Tuesday, August 24, 2004

John Hoosier Mellonhead:  Traitor to Rock and Roll

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Via Cold Fury, we learn that Alice Cooper is disgusted with liberal musicians campaigning for Kerry.  Aiming a broadside at Michael Stipe, John Cougar Melloncamp and Bruce Springsteen, the Coop said:

“To me, that’s treason. I call it treason against rock ‘n’ roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics,” says the 56-year-old Cooper, who begins a 15-city Canadian tour on Aug. 20 in Thunder Bay, Ont.

“When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I’d run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick.

”If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.” [emphasis mine]

Truer words were probably never said.  Ted Nugent’ll probably shoot ‘em all, anyway.
Posted by Buckethead on 08/24/04 at 02:45 PM
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