Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards!!

[jonalvy44]

YES! This only illustrates the point that Americans are no longer tolerant of those that bash America!! This is awesome news! They can't just sneak back into our hearts, as much as they would like to.

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=123260

©JOE CAVARETTA/AP

Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards May 22, 7:05 AM EST

Many country music fans aren't ready to forgive the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for comments critical of President Bush: Voters rejected the group's nominations for three Academy of Country Music Awards and the audience booed the mention of their name.

Presenter Vince Gill urged the audience at Wednesday night's show to "Stop it, stop it." He added: "You know who gets blessed when you forgive — you."

Maines has been in the country music doghouse since she told a London audience on March 10, before the start of the war in Iraq, that "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

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The Dixie Chicks were a late addition, performing by satellite from their hometown of Austin, Texas.

Maines sat silently as Emily Robison briefly introduced the song.

The boos erupted when Gill named the Dixie Chicks among nominees for entertainer of the year. Gill said afterward that the reaction was more subdued than at last month's Flameworthy Awards. "It was a pretty volatile crowd that time. This one wasn't so bad," he said.

It didn't seem that way to host Reba McEntire.

"It was a pretty big negative response. I don't think it's over," she said after the program.

[blackdog]

Beats me? I've dealt with secret service teams before. I think he was talking to himself! Maybe he was straight from Craig Livingstone's employment agency?

[RedWhiteBlue]

No, I don't recall those statements at all! I must have either caught the tail end of the interview, or perhaps I heard a later re-broadcast where they didn't play the whole thing? I heard it on Saturday morning. I do recall him saying something about the difficulty of learning or re-learning familiar songs when replacing someone in another band ... knowing "why they got rid" of some guy and "just because you write a song doesn't mean you can play it." Anyway, it was all much funnier in context when listening to him.

[Humbug]

Vince sang a duet with Babs a couple years, which was bad enough, but even worse was that in the video it looked pretty much like a lovefest where she was clinging all over him and they were smiling like lovers at one another. Of course that's not really proof of anything but it just left me with a sneaking suspicion that he might lean a little to the left or at least has a "let's just all get along" type of philosophy - which comes off making a fellow look and sound awfully nice (and not like the stereotypical mean-spirited, conservative country hick) but which often leaves one with no firm foundation on which to take a stand.

Therefore wasn't really surprised to see him bend over backwards to try to take the "let's get along" high road while lecturing to the unenlightened in the audience, and, essentially, while trying to make himself appear a wise and benevolent peacemaker.

Additionally it might also have had a dual purpose and was aimed partially at those (probably many of the same booers) who had never totally forgiven him for divorcing his first wife.

[Artist]

Kudos for #81, Dan.

[wardaddy]

It's just part of the pop country thing they do to sell more records.

I don't mind her. If it sells to young girls then it's a hit basically...7-13 year old girls are the main target base...from there it's all graavy...that's always been the formula for "pop".

The fact that she's Canadian doesn't bother anybody...Nashville has a long history of Canadian performers....I think the false hype about her being 1/2 Ojibiwa(sic) raised some eyebrows for it's chutzpah and blatant falseness.

I see she had Mutt in tow last night....rare. He's very private.

I liked her first stuff...cute songs, cute girl, very cute butt.

As far as spending my money. I like old style and Appalachin and Texas Swing and I'll buy Toby or Darryl Whorley to contribute. I liked Sara Evans first CD...with 3 chords and the truth on it. The O' Brother soundtrack was incredible....you get the picture. My musical tastes have sure broadened since my wasted youth.

[Artem55]

When I was at the University of Iowa in the mid 70's, Jimmy Buffett played at the fieldhouse. He apparently came on stage stoned (big surpirse) and was booed off of the stage. I was in a dorm room about a half a block away and the booing was very loud. If memory serves Emmylou Harris was his opening act and she finished the show.

[Utilizer]

And then there's that FUTK t-shirt thing too, by while Fatty Nat decided to diss Toby Keith and all of his fans too.

Really? To Me, it just meant that she was dyslexic as well as idiotic, as the proper spelling was obviously "FUKT". Which she was, as well as her music.

[wardaddy]

Amy was just another dope smoking hippie chick singer songwriter here 20 years ago like the rest of the wannabes till she found the crossover to Gospel/Pop stuff....not that she's a bad person. Vince is well liked. His ex-wife although incredibly beautiful was known to have a stern personality. Chapman was shattered..badly. I ran into him at CVS Green Hills during that period and he was ragged looking. I hope he's recovered.

That whole bunch are what is known as "Be Nice Christians" and hence are usually social liberals...Nashville is overrun with that ilk.

I have a friend whose boy sleeps over with Vince's son....I can tell you it was pure hell at that house.

I remember when my ex hitched her own wagon to an older wealthier horse when I was in a financial slump....it was damned tuff and not a damn thing I could do about it.
I didn't know it then but she did me a favor.

[wardaddy]

Yep....they must hate that one in particular...as well as "Who's Yer Daddy?".....Toby is a man's man but very kind actually in spite of the bravado. My wife loves him.

Any man cries publicly when his daddy dies....well, we all know what that is like. A good man ...for an Okie..lol

[angcat]

If I had her money I would pretend to be anything! I was reading about the Country Awards and to tell you the truth I don't care for the music but I do like the artists, they are very patriotic. Except for the Ditzi Chicks of course!

[Artist]

"Not entirely accurate. His wife left him and he was very devastated. While Grant's comforting him (they were neighbors) to the extent that she left her husband for Gill is unscriptural and immoral, to accuse him of leaving his wife for her was inaccurate or dishonest."

Janis Gill didn't leave Vince until she found out about his affair with Amy:

Janis tells Beverly that it was the couple’s daughter, JENNY who, upon entering her teenage years, first confronted her mother with rumors about Jenny’s father and Amy Grant. Janis dismissed the rumors, which she thought were a “laughing” matter, because Grant “is a Christian singer and he’s Mr. Nice Guy. He is a family man.” (That’s not entirely true. Janis neglected to tell Beverly that the Gills shacked up before they married.)

Confronted by the family’s housekeeper a year later, about rumors of a Gill-Grant romance, Janis continued to live in denial until 1996, when Janis filed for divorce. Only Amy’s note to Vince, reading “I love you,” which Janis found in Gill’s golf bag, caused Janis to doubt both Vince’s commitment to her and Janis’ own Jehovah’s Witness faith. ---Link

[Artist]

"I have a friend whose boy sleeps over with Vince's son....I can tell you it was pure hell at that house."

Vince Gill has two daughters....One with his first wife Janis, and one with Amy Grant. He has three step children (Amy's). Are you talking about a stepson?

[Artist]

Please see #131.

[jonalvy44]

I read in People when they got married that they decided to leave their spouses...People got a lot of flack for printing their story.

BTW, my letter to People will be printed in their June 2nd issue about Sarandon and Clooney being "Ugly Americans" rather than on the 50 most beautiful list.

[wardaddy]

I had to drive him and Fingers Taylor and a few of the others from their hotel to their jet at the Oxford airport.

I had to rouse them from their post bacchanalia stupor (except Taylor..a nice guy). They had the usual bevy of co-ed groupies (I don't fault them for that...I saw that all the time...even with Arlo Guthrie Jr...I swear)

I had borrowed a Mercedes sedan...an old 300SEL with the floor pedal starter for the ride and Buffett almost fought with me to drive the car. He was still drunk and tooted up and spilling a jug of blue valiums everywhere. We had to literally help carry him to the car where he promptly passed out.

The back up gals were all very sweet and showed me around his Jetstar and that was fun...they were babes of course and I was sort of shy...lol

He gave a good show though and even in his stupor was quite witty but obnoxious...sort of like his politics have always been. This was 1978.

[jonalvy44]

Hey, I'm with you...GW needs to send the Guard down to the border and seal it. You sound very passionate about this, get something organized. My crusade is agains tthe anti-Americanism of Hollywood.

I suggest hooking up with Tancredo. Let me know so i can support you.

[VRWCmember]

I saw quite a bit of it. The audience usually comprises the musicians and their family, C&W radio personalities (DJs etc.), record label folks, producers, etc. It is typically a fairly "elite" or at least select crowd with little - if any - of the "general public" there.

[Ramtek57]

Why are they booing us?

[wardaddy]

Could have been...or it could have been my friend's daughter...it's been awhile and the person in the biz I was engaged to then was my conduit to all that music row stuff. I know they did sleepovers at each other's house and the kid had a lot to say and a lot was heard at the Gill home (not suprisingly)....I thought it was a boy...I could be wrong. This was a couple of years before the divorce stuff became public.

I have now been with my wife for 5 years so it's been longer than that...I'd guess late 97 maybe.

I always thought Gill's ex was quite a beauty myself. She used to have a dress shop in Green Hills...may still have it.

[WRhine]

We have thousands of illegal aliens pouring into our country routinely, at will, as the President and his party stand in stone silence in the face of this ever escalating epic attack on our borders and our sovereignty.

But if a stupid celebrity says something bad about the President, or their party, the Republicans are outraged..

Joe, it's difficult to make much sense of what is going on in politics today...in both parties. We seem to live in an Upside Down World where HUGE issues like Mexico's Epic Invasion of OUR Country and the staggering damage it has caused receives little attention from the party types. Yet, as you so rightly pointed out, a few careless remarks about the president by some "very young" entertainers has nearly every rank and file republican in a rage, looking for revenge.

I was also surprised by the absence of party rage when Mexico voted against our actions in Iraq...like France did but somehow it was France that needed to be singled out for a public whipping. This was especially puzzling to me since it is NOT France that encourages its people to invade our country en masse. Nor is it France that is busy setting up Consular Offices throughout the U.S. for the expressed purpose of inserting itself DIRECTLY into America's INTERNAL AFFAIRS and Debasing Our Sovereignty.

Indeed, it's pathetic at say the least. If there is any sense at all to this bizarre behavior it is this: If the Subject Adversary is perceived to be Weak, then by all means--pile it on them. If the Adversary has our Government by the Balls...just look the other way…like our president does.