02005-04-19 | Uncategorized
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could use the new video storage offered by Google to show you videos from the road?
This year we will have a person touring with us, who will spend some of the day shooting video. We hope to get some nice behind the scene touring footage as well as concert footage. We are toying with many different ideas for recording the show… small wireless cameras stuck in places where a real camera man would be annoying, to say the least…
I am also hoping to catch some of the Fall shows, which will most likely be the only time we will ever tour between Thanksgiving and Christmas and with a real string quartet.
Google Video would be ideal, if we could upload little “home movies” from the road on a weekly basis…
02005-04-19 | Uncategorized
To celebrate selling over a million Treo smartphones PalmOne is giving one away every five minutes between noon and midnight today. Good luck.
I can’t imagine life without mine anymore. I use it all of the time. Organize my day, check email, check weather, make notes about a song I am working on while I am taking a walk… Yes, it would be nice to have more memory, less radiation (the 650 is in the top four or five of highest radiation emitting phones) and a better camera, but it is a great phone…
02005-04-18 | Uncategorized
Dashing Delivery: (505) 983-DASH
This is for when you are staying in Santa Fe and don’t want to leave your room…
02005-04-17 | Uncategorized
Fence: One who receives and sells stolen goods. A place where stolen goods are received and sold.
I wonder how many stolen goods are sold through Ebay every day world-wide.
In my case, and for most musicians, the form Eric mentioned in the comments to yesterday’s post does not work. I cannot fill it out – because I am not the owner of the copyright: that would be Higher Octave or their parent EMI for Nouveau Flamenco, Poets & Angels and Borrasca, Epic Records for Solo Para Ti, The Hours between Night + Day, Viva! and Euphoria, and Sony Classical for Leaning into the Night. Notice: I think I could fill out the form for christmas + santa fe and Little Wing, because I own the publishing for that music, and I certainly could fill it out for In the Arms of Love, The Santa Fe Sessions, and La Semana because I own the masters and the copyright for those albums.
Notice how they cleverly placed the end of the auction on a Sunday? No time to get those companies to react.
I think Ebay makes it too easy to sell stuff, no questions asked – and too hard to protest. I mean if they had a team that answers email inquiries I could have sent them an email and they would have noticed that this certainly is piracy. But they have a clever system that buys them and the thieves a little time, enough time to make the sale and be done with it.
It is just like the time my music was illegally used for a porno movie – by the time the Sony lawyers started to apply pressure, the little company had already folded up and moved. The producer of the movie was a corporation that existed only in a P.O.Box… And that company disappeared within 6 months of the release of the film.
I think I will look at it like this:
If you have a hardware store you will have a certain amount of goods stolen every week. If you make music there will be piracy – and the more successful one becomes, the more of that will occur. It is just in the nature of the game. Maybe I should buy the damn pirate CD myself, because it does mean that people in Russia have heard of me and believe they can make a buck off my music. That’s good!
There are not a lot of guitar players who have pirated music sold on Ebay. I think I will have a little plaque made: Congratulations to Ottmar Liebert, who had 8 of his albums pirated in Russia.
And you know what, I bet you can stroll through Bangkok and buy La Semana for two bucks…
02005-04-16 | Uncategorized
This Russian Pirate CD with mp3 files for all of the songs from 8 of my albums (!!) is being sold on Ebay. Emails have been sent to SONY/BMG/Epic Records and EMI/Higher Octave, but I doubt it can be stopped in time. I have not been able to notify Ebay, as I would have to become a member of Ebay first – very stupid!
Thanks for finding this Carol!
