Jump to content

Goredho

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    8692
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    1

Everything posted by Goredho

  1. I hate to break it to you, but wishing people you don't know ill is kinda the new national pastime.
  2. This event seems to highlight an issue that will be a growing concern for this country and especially Texas. In the age of governmental downsizing and diminishing oversight and regulation, it's left up to the corporate interests to protect the public/consumers. The same corporate interests that gave you the tobacco industry coverup of the effects of smoking, mining companies making swaths of inhabited land uninhabitable, BP and the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill and cleanup on the gulf, Boeing and the 737 Max, the NFL and its squelching of studies and research showing a link between football and CTE and 23042342389234 other real world examples where the profit motive outweighed ethics, morality and public safety. I would be surprised if once the government is pruned to an acceptable level of non-existence, tort law isn't reformed to further absolve corporate interests from any responsibility to public safety. You will need to do your due diligence on everything. There will be no safety nets, if there ever were. We are reforming government to be one of, by and for the corporations.
  3. I don't doubt anything you say as being how copyright law works. I just think copyright law seems broken in this case. The song was an amalgamation of creative efforts and no one party is responsible for 100% of what the song evokes in a listener. So the logical (if not legal) outcome would have been for neither party to receive 100% of the proceeds from the song.
  4. Triads and inversions are a great way to understand chords and their relationships to scales on the guitar, and it’s an easy skip from their to jazz arpeggios adding the 7ths. As for alternate tunings, yeah, your fretboard knowledge may diminish, but it might make it easier to do some things. Like slide with open G tuning. I mostly stick to standard and drop D tuning where most of my fretboard knowledge stays intact. But, I use other more disruptive alternate tunings a lot for fingerpicked acoustic pieces, where you can get some really interesting things going with your left hand that would be impossible in standard tuning. Meaning, the intervals being played with an arpeggiated finger picked arp would be impossible to fret with your left hand in standard tuning. In this type of music, I’m not looking to play scale runs. I’m thinking very little about scales at all and more about arpeggiated chords and chord melody.
  5. Yeah, maybe my feelings are misplaced, but the Verve place the blame on the Stones, and there is no way the right decision is that the Verve get 0%. There are vocal melodies in that song developed by the Verve, there are chords that provide a harmonic context that make the string melody perceptually different chosen by the Verve, there are lyrics that are wholly those of the Verve’s. I worked out a solo acoustic instrumental arrangement for live performance and you can’t just play the same 2 bar string melody for 4 minutes or you’d rightfully get run out the room. You play the chords, you play the vocal melodies, you bring in the string melody at times. Sure those strings are a big part of the song, but two bars are not a song. Seems like the right thing would have been 50/50 or 60/40.
  6. Hard for me to not think of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard’s as assholes. From ChatGPT: The drama around Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve stems from their use of a sample from the Rolling Stones’ The Last Time, specifically the Andrew Oldham Orchestra‘s 1965 orchestral version—not the Stones’ original recording. Here’s the breakdown: Sample Clearance: The Verve licensed the sound recording but not the underlying composition (the Jagger/Richards melody). They argued their usage was minimal and transformative. Lawsuit: ABKCO, owned by Allen Klein (former Stones manager who controlled the rights), sued The Verve for exceeding the agreed-upon usage. The lawsuit resulted in: The Verve surrendering 100% of the song’s royalties. Jagger and Richards getting full writing credit. The Verve’s biggest hit financially benefiting the Stones’ camp. Aftermath: Richard Ashcroft, The Verve’s frontman, famously remarked it was “the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years.” In 2019, Jagger and Richards finally returned the songwriting credits to Ashcroft and relinquished their claim on royalties, though it was decades too late financially. This is one of the most infamous cases of sampling rights disputes in music history.
  7. Anything by Public Enemy/Mob Squad. they didn’t typically sample whole songs, but made a collage from things like horn stabs and piano hits from records they owned like on “Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos” Madonna’s use of the James Brown/Clyde Stubblefield “Funky Drummer” beat was great in “Justify My Love” The looping strings on The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” were sampled from an orchestral version of The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Tims” and that kept the Verve from cashing in on the song.
  8. Maybe reach out to the families of some other campers your daughter knows through mystic and coordinate how all your kids can wind up at the same place? Being with friends from Mystic at camp whatever might make it more palatable to your daughter.
  9. Ron Wyden did not kill himself.
  10. Dear Mom and Dad, Hi. Camp Surly is… not what the website promised. The counselors are either drunk, watching reruns of the 2006 Rose Bowl or both. One of them gave a motivational speech with no pants on. I wish I were kidding. The picture I've enclosed is from our daily "Longhorn Pride" hour yesterday. Sundays are the weirdest. They make us sit in this musty old cloak room and watch videos about income disparity, climate guilt, and “unlearning binaries.” Then we journal about how we've benefited from white privilege. I just came here to canoe. Instead, they’re making us clean up after last night’s Counselor Appreciation Mixer / Vomitorium. Please come early. Love, Samantha P.S. If my counselor says “late-stage capitalism” one more time, I’m moving into the woods. Alone.
  11. I don't understand why Elon does not have 120930129301293 microphones in front of him from a press that smells the blood of a juicy story in the water. I mean, whether you think this is legit or a nothing burger, it's strange that the press does not seem to really be engaging the richest person in the world that brought Epstein/Trump into the national consciousness.
  12. Sometimes, something gets broken beyond fixing. I'd be surprised if Mystic ever reopens. Beyond the main force behind it being dead, the name will be toxic, like 3 Mile Island. No one will want to trust their kids to anything associated with that name. Something else will fill its void to provide similar experience for Texas' girls/young women of means, something that is going to have safety measures that hold up to increased scrutiny. If not from government/regulatory agencies, then from parents who are entrusting a third party to be responsible for their child.
  13. But then one man's God is another man's false idol. I am still expecting a short list of little import written in sharpie followed by immediate acceptance on the right and immediate acquiescence on the left.
  14. It is not a good time for me to buy something of this magnitude, unfortunately. You should easily be able to get that amount from someone. Good luck, @Paul Wesley!
  15. This is beautiful and I love ES-335/330 style guitars… hmm.
  16. Ya know what I think is going to happen here? They are going to release some list. There will be a few names of dead people and Prince Andrew on it. It will not be verifiable. It'll probably be written in sharpie. TFG will say, "See? There was nothing here. I didn't want to embarrass the families of all these dead folks, but the fake news media and democrats blah blah..." That will be plenty enough for TFG supporters to not just both-sides it but to view this as more persecution of dear leader.
  17. Ya'll can seek safety in gold or bitcoin, I'm going all in on KMB equity.
  18. Someone is going to post the whynotborh.gif in response to this and they need to negged into obolivia.
  19. I dunno about intro, but live take of Cars with NiN is really, really good. I think Gary Neuman is a pretty underrated musical genius. I view him how most people view David Bowie.
  20. Still does not top GenX and Richard Gere’s gerbils.
  21. I’ll be in my virtual bunk? https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/12/i-felt-pure-unconditional-love-the-people-who-marry-their-ai-chatbots
  22. This is exactly what someone who diddled kids at Epstein island would say.
×
×
  • Create New...