Outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, rock band Third Eye Blind made a statement during a free concert Tuesday night.
In between songs, band members mocked Republican positions and stood up for gay rights, the scientific method and the environment.
Though the band wasn’t playing an official RNC event, they were still playing in Cleveland where Republicans flocked to officially nominate Donald Trump as their presidential candidate.
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Many in the audience disagreed with the band and booed the statements.
“You can boo all you want, but I’m the motherf***ing artist up here,” Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins replied, Cleveland.com reported.
In a statement on Twitter, the band said while they were playing a benefit for Musicians on Call and they “suspected that convention types might show up.”
So they took the opportunity to “repudiate every last stitch of the RNC platform and the grotesque that is their nominee.”
Since they played their show, the band has received some negative feedback on social media, but that hasn’t seemed to faze them. Others on the internet praised the controversial statement.
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