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  1. "Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there..." by Paul+Dubuc · · Score: 1 · on Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like

    http://www.superseventies.com/sl_indianawantsme.ht ml

  2. that's the way, uh huh, uh huh... by rvega · · Score: 1 · on DRM and the Myth of the Analog Hole

    analog content is the boogie man

    Really? KC is implicated in all this?

    Oh, you must mean bogeyman...

  3. "My Sweet Lord" not really relevant... by argent · · Score: 1 · on Final Fantasy Music on iTunes
    The world will never know what really happened inside Harrison's head, because musicians can't create the kind of "chinese wall" between the music they listen to and the music they create. It's almost impossible to write music without being derivitive, and without occasionally "ripping" themes and tracks.

    The infamous "Nickelback vs Nickelback" remix going around the net is the perfect example. There's two different songs that "everyone" knows have basically the same music. Except, if you start doing that it's amazing the things you can make line up, particularly in pop/rock where there's probably only ten basic beats that 90% of the songs use.

    Besides, you can sing any of the lyrics to "Waltzing Matilda".

    This has nothing to do with OCRemix, because the OCRemix remixes all explicitly acknowledge where they got their material from. This is more like Paul Simon taking the music of "If I could..." from Los Incas version of "El Condor Pasa" *. There's no secret "inspiration" involved, if anyone's going to sue they're not going to have to wait for a judge to decide if they sound the same, legal or not it's all out in the open...

    * I was in Paris in 1965, right before Simon and Garfunkel broke. I was roaming around Europe by myself, doing folk stuff. It was there I met Los Incas at a concert. I was booked, and they were booked, and that was the first time I had ever heard South American music. They gave me an album of their stuff, and "El Condor Pasa" was on the album. The Simon and Garfunkel record of "El Condor Pasa" was recorded over that preexisting track. So that's where it all comes from, and the notion was, if I liked the music, if it sounded good to me, it was popular. For me there was really no distinction between one culture and another. -- Paul Simon
  4. Re:The Boogie Man by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on Software Exorcism
    Not to get pedantic, but MC Hammer was a rapper.

    I think you MEANT KC == Boogie Man.
    (Nice picture there...)

    You're welcome.

  5. Re:SCO city to city tour by aurelian · · Score: 1 · on SCO Volleys to Red Hat
    Hey wasn't that already done by Gerry Rafferty?.

    I can almost imagine Darl attempting the solo on Baker Street.

  6. Always remember to call a marksman by gad_zuki! · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Robot Balloon Escapes In Britain
    Pink Floyd could have used your services:

    Perhaps our most publicised fiasco at Hipgnosis Design was the Great Pig
    Escape, early 1977. Pink Floyd had rejected our suggestion for their
    ANIMALS cover in favour of Roger Waters' idea of a pig hovering over
    Battersea Power Station. Despite serious misgivings about such a notion
    (shades of Monty Python and the Goodies -- was it not intrinsically silly?)
    we offered to shoot the pictures and put the cover together. Contrary to
    our advice the band didn't want the pig "stripped in" which would allow us
    to photograph the pig anywhere, but wanted it shot for real, the pig
    actually floating above the power station. Thus the forty foot zeppelin was
    crated to London and assembled on location. Timetable as follows: ....

    Day 2. Eleven still cameramen, eight man film crew, helicopter, one or two
    of the group, manager but no marksman (?). Pig launched successfully on
    bright clear morning. Hauled slowly up side of building, everyone snapping
    away. Near the top, betwixt the towers, a fateful gust of wind. The pig
    turned suddenly, broke mooring cable and lurched rapidly towards the
    heavens. No one had told the marksman to return. The pig sailed away and
    was lost from sight in five minutes. Absolute horrors. All that time and
    money and it had simply disappeared in front of our eyes. The police
    trailed it to thirty thousand feet and then gave up, the cowards. That
    evening, the dirigible came down on a Kent farm. The farmer was reported to
    have said he thought it "a bit unusual"! Actually the Press made a bundle
    out of the whole thing: "flying pig interrupts international flight
    patterns," "weird UFO spotted," "flying pig heads for home" (it was made in
    Holland). But the Floyd don't give up that easily and the roadies rescued
    it from Kent, repaired the puncture and we started again.
  7. Sad news by Accord+MT · · Score: 1 · on The Music Business and the Internet
    The BBC news saddens me, but it does not surprise me.

    As long as the RIAA continues to treat music like product instead of art, and bands as corporate chess pieces instead of artists, nothing will change. Some fans will rebel, some will complain, but most will just keep taking it up the ass.

    Thank you.