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Ticket sales stopped for Houston Dixie Chicks show
Houston Chronicle ^ | 6-9-06 | STEVE GORMAN

Posted on 06/09/2006 9:15:45 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

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To: Huck; P-40
I always thought they were a cleverly packaged teeny bopper country group with a cool name.

Agreed.

41 posted on 06/09/2006 9:51:47 AM PDT by staytrue (Moonbat conservatives-those who would rather have the democrats win.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Its more than red state/blue state... there are plenty of dems in red states.. certainly enough to make a music show profitable.. the problem is the chix decided in an even greater fit of stupidity than bashing Bush on stage was to then follow it up by saying "We are through with country music"....

That just took already gaping wound and turned it into a festering puss filled amputate it now sort of problem.

That act expanded their stupidity from people who didn't politically agree with them, to the virtually their entire fan base in one small swoop.

Can't give 1/2 to 2/3 your fan base the finger and expect to not pay a price.. but then then basically give the finger to 90%-100% of your fan base right after that just was beyond stupid.

Now here they are relying on those same fans of country music that they said they were done with, and then advertising for their tour on those same stations that play country music that they said they wanted nothing else to do with....

They look like hypocrites, and rightly so... Entertainers are entertainers.. you step and fetch for money! You need to shut up, and know your damned role.

Let this be a lesson to anyone coming up, just because you get lots of money and are surrounded by yes men, doesn't mean you are godlike.. you aren't. Shut up and play.


42 posted on 06/09/2006 9:52:46 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Snickering Hound

I had their early CD's, and used to listen to them all the time while I walked. They have since gone in the garbage. I won't listen to them ever again. I hope they go bankrupt.


43 posted on 06/09/2006 9:54:50 AM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Don't mess with Texas!


44 posted on 06/09/2006 9:55:22 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Snickering Hound

We just want y'all to know that we're ashamed that the Dixie Chicks are from Texas.


45 posted on 06/09/2006 9:55:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: Flyer
Is there any cure for EGS?

I'm sorry to report that there's no cure for the European Geophysical Society (EGS).

Currently there are treatments which, thanks to modern scientific research, improve every year, but, alas, no cure.

46 posted on 06/09/2006 9:56:11 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney?)
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To: shalom aleichem
Don't mess with Texas!

'Zackly!

;-)

47 posted on 06/09/2006 9:57:50 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney?)
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To: Recovering Hermit
Maybe they should write a country song about it.

LOL! Very good!

48 posted on 06/09/2006 10:04:45 AM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (Watkins, are you a pacifist? No sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir. I'm a coward.)
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To: Glenmerle

Good point. Their ticket to the mainstream was Country, and now they've blown it.


49 posted on 06/09/2006 10:07:08 AM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
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To: Alkhin

Thanks for the info on BATR.


50 posted on 06/09/2006 10:13:23 AM PDT by i_dont_chat (I defend the right to offend!)
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To: Snickering Hound

First, they dissed Pres. Bush in England a couple of years ago.

Then they made an apology, sort of.

Then, just recently and in conjunction with this new album and tour, they announced that they were taking back their apology.

Aren't they just brilliant!!!


51 posted on 06/09/2006 10:16:25 AM PDT by rightazrain (OK, who put a "Stop Payment" on my reality check?)
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To: Snickering Hound
Country music trio the Dixie Chicks, still taking heat for criticizing President Bush, are weathering sluggish ticket sales in several cities for their upcoming U.S. tour, industry watchers reported Thursday.

Let's see,is it....


52 posted on 06/09/2006 10:17:56 AM PDT by Ignatz (quoting Freeper cyborg: "The lay teachers could not make hands of some girls.")
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To: Enchante

On another thread on this subject, yesterday, a person with insider info said that the Chick's label is Sony, and Sony has a "no returns" policy (oh, I'd love to work in Sony's distribution center! a dream!).


53 posted on 06/09/2006 10:22:43 AM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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To: Snickering Hound

Dixie Chicks are hot, taste great, and go well with cold slaw.


54 posted on 06/09/2006 10:31:38 AM PDT by MarshallDillon (Hello NSA!)
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To: i_dont_chat

You're welcome - they have a page on their website where you can listen to some of their songs.


55 posted on 06/09/2006 10:33:07 AM PDT by Alkhin (http://awanderingconfluence.com/blog ~ Tributaries)
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To: pax_et_bonum
I'm sorry to report that there's no cure for the European Geophysical Society (EGS).

Actually, there is. EGS doesn't exist any more (since 2003), the EGU took over.

56 posted on 06/09/2006 10:49:37 AM PDT by burzum (Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.--Adm. Rickover)
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To: Alkhin

Until this politcal storm came up, I'd never heard of them. Maybe I'm out of it, but I don't listen to anything written after 1791, that's the year Mozart died.


57 posted on 06/09/2006 10:50:36 AM PDT by kjo
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To: Huck
I predict a Dixie Chicks PBS concert special by years' end.

ROTFL!!! During one of their pledge drives!

58 posted on 06/09/2006 10:51:01 AM PDT by PacesPaines
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To: polymuser
Dixie doesn't like 'em, eh? What could they rename themselves? The Frisco Fems? The Nantucket Nymphs? The Jersey Girls?

How about the Lard As* Loud Mouths of Lillith Fair?

59 posted on 06/09/2006 10:55:47 AM PDT by JavaTheHutt ( Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush - DUBYA!!!!!)
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To: Snickering Hound
Country music trio the Dixie Chicks, still taking heat for criticizing President Bush, are weathering sluggish ticket sales in several cities for their upcoming U.S. tour, industry watchers reported Thursday.

Folks like their sound as record sales would indicate. They don't like the chicks as concert ticket sales show.

60 posted on 06/09/2006 11:04:15 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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