Comments on: These Ain’t My Chicks http://www.alohadaze.com/2006/03/21/these-aint-my-chicks/ Politics. Religion. Life. In My Opinion. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:01:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Robert Rhodes http://www.alohadaze.com/2006/03/21/these-aint-my-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Robert Rhodes Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:00:15 +0000 http://www.alohadaze.com/2006/03/21/these-aint-my-chicks/#comment-82 Did you ever get a chance to listen to their first 3 independent albums, though? Because listening to the albums with Natalie Maines is like listening to a different band entirely. In fact, I'd go as far as to say the only similarity [besides the Erwin sisters] would be the name of the band. Now if you try and find a copy of those first three albums, you'll be shelling out some serious cash. I understand that the first album was pressed only about 1,000 times.. perhaps less.. and is now valued at a couple hundred dollars. (Maybe less. Maybe more. But certainly more than the original $20 that it was selling for when first released.) I felt cheated by the Chicks, because I felt like I was one of the people that was *there* to help them get their start. I took it personally when Laura was replaced. (I imagine Laura did too.) At the same time, I try real hard to keep seperate the art from the person. I think Garth Brooks is a smart-butt [although I think he's toned down over the years], but I still enjoy some of his music. I don't agree with the gay lifestyle, but I've enjoyed Elton John music for years. There is a whole slew of actors in Hollywood that I think are seriously out of touch with reality when it comes to the state of affairs in this country with other countries... but I enjoy watching movies where the actors highlight the only real talent that they have. As Jerry Doyle says, I find it very interesting that the folks in Hollywood constantly put down the United States, and at the same enjoy the benefits of being told where to stand when the camera rolls, and being paid more in a single day than our boys and girls in the military make in a year, fighting and dying for the right of these actors to go and vomit unpatriotic rhetoric on talk shows. (Can you say, Richard Belzer?) The point I'm trying to make, I think, is that these actors and musicians are fine at their craft. But because they're so popular and in the public eye, they take it upon themselves to think that their opinion matters more than anyone elses. Instead, they need to stick to that which they know and understand, and leave politics to the rest of us that know what the devil we're talking about, and understand the consequences and actions thereof. RLR Did you ever get a chance to listen to their first 3 independent albums, though? Because listening to the albums with Natalie Maines is like listening to a different band entirely. In fact, I’d go as far as to say the only similarity [besides the Erwin sisters] would be the name of the band.

Now if you try and find a copy of those first three albums, you’ll be shelling out some serious cash. I understand that the first album was pressed only about 1,000 times.. perhaps less.. and is now valued at a couple hundred dollars. (Maybe less. Maybe more. But certainly more than the original $20 that it was selling for when first released.)

I felt cheated by the Chicks, because I felt like I was one of the people that was *there* to help them get their start. I took it personally when Laura was replaced. (I imagine Laura did too.)

At the same time, I try real hard to keep seperate the art from the person. I think Garth Brooks is a smart-butt [although I think he's toned down over the years], but I still enjoy some of his music. I don’t agree with the gay lifestyle, but I’ve enjoyed Elton John music for years. There is a whole slew of actors in Hollywood that I think are seriously out of touch with reality when it comes to the state of affairs in this country with other countries… but I enjoy watching movies where the actors highlight the only real talent that they have.

As Jerry Doyle says, I find it very interesting that the folks in Hollywood constantly put down the United States, and at the same enjoy the benefits of being told where to stand when the camera rolls, and being paid more in a single day than our boys and girls in the military make in a year, fighting and dying for the right of these actors to go and vomit unpatriotic rhetoric on talk shows. (Can you say, Richard Belzer?)

The point I’m trying to make, I think, is that these actors and musicians are fine at their craft. But because they’re so popular and in the public eye, they take it upon themselves to think that their opinion matters more than anyone elses. Instead, they need to stick to that which they know and understand, and leave politics to the rest of us that know what the devil we’re talking about, and understand the consequences and actions thereof.

RLR

]]> By: Amy Proctor http://www.alohadaze.com/2006/03/21/these-aint-my-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Amy Proctor Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:46:43 +0000 http://www.alohadaze.com/2006/03/21/these-aint-my-chicks/#comment-80 It's a shame, but I used to like the Dixie Chicks and they had to go and screw up. Fortuntely, I never bought one of their CDs so I didn't waste any money. It’s a shame, but I used to like the Dixie Chicks and they had to go and screw up. Fortuntely, I never bought one of their CDs so I didn’t waste any money.

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