On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 07:33:13AM -0800, martin wrote:
Sampling isn't theft. James Brown, arguably the most sampled artist ever. Anyone think that this has affected his record sales? Probably sold more,(puhlease correct me if I'm wrong). Can anyone name one person who has suffered because they were sampled?
They didn't really _suffer_ per se, but I was reminded of this story (taken from a Death In Vegas article in Record Collector #278): And there was the small matter of 'stealing' the riff on 'Aladdin's Story' from one of Fearless' Rolling Stones bootlegs. "We actually had to deal with Allan Klein! The copy I had was a bootleg, and provides no information at all. The story goes that it was Mick Taylor's try-out record. I don't know if that's 100% but it's based on some old blues. They cut an acetate but never registered it as a song, so they said they knew we'd done it, but as it was never declared, there was nothing they could do". I wouldn't say the Stones suffered, because the loss of income probably wouldn't have kept Keith in narcotics for 5mins, but I thought I'd mention it. I was reminded of this article by Kris' mail about there being no creativity. Both DIV and FSOL went to India and made new recordings of new material for their most recent albums. Back to work ... -- "Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." - W.C. Fields