From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V6 #184 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Friday, October 4 2002 Volume 06 : Number 184 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- madison wi ["Tonya Lemos" ] photo gallery [Sdgold60@aol.com] Radio Stations Giving Away Free Music -- The Onion [simona loberant Subject: madison wi ok all you believers from WI, what can you tell me about the Madison venue, Cafe Montmatre , Madison, WI ? i'll be out that way (about 1 1/2 away) at a conference that weekend and was thinking about heading over after the formaliries are over. has anyone been to that venue? anyone else planning on going? looking forward to hearing from someone. . . it's been quiet around here, everyone is busy stacking wood, canning food, and reading right! what are you all reading these days? listening to? i am reading a great set of essays by Barbara Kingslover, Small Wonder- i highly recommended it. and musically has anyone heard "Verses" the new Patricia Barber record- all original material and original it is, her lyrics are wild and funny, and a newcomer who has struck me is Pieta Brown (yes gregs daughter) her first cd "pieta brown" produced by her and bo ramsey- good stuff. anyone else hear it? happy autumn tony(a) HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:17:30 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: photo gallery WFUV added photos to their website.. look at the front page ignore that is its stevie ray vaughn day..pay attention patty griffin is on mountain stage,, look for alice peacock with john platt on sunday check who is on vins shows on saturday night then scroll to the bottom and see the photogallery http://wfuv.org/ fill out your favorite concert memory.. rickie lee jones falling off the stage in boston, jackson browne joining joan baez, patty griffin on the landmine tour, lyle lovett joining shawn colvin, shawn solo the night after she LOST the grammy in queen with 100 people in the audience.. dar at boodles solo.. james taylor at tanglewood..its a hard life.. whereever you go... JOIN become a member.. bulid a tower...save the tunes... sharon if your sister or your brother were stumbling on their last mile in a self-inflicted exile wish for them a humble friend and i hope someday that the best of falstaffs planners give you seven half-built manors where dreams may dream without end dar williams HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:19:03 -0700 (PDT) From: simona loberant Subject: Radio Stations Giving Away Free Music -- The Onion Saw this in the Onion, thought I'd pass it on http://www.theonion.com/onion3836/riaa_sues_radio_stati ons.html LOS ANGELESThe Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation's radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music."It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs."These radio stations are extremely popular," Rosen said. "They flagrantly string our songs together in 'uninterrupted music blocks' of up to 70 minutes in length, broadcasting nearly one CD's worth of product without a break, and they actually have the gall to allow businesses to advertise between songs. It's bad enough that they're giving away our music for free, but they're actually making a profit off this scheme."RIAA attorney Russell Frackman said the lawsuit is intended to protect the artists."If this radio trend continues, it will severely damage a musician's ability to earn a living off his music," Frackman said. "[Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich stopped in the other day wondering why his last royalty check was so small, and I didn't know what to say. How do you tell a man who's devoted his whole life to his music that someone is able to just give it away for free? That pirates are taking away his right to support himself with his craft?"For the record companies and the RIAA, one of the most disturbing aspects of the radio-station broadcasts is that anyone with a receiver and an analog tape recorder can record the music and play it back at will."I've heard reports that children as young as 8 tape radio broadcasts for their own personal use," Rosen said. "They listen to a channel that has a limited rotation of only the most popular songscommonly called 'Top 40' stationsthen hit the 'record' button when they hear the opening strains of the song they want. And how much are they paying for these songs? A big fat zip."Above: One of the hundreds of radio stations being sued for distributing copyrighted music.Continued Rosen: "According to our research, there is one of these Top 40 stations in every major city in the country. This has to be stopped before the music industry's entire economic infrastructure collapses."Especially distressing to the RIAA are radio stations' "all-request hours," when listeners call in to ask radio announcers, or "disc jockeys," to play a certain song."What's the point of putting out a new Ja Rule or Sum 41 album if people can just call up and hear any song off the album that they want?" Frackman asked. "In some instances, these stations actually have the nerve to let the caller 'dedicate' his act of thievery to a friend or lover. Could you imagine a bank letting somebody rob its vaults and then allowing the thief to thank his girlfriend Tricia and the whole gang down at Bumpy's?"Defenders of radio-based music distribution insist that the relatively poor sound quality of radio broadcasts negates the record companies' charges."Radio doesn't have the same sound quality as a CD," said Paul "Cubby" Bryant, music director of New York radio station Z100, one of the nation's largest distributors of free music and a defendant in the suit. "Real music lovers will still buy CDs. If anything, we're exposing people to music they might not otherwise hear. These record companies should be thanking us, not suing us."Outraged by the RIAA suit, many radio listeners are threatening to boycott the record companies."All these companies care about is profits," said Amy Legrand, 21, an avid Jacksonville, FL, radio user who surreptitiously records up to 10 songs a day off the radio. "Top 40 radio is taking the power out of the hands of the Ahmet Erteguns of the world and bringing it back to the people of Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting. It's about time somebody finally stood up to those record-company fascists." 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