Update: Musicians Bush Hate Tour

Well I'm sure it wouldn't suprise you to hear that Bruce Springsteen has started a 2 week Bush Hate Tour, oops I mean Vote For Change Tour.

Along for the ride are other well known bands such as REM, The Dixie Chicks, Chicks, Pearl Jam, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.

Just by chance they will be touring 9 swing states in the hopes af swaying votes to anyone but George Bush.

Will there be a response by artists in favor of George Bush? Are there any?

news.bbc.co.uk...


[edit on 10/2/2004 by infinite8]

Ah, Bruce Springsteen: The Boss! Born in the U.S.A.! Can't get much more iconic than that, and he's against Bush.

*Cue facist rant about traitor, turncoat, enemy, and un-American*

Bruce has spoken against Bush numerous times, and I'm sure he throws in a little jab before every song he sings.

I wonder if anyone has heard one of these concerts yet and knows what each band is saying as they play. I'd love to know what Pearl Jam is saying, most likely backing Nader.

Ahh its good to see someone is taking so action against bush...

And even if this is a Bush 'hate' tour... i think its alot more tastefull than the Ad campaigns run by the swifties against Kerry

Who gives a sh!t what celebs think, I take everything they say with a grain of salt. Lets face it there aren't too many high IQ's among them.

mad scientist, you'll be suprised at how intelligent alot of musicians are... have you ever studied music or tries to play an instrument?... its not an easy think to learn... You'd probably find an average musician has a higher IQ than lets say a CEO, or even the president you seem to be supporting...

I'm not sure what the average IQ is in a musician. I would venture to say they are free to their opinions. I certainly don't agree with all musicians and their beliefs, but I'm grateful they have a right to express them.

Thing about musicians and others with fame. They should really know the facts about what they say before they say it. Whether they choose to or not, they have the ears of many, and influence is everywhere. (I don't know what these musicians are saying just yet, but I'd love to know)

Special ASIAN, I cant see your Avatar, it doesn't show up on the screens for me. Can anyone else see it?

I accidently deleted it from my upload list, and i cant re-do it untill i get to my parents house and their computer (i post from work and it owuld be weeks before i see my folks...)

Just use your imagination for now... i know the ppl here on ATS have really big imaginations

If that's the case, who gives a sheet what you think?

I am willing to bet that the average IQ of a President or a Fortune 500 CEO is higher than the average of the Musicians. Can't say for all, but if we talk averages....besides IQ tests are biased.

Obviously not you , but then again who gives a sheet what you think

Yes I have, but gave it up to play golf. All there is to learning an instrument is constant repitition, not much more. I knew people at school who could play the piano really well but weren't too good academically.

Here is a more current news source on the Bush Hate Tour kick off

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www.news24.com...
Anti-Bush concerts kick off
29/09/2004 10:55 - (SA)

Washington - Politically active US musicians have kicked off a highly charged two-week concert tour aimed at rocking voters into ousting President George Bush in November's election.

Singers Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt headlined Monday's maiden Vote for Change concert in Seattle, the start of a manic series of shows that will star rock legend Bruce Springsteen later in the tour.

"A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America," Raitt said. "A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America."

"It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour," she said in a statement released after Monday night's show in front of around 3 000 ecstatic fans.

The paying concert-goers received pamphlets urging them to vote in the November 2 poll and to cast their ballot against Bush's bid for re-election, organisers said.

"The Boss", Springsteen, and around 20 other acts, including REM, Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band and James Taylor, will perform in around 36 cities in nine so-called swing states, culminating in a huge concert on October 11 in Washington, DC.

"We've got a country that has just veered too far away from basic American values and principles. I really feel this is a crisis in democracy, unlike anything I've quite experienced in my lifetime," Springsteen said.

The loose coalition of musical activists is launching the series of mini-tours with "a single goal through the tour: To get people to the polls on November 2 to vote for a change", according to the organisers' website.

The tour will roar through the crucial Midwestern swing states, such as Ohio and Michigan, where Democratic candidate John Kerry and Bush are running neck and neck, before hitting equally critical Florida on October 8.

Other musicians hitching the wagons to Kerry in the Vote For Change concerts are John Fogerty and John Mellencamp.

Proceeds from the tour will go to America Coming Together (ACT), a voter mobilisation organisation committed to defeating Bush.

On October 1 in Philadelphia the 55-year-old Springsteen will make his first appearance.

One of the emotive highlights of the concerts will be "The Boss's" rendition of his stirring anthem, Born in the USA, which is likely to become the musicians' battle cry.

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A lot of those who are successful American entertainers (particularly the more mature), be them musicians or actors etc., get more opportunity to tour the world and meet different people. They get to experience other cultures and different ways of life. Therefore I think that their view of the world is probably more educated and experienced than your average Joe who may know little more than what they experience at home.

To think that musicians are dumb is to call creativity dumb. Sure their are probably dumb rock stars and rappers, but to generalise all entertainer celebrities as dumb is, in itself, dumb.

You probably find a lot of creative people are activists because they have the ability to think laterally and identify inherant flaws in society or government etc.

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[edit on 29-9-2004 by cargo]

Anyone that "makes something", what ever that maybe, Are not dumb.

They are like everyone else, they have diffrent ideas on how the world should be. That dont make them right, or dumb.

Well, Go Boss, love his music. Hope this will get people to vote, not just against Bush, but to vote period.

Good for you, Boss. Spread the truth, but watch out you dont get arrested in the process, as is the style now.
Need a backup singer?/Bush basher?

"HATE" is far from it; their desired effect, that is.

Poor choices married to an inability to change out the players making them, is what their tour is all about.
Had Bush fired Rumsfeld, Rice.....ANYBODY, for the cluster that has been his presidency, people wouldn't be moved to action.

Right. Miles Davis just played the same thing over and over again and that's how he got really good. Creativity and talent had nothing to do with it.

You had to give up an instrument to play golf? Is that like chewing gum and walking?



I know quite a few golfers, and some can play very well. Most of them are racist bigots, though. Just like the pros!

You know what's funny about people? It doesn't matter what they do for a living, they can be really smart or really stupid. That's why sweeping generalizations like this are completely meaningless. And ignorant.