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    God can forgive, but Clapton can't

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    4 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

    One thing that's common to copyright laws in different countries is that if a copyright holder knowingly fails to act on a copyright infringement then a subsequent infringer (?) can use this as precedent to demonstrate that the copyright holder does not defend copyright, ergo there's a loophole for full-on bootleggers to exploit. You can't pick and choose which copyright infringements to go after. You have to go after them all.

     

    Hence the steady stream of stories about mega-artists supposedly dumping on poor, wee, helpless individuals such as The German Widow. Now, lawyers who have been instructed to deal with copyright infringements and bootleggers usually take a softer line with private individuals who have got into a muddle unless that individual kicks up and starts briefing lawyers themselves. At which point it all goes to sh_t as it has in this case and probably rightly so.

     

    That's all entirely separate from the fact that Clapton is a man with a bus-load of demons on his back. I read his autobiography and his life comes across as having been a series of hideous disasters set in a grey wasteland. That's not to excuse his silly outbursts but it helps to explain them. Maybe even enough to feel a bit sorry for him.

     

    Anyhow, I'm fairly sure that most of us here would look dimly upon an audience member recording our performances and selling those recordings online or outside outside our gigs. We might even take some form of action about it and at that point we'd be doing exactly the same thingas Clapton, the only difference being we're mostly none of us famous enough for random people on interweb forums to w4nk themselves into a self-righteous frenzy about us.

    Beat me to it 

    Songwriters gonna songwrite (and lawyers gonna lawy)

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    1 hour ago, tauzero said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59606655

     

    Taylor Swift is going to be sued for copyright infringement because she used the words "haters gonna hate" in a song. Just how bloody stupid is that? It'll have songwriters from many years back trying to work out if they were the first to put "I love you" in a song and seeing how many other songwriters they can sue as a result. And Jon Anderson will be having a field day, as he's used just about every combination of words possible.

     

    Oh well, tossers gonna toss.

    maybe she got bored with writing stinky poo songs about crap boyfriends and decided on a completely different grift 

    Band frictions

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    4 hours ago, GreeneKing said:

    I’m not talking ‘loose and stylish’, just getting the structure wrong and most commonly cuttings bits short. To my way of thinking that is making a mistake. He doesn’t see it as a mistake but his ‘playing by feel’. Perhaps a bigger issue is his tantrums every time I try to say anything about it. 

    knowing how to count 4 or 8 bars is very basic stuff - if he cant or wont and has tantrums personally id be looking for band members who can - insisting on playing by feel and refusing to budge and learn a bit of basic theory and having a hissy fit to others constructive criticism is a surefire recipe for a world of pain 

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    Band frictions

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    On a more serious note in defence of the guitard, we always worked on the premise that if the drums and bass were really tight then the guitar was free to be as loose and “stylish” as he pleased (we had the luxury of keys too)

     

    i get where he is coming from but he is probably not putting it across in the best possible way, and the overall situation not helped by the fact that the rest of the band let him continue so long implies a sort of “tacit approval”

     

    just my $0.10 worth ymmv mcton hope this helps

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    Band frictions

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    On 29/11/2021 at 20:41, GreeneKing said:

    I play in a covers band. We've been playing together in a loose way for a couple of years and now we have our first gig in January.

     

    Things are okay. Having the gig to work towards has its benefits (I'm feeling very focussed by it) but it's proved a little stressful. We have a lead who plays very loud. Rhythm can barely be heard at times but my bass and rig allows me to cut through the mix pretty well. The lead 'drives' the band and sometimes I think that if I stopped playing he'd carry on regardless. We have a range of abilities and willingness to put work in. I spend many hours a week working on the material.

     

    He says he plays by 'feel'. What that sometimes means is that he'll add a few bars into the structure of the song here and remove a few there.

     

    Sounds like a bit of a selfish nasty pasty to me 🤔

    change my mind

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    This will be of interest to some BCers, mebbe a minority, and not remotely so for many others!

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    On 01/12/2021 at 17:29, skankdelvar said:

    My favourite description seen here on BC was 'The sound of a crowd of angry squirrels hurling nuts at a tin roof'.

     

    Whoever came up with that deserves a medal or something.

    The squirrels in my garden seem quite intelligent so it seems perfectly reasonably they would choose this option over actually slapping a real bass

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