KRS-One Will Sue Radio Stations If They Play His Music

XXL Mag ^ | 9/13/13 | B.J. Steiner

[mylife]

Gilmour~On An Island

[Zeneta]

Big Head Todd is new for me and I think I’ll need more exposure to gain the appreciation you may have.

Thanks, as I am listening to more of their songs.

I recall Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) saying in an interview that mathematically, there is a limit to original musical composition and we are reaching it now.

BTW, Ian Anderson is a genius.

OK, so I’m into a third Big Head Todd song and I like it !!!

[Dysart]

I can't find nuttin on the radio either, so it's streaming radio or Youtube. Which reminds me, I stumbled upon this cover of "Enter Sandman" with a distinctly Southern flavor; I think I prefer it. Dig it:

Enter Sandman // Iron Horse

[mylife]

Glad you liked the tip.
There is awesomeness in not playing to the lowest common denominator.

Frank Zappa proved that.

[mylife]

Hayseed Dixie did it first LOL, but it is cool, and it is fresh.

[mylife]

Sam Bush Band~Jumping Jack Flash

[Dysart]

Did someone say Hayseed Dixie?
Hayseed Dixie - Highway to Hell

[Dysart]

Nice! Again- better.

[mylife]

"Live Music Is Better" Bumper Stickers Should Be Issued. ☺

[mylife]

☺

[Zeneta]

I love small venues with a real talented artists.

I was at the Rolling Stones 1981 outdoors in Boulder Co. WOW !!

George Thorogood and Heart as the front bands.

We had General Admission seats but found our way into the Skyboxes before the Stones came on stage. Now kicked out we sought out floor access in the crush.

I can’t tell you how many times I had “nose bleed” seats and found my way to the front.

Yes, rock is dying.

Music is dying.

Rock is an expression of the Blues and the “blues” are being replaced with a government safety net.

There where a number of talented artists that saw this a long time ago.

Here is just one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD14kdgQEe8

[raccoonradio]

Good points...there have been efforts to get radio stations to be forced to pay “performance royalties”. In addition to BMI/ASCAP rights for songwriters, what about the guy who played bass on a certain song? Stations rebelled (there was even talk of
“we’ll switch to talk radio”), saying “we already pay royalties”. The musicians wanted their fair share though.

I have been at a non-comm. college station since 1981 and am part of a rotation of DJs playing blues (how much do I get paid? Like the cereal name says, “Nut’n Honey”! The occasional concert free pass...). We get albums for free then play them, say what we play, do interviews, concert reports, etc. We offer variety unlike the lowest common denominator, hackneyed pop etc. on the bigger
stations.

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“And so it was
Our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in 25
“It’s the new frontier,” they say
It’s wide open, anything can happen
But you’ve got a lot of nerve
To call yourself a pioneer
When you’re too god-damn conservative
To take real chances.

Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That’s the name of the game

But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
—Dead Kennedys, MTV Get Off The Air

[raccoonradio]

Remember them, let’s see who else, Let’s Active, The dB’s,
Swimming Pool Qs.

[Zeneta]

Video killed the Radio Star.

So profound.

1979.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8h5OEivJdA

[Dysart]

The dumbest buy the mostest That’s the name of the game

Truer words have not been written. I'm pretty sure I could write pages on that assertion. It explains a great deal about so many curious things, and I ain't confining that proposition to music selection.

[mylife]

“Rock is an expression of the Blues”

I love Rock but as a teen in the mid 70s I followed the great Whiteboy Electric Blues groups and followed the Great Black Electric Blues Musicians.

Rory Gallagher,Roy Buchanan,Savoy Brown,Johnny Winter,Buddy Guy,Albert Guy,John Lee Hooker,BB King

Then I fell into the Bluegrass, and I loved the bluegrass.
Bikers, Old, come and take it moonshiners, black people, young people old people, fundamentalists, hippies.

It’s just the way I roll.
Try to find that on the radio dial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k4iocWURPk

[mylife]

I have some of that.

[Zeneta]

That’s a keeper.

Thanks.

As a teen in the 70’s my favorite bands where Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.

I took a punk direction in the early 80’s but always held my roots in the blues.

As my friend and I wondered about the endless attractions on the 4th of July in Washington DC, we happen upon a tent where George Thorogood and John Lee Hooker were playing to a crowd of 20 or so. WOW

I love the tune you shared and if you have the patience to play this one, I highly recommend it.

Deep Purple; Lazy, live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1SYPGaK7_o

[mylife]

Machine Head was the first LP I ever bought.

Rip Jon Lord

[mylife]

Purple was an amalgam of traditional Blues and classical music.