Originally Posted by Marc Barnette
This is EXACTLY why I don't get into these political threads. Barry, and everyone, I SEE the freedom of Speech implications. just like I see it now EVERY SINGLE day with anyone that speaks out against ANYTHING with the current administration. You get very upset that a some high matenience Divas a decade ago got dropped by some radio stations, have ,less than half of the information from that time (which I was right in the middle of, since many friends of mine were involved with that label, with those girls, and dealing with bad attitudes, the Gallager references are pretty dead on.) but you seem to conveinently overlook the situation today when people are called rascist, terrorists, have the IRS, FBI, NSA called on them, reputations ruined, family members threatened.

The sense of proportion is what is shocking. No one threw the Chicks in Jail.No one came after their TWELVE MILLION DOLLAR settlement with Sony. No one shut down their Monument record label. They hated Nashville the whole time they were here and were never shy about letting EVERYONE know how much they hated Nashville and everyone in the business they were in. They went on, and are still around today.

They insulted their fans on many other things OTHER THAN one thing they said about George Bush. It's kind of the Leslie Neilson/Officer Barbrady example. Got a gum wrapper on the ground and start screaming about the world ending because of littering, and the entire world behind them is exploding in giant mushroom cloud.

I'm dumping out of this thread because there is nothing else to add here. You can blame everyone and complain they were treated shabily. If you had dealt with them for many years BEFORE that incident, you might have a different opinion of all of it.

MAB



FREEDOM OF SPEECH - Well I see my song got removed from the mp3 forum. Oh, well it's still available here -
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=13080483&q=hi&newref=1

I see a lot of innuendo about the Obama Administration but I rarely see anything specific. I guess you leave it to Fox News to make that stuff up.

Were the Chicks difficult? Probably, many artists were and are. They wanted the artistic freedom to express themselves. They are feminists and free thinkers and Nashville wanted to fit them in a cookie cutter mold. One of my daughters loved the Dixie Chicks as did many young girls (she also liked Alan Jackson). The Chicks didn't insult all their fans - they have tons of fans around the world. It's too bad they started out as country artists. Probably because of Natalie Mains father who was involved with country music in Texas. If they started out today they could be more like Taylor Swift, more independent of a system that makes demands that many artists don't wish to comply with. You don't see Taylor Swift making endless rounds of Radio Station visits and fan appreciation days. She still manages to have fans and sell records.

You say you were in the middle of this. I have to resist getting snarky here because I know you Mark. Being in the middle implies being between one and the other. You were always on the side of the Nashville system and still are. That's fine for you, but it wasn't for the Dixie Chicks and it isn't for me.

There is a huge country music festival even here in liberal Portland, but someone has to clean up the huge mess of all the beer cups that are littered on the ground after it's over. I'm glad some people care enough not to litter and don't throw their cigarettes and gum wrappers on the ground. But the American people were threatened by our leaders with the vision of a mushroom cloud if they didn't back a war that made no sense, now we have to help the lost and mangled lives of those who fought that war and the deal with consequences in the Mideast of what we have done. That job feel to Barack Obama who voted against that war and who is reviled by those who instigated it. Maybe we should have listened to what the Dixie Chicks were saying.

Last edited by PeteG; 03/21/15 05:37 PM.