Cue 'Barracuda'

[NicholeW.]

Cue 'Barracuda'
The Washington Post
By Christopher Sprigman and Siva Vaidhyanathan
Monday, October 13, 2008; Page A21

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101201630.html?wpisrc=newsletter


After vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin finished her big speech at the Republican National Convention, the 1977 song "Barracuda," by the band Heart, blared out over the roar of the crowd. Convention organizers chose the music to highlight Palin's high school basketball-team nickname, "Sarah Barracuda." But Heart's songwriters, Ann and Nancy Wilson, were less than pleased.

The sisters released a statement saying that "Sarah Palin's views and values in no way represent us as American women" and insisted that the McCain-Palin campaign not play their song. Their publisher, Universal Music Publishing, and their label, Sony BMG, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the campaign.

[Sephirah]

Maybe they should have played 'End Of The World As We Know It' by REM.

[NicholeW.]

Somehow I cannot see REM being any more pleased than the Wilson sisters were by McSame's campaign using one of their songs.

Come to think of it, I'm surprised that such "solid citizens" as the mavericks wouldn't have requested permission first before they just cued up something and played it at their rallies. Apparently they have the YouTube jones going on.

Nikki

[Sephirah]

Alright then, how about the Funeral March by Chopin. He can't object... he's dead.

[tekla]

Too bad girls, and Mike Stipe too, you should have read the contract before you signed it.
Campaigns buy blanket licence from ASCAP or BMI, and thus have the right to play whatever they want.  Just like a bar or nightclub does.  On the other hand, they are cashing the checks.

I made the mistake once of asking Miss Chrissy Hynde - sweet little shy retiring person she is - what she thought of Rush Limbaugh using her song as his theme.  20 minutes later....

[Hazumu]

Alright then, how about the Funeral March by Chopin. He can't object... he's dead.

My vote:



=K

[Stealthgrrl]

Interesting, since Ann Wilson wrote "Barracuda" after an unpleasant encounter with a slimy music biz type. Hardly the sort of song to use to promote anybody.

Stealth

[RebeccaFog]

these others is mad too.

Foo Fighters, Van Halen, Mellencamp
Jackson Browne, Orleans, Gretchen Peters


mcpalin cannot play themselves to the top using other peoples' hits.

The Orleans guy who wrote 'still the one' is a democratic congressdude from New York.

[tekla]

Hey I'm still laughing my ass off because Reagan LOVED using Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA at his events, despite the fact that the song doesn't say a single positive thing about America circa 1984.

And Barracuda?  Are they that dumb?  Sure.  But I'm down by law with Palin using that, after all.

If the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
or
You lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down down down down on my knees
Now wouldn't you, barracuda?

At that I'm sure she have me down on my knees in that church of hers.

But what it is is the mere triumph of style over substance.  See, McCain is playing real hip (not really, but go with me here) music, he's not near as dead as we thought.  Do you think that McCain listens to Foo Fighters, Van Halen, Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Orleans?  Yeah, right.

What is funny, is that like Chrissie, Mellencamp, Jackson, Bruce and the Foo Fighters are pretty much left of center people.  I'm almost amazed they didn't use Rage Against the Machine.  And every time they play that song, the money goes to these left wing groups.  I'm pretty sure that the Chrissie deal with Rush is that he has to pay that royalty money directly to PETA.  Thus making El Rusbo one of the leading contributors of PETA.

Really, reality is much weirder than fiction can ever be.






Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go


Oh, this just gets better.  Read this.

Palin brings Hank Williams, Jr., to Richmond
eye witness | 13 October 2008 | self

Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 5:51:08 PM by mbarker12474

Saw Palin in Richmond today (Mon 13 October 2008). Introductory speeches by Jerry Kilgore, Robb Whittman, Jim Gilmore.

Other than Palin herself, the highlight was Hank Williams, Jr., singing the National Anthem and then doing a multi-verse rendition of his "Family Tradition" with new campaign lyrics extoling the virtues of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Now, if I'm not mistaken, is not the point of that song being...

they get on me wanna know Hank
why do you drink?
(Hank) why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
over and over
everybody made my prediction
so if i get stoned
I'm just carryin'
on an old family tradition

So, are Sara and John toking up on the plane or what?

[RebeccaFog]

come to think of it, I think one of mcpalin's musical victims is using the money to buy the rape kits that palin wouldn't fund as mayor of [enter any dr suess word here]

maybe it's simple sex ed or birth control. it's something palin is against.

[soldierjane]

Maybe the Republicans should stick to Ted Nugent and stop liking those damn liberal artists 

[tekla]

Yeah, I'd love to see Sara walk on to "Wang, Dang, Sweet Poontang."