Posted on 06/28/2011 12:46:04 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Among the many traditions for presidential candidates on the campaign trail are kissing babies and getting kiss-offs from rock musicians over unwanted use of their songs. A day into her campaign for the White House, Michele Bachmann is already facing the latter custom.
Tom Petty has sent the Minnesota congresswoman a cease-and-desist order after she used his 1977 classic "American Girl" as background music at her kickoff rally Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, a source close to the singer has confirmed.
This is not the first time Petty has sent out such an order: George W. Bush's team also received one in 2000 when the future president used "I Won't Back Down" at campaign stops. Nor is it the first time a candidate has used "American Girl:" Hillary Clinton also spun it at many of her presidential campaign rallies in 2008, without any complaint from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer -- who is otherwise relatively apolitical in his music and public life.
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Used to love playing the game with people's names, ala:
Is Marvin Gaye?
Is Tom Petty? A resounding, Yes!!
We need Nuge!
Correction: It’s “McGuinn” not McGwinn.
Correction #2: It is a Tom Petty song that McGuinn covered a few month’s after Petty’s release. I’ve heard both versions and they are very, very similar.
Didn’t Heart do the same thing with
Barracuda in 2008? I’m sure they wouldn’t care if a Dem used one of their songs.
Nope ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc. are facilitators and nothing more. The Rights are owned by whomever holds the publishing, music and lyric rights. ASCAP just collects the performance and radio/TV fees and issue checks to the rights holders for such.
Baraq has no problems like this.
Rights to The Internationale are free.
100% correct.
Do we know for sure she wanted it as her campaign theme song? Heart did the same in 2008 when Barraccuda was played at McCain/Palin rallies.
And playing in a band in Gainesville in the 70’s called “Mudcrutch”.... folks called them mudcrotch. Strip joints and pot festivals in the woods.
Lessee, he imitates the sound of Bob Dylan (yuck) and/or Roger McGuinn and his 12 string— equally yuck singers. Such were the times of the 70-90’s when record biz could print money... not anymore.
that said “Free Fallin” is not too bad.
LLS
hehehe Not even close...
See, while we were not looking, near the end of the last Century "The Mouse" got the copyright laws changed dramatically!
Your Congresscritters padded the pockets of BIG MUSIC and BIG MOVIE for over 100 years!
Public domain after 25 years? No, the copyright laws were changed several years ago and it’s possible for the copyright holder to retain control virtually forever. There are several areas of rights: songwriter/publisher, public performance and master use(the actual recording itself). This comes up every election cycle and the politicians always quietly cease and desist. There are some who swear it’s legal to use without permission but, so far, the artist has always prevailed.
Remember the clintoons love of fleetwood mac “don't stop..” another band of moral reprobates— both clintons and the band.
See: Rush Limbaugh use/royalty payments on use of “My City Was Gone” by Pretenders... ultimately publisher wants the money so it's in the owner's purview.
W had no problem using Van Halen’s ‘Right Now’.
“Maybe we need some songs from the Revolutionary War period.”
Not popular with anyone under 150 years of age.
And then I remember Stevie Nicks going on Letterman and saying Clinton “lacks the maturity for the job”. Me thinks der schlickmeister put a move on Stevie.
Here is the answer
Why would she want to use a song about suicide, anyway? Someone answer me that.
Look up the group “Five for Fighting” — interesting and talented- and conservative.
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