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What's the cure for a has-been band about to release a subpar album? Why a "controversial song" of course.
The last Stones album I enjoyed was "Through the Past Darkly", and I still have it in my collection. It might be worth something, if it wasn't so scratched and beat up.
I am highly annoyed that this group of grumpy old men are going to be doing the song for football this season. I'll still watch football, though.
BTTT
The Verve and The Rolling Stones : Truly Bittersweet
The now defunct British outfit The Verve sampled an orchestration on their song "Bittersweet Symphony" from The Rolling Stone's "The Last Time". Before the release of the album, The Verve negotiated a licensing agreement with The Rolling Stones to use the sample -- at least the composition rights to the sample. In 1997, The Verve's album "Urban Hymns" peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Charts. What ensued was a bitter (and not sweet) legal battle resulting in The Verve turning over 100% of the royalties to the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones argued that The Verve had violated the previous licensing agreement by using too much of the sample in their song. The Verve argued that The Rolling Stones got greedy when the song became successful. Herein lies the issue of moral rights of a samplist.
"The last thing I ever wanted was for my music to be used in a commercial. I'm still sick about it", The Verve's lead singer Richard Ashcroft said in a recent interview. So, that's exactly what Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein did. Capitalizing off the success of the song, Klein licensed The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" to Nike, who proceeded to run a multi-million dollar television campaign using The Verve's song over shots of its sneakers. Klein also used the song to hawk Vauxhall automobiles. Additionally, though the song was authored by The Rolling Stones, the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra performed the sampled recording and also filed suit upon the success of the song. (Herein lies a fine caveat to license both the recording and composition rights from whomever maintains them.) To add even more insult to injury, when "Bittersweet Symphony" was nominated for a Grammy, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were named the nominees and not The Verve. What could be more "Bittersweet" than your song reaching the top of the charts and not being able to enjoy a cent of its success?
"It could've been worse," Ashcroft continued. "If we hadn't fought, 'Symphony' could've ended up on a cheeseburger ad and never have been taken seriously again." Yum.
http://www.superswell.com/samplelaw/horror.html
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two words: senile dementia
Even more proof the Beatles were superior. They knew when to quit.
You call yourself a singer, I call you a dipsh!t/You call yourself an artist, well I think you're full of yourself."
Another drunken old granny who thinks his vapid opinion means something to someone beside himself.
By the way, Mick, you might want to consider something you said 30 years ago:
"I can't see myself strutting around on stage singing 'I can't get no ... satisfaction' when I'm 50."
As Neil Young once said, "Better to burn out than to simply fade away."
Fade away, Mick. You're yesterday.
Of all the names mentioned in the article, Neil Young is probably the most conservative and the author calls him a "commie."
I'm leaving to practice with my cover band in about an hour and were supposed to start rehearsing a Rolling Stones medley tonight.
F*** that, now. I don't feel like doing anything that will end up promoting these clowns. There's no shortage of music from other groups to play.
Need a picture of the Rolling Stones? Look up "overrated" in the dictionary.
I still blame Jagger, et al, for Brian Jones' death, even thoughit was ruled an accident.
The Stones were a pretty good ban, taken in the context of the times, but they were never great [musically]. And it's been over 30 years since they did anything worth turning on a radio for.
I'm an old blues/rocker from the 60's, couldn't get no satisfaction in high school /grin. And frankly, I never have given a crap about making rock political. Musicians ain't rocket scientists, duh. Mick Jagger? Why would anyone care what he thinks?
bump..bump..bump And another one bites the dust...bump
Hopefully AC/DC will come out with a new album. Not only are they better than the Stones but they are pro-Republican. They need to make another anti-Big Government song like their "Who Made Who"
"The problem is that people think a single mother only has one option, that of abortion," Morad told Caras magazine in the same interview last year, "and whoever doesn't choose that option is seen as opportunistic."
I surprised at thier stance against the neocons. In Sympathy fpr the Devil they lay at Satans feet the sins of the Communists and Nazis. Suppose the old buggers just don't get that the world has changed.
You have to wonder if these clowns know that it's an anti-Semitic code word.