What a freakin' line up.

[graywarrior]

{Snip}

Lynyrd Skynyrd's scheduled concert at this week's Republican National Convention – originally planned for Sunday night at Tampa's Liberty Plaza – may have been canceled thanks to Hurricane Isaac. But to the surprise of anyone who assumes rockers wouldn't be caught anywhere near a GOP event, plenty of other musicians will be entertaining the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan crowd in Florida this week. At press time, the lineup includes Kid Rock, Journey, the Zac Brown Band, 3 Doors Down, Dave Navarro, Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum and past American Idol winner Taylor Hicks. The house band for performances at the convention itself will be led by former Saturday Night Live guitarist-bandleader, G.E. Smith.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/journey-kid-rock-and-more-set-to-play-republican-national-convention-20120827#ixzz24mX9mGCc

[spanone]

1. has beens and wannabes

[Politicalboi]

2. LOL! Whatever

Losers, has been's, and unknowns. LOL!

[OriginalGeek]

3. Isn't Journey's current lead singer

an immigrant/alien?


And he tuk Steve Perry's jerb!

[graywarrior]

4. I thought it was a woman.

[OriginalGeek]

8. No, he's a tiny little Filipino fellow.

Neal Schon of Journey saw him performing Journey songs on Youtube with his band and invited him to California for an audition.

[graywarrior]

9. I wonder if he knows what he's gotten into

[Blue Owl]

5. Journey's reworking some old hits -- "Don't Stop the Thievin'" and "Wastefully"

n/t

[HooptieWagon]

6. None I care for.

But party gigs usually pay well... won't jump on a musician for making a paycheck.

[TlalocW]

7. Y'know, G.E. Smith always pissed me off on SNL

It seems to me like the band would be shown a lot of times either between skits or when going to commercial, and he was always up front, mugging for it, to the point that you couldn't see any other musicians.

TlalocW

[graywarrior]

10. He used to play for Dylan. "Used to".