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32. You're taking the Petty quote out of context

Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:22 PM

Jan 2017

He was lamenting the quality of current commercial country compared to the great stuff of the past.

So when he says 'rock band with a fiddle' he wasn't bashing country as a whole, he was saying the country he hears now isn't really country to his ears.

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Screw country music fans. Sorry, lived around them in Arizona. Racist, ignorant Feeling the Bern Jan 2017 #1

Not to mention mendacious hypocrites. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #6

Rubes..... paleotn Jan 2017 #14

Not quite as bad as rap though; crappy "music" with NO band. 7962 Jan 2017 #18

You're taking the Petty quote out of context melman Jan 2017 #32

Maybe not what he meant... paleotn Jan 2017 #40

Oooh.... MountainMama Jan 2017 #41

I like some country music and I agree with Brooks. rockfordfile Jan 2017 #49

Hey thanks titaniumsalute Jan 2017 #15

Thank you. I guess its OK to slam an entire group as long as its the "right" group 7962 Jan 2017 #17

Oh lots of stereotyping here on DU titaniumsalute Jan 2017 #20

And one of my favorites: 7962 Jan 2017 #22

Were it actually ok as you allege, it would not have been called out. LanternWaste Jan 2017 #37

Maybe you could note the times of most of those other critical posts. After mine. 7962 Jan 2017 #45

You're not one of my neighbors from Arizona when I lived there before going overseas Feeling the Bern Jan 2017 #23

You wrote "Screw country music fans" Were you only referring to those in Arizona, and only in... Marengo Jan 2017 #35

You certainly like moving the goalposts LanternWaste Jan 2017 #38

Nope. . .I lived around them when I lived in Arizona. Statement in my OP Feeling the Bern Jan 2017 #47

The broader the generalization IronLionZion Jan 2017 #25

Live around my neighbors in Arizona. . . Feeling the Bern Jan 2017 #27

I have friends in Tucson IronLionZion Jan 2017 #31

I was in Marana. . .redneck central. Trumper heaven. Feeling the Bern Jan 2017 #34

You might want to modify that statement to prevent further misunderstanding. Marengo Jan 2017 #36

Oh, I like that! Bayard Jan 2017 #30

Nice flamebait -nt Bradical79 Jan 2017 #48

Screw judgemental broad brushers... dionysus Jan 2017 #50

Brooks is a class act. Drunken Irishman Jan 2017 #2

He just bought property in our little town WhiteTara Jan 2017 #28

All the same DonCoquixote Jan 2017 #3

"if we want support, we need to give support" mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2017 #10

"I cant thank the Obamas enough for serving this country.." Cha Jan 2017 #4

He's losing a bunch of ugly ass brainwashed idiots.. Cha Jan 2017 #5

I think Garth will be just fine in the financial sense. :) nt TeamPooka Jan 2017 #7

Yeah, he's really suffering here n2doc Jan 2017 #11

Yeah he was in Richmond a few months ago and he could have sold out as many shows as he wanted to underpants Jan 2017 #13

I assumed it would be a big destination for all country musicians. Good to learn he isn't going. Judi Lynn Jan 2017 #8

I don't know what the big controversy is. He & Tricia Yearwood have been Democrats & Obama catbyte Jan 2017 #9

Some DUers have been deeply prejudiced for years IronLionZion Jan 2017 #26

Ah, the same people who burned CD's of the Dixie Chicks finally speak up ck4829 Jan 2017 #12

He'll be ok Nash Teeth Jan 2017 #16

"Country" music today is pretty much bumpkin pop. Dave Starsky Jan 2017 #21

"We Shall Be Free" DinahMoeHum Jan 2017 #19

I have an issue with the very last scene in this video. TNNurse Jan 2017 #24

I like all kinds of music hollowdweller Jan 2017 #29

More division Bayard Jan 2017 #33

I didn't like country music when President Obama was in office and as for division.... Tikki Jan 2017 #39

The elitism that helped us lose the last election Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #44

Amen!! 7962 Jan 2017 #46

Some rock and roll fans voted for Trump as well FrodosNewPet Jan 2017 #42

great country tune hollowdweller Jan 2017 #43

Brooks obviously concerned/worried about Trump tweeting boycott against him and no_hypocrisy Jan 2017 #51