Rock's Freedom Of Speech But Axl Rose Won't Vote

I don't know why I'm wasting computer space on this but if I don't say something the weakest LINK in the battle of the Generations is gonna snap our asses in two... No matter what you think of or about Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Eddie Vedder supporting political candidates in Montana or Mitt pickin up some hits from Kid Rock...The biggest problem in America isn't the economy. Last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live proved how dead the center of the soul is in this society. Let me give you a better set up! Axl Rose, headmaster of Guns and Roses makes a one of a kind extremely rare appearance on Kimmel's late night show. The Rock frontman doesn't perform, choosing instead to share a few personal chapters about thumbing for rides into LA. I found it interesting that at the age of 19, he was one of the Dudes behind the counter at Tower Video. Then he clips the top off the sprouting fruit while Tweeting on live TV where he admits that he leans on the Democratic side of politics with Obama but has no plans to vote because California is such an overwhelmingly blue state. That's like saying, "I shop at Publix grocery store in Indian Land, SC because their bakery can't be beat. But you'll never catch me in a Publix because I bleed Harris Teeter." We've all grown numb to the brilliant stories of how our Grandparents and family friends fought hard to preserve the freedoms of this nation. Rarely we speak of what the Poet's did during the 60's. Axl's public announcement of supporting without wanting to vote is a pie in music's face. What if Dylan didn't care? I still get weak when the album version of American Pie from Don Mclean exposes its true identity. Ohio from CSN. John Lennon: "Imagine" Joni Mitchell: "Big Yellow Taxi" Leonard Cohen: "The Partisan" Marvin Gaye: "What's Going on?" Midnight Oil: "Beds Are Burning" Nena: "99 Luftballons" Pete Seeger: "Where have all the flowers gone?" Plastic Ono Band: "Give Peace a Chance" Public Enemy: "Fight the Power" Randy Newman: "Political Science" Rage Against the Machine: "Killing in the Name" Robert Wyatt: "Shipbuilding" Rolling Stones: "Gimme Shelter" Sex Pistols: "God Save the Queen" The Beatles: "Revolution" The Clash: "Know Your Rights" The Cranberries: "Zombie" The Jam: "Eton Rifles" The Police: "Invisible Sun" The Special AKA: "Free Nelson Mandela" Tracy Chapman: "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" U2: "Sunday Bloody Sunday" Woody Guthrie: "This Land Is Your Land" 2,000 years ago they called them Profits... Poets with pens change lives too. Not just through journaling and published writings but through music. What they live becomes a lyric. What they see has the ability to feed the songs we sing. What they hear steers the out of control waves toward better understanding. The problem with Axl's comment is I'm hearing it from non-musicians, "Why should I stand in line when votes truly don't count. It didn't help Al Gore!" James Sullivan from RollingStone Magazine unveils the other side of the Political race... The few, the proud, the right-wing dudes with guitars: An exhaustive search by Rolling Stone's research team has found the rockers who actually cop to voting conservative, from Kid Rock to Ted Nugent and beyond. Read on for a guide to a few stars who probably won't be invited to D.C. if President Obama gets a second inauguration. Ted Nugent The Motor City Madman has made more headlines with his provocative far-right views than his music recently. "If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault," Nugent said at an NRA convention in April. "It's your fault for not shooting him." Context suggested that the "coyote" in question was President Obama and his administration. The comment earned the Nuge a meet-and-greet with the Secret Service. Kid Rock After Mitt Romney made a pilgrimage to Kid Rock's Michigan home to secure the rap-rocker's coveted endorsement, Rock sang "Born Free" at a Romney rally – then played a fundraiser at a country club in Romney's hometown, where he was joined onstage by vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. "Look at this creator right here," Ryan said, praising "the fruit of his labor." Mike Love When longtime Republican Mike Love brought his version of the Beach Boys to a fundraiser for John McCain in 2008, the candidate sang an ill-advised take-off on the band's 1965 hit "Barbara Ann": "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." More recently, Beach Boy Bruce Johnston blew up at fans who asked him about President Obama at an autograph session. If he's reelected, said Johnston, "you're f*****." Gene Simmons The Kiss member argued that America should be run as a business when he appeared on Fox and Friends in August to plug his new restaurant chain, Rock and Brews. He also spoke out in support of Romney's economic policies: "No matter how much bellyaching everybody does, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it." Dave Mustaine Early this year, Megadeth's frontman suggested that he was leaning toward Rick Santorum during the GOP primaries: "He could be a really cool president, kinda like a JFK type of guy." Mustaine went full-on birther in a Canadian TV interview, where he announced, "I have a lot of questions about [President Obama], but certainly not where he was born. I know he was born somewhere else than America." He also floated a horrifying conspiracy theory that Obama was somehow behind the mass murders at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Joe Perry "I'm a definite old-school Republican," the Aerosmith guitarist declared recently. Then again, in the same interview, Perry said he was fed up with both political parties: ""Now it's all meshed together and you can barely figure out one side from the other." Johnny Ramone The late Ramones guitarist was a staunch Reaganite. After Joey and Dee Dee Ramone wrote 1985's "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," a swipe at his beloved president, he insisted that they change the name to "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down." Hank Williams Jr. When President Obama played a round of golf with Republican House Speaker John Boehner last year, the country scion outrageously compared it to "Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." The indelicate comment cost Williams his longstanding Monday Night Football gig, but it didn't stop him from continuing to air his extremist positions: this summer, he told an Iowa crowd, "We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!"