Re: Maybe it's time to give these guys a third look.

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Never heard f them. Are they any good?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:22 AM
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Was the Nuge unavailable?


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:23 AM
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Not really.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:23 AM
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3 to 1.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:24 AM
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That's cool, but how on Earth did they get invited to play the convention in the first place? Maybe a band whose hay day was 20 years ago was some GOP organizer's idea of what's "hip" with the kids these days?


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:30 AM
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Third Eye Blind was playing a charity concert that was put on by the Recording Industry Association of America to benefit the nonprofit group Musicians On Call, which puts on bedside hospital performances for patients, according to Yahoo News.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:32 AM
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Maybe everybody else said no or wouldn't return calls.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:32 AM
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6: Ah. I should have read more carefully, I thought they were playing at the convention.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:48 AM
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The link made it sound like they were playing at the RNC!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:51 AM
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6, 8 Wait, what? This isn't worthy trolling news.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:51 AM
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Well, the golfer they had speak was the 492nd-ranked woman on the tour, so the evidence is pretty clear that the A-, B-, and C-lists are beyond their reach.

It's genuinely interesting, and vaguely heartening, to me that, while Trump was just this (asshole) celebrity, all sorts of celebrities were willing to hang out with him publicly, but now that he's an openly evil politician, they've almost all shunned him. Celebrities are famous for eg hanging out with dictators as long as the trip is paid for, but there seems to be a pretty uniform repulsion.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 8:53 AM
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It appears to have been an invitation-only event for RNC attendees.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 10:20 AM
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These guys still very much have a career, but it's mostly private and corporate events at this point. And they are arrogant, obnoxious, entitled folks. But this time they used that for the forces of good - or at least to be obnoxious to the forces of evil - so that's something.


Posted by: freight train | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 1:04 PM
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Well, the golfer they had speak was the 492nd-ranked woman on the tour, so the evidence is pretty clear that the A-, B-, and C-lists are beyond their reach.

What about when you limit it to women who are both white and American? Likely top 50 then.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07-20-16 1:06 PM
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