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| Friday, May 28, 2004 |
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C'mon baby, douse my fire 
| | Sez here the parents of the extremely late Jim Morrison are suing the singer's former bandmates for reconvening the band under a clearly new (though, for the sake of coherency, derivative) name, and daring to make a living with it. |
And call the kid Jesus
| | Right before I was about to haul the dead ViewSonic out to the dumpster, the kid prevailed upon me to plug the thing into the wall one more time, just to be real sure it wasn't really dead. After wiggling the power cord connection around (again at the kid's insistence), the thing gave a soft "bvvvm" and came to life. Now it's back working again. |
| | I think I'll rename the screen Lazarus. |
Blogs are nice, but you can't wrap fish in them
They also say they own the patent for fire
| | Big Rick points to this Rolling Stone story about how Clear Channel bought the patent for burning CDs rapidly, in a move to prevent artists from burning and selling CDs of their performances after concerts. An excerpt: |
| | In the past few years, fans leaving some concerts have discovered a souvenir far better than a T-shirt: a live recording of the show they just attended. Bands including the Allman Brothers, moe. and Billy Idol have sold instant concert discs, and the Pixies and the Doors plan to launch similar programs this summer. The recording-and-burning company DiscLive estimated on April 12th that it would gross $500,000 selling live discs this spring alone. |
| | But in a move expected to severely limit the industry, Clear Channel Entertainment has bought the patent from the technology's inventors and now claims to own the exclusive right to sell concert CDs after shows. The company, which is the biggest concert promoter in the world, says the patent covers its 130 venues along with every other venue in the country. |
| | "We want to be artist-friendly," says Steve Simon, a Clear Channel executive vice president and the director of Instant Live. "But it is a business, and it's not going to be 'we have the patent, now everybody can use it for free.'" |
| | Artists net about ten dollars for every twenty- to twenty-five-dollar concert CD that's sold, no matter which company they use. But with Clear Channel pushing to eliminate competition, many fear there will be less money and fewer opportunities to sell live discs. "It's one more step toward massive control and consolidation of Clear Channel's corporate agenda," says String Cheese Incident manager Mike Luba, who feuded with Clear Channel last year after promoters blocked the band from using CD-burning equipment. |
| | The Doors? As in Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore? Those guys? Hm. They have a Web site... Which leads to here and here and here, which is where the tour schedule is. Seems Densmore isn't with them. Too bad. I always thought he was a terrific drummer. |
| | Anyway, go back a couple paragraphs to the "But it's a business..." line. And remember what they say about discounting everything someone says before they get to "But..." |
| | So yeah, like Rick says. It sucks. |
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