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The New York Times reports:
The Dixie Chicks may play a role in the November elections.
Well, they’re not playing anywhere else, with Dixie Chicks concerts canceled in St Louis, Indianapolis, Fargo, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Tampa, Jacksonville (at the Veterans Memorial Arena), and Sunrise. The band has lately reshuffled its schedule:
On previous tours, the Dixie Chicks consistently sold out venues throughout North America. That changed on the band’s current tour, when planned shows in several Southern and Midwestern cities were canceled due to soft ticket sales. The group reshuffled its schedule to focus on areas where sales were still strong, including Canada and the Northeastern US.
``Silent House’’ is interesting, musically. They’re still putting out one or two good cuts per album, which is about normal.
(Normal because one is why you bought the album in the first place, hoping that the rest is not just the band noodling around, which it usually is.)
Natalie Maines is the one getting it done, in the group. Her father Lloyd is a great guitarist. His views on the war are not known.
Don’t understand the lyrics. Voices are instruments in proper music, fortunately for them, probably.
Release of the film, “Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing,” is tentatively scheduled for the fall. It relates the death threats, political attacks and radio boycotts directed at the country music trio and could become a political lightning rod if Harvey Weinstein, a Democratic supporter, injects it into the impending campaign.
A political lightning rod—right. In Lawrence Van Gelder’s wet dreams maybe.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 23 at 01:45 PM • permalinkOh no! They aren’t being silenced are they? hee, hee
Life is hard. It’s harder when you’re stupid.
Posted by tabitharuth on 2006 08 23 at 01:48 PM • permalinkIt’s tragic for those of us who remember the Chicks from their Dallas days. They were a little bluegrass trio that made you feel good just to hear them. Honest, earnest, talented, fun to watch.
Then their producer foisted his daughter on them as lead (“sings like a little girl at a talent show”—Andrea, bless you), at the same time Nashville money pushed them onto the world stage. That was not unusual; things change, everybody grows up and leaves the nest.
Then the brat popped off on a subject no one asked her about, and no matter how good the band was they would never overcome that.
Agents urge performers to keep their mouth shut about politics for this simple reason: Those repelled by your words will never again buy a CD; those you attract won’t buy more than one anyway, no matter how much they like you. So your sales fall.
And whatever you popped off about is going to continue. You won’t have changed a thing except your own fortunes.
Bush got a second term. The Chicks have fallen out of the hit parade. Who lost?
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 08 23 at 01:48 PM • permalink#2 rhhardin
A buddy of mine, not really a Rap music fan, felt compelled to purchase the 2 Live Crew CD back in the day as a show of support for the First Amendment. I support free speech, too, but I wasn’t gonna spend good money on rubbish to support it.
I think you’re correct that the Dixie Chicks are just
not that good on a consistent basis. Willie Nelson is nuttier politically than the three of them put together but I’ll fight the man who says he sucks!The folks still buying into the Dixie Chicks seem to know as much about Country music as my friend did about Rap, e.g. not much.
PS and slightly OT—
I just learned about the sudden death of Robbie “Rocket” Watts last month! I am gobsmacked!
I didn’t see anything about here so pardon me and permit me to say something.
For those of you who didn’t know Rocket Watts, he was the guitarist for the Aussie punk band Cosmic Psychos and influenced a generation of Grunge rockers in the US and Canada with his fuzzy distorted guitar.
The band was fun, funny, hard as nails, and I had a chance to drink with them on one of their US tours. One of my all time favorite punk bands. Great guys.
Rocket was 47 and left four children. RIP.
...including Canada and the Northeastern US.
We are seeing the balkanization of the continent. I don’t like that.
Pretty soon we’ll have the United States of AmeriCanada from Nevada to Pennsylvania, Texas to the Great White North, and the Peoples Republiks of WestEastUSCanadaCoasts at either end, like Pakistan used to be. With the high midwest up for grabs.
I don’t know if it can be helped…conservatives are moving off the coasts in droves, and their demographic spots are being taken by illegal aliens.
Ah, the Dixie Chicks. Sad victims of Progressive Personality Disorder.
The Dixie Chicks, now playing to sold-out hockey rinks accross Canada!
(This thread needs some Sonny James.)
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 08 23 at 02:41 PM • permalinkMaybe a string of ashamed-to-be-from confessions could be started.
Mark Steyn is hosting the Rush Limbaugh show tomorrow (16:00-19:00 UTC), he could start it off.
I have high hopes but not great expectations for this big break, by the way : it really takes enormous showmanship, and nobody seems to have what it takes to match Limbaugh’s on-air larger-than-life barbed buffoonery.
Limbaugh’s persona, contrary to the usual analysis, is actually self-deprecating underneath, which is why the humor works
Then the brat popped off on a subject no one asked her about…
And, gutlessly, doing it overseas, thinking that no one would hear about what was said in Germany. I think the headline in Der Varieté was “Hans Blix Picks Dixie Chicks”. [P.S. That really is German for a variety show—they must have captured it from the French.]
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 23 at 03:30 PM • permalinkRittenhouse:
“Agents urge performers to keep their mouth shut about politics for this simple reason: Those repelled by your words will never again buy a CD; those you attract won’t buy more than one anyway, no matter how much they like you. So your sales fall.”
You’re absolutely right—too bad these words don’t seem to carry much weight amongst Hollywood’s elite.
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 08 23 at 03:38 PM • permalinkRhhardin:
“Mark Steyn is hosting the Rush Limbaugh show tomorrow (16:00-19:00 UTC), he could start it off.
I have high hopes but not great expectations for this big break, by the way : it really takes enormous showmanship, and nobody seems to have what it takes to match Limbaugh’s on-air larger-than-life barbed buffoonery.
Limbaugh’s persona, contrary to the usual analysis, is actually self-deprecating underneath, which is why the humor works.”
As a broadcaster, Steyn has one thing in common with Limbaugh: they’re both former DJs, I believe.
At least, I know Limbaugh was; I’m pretty sure I’ve read that Steyn was as well. I know he always sounds great on Thursdays when Hugh Hewitt interviews him—hopefully that will carry over to being a host himself.
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 08 23 at 03:42 PM • permalinkWell, if you like the Dixie Chicks’ music (my wife does) you can get their whole album for about a $1.50 on that Russian mp3 site. That way they really don’t make much off it. Mark Steyn on Rush. Crap. I was planning on driving out of town tom. morning. Now what? I wonder what station Rush is on in Bellingham. I’m sure Rush is banned in Canada. They probably jam the airwaves to prevent his show getting across the border….
#5 Rittenhouse,
Yes indeed. I remember seeing the Dixie Chicks several times at Poor David’s Pub on Lower Greenville in the early 90’s. I still listen to their first three albums on occasion.
No tears for Laura Lynch, shortly after leaving the Chicks and getting married her husband hit the Texas Lottery for millions.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 08 23 at 04:21 PM • permalinkDixie doesn’t want the mealy mouth little shits. I speak with authority from South Carolina. The rest of the USA couldn’t care if they wound up singing at the bottom of a sewer. Only foreign countries like Maine, NH, Mass., and, of course, portions of Canada, which still think the French have any use for them, will give them a handout of a few (American) dollars.
Speaking of “Big in Canada”, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois has marched in a rally for Hezbollah.
That’s right, 91B30, using the excuse that it was a tiny minority at the “peace rally” and he didn’t see any of them anyway. And there’s a link in Tim’s Sweden item from me that should give you hope and upset you too.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 23 at 06:33 PM • permalinkI’m guessin’ “Shut Up & Sing” will have the same profound effect on the electorate’s voting intentions in November as Fahrenheit 9/11 did in 2004.
But really, I just want to see Harvey Weinstein burn some serious bank trying to sell this pup.
Oh and for Altman, Baldwin, Penn, Babs et al. to emerge from hiding in their mansions to once again demonstrate how in tune they are with the greater populace…I need a good laugh.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 08 23 at 06:54 PM • permalinkThe complete list of Dixie Chick concerts, including all cancellations, is found here.
And I must say, it couldn’t happen to a better collection of leftie twits!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 23 at 07:32 PM • permalinkLessee, 64 million or thereabouts voted for Bush, as opposed to about 60 million for hari-kerry. Plus the 64 million were mostly in the west and south, where, duh, country-western music has its largest market. So simply from a business standpoint, Maines et al are morons. Talk about crapping in your own nest!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 23 at 08:03 PM • permalinkI’m ashamed that the Dixie Chicks are from Texas!
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 08 23 at 08:34 PM • permalink#24 Hey stats,
Massachusetts, ok… Cow Hampshire, somewhat… But if you think Maine’s a foriegn country, you’ve never been out of Cumberland County. Get away from Portland, and you’ll find some mighty Red State attitude.
. .
But then, a Northern man don’t need you around, anyhow…Posted by Magic Hammer on 2006 08 23 at 08:52 PM • permalinkNo. 33 Jeffs, thanx for finding & posting the chix schedule.
Looks like the tour will last for about 24 whole days.
Heck, they oughtta just do a podcast and save their bus fare.
Posted by John Fembup on 2006 08 23 at 09:35 PM • permalinkI saw in the Minneapolist Star Tribune that Babs is going to appear there in the next month or so. guess she needs some more money to pay for the jet fuel for her private jet. She is another that I wouldn’t buy anything that would giver her a nickel.
It is getting bad these days. I am so glad that the Hollywood group supporting the war appeared last week. Now I know who to support with my few pathetic bucks. I knew a few of them but there were some surprises in that group to me. Good for them!!
The eternal dilemma of air-head celebrities when confronted with social issues- which side will prevail, which side to jump? One side and you’re a rooster, the other and you’re a feather-duster? Swish, swish, you got it wrong! Vale Dixie Chicks!
When this sort of decision arises I am comforted by the fact that celebs never fail to look at an issue and decide which side is right, which side is wrong, hence the description I suppose, airheads!#18 Cliff
Rush is on KGMI 790 AM Bellingham from 9:00 am to noon Pacific time. I think he is carried on a few Canadian stations, but not here in the Vancouver area. I sometimes listen to him if I’m driving at the time - the signal is pretty good in the southern suburbs and the south side of Vancouver. His show also repeats on KFBK 1530 Sacramento from 9:00 pm to midnight, and believe it or not sometimes the signal is quite clear on car radios. I shall definitely tune in for Mark, who although a Canadian is at the moment only available in Canada in the weekly Maclean’s magazine.
Posted by la lutta continua on 2006 08 23 at 09:49 PM • permalinkImagine being feted for a toss-off insult—then spending the rest of what’s left of your career backing it up with various insincere poses.
Imagine the new-found ‘fans,’ selecting entertainment on the basis of such shallowness.
Imagine being the New York Times and thinking that such a sad sideshow is of political significance.
Talk about coasting on fumes.
O/T Check out Bolta on those Israelis blowing up Red Cross ambulances.
Media Watch is going to be all over this like Phillip Adams on a chocolate crackle.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 23 at 09:56 PM • permalink#43 Margos Maid points to the Boltas ambulance hoax photos but here’s the link, so see for yourself
The Accidents and Accusations Tour?
The accident part looks more like a train wreck.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 08 23 at 10:38 PM • permalink#24 There’s not much of Dixie left in the Dixie Chicks. Maybe they should change their name to just “Chicks”.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 08 23 at 11:47 PM • permalink#46 Are they young enough to be genuine chicks?
Just a suggestion: “Old Boilers”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 23 at 11:53 PM • permalinkAgents urge performers to keep their mouth shut about politics for this simple reason: Those repelled by your words will never again buy a CD; those you attract won’t buy more than one anyway, no matter how much they like you. So your sales fall.
After today’s Cruise news we might call this the “Tom Cruise Crunch”—
Redstone said a key reason Paramount Pictures did not renew its deal with the actor was his off-screen behaviour.
Redstone told the Wall Street Journal, “He’s a terrific actor. But we don’t think someone who effectuates (huh?) creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.”
Cruise raised eyebrows with several publicity gaffes in the past year…
...Redstone’s comments signal a major change in Hollywood. “There is a definitive, palpable change in climate,” one source at a major Hollywood talent agency said.
About time.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 08 24 at 01:23 AM • permalinkOT: alarming news brought to you by the church for global warmenizing:
Polar bear genitals shrinking due to pollution
Shrinkage could endanger animals with already low reproduction rate
This is serious dammit!
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 08 24 at 01:25 AM • permalink#50 Most probably from the cold. Soon as global warming kicks in they can flaunt their manhood with the rest of us.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 24 at 01:35 AM • permalink#50 #52
I fear that when history is written, far too little will have been said about climate change and the global struggle against shrinkage.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 24 at 01:54 AM • permalink#53 I have been blaming climate change (mini ice-age in particular) for my inadequacy for years. If this global warming thing takes off, I’m ruined!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 24 at 02:07 AM • permalinkI just love that headline glen chose: stix nix dix chix. As a good ol’ boy born in deep red country, that says it all. Treason to America is hard to prosecute, and is celebrated in certain circles (many of which surround me). Treason to Dixie by tramps who tread on its name is swiftly and effectively punished. Still, after all these years ...
Posted by troglodyte on 2006 08 24 at 03:35 AM • permalinkSunrise is where we had tickets to see them the last time around before Natalie opened her smart mouth. This is the bluest county in Florida, but their new target audience didn’t buy tickets, and the old audience is staying away, so this time around the show was canceled. They got overly fond of playing arenas.
Look at how cute they were. Hicks pay top dollar for cute, twangy gals who don’t tell them they’re not the kind of audience they want to have.
OT
New Zealand: We Won’t Negotiate With Kidnappers of FOX News Journalists in Gaza
The U.S. State Department has said it would not negotiate with the kidnappers. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark took the same position.
Have an idea Rupert
“The New Zealand government doesn’t negotiate over such demands,” Clark said in Wellington, New Zealand. “New Zealand doesn’t offer money” to release hostages, she added, so money “won’t be coming from New Zealand, that’s not the way we operate.”
The kidnappers of Centanni and Wiig demanded that Muslim prisoners in U.S. jails be released within three days in exchange for the hostages. The group did not say what would happen if the deadline passes.
It was not clear whether the group was referring to prisoners being held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay or Iraq, where the U.S. is holding large numbers of Muslim prisoners.
In no way, is this intended as a slap at Kiwi’s, but from what I’ve read and has been said of Helen Clark, has she become a John Howard type, with a bra?
Now the ball on these two persons, rests in Rupert Murdoch’s court. Will he give money to terrorists, with the blessing of and a wink and nod, from both the U.S and New Zealand governments, for the release of these men?
Have an idea Rupert, free these two in exchange for Shep Smith.
o/t more news on M.Einfeld ex fed judge and his speeding ticket..
Journo from the Oz today spoke of Judge’s lawyer Michael Ryan and HIS association with ex legal secretary and call girl Christine.When said relationship soured Christine kept “a suitcase full of documents ” including supposedly a draft document of speeding fine case.She handed over some of those documents to the police.
Journo said that the judge was supposed to have “done the speeding fine stat dec thing twice before” and had “two Phds which had been obtained from an American Institution selling them.”Yo, Tim
You got InstaPundited.
This post is also the featured BlogBlurb at Lucianne this morning.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 24 at 11:29 AM • permalinkThe group reshuffled its schedule to focus on areas where sales were still strong, including Canada and the Northeastern US.
Maybe they could change their name to “Yankee Chicks”?
Posted by nofixedabode on 2006 08 24 at 11:32 AM • permalinkSteyn is on the air now. Great kick-off. Talking about Alexander Downer. Sounds like it’s going to be a good show.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 24 at 12:16 PM • permalink#36 Magic: Apologies to Maine. I’ve lived in MASS for quite awhile and spent loads of time in NH and Quebec (skiing) but never visited Maine. So I aplogize for shooting out on something with which I’m inexperienced.
#37 Habib: Why is it a shame, why should I not refuse to buy something from those (the Dixie Sheiks) I find contemptible? My money, my choice (until the Muslies come to power).
#50, I want to talk to the genital measuring guy.Does he do vaginas as well?Maybe they could change their name to “Yankee Chicks”?
Wash your mouth out with cheap gin!!!!!
I suggest “The Clueless Chicks”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 24 at 02:36 PM • permalinkHOT DIGGETY DAWG, Them Beyootches is getting they’s cumupence. (Close enuff Paco?)
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 24 at 03:16 PM • permalinkMWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They’s
comingbooked to come here on Fridy the 13th…....As they say in those shite movies; “Bring It On!”
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 24 at 03:20 PM • permalinkSteyn rocked on the Rush Limbaugh show today. Have to say, the best relief pitching job I’ve ever heard. I honestly think he has the talent to host his own show.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 08 24 at 03:27 PM • permalinkCan someone please tell me when (and what station) Mr Steyn can be heard on?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 24 at 03:32 PM • permalinkAnd the Ditzy Chooks even dissed Reba, who was great in that South Pacific concert. (So, I must admit, was Alec Baldwin.)
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 08 24 at 04:15 PM • permalink#74: I’m not competent to judge, Ushie, although I do enjoy the little I’ve heard. Chris hit her stride in the 50’s, if I recall; I listen to very little jazz or pop music these days that wasn’t recorded before 1949. Which is probably a bit strange, considering that I was born in ‘55, but there it is. I do REALLY like Anita O’Day. But quite honestly, I’ve always had a preference for instrumentals.
Ummm, rather OT. Ya’ think it will piss many off?
A man was at the country club for his weekly round of golf. He began his round with an eagle on the first hole and a birdie the second. On the third hole he had just scored his first ever hole in one when his cell phone rang.
It was a doctor notifying him that his wife had just been in a terrible accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU.
The man told the doctor to inform his wife where he was and that the he’d be there as soon as possible. As he hung up he realized he was leaving what was shaping up to be his best ever round of golf.He decided to get in a couple of more holes before heading to the hospital. He ended up finishing all eighteen. He finished his round shooting a personal best 61 shattering the club record by five strokes and beating his previous best game by more than 10.
He was jubilant, then he remembered his wife. Feeling guilty he dashed to the hospital. He saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about his wife’s condition.
He doctor glared at him and shouted, “You went ahead and finished your round of golf didn’t you! I hope your proud of yourself! While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself at the country club your wife has been languishing in the ICU! Its just as well you went ahead and finished that round because it will be more than likely your last! For the rest of her life she will require ‘round the clock care. And you’ll be her care giver!”
The man was feeling so guilty he broke down and sobbed.
The doctor started to snicker and said, “Just kidding! She died more than two hours ago. What’d you shoot?”Cid, how’s that 18-Step program at Golfer’s Anonymous going, anyway?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 24 at 05:08 PM • permalinkSteyn was clearly smarter than Limbaugh on handling callers ; not up to Limbaugh in entertainment (whether in the service of a point or for itself). Caved on ethnic slur complainers. A word sets them off. What it required was a word for them too.
Does somebody want to host an 11 MB real audio file of it? .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
# 58 El Cid.
1. Never worry about having a slap at Kiwis… as long as it isn’t toooo hard.
2. Never, ever compare Helen Clark to John Howard. HC is the very model of a modern lefty liberal. Don’t forget NZ’s continuing ban on US nuclear powere warships and virtual abandonment of its airforce.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 24 at 06:45 PM • permalinkStop Continental Drift!
Never, ever compare Helen Clark to John Howard. HC is the very model of a modern lefty liberal. Don’t forget NZ’s continuing ban on US nuclear powere warships and virtual abandonment of its airforce.
I understand and tis true, that’s why what was attributed to her, knocked me over.
The way I figure, Ms. Clark would have ranted on Bush, Howard and Blair, for being at fault.
The pisser is, she may have blasted those three for Pluto being demoted, too.
Poor Pluto…not a planet any longer. Wonder what Disney will do to ITS Pluto?
Hey did Y’all hear that Minnie Mouse has been committed? Yep, she went fucking’ Goofy….:).
#42, as long as I can remember, our intellectual betters on the Left have been choosing art based not on any standard but the politics of the artist. Why should it be any different with entertainment. Of course, they’ve managed to get tax dollars shoved into ‘the arts’ but I doubt that’s going to happen for the Dipsy Shits.
#50 Who gets the job of measuring the polar bear testicles and how much do you have to pay them? Is it a govt job?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 08 24 at 07:30 PM • permalink#85 re. #50 We’re all unpaid volunteers.
Hey did Y’all hear that Minnie Mouse has been committed? Yep, she went fucking’ Goofy….:).
Is that a Cindy Sheehan hysterectomy crack, el Cid?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 24 at 09:55 PM • permalink#67- It’s a pity they’re getting their come-uppance for being mouthy code pinko pillocks rather than losing gigs and ticket sales because they’re a bunch of tin-eared slappers who couldn’t carry a tune in a rusty pickup, who’ve been hyped and marketed because unlike most other female C&W acts they probably couldn’t double in a carny freakshow. Willyless Nelson could be their new performing name.
#52 “Most probably from the cold. Soon as global warming kicks in they can flaunt their manhood with the rest of us.”
Infidel Tiger, many are cold, but few are frozen.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 24 at 11:36 PM • permalinkJeff-How about “Treasonous skanks”?
Works for me, 91B30!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 24 at 11:53 PM • permalinkThe Plutonian Liberation Front calls upon all disenfranchised pseudo-orbs, refugees of protoplanetary disks (all planetisimals qualify), planetoids, denizens of the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud to unite in “conjuction” with your long lost brethren, the asteroids, to abjure and object to this arbitrary and humiliating slight against our Stygian brother.
Those in the front line of the struggle, the Near Earth Objects, are already being subject to profiling in the United States, by Congressional mandate.
The choice is yours: Orbit or Obit.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 25 at 02:13 AM • permalink
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The 1st time I saw them perform was in the cafeteria of my junior college wearing dresses made out red checked tablecloths. Of course that was before they jettisoned the two older broads and signed the fat one.