, I think he has controlling interest in the group...which means he's been whoring them out to commercials.

[redqueen]

33. It's the work of Satan I tells ya

WTF couldn't JOHNNY have been first to go? WHY, GOD, WHY?!

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

13. Mr. Charlie Daniels...

He's sure not the same person who did "Uneasy Rider", and I disagree with about 101% of what he says/writes these days, but he can still play the fiddle, and at least he isn't afraid to speak his mind and be amusing.

[mvd]

20. I like his stuff from back when he was better politically..

..at least. :-)

[Parrcrow]

36. Loved his early work and...

The Volunteer Jam stuff. Little more than ridiculous views and a stupid hat now.

[mvd]

15. Mine include

Billy Joel (his Innocent Man and Piano Man albums are classics IMO)
Martina McBride (looks like she's a Repuke at least)
Darryl Worley (what a waste of talent his song was!)
Loretta Lynn
Vince Gill

[vi5]

16. Billy Joel is a republican?

I had no idea.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Didn't know Billy Joel was a Republican.

[mvd]

18. That's what I've heard here

Maybe someone can confirm.

[vi5]

23. I would wait for a more reputable source.....

Honestly, there are a lot of people on here who don't exactly have high (or would it be low?) for what they regard as making someone a republican.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. I had heard Joel was a Democrat.

Don't take that as Gospel, though.

[phillybri]

26. Billy Joel isn't a Repug!

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=Joel&first=William

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Thanks Bri, I thought that might be the case.

[mvd]

31. Thanks

That Legislative Fund For The Arts does sound like it would be a Democratic cause. And he did support Hillary and Bill Clinton.

[Dees]

39. Add Sara Evans

[Canadian_moderate]

25. I personally don't care...

what politics a musician prefers unless he/she is very outspoken. Some articts are obviously very political, but many are not and are very private about it. They have their rights to believe in what they believe and I won't let it affect how I judge their music.

I take the same approach with all my friends, though most tend to be liberal.

I also think it's sad that the RW extremists are doing the same thing.

[phillybri]

28. Sammy Hagar

I was bummed when I found out about him giving $2k to the Shrub...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

29. Having once worked for Sammy...

I can say, categorically and without fear of contradiction, that at no time in the history of the Human Race, has a bigger jerkoff ever walked the face of the earth and wasted more gravity.

[Book Lover]

38. Now, don't hold back

on how you really feel :-)

[Kat45]

35. I agree with you on the Nuge

Word for word, except for the vegetarian part. :-)

[mitchum]

37. Bryan Ferry is a Tory bastard, but I love (most of) his music...

can he count?

[playahata1]

40. As much as I despise Ted Nugent,

I LOVE "Stranglehold." I used to work out to it; it absolutely pumps me up every time I hear it.

[chaska]

41. Good god! I'd embrace his politics before that jackass's music.