Posted on 09/25/2011 5:32:09 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The non-Miss Piggy two-thirds of the Vichy Chicks have a band called Court Yard Hounds. Guess whose music I’m not going to buy?
Pearl Jam Trashes Bush at Concert; Eddie Vedder impaled a mask of President Bush
Rocky Mountain News ^ | April 3, 2003 | Mark Brown
Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:10:07 PM by Mister Magoo
Concert-goers jam exits after anti-Bush display By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News April 3, 2003
Incensed fans walked out of Pearl Jam’s concert Tuesday after lead singer Eddie Vedder impaled a mask of President Bush on a microphone stand, then slammed it to the stage.
Most of Vedder’s antiwar remarks earlier in the Pepsi Center show were greeted with mixed cheers and scattered boos. But dozens of angry fans walked out during the encore because of the macabre display with the Bush mask, which he wore for the song Bushleaguer, a Bush- taunting song from the band’s latest album, Riot Act.
“When he was sharing his political views in a fairly benign manner - supporting our troops, opposing policy - that’s OK,” said Keith Zimmerman, of Denver.
“When he takes what looks like the head of George Bush on a stick, then throws it to the stage and stomps on it, that’s just unacceptable. I love Pearl Jam, but that was just way over the edge. We literally got up and left.”
Others joined Zimmerman, some complaining about the lyrics of Bushleaguer, which in part call Bush “a confidence man” and say, “He’s not a leader / he’s a Texas leaguer.”
“I wasn’t sure if it was really happening,” said Kim Mueller. “We looked at each other and realized he really did have George Bush’s head on a stick and was waving it in the air, then slam-med it to the ground and step-ped on it.”
“It was like he decapitated someone in a primal ritual and stuck their head on a stick,” Zimmerman said. “It kinda blows away the Dixie Chicks.”
Not sure what you mean by that - obviously they have the right to speak their minds whenever and wherever they want, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
And I guess I was ignorant to the fact that the stereotypes behind country music were true and it was disappointing.”
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She is ignorant to a lot more than that.
On “60 Minutes” Ms. Maguire told Steve Kroft that their concerts weren’t typical country concerts. “When I looked out in the audience, I didn’t see rednecks,” she said. (Did her lip curl slightly as she pronounced the r-word?) “I saw a more progressive crowd.”
And in a Time magazine cover story she said the group would rather have “a smaller following of really cool people who get it,” as opposed to “people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.” (It would seem Ms. McEntire got her revenge.) Perhaps there’s a difference between this attitude and simple snobbery, but you can’t blame country fans if they don’t much feel like splitting hairs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/arts/music/25sann.html
At the Academy of Country Music awards, the host, Reba McEntire,
“If the Dixie Chicks can sing with their foot in their mouths, surely I can host this sucker,” she said.
I caught them on an early morning show when they first hit it big. They sang accompanied by an unnamed guitarist. They never made an effort to thank and/or introduce the guitarist.
That told me everything I needed to know about the Ditzy Twits.
Check out Natalies’s haircut
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/12/natalie-maines-hair-buzz_n_609996.html
Country music fans can tell phonies the minute they spot them.
That is such a great point.
That's why "liberals" and "progressives" (read "illiberals" and "regressives") are so in love with coercing their views on the rest of us with government force
Yep. Sometimes a big mouth is bad for revenues.
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