My hero its a beautiful song. it belongs to the world…

Mike says >> The McCain campaign isn’t using the song for profit

Yes they are, they’re trying to win an election to further loot the country and break the back of the middle class.

Lots of profit for their backers. The American people, not so much.

Hey Elvis knows best, I think you are the one that no one gives a shit about. How old are you 90? I mean you have to be if you listen to Elvis. And if you think he was good live, wait til you see him dead! Because thats were all you fascist neo-cons are going, is your own hell. Your gonna burn forever in a place most of us know doesn’t exist. Which I find quite hilarious. No one gives a fuck about the GOP and the right, they have fucked up this country, and the world with their bullshit and their lies. Yeah, Dave Grohl has the right to be mad, because its his song, and the need permission. Yeah, Foo Fighters suck, but then so does almost everything propagated by sell-out publications like Rolling Stone. All you old fogies need to just go die, including you McLame, and quit voicing your opinion, because no one gives a shit Elvis. You need to be locked inside a room and be forced to listen to grindcore for about a month straight, then you might have half a real brain left. And then you would cling to the sanity of your little Foo Fighters band, the one you talk so much shit about. Go Forth & Die! (Disclaimer* For drug-crazed grind-freaks only!)

Boston, Heart, Eddie Van Halen, the Foo Fighters, and John Mellencamp? Sounds like the song lineup for the worst radio station ever.

Mcancient lost 6 fighter jets during the war,being shot down and captured in the last one.He was costing the tax payer millions!what a boob!He could not fly a war plane because he was stupid.

Maybe McCain can try the Beach Boys or Paul Revere and the Raiders or Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. They’re more in his age bracket.

McLame claimed to like ABBA this summer - why not do the foos and the rest of the world a favor and be the DANCING QUEEN we know you to be?!

I think it’s funny that John McCain would want to use a song as shitty as “My Hero” anyway. If I were the foo fighters I wouldn’t claim that song for my own.

it’s silly to worship mccain as some hero for fighting and killing people in an unjust war. i admire his fortitude, yes, but he never should have been there, and america should never have sent him there. wars will continue until citizens mature beyond making heroes out of soldiers.

I know he’s conservative, but Joe Escalante made a good point in his radio show this morning: McCain spent five and a half years as a POW in North Vietnam. “The saddest thing,” Foos, is that you don’t think McCain is a hero.

dave is right, he doesn’t need permission. face.

To all the neocons on here slamming Dave and The Foo`s..go to a country site because that`s where you douche bags belong. You really want McCain and Palin? McCnuts and Endtimes Barbie? No wonder why the world is laughing at us. You idiots chanting USA,USA should really get a grip.

i think it’s funny how a band as awful as the foo fighters get their song played by the guy they really don’t like, and then go ‘oh! i’m SO OFFENDED!’

is anyone on the ballot for proposing a bill that says dave grohl should’ve been the one to shoot himself in the head?

In related news, the Osmonds demanded that Irma’s Cafe stop playing their music, because the Osmonds, being Mormon, do not want their music to be associated with a venue that serves coffee and tea.

The rules for public performance of music are very clear. Musicians do not get to pick and choose who can play their songs. No one needs to ask permission. The publishing giants ASCAP and BMI are the clearinghouses for public performance of copyrighted music.

To all that support Dave Grohl here, why do you think political rallies should be treated different from other public performances?

C’mon, Alex, you’re making the rest of us Cons look pretty bad.

You should have at least stuck it out until you finished elementary school, bud.

Please, Alex, just stop talking…you’re embarrassing yourself and us fellow Cons, and you’re feeding the stereotype that we’re all a bunch of stupid, slack-jawed, inbred hicks (shhh…don’t tell anyone we actually ARE).

Now, if only Sarah Palin would do the same.

Brain, you made no sense…and “le”, that was an unfair stereotype - you know, what “liberals” are always accusing the right of doing to them? Hmmm…can you say DOUBLE-STANDARD???

That being said, McCain is a two-faced political opportunist and he should have asked for permission, no doubt. What an idiot. I don’t care if his “suits” chose the song for him (as I’m sure they did - you think he knows any band younger than the Stones???), it’s still his campaign.

I’m tired of hearing about McCain using songs from other artists without their permission. Every artist he steals a song from should be entitled to one of his houses after they sue him.

Evan

It does not matter what songs they play because once december rolls around theyll be outside. The only man who can save america from its self is the next president Mr. Obama

As someone who works in music publishing, it is true that legally, McCain has the right to play whatever he likes at campaign events, as long as the venue has a performance license from ASCAP or BMI, which then channels royalties to the publishers and writers of the song. If he were using it in a t.v. commercial, then artists would have a solid legal case against him.

However, that being said, it could be argued that he has a moral obligation to seek the songwriters’ approval. Otherwise, he should stick to using Big & Rich country songs, since they are apparently the only writers willing to support such a laughably asinine ticket.

Vapid lame liberal musicians should shut up and be glad anyone is playing there music anywhere anytime! No one gives a fuck about your politics! Remember at least 50% of music buyers are voting for McCain… and probably not happy you think so poorly of us and are so open about it.

All McCain needs to do is pay some miniscule royalty and move onto a new song. Fuck the Foo Fighters, who needs them?

Go ahead and vote for that crooked terrorist loving, Chicago thug politician, extremist loving, married to a woman who hated America and Americans until her husband runs for Presisdent, no real experience anyway, go with the flow Democrat who never fought for anything in the Senate without adding pork, politician. You get what you deserve until Biden inevitably takes over. At least your VP will be able to do a somewhat decent job.

McCain rules, Obama drules!

McCain 2008!

McCain should just sing his own song & play it at his rallies, what about that bomb Iran hit? Or McCain should just stick to boring country music, red necks all love him.

The next McCain song choice will be a Rage Against The Machine track! :-p

I get bad vibes from anyone who thinks it’s appropriate to take things without first asking permission… especially when that same person wants to be the president of the United States.

The McCain camp is well within their rights to use the song… bottom line. As long as they pay royalties for the public performance, it is perfectly legal. They don’t need their permission. If they didn’t want that song used without their permission, they should have kept it on a shelf at home.

Why are any of these songs (or any songs) being used without permission? You would think that there is some intern who can call and get approval. Of course there are few artists who would care if Obama used their song

Just use “Wango Tango” instead.

libtards alweys got to make fun of the working mans speling abiltee. You can take youre fancee school tawt speling skils and put them were teh sun dont shyne.

Vote O For Osterberg

McCain owes Grohl some money if he hasn’t paid him yet. “This note’s for you” Neil Young can relate to Grohl. So can I even though I’m a nobody-songwriter.

Iggy Pop’s songs get used for commercials. Pop takes the money, doesn’t complain. He knows his songs are interpreted by whomever, aren’t works for hire–are taken out of context.

common knowledge probably leads some to believe that since the song was used at the rally, that they might have indeed gotten the rights. which would also mean that the foo fighters support mccain. like it or not, celebrities hold some influence in the world. and if they feel strongly about the opposing party, they should have the right to have their opinions/preferences known. when will mccain realize these underhand tatics aren’t working. whatever happened to saying stuff right from the heart and trying to connect? Instead we get this feeble 80 year old candidate who assumes cause of our age we don’t know who Fannie May or Mac is. i’ll just assume by his age and swift-boat tatics that hide his unqualifications in economic terms that he’s UNQUALIFIED to be in the white house. to think i once respected him.

Dave Grohl is right. A political campaign is just like a product placement campaign. McCain shouldn’t use songs without permission of the artists. Obama 08
Foo Fighters rock!!

I’m not even American, so I should probably stay out of this, BUT…

I find it kinda funny how all the anti liberal, right wing biased comments after these articles are always devoid of punctuation and usually contain a ton of grammar and spelling mistakes. Way to make a rational, educated comment (I’m talking to you in this case alex).

Peace,
DP

Music should be allowed by any campaign, as long as it is not discrimnatory. Hagar is right about this.

Clearly everyone who has commented here thus far are a bunch of Mccain supporting republicans.

I’m not much of a foo fighters fan. But, Dave as a point. mccain should respect his intellectual propperty rights and ask PERMISSION before using his song.

First, isn’t it also a little pretentious for McCain to use My Hero? Right-wingers consistently allude to the notion that Sen Obama is elitist, then all of the sudden McCain uses a song about the ‘common man.’ It’s almost like saying, “Hey guys, I’m just like you, but I’ll be your hero.” Not to mention it also seems like a feeble attempt to reach out to young conservatives.

I think Foo should allow him to use, Long Road to Ruin instead.I think that would be appropriate enough. I wish those bands could actually “band together” and file a class action against the McFaillin’campaign.

It doesn’t matter what artist likes or doesn’t like a candidate, using an artist’s music to represent themselves, or as entertainment at their public events, violates intellectual property laws. They should ask permission, and if they dont’t receive it because the artist doesn’t like them, they can find other music. It’s pretty simple.

I love the Foo Fighters but Dave is wrong. The McCain campaign isn’t using the song for profit and the beauty of music is that anyone can relate to the lyrics and make it their own. Even though Dave wrote the song and has his feelings about what its about doesn’t mean that John McCain or myself has to feel the same! I understand his frustration but I don’t think his argument carries any water, legally speaking. Honestly though, its a bunch of suites making those decisions for McCain anyways…

Why dont you just keep chewing your gum and shut up. talk about a overrated band.

of course they support obama whats new, obama is the poster child for all the left wing artest whats new.