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Happiness
I have been involved in quite a few conversations recently with a variety of people on the subject of Happiness, what it is, where to find it etc etc ( Read more... ) -
Music
Continuing my campaign for the immediate abolition of Razorlight, I have just read the latest interview with Johnny Borrell in Q Magazine ( Read more... ) -
Music Today
"Patience" by Take That is a masterpiece.
Razorlight are complete pants.
How do I make sense of this?
Is music about emotion or intellect or both?
Take That have both, Razorlight have neither.
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A Whiter Shade of Pale (2)
Tony Visconti says in Music Week today that he thinks Fisher deserved to win. His reasoning was the lack of formalities in the Sixties left many musicians unprotected. Interesting.
So, duly confused, I read the lyrics to the song (which were never disputed) off the official website.
And for once they made sense (provided you dont look for literal ( Read more... ) -
Guitar Rig
So I now have a Native Guitar Rig (thanks to Rodney), the better to develop my relationship with my one true love (in Guitar Land anyway). This is a computer program that you play a guitar through and it recreates just about any guitar sound you want it to ( Read more... ) -
Music Law
The decision was finally given on the "Whiter Shade of Pale" songwriting dispute in the High Court this week. Matthew Fisher, who played the Hammond organ on the original recording by Procul Harem, was awarded 40% of the music copyright (or 20% of the whole composition) by the Judge, who found that his contribution to the composition (as opposed to ( Read more... ) -
Music
There is an excellent article in this months "The Word" magazine in the UK on the myspace "phenomena" Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Sandi Thom.
Essentially, the media have pedalled the myth all year that these acts "broke" through myspace, when in fact they "broke" in very conventional ways - word of mouth, marketing (mostly) decent music (ok, ( Read more... ) -
Guitars
Someone has posted an interesting video on YouTube. The guitar looks very familiar.
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Law
I think the Gower Report is actually quite marvellous. Considering it was made by a journalist, its amazing ( Read more... ) -
Law
Hark at the bleating of the record companies ( Read more... )