[Slowhand] Politics and Rock Stars

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What if your
guitar hero's political views  turned out to be  more
in line with Charlton Heston than Babwa Stweisand?????
Would it  change your opinion of him or his music???
(I expect this message to get the  same response)
 
g.w.
 
I am inclined to say that - unless your fav musician is involved in  
something you truly feel is deeply reprehensible  - that to me - as long as  they made 
music I enjoyed - I would not hold their political views against them  - 
after all - a rock star is a citizen too and is entitled just as I am - to  work 
on behalf of issues that are important to them - 
 
With respect to the countryside alliance - they "stand" for a number of  
things including supporting the preservation of open space (admittedly so they  
can hunt that space) and for the preservation of rural/agricultural life - so it 
 is difficult to know for certain what aspect of the alliance EC and friends 
are  supporting - my concern re: the bird hunting scene in Britain is the 
numbers and  manner in which these hunts are conducted - literally somewhere in 
the vicinity  of a billion pheasants are imported to britain as chicks - with 
their beaks  snapped close with a plastic bit - for the purpose of the hunt.  On 
a  typical weekend estate hunting party - each person will kill about 800 
birds -  birds that have been kept in pens and their first day of flying is the 
day they  get shot - these hardly seems sporting to me - EC however has said he 
hunts only  what he can eat - so while I would be personally squeamish about 
killing  anything - I am less disturbed by his hunting.  
 
Cecelia
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