Life Is Just A Rodeo

Matchbox Twenty has canceled a gig at Cheyenne Frontier Days, the world’s biggest outdoor rodeo. The world’s biggest outdoor RODEO.

Why? Well according to Yahoo News….

Lead singer Rob Thomas confirmed that the band is pulling out of its July 18 show at Cheyenne Frontier Days, which bills itself as the world’s biggest outdoor rodeo.

“We ask that (fans) please understand that it would be impossible for us to put ourselves in the position of making money from what we believe to be the mistreatment of animals,” according to a statement from Thomas posted Saturday on the band’s Web site.

Get your head in the game Thomas! If you are against rodeos, then, why in the hell would you book a gig at the Worlds…Biggest…Outdoor…Rodeo?

The sensitive and compassionate Rob Thomas.

Tags: cheyenne frontier days, compassion, matchbox twenty, mistreatment of animals, rob thomas

"Life Is Just A Rodeo" by Pribek was published on April 14th, 2008 and is listed in Hunh?, Music, Music Business, Yobs.

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Comments on "Life Is Just A Rodeo": 3 Comments

Steve Wilson wrote,

I believe that Mr. Thomas was under the impression, like so many Americans, that the BS that rodeo puts out about itself being wholesome family entertainment had a basis in reality. It was only after he was shown some of the brutality and meaningless animal abuse that takes place at Cheyenne did the band say no can do. You can visit http://www.shameoncheyenne.com for more details and to see the videotape for yourself.

Link | April 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Pribek wrote,

A couple questions, Steve.
Are you working on behalf of or, as part of, an organization?

Are you saying that Rob Thomas, at one point, liked rodeos and booked a gig at one of the biggest and most well known rodeos in the world then, he had an epiphany and decided he didn’t like rodeos so, he canceled the gig?

Link | April 14th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
MooPig wrote,

Aye, Rob and fans:

August 7, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/
Real Cowboys Dress Up for the Rodeo
By GUY TREBAY
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Sure, this is from 2005, but unless someone bans the method of making steers into steers in first place, and the rest of the meat industry related stuff, we will continue to live in a “Far Side” world. “Cheeseburger, hold the meat,” says Guido at the Billy Goat Tavern.

RODEO is God’s favorite sport,” Dean A. Knox, a cowboy preacher, shouted last weekend above the disgruntled Brahma bulls being herded into chutes at the start of the 10-day-long Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo.

After 109 years in operation Cheyenne Frontier Days lays claim to being the oldest continuously running rodeo, the largest outdoor rodeo and the biggest Western celebration in the world. With over 1,800 cowboys and cowgirls competing for $1 million in prize money, it unquestionably fields the largest group of competitors in the sport.

So Rob Thomas, you don’t dress right, and your shyte still stinks, and God is Rodeo-side at Cheyenne. We’ve been breaking steers necks for well over 109 years, and your replacement is Alicia Keys anyway.

I suppose one man’s cow pie is another man’s Frisbee.

MooPig_giving new meaning to hamburger

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Link | April 16th, 2008 at 7:35 am