Bruce Springsteen cover band cancels plans to play at Trump inauguration gala

[fleur-de-lisa]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/bruce-springsteen-cover-band-cancels-plans-to-play-at-trump-inauguration-gala/

The list of musicians who are performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities just got even smaller.

The B Street Band, a highly regarded Bruce Springsteen cover band, has announced that it will not perform at the Garden State Presidential Inaugural Gala in New Jersey.

“With deepest apologies to our fans and the New Jersey Inaugural Ball committee, the B Street Band is withdrawing from performing at this year’s inauguration Gala,” the band said in a statement cited by Backstreets. “Our decision is based SOLELY on the respect and gratitude we have for Bruce and the E Street Band.”

The B Street Band performed at President Obama’s inaugural celebrations in 2009 and 2013, and were asked to perform at the 2017 ceremony before they knew who the new president would be. The band members said that they would back out of performing at Trump’s inauguration if the Boss asked them to, and it seems Springsteen wasn’t comfortable with them playing his music at anything related to celebrating Trump’s electoral victory.

The band has insisted that it’s not at all political, although it says it’s received a torrent of negative feedback after news broke that it would play at the inauguration.

[bettyellen]

1. Bruce talked to them!

[izzybella]

2. He is so incredibly unpopular, I will never believe he had enough legit votes to win.

[Lucinda]

40. +1

[mountain grammy]

41. Neither will I.

[ailsagirl]

49. Ditto here

I will never change my mind about that

[CentralMass]

3. A tip of the hat to Bruce and to the B Street Band

[progressoid]

4. Bwaaaahahaha!

So who's left... 3 doors down, some Rockettes, Mormon Tab Choir, and that America's got Talent girl?

[avebury]

18. Toby Keith is supposed to perform. nt

[Bengus81]

29. Toby Keith will be there to tell everyone how RIGHT he was about...

pimping for the Iraq War and how well it went.

[malaise]

5. K & R

[longship]

6. Here's a suggestion:

Yup! It's Myron Floren and Lawrence Welk with an accordion duet!!!! The Drumpf fans would faint! And the girls would scream with every body gyration (accordion to reports).

What? You say that they're both dead? Well Alex Jones said that was a false flag and they are both well and both comfortingly living in Joplin, MO.

Book em, Donno!

[vicman]

10. That's actually quite funny. Thanks for the pic.

We live in a time I never could have imagined would happen. Maybe I should have paid more attention when I was a kid.

[progressoid]

22. Trump could join in!

[lastlib]

32. How can he play that instrument with such small hands??

[hibbing]

7. A cover band?....sad!

[Brother Buzz]

11. You got a problem with The Boss' cover band?

[hibbing]

34. Sorry, I mispoke Sir

[lastlib]

35. What's sad is that a cover band wouldn't play for Little Donny....

:<crocodile tears>:

. . . . .

[Brother Buzz]

38. I think they have resorted to scouring Vegas for....

Elvis impersonators.

It is sad, in a wicked, wicked funny way

[jaxind]

8. Aww...

Aww..come on...don't tell me that Ted Nugent and Meatloaf are already booked!

[fleur-de-lisa]

12. What's up with that?

Is Cheeto afraid Teddy will shit himself? Is Meatloaf still alive?

[FreeStateDemocrat]

9. The manipulator will come up with a silver dollar in his shit house & announce it later in the week.

He plays the M$M and we Democrats with ease, they always come out shining to the deplorables and they are the only ones that count anymore.

[Blue Idaho]

13. Fake Springsteen Band?

Par for the course from a guy that hands out fake diamond Trump cufflinks...

[Initech]

14. I saw a comment on Twitter: "The B Street Band will now be replaced by the P Street Band".

[Ilsa]

23. Hahahahahahahaha! NT

[Else You Are Mad]

25. The P street band's

Rhythm will flow and they will shower the audience with their music.

[Docreed2003]

28. Featuring their hits...

"Born to Pee", "Toilet Road", "Streets of Peesdelphia", "Urine Fire", "Backsheets", "Tenth Avenue Peezeout", and "4th of July from Peesbury Park"

[Else You Are Mad]

30. hahaha

[IronLionZion]

48. A truly golden opportunity

for a strong steady stream of performers raining down on inauguration day

[mac56]

51. "We didn't want them anyway. They're just little squirts."

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. I wish Jackie Evancho would drop out

Maybe she is still too young to understand what he represents or has Trumpista parents that have brought her up brainwashed.

I just remember being blown away by hearing her years ago as a young girl singing opera on America's Got Talent. So pure a voice, like a little angel. Maybe that's why it seems such a disconnect.

[sarah FAILIN]

20. Her sister is trans

I just heard this maybe a week ago and it surprised me she would participate. I don't see how anyone that cares for a lgbt person can support Trump.

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/10/12/jackie-evancho-sister-transgender-juliet-comes-out/

[DFW]

17. I have a theory

The real Springsteen let them know, discreetly, but in no uncertain terms, that they would be the objects of a heavily enforced, and highly publicized, cease-and-desist order from The Boss himself to ever perform any of his songs in public again if they associated themselves with any Trump function.

[CentralMass]

21. It says that in the article.

"The band members said that they would back out of performing at Trump’s inauguration if the Boss asked them to, and it seems Springsteen wasn’t comfortable with them playing his music at anything related to celebrating Trump’s electoral victory."

[DFW]

24. Got, it, thanks

I'm on my annual winter odyssey and don't have time to click on every article linked.

[nolabear]

19. ...

The closer to the day they cancel the better.

[DesertRat]

26. Maybe the Trump family could put together a band

DT has 5 kids and several grandchildren, surely some of them took music lessons?

[Bengus81]

27. I hear the phone ringing at Scott Baio's house......n/t

[keithbvadu2]

33. Scott Baio can sing for Trump

Scott Baio can sing for Trump

Not sure what 'Golden Throats' is but it seems to fit the times now.

Scott Baio - "What Was In That Kiss" Golden Throats! (Merv Griffin Show 1982)

He starts off sounding like Christopher Walken.
.

[mac56]

53. Maybe he can get BOTH Joanie and Chachi

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. And they'll now get a torrent of negative feedback for not playing.

I wonder if Bruce did actually contact them.

My husband and I were saying last week that Bruce should consider asking them not to play, but also offering to pay them the fee they're missing out on to skip it. That won't cover all their losses, but will help. Not only does a band's reputation take a hit for backing out of a gig, especially at the last minute, but B Street is also going to take a lot of heat from many of their fans.

Loads of Bruce's own so-called fans disowned him when he began speaking out directly in the Bush years. Many of them were shocked that he was a Democrat, which just goes to show you they weren't really paying attention.

Same with the B Streeters. How hard would it have been to figure that Bruce wouldn't want his music being any part of Drumpf's inauguration festivities? He's publically called the P-elect dangerous and a moron.

Bruce Springsteen says Donald Trump presidency gives him special 'kind of fear'

“I've felt disgust before, but never the kind of fear that you feel now,” Springsteen told Marc Maron on his WTF podcast.

“It's as simple as the fear of, is someone simply competent enough to do this particular job? Do they simply have the pure competence to be put in the position of such responsibility?”
“When you let that genie out of the bottle - bigotry, racism, intolerance, they don't go back in the bottle that easily if they go back in at all,” he continued. “Whether it's a rise in hate crimes, people feeling they have license to speak and behave in ways that previously were considered un-American and are un-American. That's what he's appealing to. My fears are that those things find a place in ordinary, civil society.”

[JI7]

36. how about Wayne Newton ?

He is a republican and trump supporter.

[world wide wally]

37. Have they considered getting Romney to sing God Bless America?

One night only!!!

[scscholar]

39. This sucks...

because I wanted to see if they cared enough about their fans to try to enunciate unlike who they emulate.

[madokie]

42. The Boss's band is the E street band

No where other than this one right here have I read or heard of the B street band. I'm a huge Springsteen fan and have been since day one. Never have I heard or read anything 'B' band associated with the Boss.

Methinks someone is trying to stir up shit.

No one that has anything to do with Bruce Springsteen will ever even consider a gig for tRump, No One.

The Boss and the E Street Band played for Obama, not a B band to be found.

[Zambero]

52. Trump's is the Pee Street Band

[madokie]

55. Correct

[Warren DeMontague]

43. Maybe they weren't willing to "fix" the lyrics to Born in the USA for El Trumpo?

Born up in the rich man's crib
the first mil I got before I wore a bib
end up like a pig that's been fed too much
'til you spend half your life just sloppin' it up

I'm a Trump in the USA, Trump in the USA
I'm a Trump in the USA, Trump in the USA

Kids were going off to Vietnam
I had my own battles, here at home
sure its bad when the 'cong shoots at you
but I tell you what, the clap can hurt, too

Got my own version of the taj majal
see I'm a regular guy, just like y'all
I have a bathroom with a gold plated throne
I do my best tweeting in there, alone

Trump, in the USA ..etc

I'm pretty classy, don't say that I'm not
you should see my daughter- totally hot
Maybe I'll bend the Constitution until it breaks
but I'll get you a deal on some premium steaks

Come back down to Washington DC
For some reason the oval office smells kinda like pee
4 long years, I know you're quite tense
it's pretty bad, when you wish I were Pence

Trump in the USA
I'm a shit-tweetin' Trumpy in the USA
Trump in the USA etc. etc.

[Vinca]

46. Is there such a thing as a cover band of a cover band?? Maybe Chachi can come up with something.

[mac56]

54. Elvis impersonator impersonators

[Tommy_Carcetti]

47. But we'll never get to hear their hit song....

....."Birthed in North America"!

[Zambero]

50. 'Cause bands like us....

Baby, we were Born to RUN!!!