Posts by Simon Grigg
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RB..it's not Warners exercising rights they don't have, although looking at the input on the email conversation from 3rd parties, they seem to issuing blanket takedowns on other stuff.
All quite odd.
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While their slogan “no guilt by accusation” has received support, the question needs to be asked: who wouldn’t agree to that proposition?
I can't believe Arthur wrote that..seriously
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I'm guessing the number of sites who offer whole albums as downloads for critical evaluation would also draw some ire.
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Number 6 also covers MP3 blogs and the like.
It's an interesting group and, despite Rob's line above, pretty much restates what people like Bragg and Radiohead have been touting and practising for a wee while, most especially 1 & 2 which were a big part of why Radiohead left EMI for the more financially advantageous environs of In Rainbows and beyond.
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Not heard back from Warners but the below, which is very definitely theirs, ain't down, so I doubt that something as obscure as Steve's big moment is going to be victimized by the nasties at WMG Business Affairs.
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yick, you said a dirty word. I don't really understand the full implications of it but my understand is if label fronts label keeps and recoups costs out of profits. its not a pretty affair.
there are a thousand variations on it but generally all recording costs are recovered out of the artists royalty, not profits. A record can be way in profit and the artist is still paying for it and not receiving any return. Its one of the great inequities of the system and a reason why its a little harder to feel sorry for the big labels.
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Mike Chunn and Bryan Staff (ripper records) own Auckland tonight if anybody does, or the band if they paid for the recordings.
I think it was post Chunn era. Roger Shepherd and I kinda look after the Ripper catalogue on Bryan's behalf, but it's a loose arrangement.
Copyright is more than who paid for it too, whoever commissioned it, or whoever holds the rights by contract is pretty relevant, no? After all most successful bands worldwide paid for their recordings (under recoupment) but the masters are controlled by someone else.
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Maybe it is, but nobody asked me and they certainly don't own it. Then again, I don't think they know what they own. We had the same thing with Warners thinking they owned AK79.
But I doubt they'd be that on to it. It's one track on an obscure collection out of a country that their legal affairs don't really think about. I'd be surprised but email sent.
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How bloody odd that the Androidss video has gone, it was there a few days back. I guess the TVNZ vultures have swooped and in effect insulted a just passed NZ musician..it's the only thing I can think of and I hope I'm wrong.
The Androidss did the definitive cover of The Passenger, although I don't remember Lust For Life. I do remember how long the version of the Passenger could extend..it rode and it it rode and it rode. People used to say you could walk past The Reverb Room, hear them playing it, go and see another band, come back past and it would still be going.
A wee bit of an exaggeration to be sure but folks regarded the 'droids with great affection, but most especially Steve who could diffuse any situation in the somewhat edgy bars they often played with that big cheeky smile. I'll miss him.
As an aside I took Iggy Pop to a party where Th'Dudes were playing The Passenger once.....he just stood there, side of stage, silent. Peter saw him half way through and he too was at a loss for words mid song. It was a moment.
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A fine bit of writing RB I look forward to the up dated version.
Ditto. I remember that bit of 'fluff' when it arrived originally, and thought well of it then as I do now. It holds up. Russell and I come from a similar time, similar place, have run with many of the same bunch in the same places, and it speaks to me.
There was a certain part of our earlier years that needed a voice that it wasn't getting from the established media, or even the self proclaimed edgier press, and needed, desperately, documentation. RB sits highly amongst a few (somebody mentioned Chad, and I'll do that too, along with Murray Cammick, Grant Fell and others) who provided that.
That piece pulled a lot of that together, albeit with a few broad strokes.
Maybe, Brickley, you just had to be there.