Steely Dan hit again at RNC band overlaying ‘Reelin’ In The Years’, counsel anti-Trump track ‘Tin-Foil-Hat’ as a substitute

Steely Dan have hit again on the Republican Nationwide Conference’s cowl band for selecting to carry out their monitor ‘Reelin’ In The Years’.

The Nashville band Sixwire – comprised of Andy Childs (lead vocals, guitar), Steve Hornbeak (keyboards, vocals), John Howard (bass guitar), Steve Mandile (guitar, vocals) and Chuck Tilley (drums, percussion) – supplied an enormous setlist full of covers of traditional tracks on the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) that came about final week (July 15-18).

The set listing included traditional covers of resembling Low cost Trick‘s ‘I Need You to Need Me’, Foo Fighters‘ ‘Be taught To Fly’, U2‘s ‘The place the Streets Have No Title’ and Steely Dan’s ‘Reelin’ In The Years’.

Now, Steely Dan have taken to their official Fb web page to answer the band’s cowl of their 1972 track, suggesting that they carry out Donald Fagen’s anti-Trump track ‘Tin Foil Hat’ as a substitute.

“Hey Sixwire: If you wish to play our music, how about enjoying the person within the Tin Foil Hat?” learn the publish shared on Steely Dan’s official Fb web page.

Launched in 2017 on Todd Rundgren‘s album ‘White Knight’, ‘Tin Foil Hat’ options Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen and condemns Trump’s presidency from 2017-2021. “Trigger the person within the tin foil hat, Is tweeting like a teenage lady / He places the Pluto in plutocrat, It’s gonna be a yuge yuge yuge new world,” they sing within the refrain, referencing the previous president’s tweeting habits.

The track additionally mentions different Trump moments resembling “coming down the escalator,”, various details, tiny palms and Fagen evaluating his presidential time period to a “coup d’état.”

This isn't the primary time the ‘Soiled Work’ band has hit out on the Republican social gathering. Talking to Rolling Stone again in 2016, he mentioned: “All these right-wingers endure from an enlargement of the amygdala within the decrease mind. It makes them paranoid and aggressive.”

In different information, King Princess’ cowl of ‘Soiled Work’ was featured within the third season of Hackers.