Posted on 08/04/2006 3:51:08 AM PDT by jimbo123
25 cancelled dates since the tour was first announced. This is just too funny!
I know, for me, music is associated with other things. If I am having good times when I hear a song for the first time, I'm always going to like that song, as long as it's not just terrible. I gotta admit, I like some really bad music from about twenty years ago when I first met my wife. It just doesn't matter that the music was bad, because the times were good.
That is why, with the Chicks, I just can't get past the stupidity in order to listen to the music. I am unhappy whenever I hear them, so the music suffers to me.
Though, objectively speaking, their latest CD just does not match the quality of effort of their earlier work, IMHO.
" This latest album is too full of bile to be enjoyable, which is a shame. "
That's pretty much how I found it (what I have heard of it)
“You know how it is,” Natalie said. “You get drunk, you say things … All our controversies probably would have gone away if I checked into rehab the next day.” One fan held up a sign that said, “I’m gay but I love Chicks.” “Aw, that’s sweet,” Natalie said. “I’m straight, but I love gay people!”
Natalie wore a black leather outfit, uncannily akin to what Olivia Newton John wore on the cover of her 1978 new wave album Totally Hot, plus leggings, which are always a bad idea, especially in heat waves, but who asked me? The other two Chicks (the banjo one and the fiddle one) played a lot of solos, since the Chicks are rocking out more these days, a shrewd move given a dismal summer for country tours. Everybody in the nine-piece band took a solo on the bluegrass breakdown “Little Jack Slade.” Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide” was even awesomer than their version of Bob Dylan’s “Mississippi.” But they aren’t playing “There’s Your Trouble” on this tour. What’s up with that? That song is the JAM, ladies!
Natalie made a few references to the band’s “excellent career decisions,” alluding to the fact that country radio is still boycotting them even though their record is selling. Don’t worry about it, Natalie - rock people like it when you complain about the president. (Hell, we even complain about the presidents we like.) I think Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best: “’Tis of no importance what bats and owls think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson was cool. So are the Dixie Chicks.
And that's from their new cross-over fans in NYC.
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As I understand the Chicks broke from the record co. contract a while ago to maximize their own profits. Under other circumstances a smart move. However lacking the record companies PR nannies to controll them it has turned south on them. The Chicks are picking up the entire cost of the tour from their own pockets, not the record company's. So that 19 piece band, concert venues, ads, PR, etc. all add up to the cost of hubris.
The Dixie Chicks, hoist on their own retard.
Any half way decent musician can be made to sound good in a studio. Have you seen them live?
Add Des Moines, IA. They were supposed to be here August 24th.
IIRC, that was before the statement. The main reason that they got the idea they were supported by the public is that their concerts were well attended. Well, has anybody here ever tried to get a refund on concert tickets? Good luck. Heck, even if the show's canceled, you still get stuck with the service charge!
Mark
Oops, you had Ames on your list. Close enough to DSM.
Sean Penn???? Robert Duvall is a good actor. Gene Hackman is a good actor. So is Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Gary Sinese, Kevin Spacey, Denzel Washington, Samuel L Jackson, James Earl Jones, and Morgan Freeman.
Those are good actors.
Sean Penn's only claim to fame are his Spicoli character (which might not really have been acting), Being married to Madonna (which might actually have been acting), and his bad attitude.
Oh and The Duke, he was a good actor. (Just watched The Fighting Seabees, last night)
If history is a reliable indicator of future behavior, the Chik with the big mouth will try to fix things by poking country fans in the eye with a pointy stick yet again, only deeper and harder.
Of the cancelled dates, the ones in traditionally conservative areas are predictable. Nobody is shocked when they can't make a go of it in Kansas City, Knoxville, or Ames, IA. But the cancelled dates in Jones Beach, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Anaheim and San Diego indicate a broad-based problem for the Chicks.
Frankly, I think the country is a heck of a lot more Conservative than most people give it credit for. A lot of folks are going to be surprised on November 8, but I will not be one of them.
Take away the flashy looks and put them beside a real bluegrass pickers and you might change your mind. The Dixie Chicks are the bluegrass equivalent to a "boy band" in pop music. They have moderate tallent, but compared to real bluegrass pickers, they just don't cut it.
Compare them to Sam Bush, Mark O'Conner, Bela Fleck, Alison Kraus, New Grass Revival, The Nashville Cats, Edgar Meyer, Ricky Skaggs or any of a host of real bluegrass tallent and you'll see what I mean.....
Thank you very much ;>)
There are tons of good musicians in the world, most of them toiling in obscurity. That's where the Ditzy Chix belong.
/slaps jimbo123 with a trout. Where's my ping? Ha ha ha.
Billboard still puts them in the "country" category when doing their charts, so they are still in the top ten there, as all the Chick sites are gloating about.
Of course, they are spinning the cancellations in so many ways. The Long Island concert was cancelled because it was "too hot". Several other dates are being cancelled to help promote the "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" documentary to be released in the fall.
And from what I understand she made a slap at Mel Gibson at the Madison Square Garden concert, saying that maybe she should have checked into rehab and then everything would have been alright.
Sad to say, I am enjoying their plummet from fame.
Out of the "mouths of babes"!
But then, I live in the Chicago area, we don't have a country station here. I have to drive down towards Joliet before I can start getting one. Or out towards Rockford.
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