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There they go again
With the release of OK GO’s new Capitol album, “Of The Blue Color of the Sky,” EMI, the eminent UK music company, is telling the band their videos on YouTube — like the new one, “This Too Shall Pass” — can’t be embedded on other sites.
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In 2006, OK GO made a big splash on YouTube by dancing on treadmills for their song, “Here It Goes Again,” that I have to assume helped make money for Capitol.
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Seems to me that EMI is applying the same faulty logic that Disney used in the early days of VHS, when it refused to allow their movies to be rented, rather than sold at retail. The comparison isn’t exactly comparable, because there was money to be made in both transactions. Once again I point out that the first printed warning of the coming age of digital downloaded music was made by Stewart Brand in 1972.
Maybe EMI is thinking that banning embedding will give them time to decide what they can do to generate a revenue stream from streaming videos, like those featuring the Lily Allen, Britain’s leading bad girl of Pop music, who resides on the Beatles’ original label, Parlophone.
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Is Lily any worse than a United States Senator who posed nude for Cosmo in his buff youth, and whose wife was once in a racy music video herself? Isn’t the Brown family only slightly less shallow?
The Survivors Duet
On Ringo’s new album, “Y Not,” Paul backs him up on a song his former bandmate co-wrote with Van Dyke Parks, who shares a distinction with Timmy & Lassie’s Jon Provost — as a child actor he was once in a movie with Grace Kelly.
Ringo’s starr still shines
Good old Ringo, the eldest Beatle, born three months before John, turns 70 this year. Back in ’08 Eric and I saw Ringo in Boston, and now he’s out plugging his new record — that I downloaded from Amazon last night, after seeing him on the Daily Show.
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Daily Shows Ringo
Hey, Ringo was on “The Daily Show” tonight!
Brunch with the Beatle Years
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s hoping for a good 2010. There were highs and lows in 2009, with the low being my wife’s illness, and the high being contacted by Prue Bury.
Two syndicated radio shows I listen to are The Beatle Years and Beatle Brunch. Both programs are carried in Boston by WODS-FM, Oldies 103. If you click the link below you’ll find six months of shows available for streaming, and you can even download them. Elvis fans will find something there, too.
http://www.wods.com/Oldies-On-Demand-Audio/4334827
A particularly good example is the most recent Beatle Years installment that’s been posted. From November, 14 — “Works in Progress.”
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/JAN/BeatleYears_14Nov09.mp3]Beatle Brunch from November 8 also has excellent alternate takes of songs.
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