Bon Jovi complains over Republican rally song

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE49E93V20081015

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rocker and Democratic supporter Jon Bon Jovi on Wednesday became the latest musician to complain about Republican John McCain's presidential campaign using songs without the artists' approval.

Bon Jovi, who threw a $30,000-per-person, fund-raising dinner for Democrat Barack Obama at his New Jersey home in September, said he was surprised to hear that his band's song "Who Says You Can't Go Home" was used during rallies held by Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin this week.

"We wrote this song as a thank you to those who have supported us over the past 25 years. The song has since become a banner for our home state of New Jersey and the de facto theme song for our partnerships around the country to build homes and rebuild communities.

"Although we were not asked, we do not approve of their use of 'Home,'" Bon Jovi said in a statement to celebrity Web site TMZ.com.

[No Elephants]

1. Statement to TMZ, my ass. Just SUE!

[justiceischeap]

3. Can't the McKane camp bought the rights through ASCAP (eom)

[Hippo_Tron]

5. The McCain campaign is broke, he wouldn't get any money from suing

[Supersedeas]

2. McNasty and Todd Palin's wife are looking for friends with music

[rocktivity]

4. Their song "Living or a Prayer" would be more appropriate

rocknation

[quantass]

16. lol...and great song..i remember it was banned when it came out (go figure)

pretty tame back then and especially tame compared to videos today

[McCCain4retirment]

6. MCCain would be better off just going to a recording studio and making his own songs

[AlCzervik]

7. Gee you would think he'd be using that song Hank Williams Jr. wrote for him, it's so great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9LPWlQaiU


:rofl:

[terrya]

8. Christ, McCain should steal one of Pat Boone's songs at this point.

I'm reasonably sure ol' Pat will be ok with that.

[bushisanidiot]

9. Hahahahaha! No one likes Little Johnny McLoser!

suck it, little john!

[Thrill]

10. Ouch. Maybe he should pull out the Gene Autry records

:)

[Dr Fate]

22. More like Debbie Boone. Gene Autry is vaugely hip. n/t

n/t

[greyl]

11. Heart, Survivor, Foo Fighters, Bon Jovi, multiple violations on YouTube...

Who else?

The McCain people are clueless.

[sweetpotato]

19. John Mellencamp - Pink Houses

[City Lights]

12. Hey McCain, I heard "Nobody Likes Me" is available!

:rofl:

[louis-t]

13. Better song would be

"We think you should just go home, John and Sarah"

[VWolf]

14. Well, there's always

Loser by Three Doors Down

[flpoljunkie]

15. Wonder what the Rolling Stones think of McNasty using 'Start Me Up' yesterday after 'fight' rally

[goodboy]

17. they should've picked "livin on a prayer" (nt)

[d_b]

18. haha

[youthere]

20. The rate they are going, the only song they'll be able to use is the 1812 overture.

[Cha]

21. palin shits on anything she touches just like

bush and mccain.

I can imagine why he wouldn't want his song used by the Ethics Code Violator.