More Than a Feeling
Yootopia
15-02-2008, 23:39
Probably, yeah.
Anti-Social Darwinism
15-02-2008, 23:43
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you supposed to get permission first?
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/music-news-story/ar/_a/rocker-wants-no-feeling-for-huckabee/20080215091109990004?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Cannot think of a name
16-02-2008, 00:06
This isn't the first time a song has been appropriated by a campaign when the artist doesn't agree.
I'll give Huck a bit of a pass on this, he had a guy who did play in Boston, he probably thought it was cool. I'm not going to fault him for not being all up to date on the specifics of the when and where of the Boston line up, etc. He was probably pretty stoked and didn't realize. It's an understandable kind of thing. Yeah, ultimately and technically he shouldn't have done it, but I can totally see how something like that can.
Ruby City
16-02-2008, 00:16
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you supposed to get permission first?
According to copyright law, yes.
In my opinion... nah, I don't see any reason why you should have to ask for permission first, other than to obey the law. People are not stupid enough to assume that playing a song on a political campaign proves the song writer agrees with the politics of that campaign so it's not like it inflicts damage to the song writer or harms the writer's reputation.
Fassitude
16-02-2008, 01:02
Boston? More than a feeling? Damn, he really is as ancient as he looks...
Smunkeeville
16-02-2008, 01:03
note to self: avoid reading comments on aol.
Acta Sanctorum
16-02-2008, 01:06
Huckabee likes Boston, well I just may have to consider voting for him then. However, he could seal my vote if he and his band had played Foreplay/Longtime
Faxanavia
16-02-2008, 01:13
According to copyright law, yes.
In my opinion... nah, I don't see any reason why you should have to ask for permission first, other than to obey the law. People are not stupid enough to assume that playing a song on a political campaign proves the song writer agrees with the politics of that campaign so it's not like it inflicts damage to the song writer or harms the writer's reputation.
Yeah, realy, its not like presidential candidates should obey the law or anything... :rolleyes:
Port Arcana
16-02-2008, 01:21
They should sue Huckabee so he becomes too poor to run for presidency in 2008. :)
Kamsaki-Myu
16-02-2008, 01:33
A poll on Capitol Offense's page asks fans what track the band should tackle next. Among the choices are liberal-leaning classics like Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Fortunate Son' alongside 'Louie Louie,' 'Free Bird'...
:D
German Nightmare
16-02-2008, 01:36
Do you really need an explicit permission to play a published song or does it suffice to pay royalties for using it?
Cannot think of a name
16-02-2008, 02:11
:D
When I was a jazz musician I used to joke with the other guys that we should put together the most messed up free jazz version of Freebird and launch into it whenever some drunk dude shouted that out.
Do you really need an explicit permission to play a published song or does it suffice to pay royalties for using it?
I think paying is asking. I think. Jazz players kinda don't bother for the most part. I know it's cheaper to cover something than use the original recording. That's hearsay, actually, someone told me that and I never checked it, so that actually might be bullshit. Seems reasonable...
German Nightmare
16-02-2008, 02:18
When I was a jazz musician I used to joke with the other guys that we should put together the most messed up free jazz version of Freebird and launch into it whenever some drunk dude shouted that out.
I think paying is asking. I think. Jazz players kinda don't bother for the most part. I know it's cheaper to cover something than use the original recording. That's hearsay, actually, someone told me that and I never checked it, so that actually might be bullshit. Seems reasonable...
FREEBIRD!!! ;)
(Thanks for the answer - I really wouldn't know, either.)
Intangelon
16-02-2008, 19:42
Do you really need an explicit permission to play a published song or does it suffice to pay royalties for using it?
Performance royalties amount to permission to play the song. But I don't think that's the issue. The writer, arranger, guitarist and engineer on the legendary track doesn't approve of the implication that Boston approves of Huckabee in any way, shape or form. That said, however, the legality is mushy unless Huck uses the song in an actual advertisement for TV or radio or something like that.
The thing I object to most is the cop-out of using a chick to sing the lead. It was a guy singing in Boston, and it just doesn't sound the same with some stunted Alannah Myles wannabe chain-smoking her way into the lower passages and trying to grunge up her voice to get the same timbre as a rockin' tenor screamin' up into the treble clef. Inauthentic tripe for a decent bar band, that's all.
Boston? More than a feeling? Damn, he really is as ancient as he looks...
Hey now! I happen to have been raised on that song among many others, and I'm only almost 25.