RIP Charlie Daniels

[Driftwood]

Love the music. Hate the politics. He was supposed to play a gig here in the spring that was postponed until October. I refused to buy a ticket.
I guess that show is off now.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Love the music. Hate the politics. He was supposed to play a gig here in the spring that was postponed until October. I refused to buy a ticket.
I guess that show is off now.

not necessarily

 

[OscarMadison]

Travis Tritt makes a great Devil. Lil' Marty? Bless his heart. Someone needs to explain flow to him.

 

[Tighthead]

Travis Tritt makes a great Devil. Lil' Marty? Bless his heart. Someone needs to explain flow to him.

Marty is a talent but that is about the worst possible deployment of him. He and Tritt were tour and duet partners.

I remember around that time O'Connor seemed to turn up in just about everything in Nashville. Glancing at his wiki page I see his impact goes well beyond country and bluegrass.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I liked Charlie but he lost me with his politics. That said, he played on "Blond on Blond".

Rest.

 

[swingline]

And Ronnie, my buddy,
Above all the rest
I miss you the most
And I loved you the best
And now that you’re gone
I thank god I was blessed
Just to know you ...

 

[hondo]

Love the music. Hate the politics. He was supposed to play a gig here in the spring that was postponed until October. I refused to buy a ticket.
I guess that show is off now.

I know a lot of Beatles fans who never gave a **** about John Lennon's politics. Does it have to matter if you like the music?

 

[Driftwood]

I know a lot of Beatles fans who never gave a **** about John Lennon's politics. Does it have to matter if you like the music?

I listen to him all the time. I've basically said similar things to my cousin because he changes the channel whenever Springsteen or Mellencamp come on. I've told him if I was like that, I'd change the channel whenever the CDB came on, but I like the music.
The difference comes in paying money vs. listening to the radio. If you could guarantee that someone would go from one song to the next without giving me their commentary, that would be different. I kind of doubt that would happen, though.

 

[hondo]

I listen to him all the time. I've basically said similar things to my cousin because he changes the channel whenever Springsteen or Mellencamp come on. I've told him if I was like that, I'd change the channel whenever the CDB came on, but I like the music.
The difference comes in paying money vs. listening to the radio. If you could guarantee that someone would go from one song to the next without giving me their commentary, that would be different. I kind of doubt that would happen, though.

Again, Lennon was never shy about his commentary. Never seemed to cost him any fans.

 

[Driftwood]

Again, Lennon was never shy about his commentary. Never seemed to cost him any fans.

Again, I am and always will be a fan of CDB music. Again, if I could be assured of going to see a live show and getting only music with none of Daniels' opinions, I would have done so. I seriously doubt that would have been the case. I honestly don't know of any musician who I'd pay to see knowing they would spend half the time giving me their political opinion.... whether I agreed with them or not. If I'm paying to see a show, I want to see a show, not a stump speech.

 

[Tighthead]

Again, Lennon was never shy about his commentary. Never seemed to cost him any fans.

Steve Earle, Isbell, DBTs and others constantly catch **** from fans about their politics. Willie Nelson caught heat for endorsing Hillary, and people were apparently shocked to find out that he leaned to the Democrats.

 

[ChrisLong]

It's ridiculous to me that an entertainer's politics affect your enjoyment of their work. I don't want to hear a lot of politics between songs at a concert. But I can just let it pass until the music starts again. I might say very quietly, "Shut up and play." My brother refused to watch "Shawshank Redemption" because he didn't like Tim Robbins' politics. Similar with "Bull Durham" and Robbins/Sarandon. He loves baseball and would love the movie. But the politics of the actors make him not want to watch.

 

[da man]

It's ridiculous to me that an entertainer's politics affect your enjoyment of their work. I don't want to hear a lot of politics between songs at a concert. But I can just let it pass until the music starts again. I might say very quietly, "Shut up and play." My brother refused to watch "Shawshank Redemption" because he didn't like Tim Robbins' politics. Similar with "Bull Durham" and Robbins/Sarandon. He loves baseball and would love the movie. But the politics of the actors make him not want to watch.

I'm with you. If the music or performance is good, I'm in. I couldn't care less what they think about politics.

I'll extend that to businesses, too. Sell a product I like at a good price and I'll buy it. Do I give a **** what party its owner votes for? Not even a little bit.






Let the fireworks begin!

 

[FileNotFound]

It's ridiculous to me that an entertainer's politics affect your enjoyment of their work. I don't want to hear a lot of politics between songs at a concert. But I can just let it pass until the music starts again. I might say very quietly, "Shut up and play." My brother refused to watch "Shawshank Redemption" because he didn't like Tim Robbins' politics. Similar with "Bull Durham" and Robbins/Sarandon. He loves baseball and would love the movie. But the politics of the actors make him not want to watch.

I went to a Drive-By Truckers concert on Nov. 16, 2016, and you bet your ass Patterson Hood was talking about politics that night. About a third of the crowd left during the first part of the show, as the band played nothing but songs of its protest album, "American Band." As the string of early departures thinned out, about five songs in, Hood said, "Now that the assholes are gone, we'll play some of the old stuff." And they rocked the remaining crowd's faces off for another two hours.

I was trying to think of an artist I like that's openly right-wing, and I can't really think of one. I wouldn't have to sit through rants from Toby Keith or Darryl Worley or Ted Nugent because I wouldn't go to one of their shows. (Disclosure: I did sit through a Damn Yankees show in 1991. It actually didn't completely suck.) But yeah, if I liked the music enough, I'd ignore the political parts I disagreed with.

 

[MTM]

It's ridiculous to me that an entertainer's politics affect your enjoyment of their work. I don't want to hear a lot of politics between songs at a concert. But I can just let it pass until the music starts again. I might say very quietly, "Shut up and play." My brother refused to watch "Shawshank Redemption" because he didn't like Tim Robbins' politics. Similar with "Bull Durham" and Robbins/Sarandon. He loves baseball and would love the movie. But the politics of the actors make him not want to watch.

Isn't that a similar debate when it comes to people like Michael Jackson? We know he was a creep, but his music is still beloved and gets plenty of air play.

 

[I Should Coco]

I went to a Drive-By Truckers concert on Nov. 16, 2016, and you bet your ass Patterson Hood was talking about politics that night. About a third of the crowd left during the first part of the show, as the band played nothing but songs of its protest album, "American Band." As the string of early departures thinned out, about five songs in, Hood said, "Now that the assholes are gone, we'll play some of the old stuff." And they rocked the remaining crowd's faces off for another two hours.

I was trying to think of an artist I like that's openly right-wing, and I can't really think of one. I wouldn't have to sit through rants from Toby Keith or Darryl Worley or Ted Nugent because I wouldn't go to one of their shows. (Disclosure: I did sit through a Damn Yankees show in 1991. It actually didn't completely suck.) But yeah, if I liked the music enough, I'd ignore the political parts I disagreed with.

I too caught a Damn Yankees concert in 1991 (they toured with what was left of Bad Company).

If I recall, Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw and Uncle Ted each had their own portion of the show to play songs from their previous groups/solo careers. So Ted used a good chunk of his time to rant against Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

 

[TigerVols]

I don't see how one is supposed to separate an artist from his/her politics or criminal history. It just seems to me that any artist worth his/her salt uses their core beliefs as the starting ingredients for their creations, and therefore the listener/viewer should take those beliefs into account when gauging the results.

 

[BTExpress]

You love an artist. You love his politics. He beats his wife. Listen to him or not? Where do you draw the line?

 

[Moderator1]

Not really apples to apples.
Disagreeing with someone's politics is one thing, being a disgusting criminal is another.

 

[MTM]

We all have our levels. For example, because of his comments about Jews, I won't pay for a Mel Gibson movie and won't watch him being interviewed. But that doesn't mean I won't watch Lethal Weapon if it comes on TV.