I’m not surprised that Trump likes “Brown Sugar”. It is, after all, a song about the slave trade.
Does this mean Trump has to give up his campaign song “Let It Bleed” ?
and ASCAP will get an earful any day now.
The unedited version of “Start Me Up” contains the refrain “…you make a dead man cum.”
In Drumpfland, it’s also known as “Melania’s Theme”
Wow if you thought Trump rallies were bad before imagine how bad when the only music they can play is Ted Nugent “songs”…talk about cat crap fever…and probably only Dennis Miller “humor”…holy fucking shit what a nightmare!
So if someone with any brain actually interviewed the Dumpster and he says this…
“I like their songs,” he continued. “You know, we use so many songs. We have the rights to use them. I always buy the rights.”
…how is it the interviewer doesn’t bother to confront him with the fact that the Stones say they haven’t given him permission and call him out as a liar?
Just another example of how the media gives this man a free pass over his claims or anything he says for that matter…Obviously, this isn’t even among the biggest things he bothers to lie about, by far…but if they can’t ask him about the small stuff, how the hell are they going to ask him about more important things he chooses to lie about? Expect a lot more of this lazy journalism as the months go by however.
But oh dear, emails and speaking fees are still ripe for multiple questions and followups by any interviewer when it comes to Hillary, even though that’s been like beating a dead horse and routinely addressed and answered. There will be so many double-standards in this race applied so unequally to these two candidates. I have absolutely no faith in the press to ever vet tRump as a candidate no matter what he says.
He used “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” mostly. And “Start Me Up.”
Which reminds me … Where is Lee Greenwood?
Re: Nugent. The guy is a despicable human being, but he wrote some badass riffs. See: http://www.mlive.com/music/index.ssf/2013/05/ted_nugents_6_greatest_riffs_b.html
Didn’t Microsoft pay some unbelievable sum of money for the rights to use “Start Me Up” back in the day? When they launched Windows 98 or something, right? Maybe if Mr. Trump is willing to pay tens of millions to the Stones, they could work something out.
This is actually true. They pay a use fee and they can use whatever they want. It’s a very standard ASCAP licensing agreement. Sad but true.
Nevertheless, the real humor comes when artists insist they stop using their music. Except for Nugent … whose music is only used at Huckster rallies.
Broaden your (musical) horizons.
No, they won’t. If the campaign’s fees are paid …
(see explanation below)
The rub would come if they wanted to record the work, or use it in an ad, etc.
Weird but that’s how it works.
There are a lot of folks whose music I like to listen to, but their thoughts on other aspects of life, particularly politics, uh no thanks. Ted is one that I really don’t like to listen to either and that was true even before he started preaching politics. And granted part of my dislike for his music is it reminds me of the rest on him.
You just won the (
≖‿‿≖) Intertubes’ Award of the Day! (≖‿‿≖:+1:)
I slept through a Ted Nugent concert back in 1981…it was that dull.
It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you
While I can hardly blame the Stones for not wanting to be used as a Beast of Burden by the Trump campaign, and I hope they do get Satisfaction, I think “Sympathy for the Devil” is pretty much a perfect theme song for Trump (well, except for the part about having “taste.”)
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
“Who killed the Kennedys?”
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game,
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste,
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name,
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
$3 million for the launch of Windows 95 (which was the first big departure from the DOS systems). And I believe they sold the complete rights to the song, so the Stones can’t do much more than belly ache with regards to that song. Microsoft could probably file a cease and desist order, however.
Foreigner and Jackson Browne would disagree with that analysis.
Yes the fees have to be paid, but ASCAP has made very clear that its wise to get an artist’s permission before doing these things.