Greg Lake’s rant against bootlegs and piracy.

 

Yep lovely irony that.

 

There is also a little story recounted by Keith Emerson that Carl Palmer walked out of a record shop in Japan with a bunch of ELP bootlegs under his arm. Didn't pay for them (tight git apparently) and then some of them appeared on that aforementioned box set.

And I don't know if he realizes how much money it would cost to track down and go after everyone who downloaded anything. He'd make more money on hypothetical record sales if he just ignored it really.

 Well, he personally cracks me up anyway especially after my encounter with him at the Atlantic City Casinos. He did nothing but tell us how prog was nonsense. He was a real character that night. He flipped out on 2 promoters when we were on the second floor. His face was red and he threw his arms into the air yelling at them while customers stared at him trying to figure out if he was someone famous, or a staff worker. Later , after he had a few drinks, he told the old stories and laughed at the bar. I have to admit that when he screamed at those promoters, I almost busted out laughing. He told us that he was a Christian. I have no doubt that he is polite with people and basically a good person but I think maybe he has had enough with the music biz. As he walked the floor and was approached by the occasional fan, he rolled his eyes. He seems to dislike dealing with his public image. I can see him having that patronizing tone and his talk of legal proceedings......He is still funny to me though

 

But I wouldn't make statements like this because historically it turns the internet against you and the hardcore subsequently make a point of pirating your music, which then spreads into the general netizen domain.

 

 

 

I have a word about this,

 

As far as i know ELP and Greg Lake have prevented many sharing music sites to share their Unnoficial Live Recordings, so those sites respect what Greg wishes, like Fripp Wishes and PT wishes, and many other bands that don't want that any unnoficial material are shared.

 

Do this going to stop poor sales or download concerts, official material, et. al.?  NO!  millions and i say millions of illegal and unnoficial material are still flows in the internet,  Greg have said that the author is the owner of the material  and he's right, but he can't prevent the misuses of that material, for example " i have a friend that request me  to lend a couple of cd's of ELP, do i have to warn him not to copy??, pleeeease is the first thing that usually done, and specially if my friend have a poor personal income, do we violate the copyright doing that?, NOOOO, because the Berna agreement, prevents that a person can do a copy of a work (book, music, etc.) for only purpose of personal use or research, many of us got a copy of the old vinyls with a cassette, now the technology allow us to have almost pristine identical copies of a cd, a dvd, etc.

 

The misuse starts when you have an income for selling copies of official material to the general public, now that's a felony and punishment have to be, but about the unnofficial material... it's more difficult to trace and any artist  that was taped in a show and discovers that many of his performances are now free distribute or shared  via internet or ordinary mail, how can them going to trace every single show on earth??

 

I think that one thing to prevent is like Pearl Jam or Gov't Mule do, tape their shows and offers to the general public and a very reasonable prize, i think that with that they cannot prevent the free sharing but at least can have some profit selling their shows.

 

just my 2 cents.

  

The post of the month!

 

btw sheer genius Padraic