DudeAsInCool

I sure would like to see that swimming suit pic again :P :P

Here's the link for The Weight ( a little short, but you get the idea). There are literally about a hundred short music samples and video clips there... http://theband.hiof.no/sounds/music_from_big_pink_2/05.mp3

hitwall :duck hunt:

I never said it wasnt... I said Rafelson pulled together alot of top songwriters...

Off the top of my head, things have loosened up in this respect, until the Janet Jackson incident. I can remember The Stones having to change the words of Lets Spend the Night Together when they appeared on Ed Sullivan's tv show, to Lets Spend Some Time Together... the Jefferson Airplane refusing not to play Volunteers for America on some nightly tv show.. Blind Faith's naked teen girl cover being banned... Paul McCartney's naked pictures being altered for The Beatles album... radio stations refusing to play the MC5s political Kick Out the Jams, Mother Fucker... today, it seems anything goes in terms of recordings...

The homepage of the legendary 60's group - The Band - along with some free sample videos and mp3s. Check it out at: http://theband.hiof.no/

The following was taken from The Band's website. "Easy Rider was the surprise box-office hit of the summer of 1969, a low-budget film about a couple of hippies who use their profits from a drug deal to drive their motorcycles across the Southwest and attend New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations, encountering adventures and tragedy along the way. It turned out to be a telling portrait of America's cultural divide in the late '60s, and no small part of its impact was the soundtrack music, which eschewed a traditional score (the filmmakers couldn't have afforded that, anyway) in favor of rock music. Even then, director Dennis Hopper didn't have much special music written, instead mostly using songs he'd heard on the radio in 1968 while he was editing the film. (In the liner notes to the 2000 CD reissue, Hopper claims that he canceled a proposed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young score when he became enamored with his own selections; other accounts claim the film studio insisted on the music used in the rough cut.) So, the film's music consisted of such 1968 rock radio favorites as Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" and "Born to Be Wild," the Band's "The Weight," the Byrds' "Wasn't Born to Follow," and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "If Six Was Nine," with such humorous changes of pace as the Holy Modal Rounders' cosmic folk song "If You Want to Be a Bird" and Fraternity of Man's marijuana-smoking behavior guide "Don't Bogart Me." Hopper had little trouble persuading various record labels to grant the screen rights to these songs at a time when re-used rock wasn't heard much in movies. Roger McGuinn, making his solo performing debut, contributed new recordings of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and his own specially written "Ballad of Easy Rider," actually co-written with Dylan, who was not credited. When Easy Rider became a successful film upon release, a decision was made to release a soundtrack album, and most labels agreed to license their tracks to Dunhill/ABC. Only Capitol Records held out, so the Band's version of "The Weight" was replaced by a near-copy recorded by Dunhill act Smith. The soundtrack album also featured some dialogue and sound effects from the film. The result was a commercial bonanza: The album reached the Top Ten and went gold, becoming the second most successful soundtrack LP of the year, after the Nino Rota score to Romeo and Juliet. Just as the film transformed values in Hollywood, the soundtrack album helped give birth to a new business in which soundtrack albums became collections of various pop songs that sometimes out-grossed the films with which they were associated. Its very success ironically doomed the availability of the Easy Rider soundtrack album, however. By the CD era, the various labels that controlled the songs were no longer happy to license their material, and the album went out of print, although a CD was issued overseas in 1993. Finally, on June 13, 2000, MCA managed to bring theEasy Rider soundtrack album back into print in the U.S. Thirty-one years later, it still sounded like a good thematic collection, reflecting the film's values of drug use and open-road freedom. Songs like "Born to Be Wild" and "The Weight" had long-since been enshrined as rock classics, and the lighter material continued to amuse, confirming Easy Rider as both a historical document and an entertaining listen, especially to those who knew the film." --William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide Tracks The Pusher (Hoyt Axton) - Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild (Mars Bonfire) - Steppenwolf I Wasn't Born To Follow (Gerry Goffin & Carole King) - The Byrds The Weight (Robertson,Robbie) - Smith (244K) If You Want To Be A Bird (Antonia Duren) - The Holy Modal Rounders Dont' Bogart Me (Elliott Ingber & Larry Wagner) - Fraternity of Man If Six Was Nine (Jimi Hendrix) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Kyrie Eleison Mardi Gras (David Axelrod) - The Electric Prunes It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Bob Dylan) - Roger McGuinn Ballad Of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn) - Roger McGuinn The Band's original version of "The Weight" was used in the movie Easy Rider, but the 1969 soundtrack album (also available on CD) from the film had instead a cover version by the group Smith. This version is also available on the CD re-release of Smith's debut albumA Group Called Smith. Soundtrack Album/ Various Artists - Easy Rider - USA 1969 - ABC-Dunhill DSX 50063 CDs: MCA 3594 (1993), MCA 119153 (2000) Follow the link below and you can listen to the Band's legendary song The Weight from the movie: http://theband.hiof.no/albums/easy_rider.html

I think Bob Rafelson, director of 5 Easy Pieces and one of the producers of Easy Rider, was one of the producers of the TV show. It was sort of a takeoff on the Beatles phenomenon, and at the time, I thought it was lame and teeny-bop (the phrase at the time). But they did assemble a great group of songwriters... I still think Valerie was a pretty good tune...and I can see why Umma likes Im a Believer

Its about time. At his height, Stevie Wonder was as good as anybody. Innervisions still holds up today... One of the highlights from my college days, if not the highlight, was Stevie Wonder playing piano backstage for about 25 people... after the show

lol

Lame... :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad:

I sucked up to that action along time ago, RB: http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2616&hl= And so did you, RB! http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3899&hl= :bigsmile:

Granted to some English nobleman with some land, before he was booted unceremonially by George Washington, Redneck and and the boyz. Molly Pitcher brought the water...

While there are some smart artists, most arent effective at running a business or marketig/promoting themselves or distributing their own music. The latter is what the music industry does best--and what the industry fears most is loss of control of distribution. Simply labeling the recording industry as purveyors of evil is simplistic. Until someone comes up with a better system, the artists have to rely on them, or fend for themselves. Prince has done it successfully, so has David Bowie, and Peter Gabriel is working on something similar. How should music be used or promoted? From the listeners perspective, what ever makes them happy, and however they want to listen to it. From the creators perspective--take control of as much of your business as possible... only provide music for advertising that fits your philosophy or integrity

My savings account is growing bigger, day by day... lol

...GWB, Jr???

Watching the mechanics of the entertainment industry's accounting practices firsthand is enough to make the mind boggle - THEY ARE WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE!!!! I'm involved in a small movie at one of the major studios, and we have asked specific questions about their promotional expenses. Instead of answering those specific questions, they keep referring to some minor account and reams of pages of nickel and dime charges that have nothing to even do with the questions we asked. The only way to beat them is to AUDIT, AUDIT and then AUDIT again.

You are absolutely correct - the money changers have taken over our industry, and I for one am not happy about it AT all.

I know what you mean, Ken. But you'd be surprised to know that he is an unbelievable basketball player. He once challenged Eddie Murphy to put together any team he wanted. Eddie subsequently laughed his ass off - and then got his ass beaten off the court. The moral of the story is - hes not who he appears to be in public, persona-wise. I do like the idea that he tooks on the labels - successfully

True - but we are in no danger from Moore having a monopoly over a coroporation, or our minds, and Disney's decision is being done for 'political' reasons - they are chickenshit and dont want their family reputation impugned (even though its gullt by assoc, as the film would be distributed by Mirimax, a subsidiary)

Welcome aboard :strumma:

Yeah, he's a muckracker - but I want to see it :bigsmile: ...bet he mentions that the bin laden family membes in the us were allowed to fly out without questioning on 911...nobody else in the national press did until Vanity Fair..

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Prince discusses his career since becoming an independent artist, and how he is more successful today selling 100,000 albums independently than if he was when he worked for the record companies and was selling millions of cd's. You can read the full interview here: :read this: http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/20...ck_x.htm?csp=27