Posted on 10/17/2007 10:54:45 PM PDT by skeptoid
Anti-Bush tracks among masters on hard drive that are taken
The Department of Homeland Security may be substantially hipper than previously known.
Chris Walla, the guitarist and producer for indie rock legends Death Cab for Cutie, says border guards seized a computer drive containing the master tracks for his upcoming solo album last month when a courier tried to deliver it to Seattle-based Barsuk Records from a studio in Vancouver, B.C.
"I don't know what red flag could possibly have gone up at the border," Walla said Wednesday in a phone interview from Portland.
Walla said he had been working on the extremely political album, called "Field Manual," in British Columbia, and that the songs had been mixed by producer Warne Livesey. Barsuk needed the music to meet its production schedule, and a Hipposonic Studios employee volunteered to drive the mixed songs, on tape, and the original master tracks, on a computer hard drive, to Seattle on Sept. 19.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
"These guys don't even know who Death Cab for Cutie is, let alone that he's doing political music," Milne said of the border guards.
I think this is the first time I've heartily agreed with Homeland Security.
I agree, too.
But that won’t stop Death Cab and this guitarist from milking the story for whatever it’s worth - - play it up like the “Randi Rhodes was mugged by right wingers” thing.
This guy needs to backup his data. Make sure you have multiple copies of any important data.
...and why wasn’t he able to find a recording studio in the US? Dumb question. I’m just surprised he didn’t use one of the great recording studios in Venezuela or Cuba.
Much ado about nothin’...though, I really like that Death Cab song “song meets body,” very catchy.
that’s “Soul Meets Body”...
It took them ‘several days’ to copy the backup drive? Perhaps that’s why the group isn’t called “Death Geek for Cutie”.
There’s also this new medium called ‘the internet’. We’re talking audio files here. Even 50 tracks at 96k wouldn’t take an unmanageable length of time to FTP. And a ProTools project file that matched the tracks on the tapes that did get through would have worked fine, too. Then there’s DVD’s, tape drives, etc. I think we’re talking someone late on delivering the album and choosing the standard excuse, ‘Bush’s fault’.
Why didn’t he electronically transfer these items if they were stored on a harddrive? Pirating maybe? But if pirating worries is not the story it is awfully awfully odd that he was having digital media hand delivered?
Legends? No.
One hit wonder? Yes.
Glad to see I'm not missing much.
It’s from another country, has “Field Manual” as its title, but Mr. Walla hasn’t figured out why Homeland Security might need to check it out? A little short on IQ points, isn’t he?
And young boys with dyed, floppy black hair and belts with little shiny things on them mourned...
I’m just sad that I made the mistake of going to CAKE’s website and reading about Republicans and their “strident Christian worldview.” Well, that’s not going to stop me from liking their past work.
LOL, songs criticizing the firings of US attorneys, I can hardly wait!
I saw Cake a year or so back, and they played for about 30 minutes, tops. Lame.
Never heard of them; and their name is stupid.
I always see Death Cab in worst band photo compilations like “Your Band Sucks”.
Either the the border guards weere tipped off or the material was labeled.
Legend? Ha Ha...I haven’t even heard of them.
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