re: #407 sagehen

Artists were happy to perform for free for Obama; the inaugural committee only had to pay production costs. The people who played for Trump only agreed if they got paid enough to make up for the embarrassment (and the other gigs they’d lose for tying their names to his).

Yeah, remember how nobody wanted to play? Someone reported that Elton John was going to do it, and Elton himself came out and denied he was doing it.

That Three Doors Down was headlining tells you all you need to know about how far down the entertainment food chain they had to go.

Now. We know Three Doors Down didn’t get all that money (if they were paid half a mil I’d be surprised). So…who got all the money?