marisa
Somehow, from the title, I was thinking that there'd be something about Counting Crows here. Maybe because I can't read.
I can never get myself worked up about file-sharing, one way or another (current mood: conflicted), and in true AP fashion, this story about Supreme Court hearings on the matter isn’t doing anything to get me any more excited. What is interesting though, is seeing which artists line up on which side of the equation:
Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians are backing the major recording labels, saying their livelihoods are threatened if millions of people can obtain their songs for nothing.
About 20 independent recording artists, including musician and producer Brian Eno, rockers Heart and rapper-activist Chuck D, support the file-sharing technology. They say it allows greater distribution of their music and limits the power of huge record companies.
It’s like a Rorschach Test for your musical allegiances: you can read into it whatever you like, and proceed to rock out.
Somehow, from the title, I was thinking that there'd be something about Counting Crows here. Maybe because I can't read.
...and the first image that flashed before my eyes was everyone's favorite ambient pioneer/70s producer extraordinarre duking it out against kung-fu scion Brandon Lee.
And while I get the feeling he's a pretentious twit, I'm currently digging the re-issues of his "pop" albums and would much rather back him and Chuck D over Don Henley amd Sheryl Crow any day (Heart and the Dixies chicks are a wash). But because I get the feeling he's a pretentious twit I also wouldn't mind seeing him getting a whuppin' care of a zombie Lee.
I suspect that Eno has lots of pretentiously twitty brains that Zombie Brandon Lee would find mighty tasty. "Grrr.... synthpads...."