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I personally would expect Apple to change their strategy soon.
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This A-Ha video spoof is way funnier than the David Lee Roth flashback I posted on yesterday.
Maybe because this is so creative, whereas the Diamond Dave thing was all about laughing at David Lee Roth’s “singing”.
(H/T: Instapundit)
If the A-Ha video takes you back and you like the feeling, you may want to check out Music and Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.
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A friend sent me this link to a YouTube of a take of David Lee Roth’s vocals from a Van Halen Running With the Devil mix session.
It’s not as funny as they make it out to be, but I am sort of astounded at how hard it was for me to tell back then that David Lee Roth sounded so ridiculous. But don’t get me wrong: it is funny.
What’s with the security at vault facilities these days? Entire movies get leaked out to the internet in between post-production and their official release date, and now this raw audio archived over 20 years ago.
UPDATE: For the record, I like old Van Halen quite a bit. I used to have “Van Halen 1″ on cassette tape. And I still have a CD of Fair Warning in my collection. Given that I don’t have any Van Halen MP3′s you might think that I don’t listen to Van Halen too often anymore. And you’d be right.
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Yes. But it depends on how this lawsuit over music royalties turns out.
Expect Pandora and similar services to follow suit. Pandora can hardly stay in business as it is.
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Infringement through file sharing has just been defined upwards.
Let’s see what the RIAA does now.
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I guess this means Pandora Radio – and services like it – may yet survive.
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…in a deal worth $121 million.
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I just learned about an hour ago through VH-1 Classic that Rick Wright has passed on to play the Great Gig in the Sky.
I had no idea he was fighting cancer. May he rest in peace.
Wright was a key contributor to many recordings of Pink Floyd as a writer, singer, and keyboardist, including some of the band’s greatest hits. But that is an understatement. I think it’s safe to say he had a big role in making Floyd one of the most successful bands in the history of rock.
For a very enjoyable read on the band’s history and origins, I really recommend Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey
. I read it when I was in college, but it remains in print.
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Beck, Metallica. Even Madonna and Coldplay are taking vinyl LP’s for another spin.
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Partnership between both companies announced today so that “BlackBerry users can browse and purchase tickets to live entertainment events via Ticketmaster.com, TicketsNow.com and GetMeIn.com.”
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Fractional ownership in a song by Aerosmith or Garth Brooks? Yes, starting next month, a new start-up will give you the chance to own part of the rights to a hit song; and earn part of the royalties!
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Whole new line-up unveiled.
More new products and services here.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention, NBC shows are back on iTunes, too. A little backstory report from Nikki Finke on that.
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Dr. Fiancee and I often watch VH-1 Classic, probably for nostalgia value more than anything else. We often can’t help to laugh at how cheesy some 80′s videos are.
But last night, before going to bed, I caught the video for Tears for Fears’s “Pale Shelter” single and I really liked it. I’d seen it before, but had never actually appreciated how well put together it is.
It’s another Steve Barron classic. He directed some great videos from the era. If you want to see it, I found it online here.
I cannot tell whether it tells a story or it’s just a collection of images that looks good when played to the song. Maybe it’s the latter and that’s what makes it so good. Catching a couple of shots of Sepulveda Blvd. just north of LAX also brought a smile to my face. I especially like the way the camera panned and zoomed to perfectly frame the jetliner. Nice timing.
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I agree with the author of this piece in this regard: it’s a matter of technology changing the business model. And business model-changing technologies are already here.
I think wireless connectivity will be a big part of any new business model. Arguably the iPhone fits in that category, so Steve Jobs is well ahead of this discussion.
So iPod’s dominance perhaps will end soon, but I think whatever comes next will likely be an Apple product merely because they are already ahead of the game in the wireless connectivity field.
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…for your music system. Learn how to do it, here.
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The RIAA is watching: A California man arrested yesterday for allegedly uploading nine unreleased Guns n’ Roses songs could face from 3 to 5 years in prison if convicted. We’re talking felony here. That’s a high price to pay for sharing a tiny bunch of MP3′s.
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It’s always open season on media – and expression – somewhere.
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A look at the new Songbird software, “the Firefox of MP3 jukebox software”.
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A reader stumbled upon these at Scene Stealers: the Top 10 Movie Soundtracks, according to Eric and J.D.
I own songs from some of these, but only the Star Wars one in its entirety.
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So I came across these CD’s of singalongs in Spanish for little kids. The recordings were produced – full disclosure – by a friend of mine. You can also buy the CD’s or download individual MP3′s from Amazon here.
Not that we need them right now, but since Dr. Fiancee and I only speak English amongst ourselves and my Spanish-only mom lives abroad, I have been concerned that our children may not learn Spanish.
Since that is my native tongue, that would not sit well with me. I’m pretty sure it would bum my mom out, too.
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A few iPods have overheated to the point of flames in Japan.
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Speaking of RIAA litigation against Joe and Josie Average, a file-sharer settled with the RIAA today for more than $750 a song.
Tough going. But it’s hard to beat a bully lawsuit of this sort. Not sure the RIAA will succeed into scaring file-sharers out of MP3 piracy, but it sure must make the record labels feel better.
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Pandora may be history, unless the webcasting royalty hike from over a year ago is pared down soon.
That’s too bad. Pandora got me through many an hour in the law school library whenever I got tired of listening to my iTunes library.
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A court decision is about to define that for us, with important consequences for the RIAA and its bully lawsuit campaign.
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I rarely discuss music here. I do enjoy all sorts of music, but I’ve lost the enthusiasm I used to hold for many recording artists. Still, for nostalgia’s sake – and the sheer ridiculousness of the question above after 14 years – I thought I’d link to this.
