07.11.11

Ain’t That America?

Posted in Decline and Fall, Phlogiston, Rock 'n' Roll at 8:21 am by George Smith

If you mean singing flat in baseball caps while stumbling through Mellencamp’s Pink Houses at some yuppie bar, yeah.

It’s presidential candidate Thaddeus McCotter, playing guitar with friends, two years ago.

“The thought of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Livonia, being president is a bit scary,” writes the opinion page of his hometown newspaper, the Oakland Press.

As far as newspaper editorials go, it basically shits on him for 750 words. Using polite language.

Here’s another video of a “rock band” of Republican congressman, including McCotter and one token Dem, playing badly at Farm Aid a few years ago. It’s unlistenable, twenty seconds being about all you can stand. Pantywaist vocals while murdering a Beatles tune plus the drummer making a good argument for replacement with a drum machine.

“We like to have fun every once in awhile,” says one of the men in the band called, wait for it, The Second Amendments. Mystifyingly, it appears to have been shot for television broadcast.

None of these guys ever rock, even remotely. Originally, I wanted to cut McCotter some slack because he so obviously loves to play guitar. But he just stinks at it — totally “dad rock.”

It’s doubly damning because he’s from Michigan, Detroit being known for many great electric guitar players in the Sixties and Seventies.

For example, if Jim McCarty of the Detroit Wheels was/is a Boss 302, McCotter is an old Pinto or Chevy Vega.

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