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Devon, is that you PattyBloom??? ... I find Zucchero a bit annoying, I don't know.... he seems a bit showy to me (and I'm being nice...) He’s never convinced me. Let's just say he's a great bluffer. And I don’t get the album title "The Best Of Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari's - Greatest Hits," I mean, as if it weren’t clear that it’s a best of... but maybe it’s the best of the best? And naming his son Adelmo Junior... Horror! I’ll stop here, it’s better....

Great great record! A pillar of this gang.

3POUNDSOFLOVE is having trouble posting comments (dwarfs do something, he's not the only one....), so I'm posting a comment he sent me via email that he absolutely wanted to share, which I find very, very interesting... ------------
"… right now I can’t post comments on the discussion about emotive, it won’t let me leave messages. However, this is what I intended to write about copyright issues. CAZ works like this: you sign a contract for a certain number of albums (generally). And you get paid for that. The more the record sells, the money gets split: 1. the record label; 2. the copyright; 3. the wholesale distributor; 4. the retail distributor.
A Perfect Circle earns point two only for 2 twelfths on emotive. Rather than thieves then. Some leave the record label with 3 compilations, 2 DVDs, a live album, etc., and others leave a record like this as collateral. With the release of emotive (and amotion), A Perfect Circle is free/unemployed.
To give you a practical example, without mentioning the case of Mary Guybert, Alice in Chains, evidently when Layne was still intact, had signed for a certain number of albums. Definitely before the self-titled, probably after Jar of Flies. Since the release of their last album of unreleased material, they have come out in order, besides various VHS/DVD formats, with the following LPs: MTV Unplugged, Nothing Safe - Best of the Box, Music Bank Box Set, Live, Greatest Hits, Best of.
It doesn’t take much to realize that Jerry and company haven’t given up the money specified in their contract by agreeing to the production of these releases rather than terminating the agreement. A case from these days is that of Pearl Jam, coming out after numerous bootlegs (not for Epic, including the latest Benaroya), after 2 live DVDs in 3 years, after Lost Dogs, a collection of b-sides, with a Greatest Hits/Best of without unreleased tracks, to get out of their contract with Sony/Epic, which, let’s be honest, has always supported their every whim, see the logic of not appearing. We’ll see what they do, if they really sign with an indie label. I believe very little in that.
Clear who the thieves are? (far be it from me to criticize the music of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Jeff Buckley, whom I loved not too long ago).
A similar case to that of A Perfect Circle, on the other hand, is for example Renegades by RATM. All the money goes to the songwriters. I confirm 5/5 to the band."

Caz, I took your provocation with a lot of enthusiasm! (eheheheheheh, sly one!) It’s been months since I had this much fun! :D (pf, look here, they're keeping an eye on us: link rotto -- watch out for the spaces) One thing I would like to point out to those who have had something to say lately: as you can see, with Caz you can have discussions without falling into rudeness. Think about it, you critics ---- Patty, your memory of the diary is beautiful. I still have around a bag (remember those leather ones with compartments for pens and cigarettes?) on which the phrase "We want the world and we want it now!" is prominently displayed! :))

Ohhohhoh I'm dizzy :)) Damn, but the APC aren't the RATM! And above all, Maynard isn't Zack. Maynard is a great vocalist but a decent thinker, Zack is a great thinker but a decent vocalist... (by decent I mean good, for both) ... Maynard is an artist first and foremost. A singer who sings, who considers the style of singing (and in his spare time, he flips out about politics, etc.). Zack, on the other hand, is a fighter; his vocation is to say, then how he "sings" comes second... He does combat-slam-poetry set to music. I think the time Zack takes to write his fighting lyrics is inversely proportional to that of Maynard, the same goes for the choice of singing style. In this case (this album by APC), Maynard dedicated little time to the lyrics since they were already written, right? ... instead, he focused on the singing and collaborates with the others on the music, as you yourself could verify given the high quality... but I don't hold it against him; rather, I appreciate the artistic effort, even if the provocative intent is a bit short on impact. For true and raw provocation, I’m waiting for Zack to finally make a move... kisses

Damn, regarding names and surnames, I've been thinking about it all afternoon... why use names and surnames? Why say Bush - I think that’s the name that’s been mentioned the most in the last three years - why say Kerry, and so on? What were they supposed to say? Bill Gates? I mean what names? How many names? 2-3-4-5-6-1000? As Hal rightly says, there are nuances that escape us, and not everything can be traced back to '68, and there are honest people who believe in the true meaning of the word PEACE. And then we don’t live in America; things there are seen with different eyes (we could really use Zigghio right now). Let me throw out another point of view: Kerry represented(da) Vietnam, he worked his whole life on the Vietnam issue, to heal that festering wound that is this open sore in Mamma America. And the Vietnam question was one of the main topics of '68, if not THE Topic. And Kerry played it hard on the Vietnam question during the presidential race. But what did the electoral majority do on November 2? Bam! ENOUGH with Vietnam and '68 (abortion, cigarettes, scientific research, gay marriage)! And what do the APCs do? Bam! Here’s the Tombstone of Vietnam+'68 on the cover and Imagine as a funeral song... They are geniuses. They are people with their eyes wide open. @Motosega: as for protection, I agree! And how much does that parental advisory irritate me!

No no dear, you're in the right club then!!!!! :D

(ps: and Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums is an ENORMOUS track! An appetizer for Trent's new album.... LET'S HOPE FOR THE BEST! Trent save us!) ..... Ok now I'll leave you in peace, I think I've gone overboard today, sorry for the intrusion, Motosega :)

Well, at this point, I’d say we have two different musical ethics, Caz (but I still love you, okay?). For you, covers are a commercial move, while I appreciate them... singing songs by others isn't an easy trick; it’s a challenge against the greatest with the big risk of failing (which often happens)... look, aside from Imagine, they’ve chosen tracks that otherwise today's seventeen-year-olds wouldn’t have a clue about. I can just picture the peace&love girl buying a Black Flag record thanks to Gimme Gimme. Hooray, at least now they know Henry Rollins, who is anything but peace&love, actually! I see it less as a commercial move and more as a tribute. Plus, it takes a lot of courage to include a Joni Mitchell song in the lineup alongside Depeche Mode or Devo... I would’ve thrown in a Jello Biafra track too, though... :))

And what will you talk to us about tomorrow? :) welcome.