RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Roger Waters Stinks Up Desert Trip with Political Lecture Against Donald Trump, GOP

Monday, October 10, 2016

Roger Waters Stinks Up Desert Trip with Political Lecture Against Donald Trump, GOP

By Randy Economy

Roger Waters, the main figure behind the legendary rock band Pink Floyd exploded into a political diatribe directly attacking Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and even those in the Middle East during his concert on Sunday night at Desert Trip here in the Coachella Valley.

I get when musicians have a political message.

I get when they use their public persona as a platform.

What I don’t get is why I had to sit and be a victim of Mr. Waters hate speak during a concert that cost me hundreds of dollars to attend.

Politics and music go hand in hand. I get that.

However, the legendary music that Mr. Waters has produced over my entire lifetime with his band mates with Pink Floyd, need to tone down their hatred for those they do not see eye to eye with and stick to do what they do best, entertain the masses.

80,000 to 90,000 had just watched The Who prior to Pink Floyd taking the stage. Did Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend get political in their music set? Yes. They simply asked those attending Desert Trip to “VOTE” and “VOTE your conscience” this November. That was refreshing.

I also got a horrific case of food poisoning when I attended the concert on Friday night. Yep. Bad street tacos that were priced at $16 for two. My guests flew all the way up from Mexico to attend Desert Trip. They laughed over the piss poor quality…and beers started at $12 a bottle…

Desert Trip was a trip alright.

A trip that I will not soon forget.

I hope the organizer can get it right next year.

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”