Linda Ronstadt Booed off Stage at Vegas

She is Timmins employee. She was hired to perform. Timmins was dissatisfied with her performance and had her walked out. As her employer, he was perfectly within his rights to do so.

I have almost forgotten since no one has said anything about the anthrax, but wasn't it all democratic senators who were the targets of that, or at least their names on the addresses that had the anthrax? Just something I have always thought odd and have my own conspiracy theories about.

First it was the dixi chicks, then whoopi (slim fast commercial thing) and now Linda Ronstadt. Gee, I get the feeling we're not in America anymore.

The hotel owner and the audience was out of line.

I think she looks like she is a nice middle age lady. I wonder why men think women have to remain like they did in their early twenty's and they can look like death warmed over?

McGentrix wrote:

She is Timmins employee. She was hired to perform. Timmins was dissatisfied with her performance and had her walked out. As her employer, he was perfectly within his rights to do so.

Wrong. Performers perform under contract, unless the contract stated that she was not permitted to engage in any political speech, (believe me, it didn't) Ronstadt was perfectly within her rights to perform her act as she saw fit. Also, I am sure Ronstadt got paid. We don't know if Timmins had a right to revoke her lodging as we don't know what the contract stated.

Not to belabor the issue but the best performers bare their souls on stage. Not only do most of the better ones share their political views with the audience but they share many personal and intimate details with their audience as well. Most fans enjoy this. Unfortrunately, most who attended the Alladin concert were just taking advantage of a nice spiff that comes with their package and not Ronstadt fans at all. Sadly, the malcontent trash who created a scene ruined the night for those Ronstadt fans who did attend.

Thanks Redheat, the article I posted clearly states that the audience was evenly divided. Look a little closer at this incident and you might see more than meets the eye. Is it possible that the struggling hotel was trying to drum up some publicity nad blew this event out of proportion? Also, Ronstadt has gotten more publicity from this incident than she has had in years. And there ain't no such thing as bad publicity. (Unless it's indictable)

You contradict yourself right off the bat. First, you say that something wasn't in the contract, but later say that no one knows what is in the contract.

Then you suggest that you know the motives behind the audience that watched Ronstadt's performance. Like you know them personally. where you there? Did you see the show?

Then you suggest that you know the motives behind the audience that watched Ronstadt's performance. Like you know them personally. where you there? Did you see the show?

McGentrix wrote:

Then you suggest that you know the motives behind the audience that watched Ronstadt's performance. Like you know them personally. where you there? Did you see the show?

I know audiences. It is my business to know audiences. Are you suggesting that the audience was composed of hard-core Ronstadt fans?

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The vehement reaction to Ronstadt's comments comes as something as a surprise, as the singer had been dedicating the song to Moore each night of the tour. The singer has been outspoken about her liberal views throughout her career and had a very public relationship with then-California Governor Jerry Brown in the Seventies.

In an interview that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal the day before the show, Ronstadt said that the reaction to her nightly Moore dedications had been mixed. "They say the country is evenly divided, and boy is that true," she said. "One half of the audience cheers and the other half boos."
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Funny too that people with $5 haircuts and 5 year-old TJ Maxx fashions would defend Republican ideals like doing away with the estate tax and tax breaks for the wealthy. I could never figure that one out.

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The vehement reaction to Ronstadt's comments comes as something as a surprise, as the singer had been dedicating the song to Moore each night of the tour. The singer has been outspoken about her liberal views throughout her career and had a very public relationship with then-California Governor Jerry Brown in the Seventies.

In an interview that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal the day before the show, Ronstadt said that the reaction to her nightly Moore dedications had been mixed. "They say the country is evenly divided, and boy is that true," she said. "One half of the audience cheers and the other half boos."
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source: RollingStone.com

Why not answer the question McG?

McGentrix wrote:

Then you suggest that you know the motives behind the audience that watched Ronstadt's performance. Like you know them personally. where you there? Did you see the show?

I know audiences. It is my business to know audiences. Are you suggesting that the audience was composed of hard-core Ronstadt fans?

McGentrix wrote:

Sadly, the malcontent trash who created a scene ruined the night for those Ronstadt fans who did attend.

I mentioned this once before and you've gone on repeating this mantra at least twice as if you never saw the explanation. There WAS a concert at Wolf Trap at which Ronstadt/Moore fans and normal people were about evenly divided and Ronstadt's comments DID create a division between the two groups at that performance. There was no mention of any noticable number of people taking Ronstadt's side at the event in Vegas.

All indications are that Ronstadt created a scene and ruined the evening for the people in attendance at that event (Vegas).

Other than that, you look at the picture of Ronstadt in her youth and, yeah it's sad that anybody would let themselves totally go like that, but there's absolutely no law of physics which says that people over fifty HAVE to look like that. For instance:



See what I mean?