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I love watching the boat parades online. I live in central Texas, so I am landlocked, and the nearest beach to me is a little too far for a quick day trip, but I will just live vicariously through the fine Trump supporters sharing their footage of the boat parades. My town did a Trump parade through town last summer, and my husband and I grabbed our Trump flags to stick in the sun roof and joined the cars driving through town with their Trump flags. So much fun!
By the way, I love Texas also! Went eleven years ago to several towns. What I remember most is the trucks going through the small towns. From Fort Worth to Amarillo is for sure small town America working class. That’s what I remember here growing up. It’s still like that but not as much. I’m 2.5 hours from the beach, wouldn’t go that much if I didn’t have a free place, it’s mainly about spending time with my daughter & fam. They aren’t on the beach and the main beach is to much traffic in the summer. I’m glad you got to participate in the Trump parade, sounds like fun. I watch the videos also, I love the ones with the American themed rock songs, especially Kid Rock.
I love American themed rock songs now too, but I used to listen only to country music and had never really paid much attention to Kid Rock until 2017 when I started to really wake up and then also I found out he is a Trump fan, so I started listening to his music, and discovered that I do actually like some of his music after all. : )
I love 70s & 80s classic rock, it’s my favorite genre. However I love most every era except rap, jazz and new rock (it’s very angry). I’ve listened to mainly country music the past 35-40 years. Since we got Spotify I’m really digging into old 70s country & old rock. My go feel good music is still country. I just can’t listen to new country artists singing copy cat 90s country. Myself, hubby and daughter spent about six years going to concerts year round. Covid stopped that because we were not complying and then the tickets went from 75 to min 150. We were paying as little as 65 for pit, max 80 including tax & fees. I miss it but prefer to put money in other priorities. I was totally against Kid Rock, hubby listened and I refused. I thought it was mostly rap. ECU (east carolina un) had a fundraiser concert for football stadium. Eric Church was headlining & he was one of our favs. But put tickets where 300 & nosebleed was about 80, being a fundraiser. They couldn’t sell them good and radio stations were giving tickets away. We one four & went nosebleed bound. Kid Rock was opening so I started listening to him. Oh my he became my new fav. He was hilarious live. I still want to see him a little closer. Hubby says I don’t want to be in a kid rock fan crowd, I can see that, very rowdy. Basically we have seen a lot of people and some people we saw many times over and over through out the years. If I was in better health I’d go to several a year.
I really like Kid Rock and glad he’s in the fight. He’s supposed to be working with someone on the new team to fight scalpers and keep the tickets going to the real fans🤞🏼He’s a little too show boat for me. I believe being friends with Hank Jr might have been the reason he’s pro America and anti liberal. Hank doesn’t speak out like him but you can hear his opinions in his music. Unlike Merle, Hank writes what he feels not a democrat writing like he’s blue collar. I love Merle songs but he was very liberal. Maybe Kid was also affected by seeing Detroit go from a top city to now being Muslim run, that’s got to sting. He’s proud of his home town. Seems like his dad worked for car factories, not sure.
After the Covid vax propaganda I unfollowed many country artists especially those that were pro vax. Some of the smaller artists have either spoken out or I see they follow the same people I do, Trump, Jr, DC draino, Bongino (spelling?), etc. Those people I follow because they think like us. Cody Johnson & Justin Moore speak out at their shows. Justin did way before Covid.
The only concert I've ever been to was a Van Halen (sp?) concert I surprised my husband for his birthday when we were newlyweds. He absolutely loved it. Now when I hear a Van Halen song, I smile because it reminds me of him. : )