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Peter Gabriel Wants You to Re-Shock the Monkey
PreacherTom writes "The party line for the music industry has been clear: discourage music downloads at all cost. However, singer Peter Gabriel is taking things in a different direction. In order to promote his own label, he is actually encouraging people to not only download his music, but also adapt it into something more modern. In doing so, he actually posted a sample pack of Shock the Monkey consisting of vocals and other pieces of the original multitrack recording. Some in the music business would call this the commercial equivalent of hiring kidnappers to babysit. In actuality, Gabriel is pleased with the results."
With all due respect, this is a gratuitious attempt to take advantage of free labor to generate revenue for publishing he owns. As well as an attempt to encourage others to remake that crappy song into something that resembles good music. Nice try.
Petey, if you're really serious, release "In Your Eyes" raw tracks. Then we'll talk. Don't dump your crap into the marketplace and expect the best talent to do your bidding for free.
A star is pleased with himself... Hmm.. sounds like a case of the "Tom Cruises"
Politdics openly.
"Claiming that all "Real" musicians love having the music sampled is a bit overstated ... particularly since the practice seems most common in Rap and Hip Hop."
Implying that "real musicians" are involved in Rap and Hip Hop is even more of an overstatement.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
I dont care if he likes free downloads, this is news for nerds, not news for has beens....
Look, I'm a big Genesis and Peter Gabriel fan, and I raise my hat to him for doing the "Open Source thing" with his music.
But I *REALLY AM* getting sick and tired of these idiots who constantly think they can do a better job than the original artist in making his/her/their songs sound better - either through making some plasticized dance-beat cover version or just cutting the original into bits and having some rap bloke talk all over it.
And don't even talk to me about "tribute bands" - if they're clever enough to copy the original artist that well, they're clever enough to write their own original music and work their way up from playing pubs and clubs - just like The Rolling Stones and The Beatles had to do.
Please, go and mess about with your modern music as much as you like and do it with my blessing. But with regard to the stuff I've been listening to now for anything up to 35 years, *LEAVE IT ALONE*!!! It didn't need some kid calling himself a "DJ" messing about with it then so it doesn't need it now.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Let me see, taking a perfectly awful song like Shock the Monkey, and combining it with Crap or Hip-Shot "music" will "Save The World For File Sharers Everywhere" (TM).
This is the same artist who wanted to name all of his albums "Peter Gabriel", and got really pissed when the record company wanted a different title for each one, so people could tell them apart.
(sigh)
>>>crawling back under my bridge.
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Somebody please mod the parent spam to hell.
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