The man who advised the Black Crowes to instead name themselves the 'Kob Kounty Krows' (ie "KKK").
Yes, that Rick Rubin- promoter of the Beastie Boys and other cultural cancer.
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Will it be the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? As the waiter hovers with pencil poised, the Dixie Chicks debate the menu with the practised air of professional restaurant critics. The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes.
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire project a polished Fifth Avenue elegance, and vocalist Natalie Maines is a vision of sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow.
With their origins as bouffant-haired ingénues playing bluegrass music long forgotten, the Chicks are in Miami to attend a Sony BMG conference, where their new album, Taking the Long Way, is high on the corporate agenda. It's their first release since the group weathered the storm of outrage triggered by Maines's expression of shame that President Bush was from her home state of Texas. Although they've sold 30 million albums, the company was concerned about their commercial future.
When Maines made her comment on March 10 2003, 10 days before Operation Iraqi Freedom unleashed "shock and awe" over Baghdad, the Dixie Chicks were probably the biggest act in country music. Yet within days, their music vanished from the charts and the airwaves, apoplectic rednecks crushed piles of their CDs with tractors, and the FBI was feverishly monitoring death threats against the trio. It was the most heinous pop-star outrage since Ozzy Osbourne urinated on the Alamo.
"The reaction was as if Natalie had said 'Death to the President' or something," says violinist and vocalist Maguire.
"It was the bullying and the scare factor," shudders banjo and guitar player Robison. "It was like the McCarthy days, and it was almost like the country was unrecognisable."
The level of debate can be gauged from the way Maines was compared to "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, who was photographed manning a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun at the height of the Vietnam war.
The Chicks can't hide their disgust at the lack of support they received from other country performers. "A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do," says Robison.
"A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism."
"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."
There can be no rational explanation of how Maines's remark came to drive a red-hot poker into America's divided soul, but it's only now that some of the poison has begun to dissipate.
Early concerns about the premature demise of the Chicks' career subsided when the furiously unapologetic single Not Ready to Make Nice became the most downloaded track on iTunes, despite a lack of radio airplay. Then the album went to number one on the Billboard 200 after selling half a million copies in the week after its release in America last month. It looks set to be their first UK top 10 album this Sunday.
The recruitment of Rick Rubin as producer, the man who rejuvenated Johnny Cash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Diamond and others, is guaranteed to extend the Chicks' appeal, though it would be disappointing if the album's thoughtful range of subject matter (from IVF to Alzheimer's) was overshadowed by the Bush episode.
"I think for longevity's sake, our music had to mature and we had to mature as people," says Maguire. "Not that this particular event had to happen, but it sped up the process for us and helped us make a record that's really meaningful to us, whether or not other people see that
-Wow, the absolute ignorance of this self indulgent pseudo intellectual has been fecal fragment is certainly in full bloom here.
You said it a lot more elegantly than I would have!
They seen to have forgotten (or perhaps never knew) that the vast majority of C&W music fans are patriots and, hence, supporters of GWB and the war on terror. IMO, they would have done well to just keep their mouths shut.
I think the "scrapping" has been one sided...I don't think Bush has ever made a harsh comment against them.
A walk through the oceans of their intellect would scarcely get one's feet wet...
Mel Brooks might entertain me with a song about Alzheimer's because I fail to see anything entertaining about Alzheimer's.
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire project a polished Fifth Avenue elegance, and vocalist Natalie Maines is a vision of sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow.
With their origins as bouffant-haired ingénues playing bluegrass music long forgotten,
Just - wow! That will further their image!
The man who advised the Black Crowes to instead name themselves the 'Kob Kounty Krows' (ie "KKK").
Yes, that Rick Rubin- promoter of the Beastie Boys and other cultural cancer.
I don't think they did survive it. Their current tour problems are the beginning of the end for them, which they'll blame on Bush.
Yup, plus I would take issue with their "survival". Their popularity among country fans has plummeted to the point where they're attempting to change their sound and cater to the left.
However, as they have successfully destroyed their careers and cut their income in half, they won't be able to even afford to revert to ribs, tacos, and pancakes.
Instead, they'll have to eat crow.
Put her in a burkha and ship her arse off to Pakistan. Then maybe, just maybe, the light bulb will flicker.
"It was the bullying and the scare factor," shudders banjo and guitar player Robison. "It was like the McCarthy days, and it was almost like the country was unrecognisable."
McCarthy was later proven to be right
This has been posted many times already...Which is good as it gives me the opportunity to again say that there's been a change in their concert schedule.
Please note that the Dixie Hicks will be playing:
Hancock High School Auditoreum July 11th. They will be the opening act for Da Yoopers.
http://www.google.com/musica?aid=IPuFyIe7Od&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result
What light bulb? And does she even know what a light bulb is? She is really that far gone.
I guess if this country blows up, they can afford to move somewhere else...So it's no big deal...
Has-been fecal fragment BUMP to you guys.....
Patriotism is the natural by-product as one is made aware of all the blessings one acrues by having a homeland. It is furthur accentuated in the observance of the misfortunes suffered by those who have lost their own.
Little Ms Maines is far too self-absorbed to recognize either.
As much of a fat big mouthed slob she is, that quote amazes me. What the hell is wrong with that girl? Why love America? For cryin out loud.
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