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Here we go again. The Dixie Chicks redux! Bruce has the #1 record in all the land called ” Magic,” but Clear Channel has sent out a memo saying:
Alas, there’s a hitch: Radio will not play “Magic.” In fact, sources tell me that Clear Channel has sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from “Magic.” But it’s OK to play old Springsteen tracks such as “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born to Run” and “Born in the USA.”
Republican owned corporate media once again is attempting to silence progressive positions. I’m trying to contact Springsteen’s camp for a comment.
Howie Klein has much more…
Clear Channel is a big-time and very consciously right-wing power player with a goal of changing American pop culture. They have done all they could to stifle progressive voices and to dumb down and trivialize the culture…read on
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TIME TO START THE REQUEST CALLS!!!!
ADRIAN PASDAR was so angered when a stranger made a rude remark about his DIXIE CHICKS star wife NATALIE MAINES, he knocked the man to the ground. The Heroes actor was wearing a ‘Free Natalie Maines’ T-shirt, in the aftermath of the singer’s anti-war comments in 2003, when the incident occurred in a supermarket. Pasdar says, “This big guy said, ‘F**k your wife,’ as he passed me, and I couldn’t help myself. I pushed him back into a rack of Tootsie Rolls, and he fell down. “I’m not proud of that, but I’d do it again in a minute. There’s a real hurt when you see somebody getting so attacked by the media so viciously for something that was so innocuous initially. It destroyed their career for a while. “With Nat, it was just one of those things where you reconvene every night and support each other. It was difficult. We went through arguments about it. I can’t say it was one big love fest. There were some differences of opinion on how to handle what happened.”
Thats ok John…lets see if this works.My Comment:I thought they did this sort of thing in the USSR.(when it was)…Remember radio free europe….We need radio free US now!..Geez…their spying on us on telephones,internet and now silencing opinion in music(again)….I thought that was why we were at odds with Communism?!
John Amato @ 1:
Ignore my comment in the Colbert post C and L.
Anyway, I think it’s kind of funny. Censoring the Chicks is one thing but censoring an icon to the Baby Boomers is another. As a fan I think people should be outraged. But this is what we get when we allow the airwaves to be controlled by a majority who votes Republican. I was Born in the USA but lately not very proud to say so.
clear channel is just another attempt of the gop reichwingnut pediophiles to turn everyone into sheeple and then work them all from the rear end. pun intended.
Check the great lyrics to this Prince Myshkins song dealing with Clear Channel’s banning of certain songs after 9-11.
http://www.princemyshkins.com/lyricslist.html
BONUS: Song ALSO portrays Joe Lieberman in a less-than-flattering light!
At least there’s no irony about the name of his song..
dadams @ 6:
Ain’t that the truth.
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
When the Chicks came up to Canada they played to nothing but sold out shows,two of them in my city…
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
The Big guy deserved it…..I don’t know any men that would tolerate that being said about their wives………he’s just lucky it didn’t get out of hand.
I’ve never been a big Boss fan, but I have made 3 requests to hear his music so far today!
Truth & Beauty
http://clearchannel.com/radio/StationSearch.aspx
This is the link to finding all stations owned by CC. Don’t be afraid to send them an email or 10 song requests a day!
I emailed WDVE in Pittsburgh to see if they are following Clear Channel’s directives. WDVE is the station for us old folks to get past the Blink 182’s and hear real music. No offense to Blink 182 fans, I enjoy some of their shit.
Clear Channel just showed us a classic example of how the repug wing likes to shoot it’s self in the foot…..I hope Springsteen gets very vocal about this..I’d enjoy watching the fallout.
Not sure if this is the correct link but from Stewart….
http://www.comedycentral.com/m.....large=true
They seemed to have no problem playing the hell out of Neil Young’s “Let’s Roll” on classic rock stations, even though it was a new song at the time. Anyone know if Neil’s played that stinker in recent years?
Wow. Where I grew up, someone within reach that said, “Hey mister. F*ck your wife!” would pretty much be attempting suicide. I don’t advocate violence myself, but have know plenty of people in my hometown to actually die for exactly that.
But to the point, I wonder where the middle material stands? Like this one:
Released in 1995. But pretty appropriate today, I’d say…
Screen door slams.
Mary’s dress sways.
Like a vision she dances,
Across the porch,
While Roy Orbison is banned.
Tonight ….
In …
Bush/Cheney Land.
followed by killer sax solo
I will say this:
It’s a shame that we in the middle, left, and way left can’t organize a good old fashioned boycott the way the batshit crazy right can. Because at the end of the day, ClearChannel wouldn’t be in business if we didn’t let them.
Just bought the album on amazon… I REALLY like this song. I heard it on some time back once on the radio ( a clear channel station). After I told my wife that I bought the album she wondered why she hadn’t heard the song anymore.
I have no idea how the music world works. I don’t know how radio stations are allowed to play music and what the mechanism for compensation is to the artist. That said, if I were Bruce Springsteen, I would get a building full of lawyers and I would do everything in my power to issue a cease and desist order was delivered to every Clear Channel station everywhere in the world banning them from playing any of my music EVER again. Not even in voice overs, commercials or public announcements. Never again. It’s that simple. Either you play all my music, or you never play another note of my music ever again.
There is nothing offensive, obscene or substandard about the current album. It’s number 1. That kind of speaks for itself. So I don’t know how much control over all his music he has, but I would at least hold a HUGE press conference on MTV and invite the rest of the puke news networks and I would tell the world to stop listening to all the Clear Channel stations. Create a web site with a list of every one and their address, phone number and call-in-line to tell my fans these are the stations you NEVER want to listen to again.
The only thing these fucking thugs understand is money and force. If you don’t use one of those weapons, you will never stop them.
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
Proves what pussies the right-wing really are. They think they’re so badass and macho, but when someone fights back, they can’t do shit.
PurplePatriot @ 21:
We should be talking with Bruce’s press people and organizing a media incident. This thing need to be turned on them, and turned on them bad.
from the stepped up fascist efforts all across the board by the nut cases supporting war, Israel and shutdown of freedom of speech. Here is a great link of a short, funny but true video hammering that lying bastard Bush in an easy to watch format. Enjoy :)
http://www.glumbert.com/media/roleplay
It’s not just the Dixie Chicks. I’ve not heard a CC station in our area play Pink’s “Dear Mr. President” either. In fact I’ve only heard it played recently on one station . . . guess someone’s finally gotten fed up and they are not with CC.
Clear Channel is a legal monopoly, which we let happen. I assure you, this corporation could not care less about our protests. The union that CC belongs to (the republican party) will make sure that CC lives free and prospers.
We have a very sick culture here in the U.S. They waved the stars and stripes in our faces, and now they’re wiping their asses with it.
The only remedy, once again, is not negotiation but, rather, destruction of the monopolies: They harm the people, they harm the culture, they harm freedom…period.
Remember when rock was the music of rebellion, iconoclasm, dissent, individualism?
Now it’s just marketing and filler, like everything else on the corporate media. It’s been co-opted, marginalized and commoditized into meaninglessness.
I’m glad the music business is falling apart and everybody with a laptop and an iPod is downloading tunes for free. They don’t deserve our money (except the upcoming artists, they’re the ones getting screwed). Fuck ‘em all.
Around the time of the Born in the USA tour, George Will wrote a column about going to a Springsteen concert. He said it was too loud, but he liked it otherwise. Back then I guess the Boss wasn’t such a threat to the wingnuts.
Ah, the good old days.
Clear Channel has sponsors. Write the sponsors directly and tell them you will no longer be in the market for their products as long as Clear Channel is punishing Springsteen. Ask them to advertise elsewhere or you will not purchase what they sell or you find other products.
Springsteen is a con.
letters to the fcc appear to be necessary. While you’re at it, complain about rush limbaugh and his hateful tirades.
swarmofkillermonkeys @ 18:
One of my fav songs from one of my fav albums.
Let’s put this in perspective…
a) If you listen to a Clear Channel station you deserve what you get.
b) Bruce Springsteen’s new record went to #1 without Clear Channel - why do we need Clear Channel to play it?
c) There are plenty of smaller radio stations who deserve support. Clear Channel does not.
d) There is only one way to voice your opinion to a giant corporate radio conglomerate. Change the station!
Don’t call them, don’t write them. Abandon them and their ilk and never look back.
Thank you.
Went looking for the G. Will column mentioned above, but found some pertinent quotes instead:
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” - Abbie Hoffman.
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”-Bukowski
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - George Orwell
KNBR in San Francisco is a Clear Channel station.
Just the other day Bob Fitzgerald, one of their noon-3 sportstalk hosts, could hardly contain his love for Bruce and (anticipation for Oakland show).
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
adrian is a real hero
My wife and I saw him in Chicago last week. I agree with Jon Stewart, best night of my life. Bruce is happy, energized and determined to do whatever he can to help get America back on track.
Another gem from Bruce. Thanks for posting, John.
mark harvey @ 37:
knbr is owned by Cumulus Media…not sure where you got that they are owed by clear channel
what amazes me is that clear channel is so myopic, they are willing to run themselves into the ground
they have helped to push personalities like howard stern off of terrestrial radio and their corporate mindset has pushed more and more people to podcasts and other ways of listening to radio
in 10 years, there wont be a clear channel corp
as an aside…isnt this album proof that with good product you can get past the pirates?
Clear Channel denies it censors artists. Hmmm.
http://clearchannel.com/Corpor.....p;p=hidden
I haven’t seen any reference to the Boss on their website but in reading the article it seems to say it’s more or less age related. Now that Springsteen is 58, Clear Channel owned stations don’t seem too interested in playing aging Rockers.
These guys running Clear Channel don’t care about music. They are selling skoal, beer, and pickup trucks.
Does anyone still listen to the radio? Seriously, I don’t know a single person who does. Not for music anyway. I realize that’s anecdotal, but who