McCain gets no love from Van Halen, Rosanne Cash, Jackson Browne, Nancy Wilson....

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/mccain-gets-no-love-from-van-halen/21140/

McCain gets no love from Van Halen
August 29, 2008 5:55 p.m. by Jim Allen

It's almost enough to make you begin to feel sorry for John McCain. A candidate in search of a soundtrack, the guy seems to get a cold shoulder at best wherever he turns in the music world. First he inspires legal action from an angry Jackson Browne for using the latter's classic "Running On Empty." Then he engenders bad vibes from Rosanne Cash for even mentioning her dad John. Next thing you know, Madonna's displaying scathing anti-McCain videos as part of her stage show, and even Fat Joe's getting into the act, publicly dissing both McCain and Daddy Yankee, one of the few supporters the endorsement-poor Presidential hopeful's been able to snare.

Now, it's Van Halen's turn to send McCain a "talk to the hand" message. Turns out he played the band's Sammy Hagar-era hit "Right Now" during a public appearance in Ohio today. The result? You guessed it: "Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given" says the band's management. Maybe McCain should have tried buttering up Diamond Dave instead..."Yankee Rose"could be just the thing to kickstart his campaign.

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Heart's Nancy Wilson responds to McCain campaign's use of 'Barracuda' at Republican convention
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/heart-responds.html

McCain scourge Jackson Browne filed a lawsuit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/14/jackson-browne-sues-mccai_n_118977.html

Rosanne Cash tells McCain to Back Off
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/26/rosanne-cash-to-john-mccain-back-off/

They mostly get away with it too because of music licensing. If an artists owns his own rights they should sue and make an example of these thieves of creativity.

These people just keep repeating the same fuck up week in, week out.


Imagine what they would do with a whole country!

is the fault of republicans. They HAVE fucked this country up already.:x(

or any of the other country songs done by republican artists and leave OURS alone? Geesus.

at the end of her rally in Alaska. She's giving Eddie and Alex the big "fuck you--I dare you to do something about it".

after she told them NO..
now ain't that honorable?

The songs rights is up for licensing.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1594443/20080909/heart.jhtml
Sep 9 2008 2:29 PM EDT


McCain-Palin Campaign Continues Playing Heart's 'Barracuda,' Despite Band's Protest
Republican presidential campaign says it obtained proper license to use the song.

And kudos to Roger Fisher: While the Wilsons are clearly upset, "Barracuda" co-writer and former Heart guitarist Roger Fisher (Nancy's ex-boyfriend and former lead guitarist) has a different outlook. He's happy to receive the publicity, he told Reuters last week, and he pledged to give part of the royalties from the song's use to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign.

THAT is how they all should fight back--they have to be paid for the use of their music--so use the royalities to support Obama. That's some poetic justice!!!

Trig Paxson Van Palin.

“We’ve always liked the middle name Van because, you know, growing up in the ’80s, Van Palin would be a really cool name,” Palin joked to a Daily News reporter earlier this year in a reference to the rock band Van Halen.

or maybe John Ashcroft will let him use his chart topper, Let the Eagle Soar.

I'm still pissed that the repugs used "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire at the end of the so-called "big speech" by McCain at their convention, and I'm VERY certain that everyone in the band are NOT Republicans! Are they gonna get residuals for that? No! That's one more reason why our economy and everything else in America has gone into a tailspin for the last 8 years!

bwa ha ha

The paucity of talent on McCain's side of the equation says something, doesn't it?

everything and anything that they can get ahold of and even when caught they keep on. x(

:rofl: