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Guitarist, singer and songwriter, Bruce Rathie
- January 31, 1946 - August 12, 2008-
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Update February 27, 2007:I've moved the link to this page, it seemed many people didn't see it or find it where it was. Also I'm adding a couple more songs today - which might interest those who have found the page before.
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May Days in Kaslo
On May Days I went over to Kaslo to play with the boys, in this case George,
Mike Guthrie,andDrew. On the right are George and Mike. Below are Drew and
yours truly. All of us guys have been playing music together off and on for
well over a quarter century. We've been through various incarnations - the
Dreaded Whirlies, Medicine Whirl, Frank Lee Scarlet, the Tinglers and
picturedhere are the "New Riders of the Purple Cabbage." There was one more
head of cabbage that didn'tget included in either photo - Caddilac Ron Deville
(aka Ron Anderson) on harmonica on Mike's left.
These photos were taken by JP "Raven" Gregoire and more of his pics of Kaslo Mayday can be found here
"I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm, no more"
RIAA etal.
Another war (other than Irag) going on these days is the one between the major recording companies and peer to peer file-trading. They concentrate their attack on say, Napster, until it is shut down and meanwhile other peer-to-peer networks appear and take up the slack.AudioGalaxy is another victim of the RIAA, but by the time they get around to Kazaa, Limewire, et. al. there will most likely be new and more distributed networks that don't even exist yet.
They lobby the government for stronger copyright protection and even expect to be allowed to essentially hack into file-trader's computers and destroy data , which may not even be copy righted material that they own. This "war" is an issue at the Grammies lately as the president (of the RIAA) usually makes a rally the troops speech against the evil file traders.
The recording industry have always been frightened about any new technology that would aid consumers in duplicating music. Ironically though, the introduction of mini-cassette recorders coincided with unprecedented growth in sales of LP's. The industry never mentions the windfall profits that it must be earning from re-releasing all old catalog "content" in the new format. Material produced in the last century and perhaps went platinum is simply re packaged and sold as a CD at an inflated price. The corporate labels, with herds of lawyers to graze on their profits, have even in some cases attempted to denyroyalties to artists because the original publishingcontract didn't provide for the sale ofcontent in media or formats non-existent at the time of the original contract.
It's unfortunate that the dreary field of economics and the blood sport of business have to be involved in music, but they are. The following arelinks to articles that explore the nexus of technology, money and music.
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- Courtney Love does the Math
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This article while not new (it was published in Salon in 2000), tells it like
it is from Courtney Love's perspective.
- The Year the Music Dies
- Speculation from Wired online on the effects of technological change on the musicbusiness.