I got to watch him perform a snippet of Dance With Me with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report in the run up to the 2006 elections. I was more that a little impressed with their duet.
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I also got to see pair do The Star Spangled Banner on the day after the 2006 election.
John Hall was a founding member of Musicians United for Safe Energy (M. U. S. E.) the group that did the No Nukes concerts. Imagine his surprise when he learned that George Bush had made the song Still The One the theme for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign.
John J. Hall had to involve attorneys and needed to serve a cease and desist order to the Bushies.
Intellectual property means nothing to these folks.
Guess what Congressman John Hall had to do recently. Yeah he needed to get the McCain campaign to cease and desist from using the Still The One in June.
In February John Cougar Mellencamp asked the McCain campaign to stop using his music.
It would seem that Jackson Browne, also from M. U. S. E, Heart, and Van Halen are also concerned about the McCain campaign using their material.
I'll bet Charlie Daniels will let McCain use Uneasy Rider
2 comments:
Didnt Reagan use Born in the USA to Springsteens dismay?
Benny,
Bruce did express his displeasure in the possibility of a Reagan presidency in 1980. He also responded to a Reagan stump speech during the 1984 campaign, but not with attorneys. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/9/13422/31400
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