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Comment by Walt Pilcher on October 13, 2011 at 3:03pm

Chris,

Very clever and I like the twist.  Amazing you could come up with such a list of stuff!

Walt 

Comment by Chris Wolf on October 13, 2011 at 1:54pm

Thanks so much Michael!

Comment by Michael T. Swisher on October 13, 2011 at 1:43pm

Nice tune there, Chris. The intro is real sweet and the lyrics are clever. Good job.

Peace, 

Michael

Comment by Chris Wolf on October 13, 2011 at 1:26pm

Thanks Mike!!

Comment by Mike Nepper on October 13, 2011 at 8:37am

Chris, what a great tune! Reminds me of my life - and my wife!

Comment by Chris Wolf on October 12, 2011 at 11:06pm

I've been on a little roll but I don't wanna saturate y'all with my songs. Here is my latest. Kinda rushed through it. Just lookin' for an outlet. Thanks for obliging me!

Comment by Rick Lally on October 5, 2011 at 8:13am

I added a video to my profile of an old song of mine called 'Love Is The Road'. It's one of my more intricate songs. I'm really not that great of a player and hadn't played it in a while. I've had the song around for such a long time and never made a good recording of it. I've been working it again and I would sure would like to hear some feedback or any ideas for when I start to multi-track a recording of it. Thanks!

http://youtu.be/-KF76Zj-hRA

 

Rick

Comment by Ken Brodie on September 13, 2011 at 3:36pm

What a shame - for me this is where it becomes ridiculous. As a teacher I would have used it as a resource. I've used the very same song for lyric analysis and visual imagery with elementary kids and they loved it. Surely all this would have done is promote Bowie's music. I even reckon Bowie would have been happy with it as he recorded an album narrating Peter and the Wolf featuring Prokofiev's music and also acted in and narrated (brilliantly) a number of children's movies.

A little bit of communication earlier on may have been beneficial to the project but I know plenty of teachers who do similiar things not to make money but to enhance children's learning. The litigation society to me can be at (many) times bloody stupid and I would suggest this is one such time. Great article Ed.

Comment by Edward Sparks on September 13, 2011 at 8:49am

Here is an example of copyright law being enforced in a music video using someone's song without permission...

 

Is this Video Illegal? An Artist Illustrates a Famous Bowie Song Wi...

Written by The Guitar Squid

September 05, 2011 1:25 PM

Legal control to Major Tom illustrator: Take down your online children's book of "Space Oddity."     Some images from Illustrator Andrew Kolb's depiction of David Bowie's "Space Oddity"     What started off as an illustrator's cool children's book-type depiction of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" has led to a legal smack on the hand by the song's copyright owner. Here's what happened: 25-year old artist Andrew Kolb made a children's book out of the song and put it online in pdf form. It has since been taken down but lives on in the form of a YouTube video, apparently edited and uploaded by someone other than Kolb, that has matched Kolb's illustrations to the actual song. It's surely a matter of time until efforts are made to remove the video from the interwebs, but for the time being you can still see it. As with much of the content online these days, the video prompts end-users to wonder how exactly such a video can be policed and if they are perpetuating an illegal act by merely watching it.    The Youtube video was removed     The song itself has had an interesting life. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, it struck industry types as a gimmicky tune that probably wouldn't go anywhere. With its foundation of acoustic guitar and spacey layers of Stylophone (a pocket-sized electronic organ that was pretty new-fangled at the time), the song's galactic musical backdrop was matched by lyrics that introduced a character named Mr. Tom as he was embarking upon a seemingly ill-fated space journey. The year was 1969 and Bowie was gaining traction as an artist. The song was to be part of his first full studio album by a major label as part of a one-off deal with Phillips' Mercury records. Producer Tony Visconti wanted nothing to with it and allowed the song to be farmed out to producer Gus Dudgeon.   Space exploration was captivating the imagination and media attention of much of the world in 1969 and helped launch the song into the charts in many countries. Some thought it was a metaphor for the failed British space program. Others interpreted the song to be about drug use, with its countdown to blast-off connoting the rush that heroin users experience when the narcotic enters their veins. Bowie would go on to further develop the story of Major Tom in 1980's "Ashes to Ashes" (and, some believe, in 1995's "Hallo Spaceboy"). The seemingly-inspired "Rocket Man," Elton John's and Bernie Taupin's own take on the space-narrative-as-rock-song format, became a hit in 1972. It was also produced by Gus Dudgeon. A decade later, an artist named Peter Schilling furthered the Major Tom story in German and English in a song called "Major Tom (Coming Home)," which was a hit in both German and English speaking countries in 1983.   Despite the song's history as a catalyst for artistic interpretation and inspiration, Kolb recieved an email warning that his effort had orbited into the legal sphere known as infringement of copyright. No paper product existed and there had been no effort to make money off of his illustrations so Kolb was happy to ground his full work and keep just a few illustrations up on his website. He told the Toronto Star that he had reached out to Bowie's people in hopes of turning his illustrations into a collaborative project, but didn't hear back from anyone. Despite the legal smack on the hand, Kolb is still holding out hope that some kind of sanctioned children's book can come out of this.

Comment by Michael S. Jackson on September 10, 2011 at 9:49am

Copyright laws are tricky at best. If you're not making money off of it, nor are you depriving the holder of income, you are generally OK but still be careful.

Re: George Harrison (My Sweet Lord, etc.).

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