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Huffington Post: Rocker Ted Nugent just made big bucks to not show up somewhere.
The town of Longview, Texas...had reached a verbal agreement with Nugent...(to) play inside the Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Center during the town's Independence Day celebration...
(I)n January 2014...Nugent, who campaigned with Texas...gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott...(called) President Barack Obama...a "subhuman mongrel"...Abbott's rival, Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), called the Attorney General's embrace of Nugent an "insult..."
(He) apologized for those comments in February...The town paid Nugent half of his guaranteed performance fee of $32,000 from Maude Cobb's annual budget...(t)o break (the) agreement...
(I)n 2012...Nugent was removed from a concert lineup at a prominent military base...after saying he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama was re-elected that year.
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Well, what do you know -- the bands have been going about this all wrong! Why knock yourself out learning music, trying to get a record deal, making albums and touring when you can just book a gig, collect a deposit, say something politically incorrect, and threaten to show up? That's even better than what
the Marx Brothers came up with!
