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Likely we all agree this is a nice story: "Cheap Trick Turned Down the RNC’s $100,000 Offer"

First Joe Walsh and now.......

Rough week for the RNC Convention Entertainment Selection Committee. Soon to be renamed the "Get Us a F*cking Band Right the F*ck Now, One That Doesn't Make us Seem Like the Out of Touch Dicks That We Are Committee!!" LOL!


Cheap Trick has high standards, I guess.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Cheap Trick are still very much a working band, but they won’t work for just anybody.

In a new interview with England’s Guardian, frontman Robin Zander said that “The Republican National Committee called our office and offered us $100,000 to play at their convention in Cleveland . We turned it down. Then we had second thoughts. Maybe we should have accepted it – but we would all have got swastika guitars made.”

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Cheap Trick, of course, were just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — ironically, they were presented at the event by noted Republican Kid Rock.

In any case, the band have a lot of other paying gigs coming up: they’re co-headlining the Rock Hall Three for All tour with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Heart. That tour kicks off in July.

http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2016/04/21/cheap-tri...000-offer/

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