Posted on 02/08/2014 11:37:28 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Montreal (AFP) - A Canadian hard-rock band says it sent the Pentagon a $666,000 bill after a former Guantanamo Bay guard alleged that the US military used their music to torture detainees.
Skinny Puppy found out their music was blasted out at the detention center in southern Cuba from a former guard who is a fan of the band, keyboardist Cevin Key told Canada's CTV Television.
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Key said band members were "offended" to learn the claims that their music was played at Guantanamo to "inflict damage" on detainees.
"I wouldn't want to be subjected to any overly loud music for six to 12 hours at a time without a break," he said, acknowledging that Skinny Puppy's music could be a "terrible nightmare" for some listeners.
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They played Tull’s “Too Old To Rock And Roll” on an endless loop to flush out Noriega but Ian never whined.
Bach takes us out of this darkest place with a blaze of light, five variations each more ecstatic than the last. How much happier am I supposed to get? The capstone of these is the Quodlibet, with its good humor and generosity of spirit, reenacting (so they say) Bach family parties where they would mash up various tunes, dazzle each other with contrapuntal mastery. Now, the words of the tunes are perhaps jokes, references that we can probably no longer get; everyone has their own idea what it all means. This lost joke which no one agrees about is the last laughing straw for me. Yes, the Goldbergs smile prismatically, a million smiles, from madcap pranks to blissful serenity—but after a while still I wonder: What are you smiling about anyway? A seventy minute smile is unseemly: it breeds suspicion.
Bach takes us out of this darkest place with a blaze of light, five variations each more ecstatic than the last. How much happier am I supposed to get? The capstone of these is the Quodlibet, with its good humor and generosity of spirit, reenacting (so they say) Bach family parties where they would mash up various tunes, dazzle each other with contrapuntal mastery. Now, the words of the tunes are perhaps jokes, references that we can probably no longer get; everyone has their own idea what it all means. This lost joke which no one agrees about is the last laughing straw for me. Yes, the Goldbergs smile prismatically, a million smiles, from madcap pranks to blissful serenity—but after a while still I wonder: What are you smiling about anyway? A seventy minute smile is unseemly: it breeds suspicion.
you nailed it
If we can’t get information from them, at least we can get entertainment.
I just checked out some of their music.
Torture yes, hard rock no.
I'm sure they based this amount on actual damages and lost royalties.
Yeah, they’re a group of tort attorneys.
I named our weed-whacker “Yoko”.
The kind of music where the drummer carries the melody?
They played the music for an audience, ASCAP fees apply, though I don’t think they’ll be that much.
I’d punish them with something I like and is more appropriate. Mustaine is a Christian conservative, he’d probably be willing to do it live.
Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-sPCCjjtQ
They should have used Yoko Ono’s:
ypt Seals Gaza Border Using Secret Weapon
http://blog.fittoprintnews.com/?p=85
Drowning Pool were cool with “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” being used for interrogation:
Some musicians, however, say they’re proud that their music is used in interrogations. Those include bassist Stevie Benton, whose group Drowning Pool has performed in Iraq and recorded one of the interrogators’ favorites, “Bodies.”
“People assume we should be offended that somebody in the military thinks our song is annoying enough that played over and over it can psychologically break someone down,” he told Spin magazine. “I take it as an honor to think that perhaps our song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or something like that.”
http://www.today.com/id/28144557#.UvaW3c5nHzM
Dave Mustaine’s daughter Electra is singing at benefits for wounded troops. An accoustic version of her dad’s A Tout Le Monde. She tends more toward country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNZg8tVZaY
I like her dad’s version better with Christina Scabbia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn01nSG4cvU
It’s all down to one thing to be honest. Liberals run the music industry. Look at Katy Perry. She was a decent ‘act’ on the Vans Warped tour. Then she was almost normal. To get support, she had to become what the industry wanted. And portray WHAT the industry wanted...thus the pro gay songs and pro obama campaigning.
In this case, artists that want another record produced and distributed can either follow liberal positions or enjoy life as an indy with the record companies fielding ‘competition’ in their market until they go bye bye or ‘get their heads right.
History always repeats. Heard any new DP lately?
Deep Purple?
;) Drowning Pool.
LOL I guess I just dated myself, there.
I WISH there was more new Deep Purple!
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