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| Ronstadt Batting 1.000 - Second Audience Walkout This Week |
| 2004-07-23 |
| Via Drudge. LIVERMORE - Linda Ronstadt's political message sent close to a hundred concert-goers home early Thursday evening. Really packing 'em in, eh, Linda? What had been a mellow evening at Wente Vineyards, with the crowd even serenading her with "Happy Birthday" at one point, turned into a rush for the exits by some fans angry by her encore tribute to filmmaker Michael Moore. Oops, she did it again! "She just had to do it," one fan steamed as he headed for the parking lot. "It was good until the end," another yelled to TV crews waiting outside the concert. "She's getting out of line; it's ridiculous," said Cindy Williams of Livermore, as she left during the last song of the evening. Ronstadt's encore dedication of the song "Desperado" to Moore, the controversial maker of "Fahrenheit 9/11" who she described Thursday as "a great American patriot," got her booted from a Las Vegas casino Saturday and drew cheers, some boos, and a few "traitor" yells from the Livermore crowd. Heh! Until that last song, the concert had been an evening of good music and happy fans. There was no shortage of conflicting opinions among the baby-boomer crowd, a sprinkling of them dressed in patriotic colors, but it was no referendum on the war in Iraq, no pro- or anti-Bush lovefest, or even a meeting of the Michael Moore fan club. No, it was a concert, and should've remained that way. Nice way to keep pissing off what little fan base you have left. Concert-goers, who paid from $99 to $249 each for tickets, were well aware of the controversy, but said they just wanted to enjoy the songs. "I love her music, but I hate her politics, and I hope she just sings," said Tina Uzelac of Livermore, who arrived wearing a flag sweater. "These tickets are pretty high-priced, and we're not paying to go to a political rally." Demand a refund, then. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #9 Borgboy - she's hefty enough for the Huns to like her. :-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-07-23 10:25:09 PM |
| #8 New TIME TUNNEL episode: Linda sings at Nuremburg Party Rally! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-07-23 8:48:14 PM |
| #7 You mean she's profiting from the notoriety? Say it ain't so! |
| Posted by: gromky 2004-07-23 5:32:23 PM |
| #6 Zhang Fei,after taxes,agent,business manager,etc. she is probably netting $20-25,000 of the theoretical $50,000.Now you or I would be very happy to make $25,000 legally in one night,but we are not(at least I'm not)remembering a time when we were perfoming in front of 25,000-100,000 fans at a time,making that $2.5mil in a week.Further,Linda is reported as not wanting to perform in Vegas,yet she does(did?). |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-07-23 4:31:02 PM |
| #5 I'm trying to envison meatie moore out riding fences. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-23 3:23:35 PM |
| #4 Stephen: If you are doing "concerts" of less than 2,000 people,your career needs a serious boost. She's still making enough money that she qualifies as a limo liberal. At $100 to $249 apiece, that corresponds to $200,000 for a single night's performance. Let's say she gets $50,000 per performance. If she performs once a week, 52 weeks a year, that's a grand total of $2.5m per year for working once a week. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-07-23 3:11:54 PM |
| #3 She is just "ridickerous" |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-07-23 2:50:40 PM |
| #2 If you are doing "concerts" of less than 2,000 people,your career needs a serious boost.How about a little controversy,and maybe you can get some free press(did anybody here know if Linda was still alive,much less performing?)and some bigger shows. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-07-23 2:40:34 PM |
| #1 You must be a moonbat, Talk just like a moonbat, You must be a moonbat in disguise . . . . |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-07-23 12:49:02 PM |