OFF: intolerance and boots (was Re: Official Post...)

[Bob Lennon]

Well Doug,
Can't lasso me into an argument on that one as I agree about 98% with you.
John has a particularly distorted view on taping shows and doesn't realize
that copyright laws protect the owner of the tape of the show, not the music,
but would be liable for lawsuit if he were to use the material. The taper of
course being the sound engineer and producer of sorts. (of course that's a
little silly notion also)
As in the case of one band having to pay up for the unauthorized stage photo
being used by the band.
This will blow over in time, as us spoiled fans get unused to doing whatever
we please. Remember: You can't do this, and you can't do that....and most
importantly you shouldn't do that!
I know there's bands out there that release material without some performers
on the release ever seeing a penny of the take, is this so much different
from fans passing around tapes of shows? Talk about performers making a
living.
bob

In a message dated 12/12/2002 7:33:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jasret at MINDSPRING.COM writes:
> Well, John Cale (much as I love his music of the 60s and 70s) is one of
> those hypocritical f!kkers who used to do every drug under the sun, and
> then, when he cleaned up his act, became an intolerant @sshole with regards
> to anyone else's consumption.  I've heard stories of incredibly rude
> behavior to fans (who obviously didn't know better), such as the Japanese
> girl who presented him with a very expensive bottle of Sake ... oops!
>
> And, ironically, in the case of John Cale, there are audience recordings
> that, as I understand, put his official live releases ('Sabotage' - a
> complete set of otherwise-unreleased songs from the late 70s,
> and 'Fragments of a Rainy Season') to shame.
>
> But hey, at least he gave Jeff Hunt permission to put out the Dream
> Syndicate stuff (which Lamonte Young still claims is a bootleg, proving
> that whether something is a boot or not is *entirely* in the eye of the
> beholder), so I shouldn't complain about him too much.
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com