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Post by Kapitan on Apr 16, 2020 17:56:20 GMT
Interesting story about how the pandemic is affecting people who bought tickets to shows that have been postponed, canceled, rescheduled, etc. Basically everyone involved saying, "it's not my fault, it's his fault!"
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 21, 2020 19:21:59 GMT
Sorry, I'm being rude. But my god, seriously:
"I’m Rose McGowan and for a long time, I worked in a strange place called Hollywood. Being an actress was my day job, but behind the scenes I was honing my skills as a multi-media artist, writer and thought leader."
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Post by kds on Apr 21, 2020 20:42:38 GMT
Sorry, I'm being rude. But my god, seriously:
"I’m Rose McGowan and for a long time, I worked in a strange place called Hollywood. Being an actress was my day job, but behind the scenes I was honing my skills as a multi-media artist, writer and thought leader."
When you have people like Billie Eilish lowering the bar, why not?
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 21, 2020 20:45:59 GMT
Thought leader.
Humble one, too.
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Post by kds on Apr 21, 2020 23:17:57 GMT
Thought leader.
Humble one, too.
Maybe Marilyn Manson is a bad influence after all.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 21, 2020 23:21:36 GMT
It's just so funny, that's the kind of pretentious marketing jargon we use all the time in my business when I (ghost-)write thinly veiled marketing articles as if they were just straight content, like some academic work or something. Thought leadership. So to hear someone use it apparently seriously about herself as she introduces her music...
OK, whatever. I'm moving on. Really. I am.
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Post by kds on Apr 22, 2020 2:32:45 GMT
It's just so funny, that's the kind of pretentious marketing jargon we use all the time in my business when I (ghost-)write thinly veiled marketing articles as if they were just straight content, like some academic work or something. Thought leadership. So to hear someone use it apparently seriously about herself as she introduces her music...
OK, whatever. I'm moving on. Really. I am.
It reminds me of an interview I saw with Lady Gaga about ten years ago when she got big on the pop scene. I think it was on a channel called Fuse, and after seeing the preview, I had to watch. She had her hair shaped like a lamp shade, and she was so hilariously self important.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 22, 2020 23:05:56 GMT
An All-Star Streaming Concert scheduled for Saturday, April 25, in Los Angeles featuring Mike Love, David Marks, The Honeys, Rob Bonfiglio, and many more, including Wayne Kramer from The MC5:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 1, 2020 14:52:08 GMT
Any of your favorites included? Don McLean performing "American Pie"? The great (and 92 years old) Burt Bacharach? Some Carlos Santana guitar-playing? Billy Ray Cyrus?
John Fogerty is headlining the PBS special, A Capitol Fourth, hosted by John Stamos and Vanessa Williams. No Beach Boys scheduled this year but they are featuring highlights from the 40-year history of the concert so I'll bet The Boys will appear in that.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 1, 2020 15:10:04 GMT
To answer your question, no, none of my favorites seem involved in either show. Though that's pretty typical so I'm fine with it. Hope anyone who watches these shows has a great time and enjoys them, but I won't be joining in. Luckily my music collection is quite good, so I'll be able to enjoy something great regardless!
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Post by kds on Jul 1, 2020 15:19:24 GMT
I see Andy Grammar found his way on both specials.
Other than Pat Benatar and John Fogerty, there's nothing particularly enticing about either show to me.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 9, 2020 11:13:24 GMT
Whoa! A David Johansen documentary - and directed by Martin Scorsese. I am very much looking forward to this. Should be fascinating:
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Post by kds on Jul 9, 2020 12:19:17 GMT
Whoa! A David Johansen documentary - and directed by Martin Scorsese. I am very much looking forward to this. Should be fascinating:
I enjoyed Scorsese's docs on George Harrison and the Stones. Any chances he's a Beach Boys fan?
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 19, 2020 13:29:32 GMT
Not exactly news, but I was watching a Rick Beato video this morning that pointed me to a recent congressional subcommittee meeting about music copyright violations on social media.
Don Henley recently testified that Universal Music Group employs 60 full time employees to just seek out and file complaints about people posting videos that use their music without permission.
I'm actually more on the artists' side than you might guess when it comes to bootlegs, but I am sorry, this is a huge waste of time and money for UMG. The odds that most of these people are actually making money on their content are pretty slim: I'd bet there are 9 hobbyists just putting up background music for a family scrapbook or even amateur music reviewers, etc, for every 1 person who is really violating both the spirit and the letter of the law and trying to profit.
Reality is, UMG isn't likely losing many sales from most of this stuff. (Henley specifically mentioned YouTube and Facebook; he wasn't even mentioning things like blogs where people share download links.) So they're paying 60 people without even profiting, most likely, but rather just enacting the punitive measures against relative nobodies. And what's more, Henley himself notes in the testimony that it's a waste of time, an unwinnable game of whack-a-mole.
Obviously I knew the corporations filed complaints. But hearing that number of actual human beings wasting their time...amazing.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 20, 2020 17:58:41 GMT
This has been mentioned/discussed for a long time (years, in fact), but the Tom Petty Wildflowers expanded reissue is finally coming out. (Purely a coincidence, but yesterday I listened to Rick Rubin discuss it on Malcolm Gladwell's podcast. That episode was two years old.)
In it, Rubin said there was a full, second, fully produced album of material from those sessions that hadn't come out for various reasons. Considering many people consider that among Petty's best moments, that is astounding! It almost moves it into "great lost album" territory, no?
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