mjmooney Posted October 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2020 One for @rjw63 Quote Brian Wilson Disavows Trump’s Beach Boys Benefit in California (EXCLUSIVE) A chagrined Wilson and Al Jardine tell Variety they knew nothing of the high-priced Trump fundraiser being headlined by Mike Love's touring Beach Boys until reading morning news reports. It will be fun, fun, fun under the California sun for many well-heeled attendees at today’s Donald Trump fundraiser in Newport Beach — but not for Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, who are chagrined that the touring version of the group currently headed up by Mike Love will be headlining the campaign benefit. “We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero,” Wilson and Jardine said to Variety through a spokesperson. “We didn’t even know about it and were very surprised to read about it in the Los Angeles Times.” The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday morning that the Beach Boys would be the main attraction performing for the president and his supporters at the Orange County campaign event, with tickets ranging from $2,800 per donor to $150,000 a couple for co-chair status. As hardcore Beach Boys fans know, the group booked for the tony fundraiser is a licensed touring edition led by Love, who has not been shy about appearing with Trump in the past. Wilson and Jardine have toured together in recent years, also performing Beach Boys material but under Wilson’s name. The last time all the surviving members performed together as the Beach Boys was for a 50th anniversary tour in 2012. At the close of that, Love chose to continue touring with an un-reunited lineup under the Beach Boys’ name, for which he holds a license for concert purposes. While some have been surprised that Trump would even visit as blue a state as California this close to the election, the Times’ article pointed to the huge potential cash haul that the president is expected to reel in from today’s benefit, badly needed as he trails Joe Biden badly in fundraising. “Everyone assumes he’s going to go to battleground states,” Jon Fleischman, a former state GOP official, told the Times. “No one really thinks about how Orange County, California, is an ATM machine. So people are pretty excited.” This isn’t the first instance of Wilson and Jardine distancing themselves from a controversial or politically divisive gig booked by Love’s edition of the Beach Boys. In February, both Wilson and Jardine officially signed on to a Change.org petition urging a boycott of the touring Beach Boys, after Love and company booked a headlining gig at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada, where noted safari hunting enthusiast Donald Trump Jr. was the keynote speaker. “This organization supports trophy hunting, which both Al and I are emphatically opposed to,” Wilson said in a statement at the time. “There’s nothing we can do personally to stop the show, so please join us in signing the petition.” In the past, Love has defended his support for Trump, and once famously posed for a thumbs-up photo with him with the Washington Monument in the background. “I don’t have anything negative to say about the president of the USA,” Love said in a 2017 interview, when Uncut magazine asked him if he had any points of disagreement with Trump. “We did attend the inauguration. [His version of the Beach Boys headlined one of Trump’s inaugural balls.] That was a moving experience. I understand there are so many factions and fractious things going on – the chips will fall where they may. But Donald Trump has never been anything but kind to us. We have known him for many a year. We’ve performed at some of his venues at fundraisers and so on.” Love’s Beach Boys have recently been doing drive-in-style concerts with actor John Stamos as a special guest. Bruce Johnston, who joined the Beach Boys in 1965, has also been performing with Love and is the other veteran of the group’s early days to be part of the current touring lineup. Variety Quote David Crosby joined in: “Mike Love is, in the opinion of almost every musician I know, a shithead, most assuredly has no talent at all, and, as you can probably tell… I just don’t like him,” Crosby continued. Guitar.com 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) Mike Love will always be a word removed. Edited October 20, 2020 by Seat68 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Mr Love really doesn't do himself any favours, although in his defence he's always licked ass at the highest level. I doubt there's a president he hasn't performed for since they got famous. Glad Brian has distanced himself, like he did when the Love Boys played that hunting get together with Trump jnr making a speech. Very distasteful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2020 Meanwhile, over in Ted Nugent world... Quote Ted Nugent has declared Donald Trump as “the greatest president of our lifetime” and performed the US national anthem at a rally in Muskegon, Michigan last weekend (17 October). “God bless real Michigan, god bless real America, god bless the greatest president in our lifetime, Donald Trump,” Nugent said. “We will make America great again and we will make Michigan great again.” “Live it up, have a good hunting season, kill lots of shit,” the guitarist proclaimed before launching into a rendition of The Star-spangled Banner. Nugent, known for his conservative political views, was investigated by the US Secret Service back in 2012 after making a comment about then-president Barack Obama, who was seeking reelection at the time. “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year,” Nugent said to a crowd at a National Rifle Association convention at the time. As the US presidential election draws near, several artists have taken a more active role in how their music is used in campaign rallies. A few days ago (17 October), John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival issued a cease-and-desist order against Donald Trump over his campaign’s use of Fortunate Son at rallies. Guitar.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 5 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Meanwhile, over in Ted Nugent world... Guitar.com The artists I like who were pro Trump in 2016 are quiet this year. Apart from John Rich of course but he is a Trump lapdog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted October 20, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted October 20, 2020 Trump's barefaced cheek in using CCR's 'Fortunate Son' is staggering - it's a song from the point of view of a working class Vietnam War conscript who can't get out of military service, because "I ain't no millionaire's son, I ain't no fortunate one". Which is exactly what draft-dodger Trump was. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2020 8 minutes ago, Seat68 said: The artists I like who were pro Trump in 2016 are quiet this year. Apart from John Rich of course but he is a Trump lapdog. Don't think any of the US artists I like are pro-Trump. Quite the reverse, in fact - they tend to be very actively against him on social media, to the extent of losing some fans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2020 You basically have to be a word removed to support him. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Travis Tritt has verbally supported him and Trace Adkins has appeared at some Pence rally. Still like them both, can separate the art etc. Oddly the people who get the most abuse are country artists that don’t support him. Republicans are willing to ditch a lifetime supporting someone as they are shocked to learn Willie Nelson doesnt rate Trump. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Polling is starting to tighten in the battleground states, the next 2 weeks are going to be some sort of media armageddon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 25 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Don't think any of the US artists I like are pro-Trump. Quite the reverse, in fact - they tend to be very actively against him on social media, to the extent of losing some fans. Creative people don't tend to be right wing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 45 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Meanwhile, over in Ted Nugent world... Guitar.com He's such a huge spunktrumpet. Scary thing is there seems to be millions of others over there just like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2020 You do have to look at Trump and see the flabby pile of unrelenting negative traits of humanity, and wonder who looks at that and thinks 'yeah, that's who should represent ME to the universe'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Blame it on Ice Cube , because he says it gets funky When you got a junky as a President. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 62% tax in NYC and Trump will still not be paying any. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 1 hour ago, sne said: 62% tax in NYC and Trump will still not be paying any. I thought it was federal taxes trump paid almost none of but he paid many millions of state taxes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Trump supporter plus guns, sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 2 hours ago, villakram said: Trump supporter plus guns, sigh. We just honked our horn to express neighbourly support for the BLM sign he was putting up and then he shot at our truck and missed. All sounds completely plausible. If there are two things everyone knows it's that Trump supporters are split on BLM and that it's very easy to completely miss a massive target with a shotgun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted October 21, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 21, 2020 19 hours ago, rjw63 said: Very distasteful. That’s quite the put down, coming from you, Rob . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 On 20/10/2020 at 06:27, mjmooney said: One for @rjw63 Variety Guitar.com Mike Love has always been a toxic racist redneck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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