The GOP's entertainment list is the future of Rock & Roll....

[Condem]

Sammy Hagar, The Beach Boys, Charlie Daniels , LeeAnn Rimes, but the best...... The legendary Styx!!!

[rzemanfl]

1. How many of the original Beach Boys are left? n/t

[Condem]

2. I believe Mike Love is there.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[gateley]

5. I think just Brian, Al Jardine, and Mike Love.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Mike Love show up.

[Condem]

6. The crazy thing, gately

40 years ago, Love was with The Beatles at Rishakesh with The Maharishi. What the fuck happened??

[gateley]

23. Maybe the same thing that happened to me --

I went from "expanding my consciousness" to just getting stoned. And becoming an asshole.

Plus, I've always heard he was kind of a jerk. Even the Maharishi and a special mantra can't work miracles. :) :hi:

[americanstranger]

42. Love was even an asshole in the old days.

Brother Dennis loved to fuck with him - even married his daughter to get under his skin.

Brian, thankfully, is far away from the Mike Love/Al Jardine Beach Boys. 'Kokomo' is about as lame as you can get.

- as

[gateley]

50. I just talked to my Beach Boy Aficionado Friend,

and he doesn't think Al Jardine would be there, either -- that he used to fight a lot with Love, too. But then, who didn't? :shrug:

[Condem]

49. Man

Just to hang with John Lennon for a couple of weeks. Something good has to happen!

[Left Is Write]

36. What happened to Charlie Daniels?

He wasn't always a conservative, Bush-supporting asshole.

[HelenWheels]

44. Charlie a Repuke

After 2004 I got in an online discussion with Daniels. He was then and obviously still is a Repuke. We had several back and forths about Bush with him very supportive of Bush. Daniels was a supporter of the war from the beginning. We ended up with agreeing to disagree. He is definitely a Repuke.

[Left Is Write]

45. I know. But he didn't used to be.

[YOY]

3. Please tell me Brian isn't with the Beach Boys...

I want him to be happy again but not in the brainwashed way...

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

13. Brian decamped long ago

I saw his solo tour for SMiLE a few years ago. He has NOTHING to do with the current BBs.

[YOY]

16. I knew he was feeling better recently and was hoping he didn't rejoin them

I'll never forget that Rolling Stone photo of him standing in his gorgeous backyard with the stormclouds in the background. The embodyment of a good man in serious depession.

I smiled like nothing else when he came out with SMiLE! As cheesy as it is, for him to feel joy again brings me joy.

[Yavin4]

4. Oh No!!!! They're Going Mr. Roboto on Us!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ2KBILIu-4


How can we fight back?

[eShirl]

10. "Why are they playing that Japanese song?"

"This is America, SPEAK ENGLISH!!!"
:rofl:

[Motown_Johnny]

7. LOL,, Sammy Hagar has always been the kiss of death to any band.. And Styx has a song

called "Miss America" (my favorite from them)

I hope they play it for Sarah

[Union Thug]

8. Styx? Whaaa? "Blue Collar Man" Styx? Ah geez...

Show's how little I've followed these guys since 1981 or so.

[Condem]

11. Sailing Away!!!

One of the BEST songs of all time. Up there with Misty Mountain Hop!!!

[Motown_Johnny]

22. Miss America... they should play it for Sarah

Miss America lyrics

You were the apple of the public's eye
As you cut the ribbon at the local mall
A mirage for both you and us
How can it be real?
We loved your body in that photograph
Your home state sure must be proud
The queen of the United States
Have you lost your crown?
Chorus: Well aren't you, Miss America
Don't you, Miss America
Won't you, Miss America our love?
Are you really who we think you are
Or does your smile seem to wear your down
Is the girl who you once were
Screaming to jump out?
Is the dream that you must live
A disease for which there is no cure
This rollercoaster ride you're on
Won't stop to let you off
Chorus: Well aren't you, Miss America
Don't you, Miss America
Won't you, Miss America our love?
Well it's true just take a look
The cover sometimes makes the book
And the judges did they ever ask
To read between your lines?
In your cage at the human zoo
They all stop to look at you
Next year what will you do
When you have been forgotten?
Chorus: Well aren't you, Miss America
Don't you, Miss America
Won't you, Miss America our love?
Lyrics by: James Young
Music by: James Young



edit to add link to youtube video of Styw performing it live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv5YfRnQrds

[Condem]

24. Where was she a beauty pageant contestant?

The Jerry Springer Show?

[Motown_Johnny]

28. 1984 Miss Wassila, runner up in Miss Alaska Contest

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272622417.shtml


snip



Sarah Palin Makes History: Gun-Toting Miss Alaska 1984 Runner Up Gets VP Nod
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By Michael Amsterdam
Aug 30, 2008


Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has made history and the former Miss Alaska 1984 beauty pageant contestant is the very first Republican woman to be nominated as a Vice Presidential candidate. She is a gun-toting "hocky mom" and mother of five and certainly looks as if she is going to be an asset for the MCcain campaign.

[Condem]

51. She lost?

To whom?

[TomInTib]

9. Styx? Really? Are they playing the convention?

The hair oughta be great.

Goodness....

[Bobbie Jo]

20. Fits with the "Grand Illusion" theme nicely.

:rofl:

[TomInTib]

29. Damn, if you're gonna laugh at your own joke...

that was the one!

You cracked me up with that one, bobbiejo.

Tom

[Union Thug]

30. NICE! So true!

[seasat]

47. Seems appropriate, a band named after the river of death.

The Repubs choose a band named after the river of death in Greek legend that circled Hades 9 times. Maybe they'll play the "Great White Hope".

Look at me
I'm the great white hope
Can't you see
I'm up against the ropes
Don't you know
It's so hard to cope
When you feel
Like the great white hope

[Cha]

12. I'm not impressed with stupid people who don't

know they're part of the fascist takeover of my Country. Good to know who the fucking enemy is.

[Condem]

14. My thoughts exactly, zidzi.

Thanks!!!!

[Cha]

26. Condem, I thought of you when the woman

from Iowa was speaking at the Convention on the ravagages the floods had on her life.

[Condem]

52. Zidzi

Again, many thanks. Talked to a woman the other day who lost her home, her car and her job. It'll be a long time.

[Cha]

53. You know ya'll are on

O'Biden's radar!

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. Hey zidzi. I wonder why Brian McKnight & Chaka Khan aren't on the list this time?

Maybe they found their collective conscience? I was so pissed at Brian McKnight after his appearance at the RNC, but I couldn't stay mad at Chaka.

[Cha]

27. Good question, Tarheel! I remember

Chaka Khan was there(shaking my head) but didn't know about Brian McKnight.

I didn't watch it but read about it through DU..I'm forever hoping that people who supported the bushites have finally come out of their coma.

[Tarheel_Dem]

32. Me too. I remember Tom Joyner asking McKnight about his appearance,

and his response was, he couldn't refuse the money they threw at him. This was when the GOP was trying to appear inclusive and hip (LMAO).

[Cha]

43. He should do a fundraiser for Obama

and repentance:P

[Tarheel_Dem]

46. I agree, and maybe I could begin to listen to him again.....LOL

[psychmommy]

35. i think it had an effect on their careers.

chaka khan was the opener for jill scott on her tour. she only got one song from her album getting any radio spins. has brian mcknight put out any new music? brian who?

[Tarheel_Dem]

41. You may be right. Brian had one song that played in heavy rotation

for awhile, but I'd switch the channel everytime it came on. I think Chaka has a done a greatest hits or a revival of classics album since then. Just goes to show that money's not everything.

[Mad_Dem_X]

15. Styx? Aw, damn.

I kind of liked them. The Beach Boys, no surprise there. Mike Love is an asshole.

[Condem]

17. Mad Dem X

Styx is the ALLTIME worst. As for Mike Love: Again, The Beatles loved him. Gave him a going away party at Rishakesh. Back In The USSR is a direct result of his influence.

[Snotcicles]

18. To much time on my hands: PERFECT

Too Much Time On My Hands
Written by Tommy Shaw
Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw

Sitting on this barstool talking like a damn fool
Got the twelve o'clock news blues
And I've given up hope on the afternoon soaps
And a bottle of cold brew
Is it any wonder I'm not crazy? Is it any wonder I'm sane at all
Well I'm so tired of losing- I got nothing to do and all day to do it
I go out cruisin' but I've no place to go and all night to get there
Is it any wonder I'm not a criminal?
Is it any wonder I'm not in jail?
Is it any wonder I've got

Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands

Well, I'm a jet fuel genius - I can solve the world's problems
Without even trying
I have dozens of friends and the fun never ends
That is, as long as I'm buying
Is it any wonder I'm not the president
(He's not the president)
Is it any wonder I'm null and void?
Is it any wonder I've got

Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away at my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands

[Condem]

21. That Tommy Shaw

A real wordsmith!!!

[Zomby Woof]

25. The long, sad decline of Charlie Daniels

He was once a proud Carter supporter (even in 1980, when most people turned their backs on him). But sometime since then, he lost the blood supply to his brain and went Full Ignorant. Seems to have begun back in the first Bush era, when the atrocious "Simple Man" came out (not to be confused with the great Skynyrd song of that name).

Daniels was a sideman for Bob Dylan on the "New Morning" album, and later went on to write tongue-in-cheek parodies of rednecks like "Uneasy Rider", took on moralizing TV preachers in "Long-Haired Country Boy", and on cuts like "Orange Blossom Special", he could tear up the fiddle. What a waste of talent, and a pathetic blob of spoo he has become.

Shut up and play your fiddle, Chuck.

[Motown_Johnny]

31. Yep, if you listen to "uneasy rider" he was clearly a long haired hippie type

[returnable]

33. Styx? Interesting - bassist Chuck Panazzo is openly gay and an activist...

...gotta wonder why he agreed to such an arrangement.

[Motown_Johnny]

39. Hopefully they will play songs embarassing to the GOP

[BlueIdaho]

34. Is Charlie Daniels still alive?

[Riddler]

38. Must be. I just wonder if he'll still have tobacco spittle running down his

beard, or if he'll "clean up" for the repukes.

[and-justice-for-all]

37. STYX?

I looked at their tour schedule and did not see anything availiable.

I also looked at Hagar's site and nothing was posted there about him playing the RNC.

[Condem]

48. USA TODAY , yesterday ,and-justice

Don't tell me you care.

[Bjorn Against]

40. I wonder if John McCain will join the Beach Boys on stage when they perform Barbara Ann

Or is that "Bomb bomb bomb Iran"?

[obamican]

54. great lineup

to put me to sleep