The surviving members of The Grateful Dead will reunite for a show to support the Barack Obama campaign for President. Then they will most likely schedule a full tour to cash in on this opportunity.
After having failed to rally the support of Thin White Duke-era Bowie and further establish his credibility as a cokehead, his campaign staffers decided to field repeated calls from Phil Lesh. “If I’m going to be the agent of change,” Obama is reported to have told campaign manager David Axelrod, “what better than gaining the full support of the poster band for mind expansion?”
Axelrod, a longtime Deadhead, concurred, and reached out to former Jimmy Carter supporters, The Allman Brothers, to open the show.
John McCain, meanwhile, has been discussing with running mate Sarah Palin the possibility of gaining the backing of The Doobie Brothers. “I’m more of a Steppenwolf fan myself,” said McCain, “but I worry that voters may read the lyrics of ‘The Pusher’ the wrong way.”
I think we need to have E. Pluribus Gergely head back to his alma mater and review the show for RTH!
That’s not EPG’s alma mater but Mrs. Moderator’s – and she already saw enough Dead and Dead-related shows in her youth to get her through this election.
Has the following Wayne Kramer/Rage Against the Machine DNC appearance been mentioned yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NldQyau_A
Carrie Brownstein, who writes NPR’s “Monitor This” blog, wrote a piece about the difference in the music acts for the DNC an RNC: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2008/08/battle_of_the_bands.html
which apparently got her invited to hear Mike Huckabee’s Capitol Offense at the RNC.
After Obama’s acceptance speech last week, I believe the first song that came on was Love Train, which I though was pretty cool. They played The Rising after that, and then I think We Are Family. Somewhere in there last week they played a Brooks & Dunn song Only In America too. The commentators said Bush had featured this song prominently in 2004, and using it in the new context was supposed to be part of a plan to take back patriotism from the Republicans.
You’ve probably read about Jackson Browne suing McCain to get him to stop using Running on Empty. Last night after Palin’s speech at the convention center in Nuremberg, there was a guy with a flying V playing a song I didn’t recognize. Something about raising cane/McCain I think.
Darn, I missed the pageant last night, my cable went out – I thought about watching old Monty Python episodes so I could listen to Palin and actually enjoy it.
I wonder if anyone would notice Edwin McCain songs in this context?