{"id":30767,"date":"2024-11-04T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-and-jon-bon-jovi-play-r-e-m-classic-at-harris-walz-rally\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:03:48","slug":"michael-stipe-and-jon-bon-jovi-play-r-e-m-classic-at-harris-walz-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-and-jon-bon-jovi-play-r-e-m-classic-at-harris-walz-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Stipe and Jon Bon Jovi play R.E.M. classic at Harris\/Walz rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-04\/Getty_StarsatWalzrally_110424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tim Walz, Michael Stipe, Dough Emhoff, Jon Bon Jovi, The War and Treaty&#8217;s Michael Trotter Jr.; Nathan Posner\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At a rally for <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> and <strong>Tim Walz<\/strong>\u00a0in Atlanta Sunday, <strong>Michael Stipe<\/strong> sang an<strong> R.E.M.<\/strong> classic with an unlikely musician backing him up: <strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-michael-stipe-and-jon-bon-jovi-perform-r-e-m-s-the-one-i-love-at-kamala-harris-rally-3809196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> fan-captured footage<\/strong><\/a>, you can see Stipe sing &#8220;The One I Love&#8221; backed up by Bon Jovi on guitar and country duo<strong> The War &amp; Treaty<\/strong> on vocals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stipe also performed another R.E.M. classic, &#8220;Driver 8,&#8221; at the rally and encouraged the crowd to join him in singing &#8220;It&#8217;s fun to get out the V-O-T-E,&#8221; to the tune of the <strong>Village People<\/strong> song &#8220;Y.M.C.A.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stipe has been supporting the Harris\/Walz ticket with appearances, while R.E.M. collectively has shared a new <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8ftacKGmn6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>lyric video<\/strong><\/a> for their song &#8220;I Believe&#8221; to encourage people to vote. They also released a digital compilation of 18 hand-picked songs called <em>We Are Hope Despite the Times<\/em>\u00a0in honor of National Voter Registration Day.<\/p>\n<p>As for Bon Jovi, he and The War and Treaty will appear with Walz at a rally in Detroit on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Walz, Michael Stipe, Dough Emhoff, Jon Bon Jovi, The War and Treaty&#8217;s Michael Trotter Jr.; Nathan Posner\/Anadolu via Getty Images At a rally for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz\u00a0in Atlanta Sunday, Michael Stipe sang an R.E.M. classic with an unlikely musician backing him up: Jon Bon Jovi. In fan-captured<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-and-jon-bon-jovi-play-r-e-m-classic-at-harris-walz-rally\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}