Last night I was fortunate enough to see the group Anti-Trump. It was a really good show.
For those of you who don't know the story behind the group, a brief rundown: They're the group that used to be known as "America", but when they went bankrupt this shady so-called "businessman" named Donald Trump bought up the rights to the name and tossed them all out on their ear, then put together a new group to tour under the name. The group members were so mad about it that they put together their own group called Anti-Trump, and those are the people I saw last night.
The band currently touring as "America" are a total bullshit band, and all the real fans of America know it. After going out and buying up the name he doesn't even play any of their old hits, just a bunch of really crappy new material. To make it even more insulting, when he does play the old stuff it's the really shitty old stuff nobody likes, stuff like "HUAC" and "Operation Wetback". Anti-Trump are really embarrassed about that stuff, and retired that material from their set ages ago.
Anyway, the group currently going out and playing as "America" is a fraud and it's depressing that they're headlining stadiums with their bullshit material while Anti-Trump can't even book a proper gig, because Donald Trump sued them for "copyright infringement" and "defamation" and got some bullshit injunction against them, so all the shows they play are illegal underground gigs.
Anti-Trump has pretty much all the original principles of America, except for Slavery but who gives a fuck, nobody likes that asshole anyway, and they play all the cool shit that the fake "America" won't even touch like "Freedom of the Press" and "Civil Rights Act of 1964" (as well as its sequel number, "Civil Rights Act of 1965"). And these aren't just a bunch of old, out-of-touch farts. They really do the material justice. Hearing this stuff played in this underground club, well, it touched me in a way it never did when I saw them playing the stuff under their own name.
The group is working on some really good new material, too, like "Single-Payer Healthcare". I know a lot of fans complain that one is really derivative of an old number Canada did decades ago, but I don't even care, it just sounds so damn good when they do it. And anyway Canada doesn't have anything as awesome as their other new number "Black Lives Matter", which is absolutely pure America. Not to put down Canada. They've done some really cool stuff too, it's just that I grew up with classic America, and they're always going to feel like _my_ group, you know?
Anti-Trump don't have a website or an official tour schedule or anything, but if you get a chance you really owe it to yourself to check them out, particularly for anyone who is disappointed with the fake (Trump) group calling itself "America" right now. Anti-Trump are totally super awesome.
