According to
WashingtonExaminer.com, former
SKID ROW singer
Sebastian Bach has slammed Republican vice presidential candidate
Paul Ryan for his supposed love of rock and roll.
Speaking at last week's GOP convention in Tampa, Florida,
Ryan said of his running mate
Mitt Romney, "There are the songs on his iPod which I've heard on the campaign bus — and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, 'I hope it's not a deal-breaker,
Mitt, but my playlist starts with
AC/DC and ends with
ZEPPELIN.'"
While performing with
CAMP FREDDY last night (Monday, September 3) at the Butter nightclub in Charlotte, North Carolina as part of a kick-off event for the Democratic National Convention,
Bach poked fun at
Ryan, telling the crowd, "That means [his playlist] stops at the letter L. I guess he doesn't like
MÖTLEY CRÜE, I guess he doesn't like
Minnie Riperton, he doesn't even have any
Melissa Manchester on his [expletive] iPod."
Between songs,
Bach blasted
Ryan again. "Do you like
LED ZEPPELIN more than
Paul Ryan?" he said.
Other artists that have blasted the campaign include
TWISTED SISTER frontman
Dee Snider,
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist
Tom Morello, Somali-Canadian artist
K'naan and
SILVERSUN PICKUPS, who objected to the campaign's use of their song
"Panic Switch".
When
Ryan listed
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE as one of his favorites, despite their hardcore leftist leanings,
Morello slammed the far-right Congressman in an op-ed piece for
Rolling Stone.
