The Goat Pen

Saw REO in concert last week...

Still sound good, Kevin Cronin looks quite a bit like Skeletor now...

Yeah that was interesting

rickrath is the one not looking too good

Have you looked in a mirror lately?

try to avoid it

This whole conversation makes me want to puke

McCartney>Lennon

Can't wait for Crash to tell me how Justin Bieber is better rock than the Allman Brothers and how Mozart would "totes prefer" Nickleback and Creed to Zepp and Floyd.

smgdh

"McCartney>Lennon"

Because he's still alive?

I just have a tendency to prefer the songs composed by McCartney over Lennon's.

hedge wrote:"McCartney>Lennon"

Because he's still alive?

That does help

hedge wrote: Because he's still alive?

Allegedly

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HA! On both the seamless audio integration and the visual narrative.

I don't know what totes prefer or smgdh is so I'll just chalk it down to either forgotten meds or too many meds

I guess I'm from an era where stealing a song isn't considered being creative.....


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Composer Hans Zimmer, crooner R. Kelly and members of such bands as the Go-Go’s, the Black Crowes, Linkin Park and Three 6 Mafia are supporting Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and T.I. in their appeal in the ongoing legal dispute over the hit song “Blurred Lines.”

More than 200 musicians filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to express concern about the ruling last year in a case brought by the children of Marvin Gaye, who sued for copyright infringement claiming “Blurred Lines” copied Gaye’s hit “Got to Give it Up.”

The musicians said the ruling could have “adverse impact on their own creativity, on the creativity of future artists, and on the music industry in general.”

Gaye’s descendants won a $7.4 million verdict, which a judge reduced to $5.3 million.

I think the issue is where the line is drawn. Throughout history (at least in popular music...and probably before, but I'm not a big consumer of classical), artists have borrowed heavily from others in crafting their songs. Shit, the Eagles "Hotel California" is basically, the Stones' "Angie." For the soul music heads, Meshell N'degeocello's "Outside Your Door" is Brian McKnight's "Anytime."

Those are just ones I can call off the top of my head. I think many of these artists who legitimately compose songs, get their inspiration from other songs (some that they may not realize). If it opens them up to suit, then the amount of lawsuits can become ridiculous. Shit, if "Blurred Lines" wasn't a monster hit of the Summer, the Gaye kids probably would not have even looked to sue.

Maxwell's whole "Urban Hang Suite" album would be a field day for Marvin's kids. That album was basically an alternate take of "I Want You."

I think about this every time "Bittersweet Symphony" comes on the radio, and how those poor bastards don't see a dime of their royalties, while Mick and Keith yuck it up at whatever mansion they are visiting at that particular time.

rocking the V.F.W.!!!!

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That "stank face" tho...

(the irony of playing "Sharp Dressed Man" in those jackets is not lost on me)

[UPDATE] Turns out "Rick K and the Allnighters" are based out of Morgantown, WV and are operated out of a little place right off of Don Knotts Blvd. I didn't know Barney Furley was from WV.