Musicological banter

notme wrote:
Fogerty might not own the rights to Proud Mary. He does not own the rights to most (if not all) of his music from the 60s. His 60s record label Fantasy owns the rights. Up until the 2000s, he either could not or would not play the songs live.

You are correct - Fogerty does not own the rights.  The New York Times agrees with Fogerty, with their film reviewer writing, "It's such a tone-deaf misappropriation of music that it left me feeling litigious."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/movies/proud-mary-john-fogerty-taraji-p-henson.html

Songwriters Score Win Over Streaming Services With Pay Hike

By Lananh Nguyen  and Lucas Shaw
January 27, 2018, 2:47 PM EST Updated on January 27, 2018, 5:13 PM EST

Artists’ share of revenue increased to 15.1% from 10.5%
‘Good day for songwriters,’ bad one for Spotify, Pandora

Songwriters will get a larger cut of revenue from streaming services after a court handed technology companies a big defeat.

The Copyright Royalty Board ruled that songwriters will get at least a 15.1 percent share of streaming revenues over the next five years, from a previous 10.5 percent. That’s the largest rate increase in CRB history, according to a statement from the National Music Publishers’ Association.

The decision is a major victory for songwriters, who have long complained they are insufficiently uncompensated by on-demand music services like Spotify and YouTube. Streaming services account for the largest share of music industry sales in the U.S., while global streaming sales jumped 60 percent in 2016, according to the IFPI. 


“It’s a good day for songwriters,” NMPA president David Israelite said. “This is the first time the court has litigated the contribution of songwriters to these digital platforms.”

Songwriters had also been pushing to get paid each time a song is streamed. Israelite said the rate increase made up for that defeat.

The decision was made after a trial in which NMPA and the Nashville Songwriters Association International represented music publishers and songwriters against Alphabet Inc., which owns YouTube and Google; Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Spotify Technology and Pandora Media Inc.

The ruling will increase costs for Spotify, the world’s largest paid online music service. It already says it loses money because of the cost of music rights.

Rock ain’t nothing but a white version of rhythm and blues, motherfucker.

Yes, this Quincy Jones interview has been all over the twitternet today, but ICYMI go have a good time reading it.

Q is a badass….

The Q effect

Robert Plant has morphed into the Cowardly Lion.

ggw wrote:
"Today, in the age of Facebook, Google and Amazon, it's hard to tell how a new and growing musical artist could make it in the way we did," Young wrote. "The Tech Giants have figured out a way to use all the great music of everyone from all time, without reporting an artist's number of plays or paying a f–king cent to the musicians. Aren't they great companies!!! It makes you wonder where the next generation of artists will come from. How will they survive?"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/neil-young-goes-on-epic-vent-about-google/ar-BBJx8kb?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

It's never the artist's or the industry's fault.  First it was the cassette recorder, then Napster, then it was the CD-ROM and iTunes, youtube, Facebook, Amazon….

The industry had Shawn Fanning and Napster offering up the future on a platter and the artists and the industry fought it.  Figure out how to get on board and be part of the future, because the past is dead.

cool little piece on I.M.P. COO Donna Westmoreland by UMD


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10215112925472130&id=1101362495

glad to hear they are doing this…kinda like the 3 bands 3 bucks era (inflation…so it's now 3 bands for 3 $5 bills)
don't love the name 'homebrew'  but at least they are trying to cultivate local talent

All great bands start somewhere, and we want that somewhere to be right here at 9:30 Club. That's why we're presenting HomeBrew - a new series of shows carefully curated to pay homage to the local/DIY music that we love - all with the simple goal of giving the stage to the great bands that deserve it. The inaugural HomeBrew, this Friday at 9:30, features experimental alt-rockers Maneka, melodic indie-rockers Bleary Eyed, droney guitar lords Tosser, and a set from DJ Franzia to cap things off. Don’t miss your chance to sample treats from these budding D.C.-area artists. Indulge in the first HomeBrew – regret it you will not.

HomeBrew
MANEKA
w/ Bleary Eyed • Tosser • DJ Franzia
@ 9:30 Club
This Friday!
March 23
8pm Doors

whoa…kinks gettin' the band back together
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-kinks-reunion-ray-davies-band-pete-quaife-a8418221.html

Bronx and Mariachi el Bronx drummer Jorma Vik called out Warped headlining act, Black Veil Brides for using potemkin (i.e. fake) amplifiers during their set

edit…this was from 5 years ago

Sidehatch wrote:


Bronx and Mariachi el Bronx drummer Jorma Vik called out Warped headlining act, Black Veil Brides for using potemkin (i.e. fake) amplifiers during their set

edit…this was from 5 years ago

"We use staging in our stage show. Also these are tattoos, I wasn't born with the batman logo on my arm."

AKA "no shit sherlock".  every band with a wall of speaker cabinets behind them is using them as stage props.  even *if* they are real Marshall cabs, with actual speakers inside them, they aren't plugged in and powered by an amp - but generally they're pure props.  having an wall of actually plugged-in stacks makes no sense technically, musically, logistically nor financially.  this article is the equivalent of "exposing" the lip-syncing of boy-bands or pop-tarts. 

that being said, i shit on this band for not even slapping some black-painted particle board across the back of those fake cabs.  that's just sloppy.  amateurs. 

sweetcell wrote:
AKA "no shit sherlock".  every band with a wall of speaker cabinets behind them is using them as stage props.  even *if* they are real Marshall cabs, with actual speakers inside them, they aren't plugged in and powered by an amp - but generally they're pure props.  having an wall of actually plugged-in stacks makes no sense technically, musically, logistically nor financially.  this article is the equivalent of "exposing" the lip-syncing of boy-bands or pop-tarts. 

that being said, i shit on this band for not even slapping some black-painted particle board across the back of those fake cabs.  that's just sloppy.  amateurs.

this I did not know…I can see in a stadium why a bunch of marshal stacks wouldn't really work
but at the club when bands have a stack behind them…are they always fake

Want to say it was sonic youth..and I feel like it was intentional…but their amps said marsha

Van Halen, The Who, Neil Young, Grateful Dead… just a few of the many many bands that use or have used fake amps as part of their stage show. I remember seeing Green Day torch a couple of empty cabinets at the end of their Warped Tour show. This is such a non-story. Jorma Vik comes off as a bit of a douche.