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Well, I can top you all. Never heard of the buggers.
pretty sure I burnt you a copy onto a 78 at one stage auntie jackie.
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You've been quite insulting at times.
true, I could be more polite but then you're quite condescending yourself, and to be fair you were the first stone thrower.
lets try it again.
Headless chickens didn't form till 85, (witty jab goes here)
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and quoted someone saying "circa 1984"
A simple, "I didn't say it, he did" would have sufficed.
re-litigate re-smitigate, whatever are you talking about?
I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm trying to be blunt and to the point, say what I think or what I know directly. If you have a problem with that then hosting a blog with a comments section enabled would seem to be a bad idea.I could do without this mightier than thou bollocks you're putting in. .....lived with them, toured with them etc etc...... then you should know a defining point in their career if you were there and all, otherwise a simple "yep, I forgot that", or "not my field", that's be cool,
toughen up, its the internet, its not like it matters.
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And to be a nitpicker, isn't '85 circa 1984 anyway so Mckessar was right!
in this case its an important distinction because prior to 85 there was children's hour, a very different sounding band, although sharing members.
That band split in 84 and IHC formed in85 with a very different approach to music, all weird loops and stripped back delivery.it was an important transition and an important date for nz music and should matter if you're either a) a one time manager of the record label that released said records, or b) a music journalist wishing to establish ones credibility as expert in said field.
otherwise, it doesn't matter at all.
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Paul McKessar sorted it for me: Headless Chickens, circa 1984, he said.
Headless Chickens formed in 1985 and performed for the first time as International Headless Chickens (I.H.C.) at the multi-media event The Nitpickers Picnic later that year.
must have been a parallel universe
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possibly the sparks cos he liked their facial hair?
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oppss, sorry,
the actually answer wasHitler's personal record collection found, after over 60 years. The most astonishing fact about the records — essentially Hitler’s “Best of . . .” collections — is the presence of Jewish performers. Among the recordings is a Tchaikovsky concerto performed by the virtuoso Polish Jewish violinist Bronislaw Huberman.
but I'm sure we could come up with something a lot funnier that that.
a little screwdriver perhaps?
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excellent :)
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where's pg 31?
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and a commodity too.
heh, we could keep twisting this forever.
well to be fair I hardly think categorising music and entertainment based films as information is accurate. They are quite different from the the news and weather. they represent skill talent and investment not intended for free distribution. like it or not the internet is no longer the transport domain of pure information. me saying data is a commodity is in no way "twisting" it.
so contrary to dubbers vibe there isn't an upside yet.
good, glad we've got that cleared up :)yep, I do think he provides some valuable insights into valid techniques that don't follow the mainstream models though.
but wait, didn't you just admit he didn't have insight into a viable solution? right here
you couldn't highlight those for me could you? I missed them.
ok, you got me on that, I overstated.
dubbers argument is the hale bopp comet suicide argument. lacking in proof or even reasonable evidence. on't worry, be happy indeed.
an emi exec saying file sharing "may be" isn't going to cut it. all sorts of idiots say that kind of thing without producing solid studies to back it up. I know a lot of people woh work first hand in the distribution of music, non of them (excluding simon and he's not working first hand in the distribution of music right now) are saying file sharing is going to make it easier for them to quit their day jobs.
Feargal's comments were interesting, especially the bit about the uncomfortable battle, once again though he fails to lay out how the new order will work. not even a hint, just that there will be one. it'skind of like waiting for national to tell us how they're going to make it all better, like really explain it.
merrill's argument is misleading and lacks qualifiers.
There is academic research that shows file sharing is a good thing for artists and not necessarily bad," said Merrill. "We should do a bunch of experiments to find out what the business model is."
more accurately it would be there is academic research that shows file sharing is a good thing for "SOME" artists.
and then I'd need to know what percentage of the artists it was good for. ie I think you'll find for most artists it is making them worse off income wise. SOME have however gained wider exposure than they would have otherwise
However if media had been doing their job properly and drawing our attention to them then that wouldn't be so much of a problem.