DIXIE CHICKS SPOOKED BY EVIL MANSON VIBES (Trio calls in medicine man for exorcism)

Star Magazine ^ | March 26, 2003 | Star Magazine

[Mister Magoo]

DIXIE CHICKS SPOOKED BY EVIL MANSON VIBES

Trio calls in medicine man for exorcism

DIXIE CHICKS

The sizzling-hot Dixie Chicks needed a little special spiritual help recently to calm their nerves. Confidential hears the country trio called on an Indian shaman to "cleanse" a California set they were using to film a television commercial.

No April Fools' Day joke! The wildly popular singers – Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines – drafted a medicine man in full regalia and armed with traditional Indian sage-and-cedar wands after they learned that the place picked for the ad once was home to imprisoned serial killer Charles Manson.

"They just wanted to get rid of bad vibes," a source on the set of the Lipton Iced Tea commercial reports.

"Everyone got pretty spooked when we heard. One of the world's all-time evil guys lived there. You can't expect the place not to have bad vibes."

The set, used in late February for an ad that's due to air next month, was on a creepy, boulder-filled property next to Santa Susana Pass State Park, high above L.A. in the town of Chatsworth.

Years ago, the place was known as the Spahn movie ranch. It was rented by companies that took advantage of its rugged chaparral-covered landscape for cheap cowboy-and-Indian shoot-'em-ups. The ranch, however, became infamous in the late 1960s when bloodthirsty Manson moved in with his devotees, the Family.

Manson and his followers were later suspected in up to 40 killings, including the high-profile 1969 death of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski.

While the murders took place throughout the L.A. area, most were planned at the ranch, and at least one occurred there. The body of a stablehand was discovered in a shallow grave on the property, hacked to death.

In 1970, as Manson's trial was about to start, several buildings on the Spahn ranch burned to the ground. The land changed hands several times, until it was finally bought by The Church at Rocky Peak, a Christian congregation that sometimes rents it out.

The Dixie Chicks – who recently landed in hot water when Natalie Maines criticized President Bush's Iraq policy – also had some of the born-again Christians at the church rolling their eyes.

"We're already praying for that place," one church member said. Preacher Dr. David Miller even brought up the use of the shaman during his March 8 sermon on how folks sometimes get hung up on the supernatural instead of God.

"We do not follow the Dixie Chicks' beliefs," says church spokeswoman Shelly Holling, "but we don't make fun of anyone when it comes to spirituality.

"People who use our land for movies or commercials are fully aware of what went on here. We don't hide it."

The seven-time Grammy-winning singers of Wide Open Spaces and You Were Mine – who each have tattoos of chicken feet on their ankles – seemed satisfied with the cleansing. The two days of filming, I am told, went off without a hitch.

Published on: March 26, 2003

[arjay]

Sure am glad I believe in God rather than vibes.

[dead]

Doesn't one usually have to die before they can go a'hauntin'?

[RLJVet]

Good try girls.

I'll listen to track 2 on your cd but only because I bought it an hour or two (AAAH!) before you announced you had gone socialist/secularist on us.

Lose your lead singer and you're in but do it very soon and in the proper mannner.

[Salman]

Since when are "vibes" a traditional Indian concept? They called the wrong medicine man!

[WomanofStandard]

You'd think Lipton Tea or whoever makes it would know better than to use the Dipsy Cups in their commerical.

[Redcloak]

So did they at least call a shaman from the correct tribe? That area was inhabited by the Tongva. One wonders if the "vibes" would be affected if they used a Chumash shaman instead.

[fight_truth_decay]

The western crooners posed for one of those “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” ads for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — but the ad was never released. THE TRIO POSED in a field of flowers, wearing nothing but blossoms and their strategically placed instruments. A photo of the ad can be seen (WAS) on the photographer’s Web site, sebreephoto.com.

It turns out that the Chicks are staunch animal-rights supporters, but at the last minute the group’s management put the kibosh on the ad.

“The Chicks themselves were lovely about the whole thing, but their management got worried that some of their fans were rifle-toting, Bambi-shooting types who would take offense at an anti-fur, pro-animal message,” says a source. “They forbid release of the ad because they were worried about backlash or boycott. They even tried to pay PETA $10,000 to say it never happened.”

Now that we know they have a history of lying for money, even offering to pay people off to stay popular, what do they have to say for themselves?

The Chicks’ spokeswoman didn’t return calls for comment. Of course not, that would mean taking responsibility for one's actions. We can't promote that or anything.Source

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[LibertyGrrrl]

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[Mister Magoo]

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[MattAMiller]

These last few weeks are going to take up a whole three segments of Behind the Music some day.

[joesnuffy]

ask satan to cast out satan....let me know how that works out for ya'll
These gotta be the Ditzy Chicks

[ClancyJ]

Who cares what they do.

[Taldeine]

That has got to be the funnest thing I have ever seen.

[JoJo Gunn]

"Sizzling hot". "Wildly popular".

The usual Tiger Beat sewage....

[chiefqc]

Still short,fat and stupid

[fightinJAG]

BAWWWAAAAAHAAAA

These brain donors are worried about the "vibes" of Charles Manson in a house but apparently don't care about the millions of Iraqis who have had to live under the "vibes" of Saddam Hussein for 34 years.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

This clarifies everything!

It was actually the medicine man who said, "I'm a shaman. George Bush is from Texas."

[DainBramage]

"The evil spirits left before I got there claiming something about a boycott of the Dixie Chicks", said the befuddled WitchDoctor.

[Timesink]

The wildly popular singers

In late February, sure. But not now.