Re: MKE Dixie Chicks Sell Out Bradley Without "Selling Out!"

hy my name is jacques from australia and im looking for the cords to the
dixie chicks ,Without You if any body has could they forward them to me on
jacques.r.janek@bigpond.com thanks out there
"Mr Yak Milk" <ati@indymedia.org> wrote in message
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> Just for the record, I'm no major C&W fan, usually only mildly
> amused, but if you count Kitty Wells, Johnny Cash, Waylon and
> Willie, the Dixie Chicks, Hank Sr., Roger Miller, Woodie Guthrie,
> and a few others, I guess you can say I have a little bit of room
> in my heart for some of the transcendent american music souls, eh?
> I guess that proves there're musicians and then there're artists.
>
>
> Nope, it's not a long way from busking street corners
> to the Bradley Center. No, not really. It's all the
> same path if you ask me! Natalie Maines, what can I
> say, and the Dixie Chicks. Wow. Too bad I don't buy
> tickets to major shows anymore. I'll bet tonite's
> sold out gig is gonna be a doozy. I can't wait to
> read the reviews. And I can't wait to write one!
>
> Ready?
>
> "Who doesn't know what I'm talking about?"
>
> My first observation at the pre-show festivities was a
> Chubby woman about my age singing "Wide Open Spaces"
> on the Lipton Kareoke stage with just as much stage
> presence and perhaps even better dynamics than the
> Dixie Chicks usually give it.
>
> Nice.
>
> I'm on the wide sidewalk outside the Bradley center.
> There seems to be a better show out here than anything
> we're likely to see inside.
>
> I'd better mention the anti-abortion idiots south of
> us here on the sidewalk right away, huh?
>
> No, I'm not saying they're idiots because they're
> against abortion, nope. They're being idiotic tonite
> because they're slinging a whole boatload of blasphemous
> stuff trying to prove their point.
>
> Don't get me started. Now I'm glad I said it so I can
> move on to other stuff. Whew.
>
> OK. I wish I brought a camera. The signs, banners and
> T-Shirts were great.
>
> OK. I'll just list my favorite.
>
> FUTK is being worn by Mandy from West Bend. Check it out.
> Don't believe the hype. It stands for Freedom, Unity,
> Tolerance, Knowledge.
>
> Wow, I think every single TV channel has their "RATT Rig"
> truck parked out here with the antenna all the way up, and
> each of their anchors' are all decked out in his or her
> make-up interviewing all the "pro" and "con" people and
> what not.
>
> What a story. Face it. The Dixie Chicks coming through
> Wisconsin is a hot topic.
>
> "Ready, ready, ready, ready to run."
>
> "This one's for our moms," said three *removed**removed**removed**removed**removed* women on the
> Kareoke stage about to sing "Goodbye Earl." Wow, Natalie
> Maines isn't the only one out there making fairly profound
> statements in public, eh?
>
> Something tells me this "Puss N Boots" tour is mostly about
> empowerment. Much more so than say, the Power Puff Grrlz, or
> Spice Girls, but that's all a part of it all, huh? Some kind
> of a logical progression.
>
> I wonder if the one thing Natalie's bringing out to the fore,
> isn't that most of us men were blindly FOR this war, war,
> war stuff, while perhaps our "women" friends were for the
> most part thought-provokingly against it, or somewhat hesitating
> hoping cooler heads might prevail.
>
> Who sang, "that's right, the woman is smarter."
>
> Ah, Harry Belafonte.
>
> Once again, "Who doesn't know what I'm talking about?"
>
> This show was relatively sold out as of last Thursday
> (a week ago.) It's about to fully sell out any minute
> and it's 7pm right now. I'm confirming this with the
> box office out front. It turns out what they do is reserve
> a block of seats where they can release exactly 100 new
> seats each day so some of the last minute people have an
> increased chance of getting good seats as well. That sounds
> somewhat democratic to me. Good idea.
>
> The crowd warmer for the Lipton Kareoke stage was also my
> first source telling me that every show from their Texas
> opening to now has either sold out fully or come close.
>
> Also, you know what? There's just something about Milwaukee.
> All the ticket-scalpers I've overheard so far are selling
> for face value!
>
> People are just filing in wave upon wave upon massive wave.
> And if I had to guess I'd say attendance is going to be
> way less than 15% men. Would it be an exaggeration to say
> it seems like more than 95% women coming to this show? I
> wonder what's happened at all the other shows. Probably
> about the same.
>
> One of the guys in charge of passing out the weird contrived
> front-row "pit" thingies (can you say American Bandstand?) -
> (there are green and orange wristbands, and you get coached
> on how to jump up and down and scream and dance, etc.) Oh
> well, "that's rock and roll" I always say. Maybe Dick Clark
> wouldn't appreciate the Dixie Chicks but I BETCHA KITTY WELLS
> CAN RELATE, EMPATHISE AND DIG THE CHICKS, know what I mean?
>
> And I'd better say something quick about Charlie Sykes. Perhaps
> I should've disposed of him earlier in this review up near the
> street preachers with their sandwich boards, huh? Yup. Something
> tells me, the Dixie Chicks would've been 2/3 full at most of
> their shows like Vans Warped and Lollapalooza and Summerfest
> had it not been for shockjock idiot radiocasters like Chucky
> Sykes.
>
> Keep it coming. Perhaps we could get him to attack the artists
> we dig even more, eh?
>
> Oops. 3 paragraphs ago I digressed on one of those run-non
> sentences, like I often do. Can I finish it? The guy passing
> out the little red laminates that get you right up close to
> the band, says every show has been more than 75% "girls."
> And their definition of a "girl" is "less-than-twenty-five."
>
> The Chicks are even bigger than Elvis.
>
> OK, almost.
>
> My last comment here will be that many will say it's a long
> way from busking Dallas street corners to the Bradley Center
> for the Dixie Chicks, but you know what? It's not really that
> far is it?
>
> Think about it. Way back then -- they were doing exactly what
> they wanted and they were beholden to no one. Now they're
> travelling around whereever they feel like it, playing sold
> out shows, and it sure seems like despite signing to a major
> label, they're um, er, uh, beholden to no one.
>
> You go, grrlz...
>
>
> marco
>
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