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Bruce Springsteen conscionable got canceled — astatine the Jersey Shore.
A tribute set dedicated to The Boss’ euphony pulled the plug connected a gig astatine a barroom not acold from his Garden State location aft a quality with its proprietor implicit the singer-songwriter’s anti-Trump comments, according to a report.
No Surrender, a 20-year-old, nine-piece Springsteen screen set from New Jersey, was slated to play Riv’s Toms River Hub connected May 30 — until the "I’m connected Fire" vocalist kicked disconnected his European circuit packed with on-stage rants flaming President Trump, NJ Advance Media reported.
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Band person Brad Hobicorn started receiving "concerned texts" from barroom proprietor Tony Rivoli soon aft Springsteen’s comments went viral, according to the outlet.
Bruce Springsteen performs during the archetypal nighttime of his 'The Land of Hopes and Dreams' circuit astatine Co-op Live connected May 14 successful Manchester, England. (Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images)
By Sunday, Rivoli allegedly enactment the kibosh connected the amusement that was booked 9 months successful advance. He texted Hobicorn that the gig would beryllium "too risky astatine the moment," citing the restaurant’s blimpish lawsuit base, the outlet reported.
"Unfortunately it’s conscionable excessively overmuch wealth I wanted to bash the Springsteen tribute for that wealth successful my societal media squad would person promoted it we would person done good but present due to the fact that Bruce can’t support his rima unopen we’re screwed," Rivoli wrote successful a substance connection to Hobicorn obtained by NJ Advance Media.
Hobicorn offered to person his set play lone classic-rock covers alternatively of Springsteen, but Rivoli balked astatine paying $2,500 for a classic-rock screen band, the outlet said.
In a connection sent to the band’s bassist, Guy Fleming, Rivoli wrote, "Whenever the nationalist anthem plays, my barroom stands and is successful full silence, that’s our clientele. Toms River is reddish and won’t basal for his bull—."
After Fleming posted astir the concern connected Facebook, Rivoli seemed to alteration his tune a spot — insisting helium ne'er canceled the gig and had changed his mind. But the set decided it was excessively precocious for the barroom proprietor to backtrack.
"This is not governmental for america astatine all," Hobicorn told the outlet Thursday. "We’re conscionable a screen set that’s trying to marque immoderate money, and radical trust connected it financially. We’re the ones truly getting hurt."
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"At that point, determination were antagonistic vibes astir the full thing," Hobicorn said. "There was decidedly a information concern," helium said.
Rivoli, though, insisted the screen set could person played.
"As of (Wednesday), they could person played arsenic No Surrender," Rivoli told the outlet.
"I deliberation a batch of radical of my basal would not person came, but I could person been wrong. You know, who knows? You can’t foretell what radical are going to do."
Toms River barroom and edifice joints person antecedently sparked backlash for their blimpish slant.
Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails successful Toms River enactment a hamburger connected its paper dedicated to the right-wing extremist radical the Proud Boys successful January, starring to a monolithic online backlash and an apology from the owner.
Springsteen — who was calved successful Long Branch and raised successful Freehold — lambasted Trump’s medication arsenic "corrupt, incompetent and treasonous" portion kicking disconnected the European limb of his "Land of Hope and Dreams" circuit successful Manchester, England, past week.
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Last Friday, Trump slammed the musician, calling him "Highly Overrated" and "dumb arsenic a rock" for going "to a Foreign Country to talk severely astir the President of the United States."
"Never liked him, ne'er liked his music, oregon his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented feline — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came adjacent to destroying our Country," helium posted to Truth Social.
Instead of playing The Riv’s Toms River Hub, No Surrender volition play Headliner Oasis successful Neptune Township connected May 30, according to the outlet.
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