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U2's Long History of Stolen Music - October, Achtung Baby, Pop, Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

U2: Today we take a look at the band's unfortunate history of stolen music.

0:00 - October
1:19 - Achtung Baby
4:12 - Pop
5:24 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
6:30 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

U2 Negativland Feud
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#u2 #bono #theedge

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Within a span of 23F years U2’s music was stolen not one, not twice, not three times, but four times ahead of their album’s coming out. In today’s video we’re going to explore what happened in all four instances.

Story 1

This first story starts in 1981. U2 was in Oregon playing a show when a briefcase was stolen from the band. The brief case contained lyrics that were going to be on their forthcoming album at the time October. As a result of the stolen briefcase Bono had to rewire the lyrics to the album in the studio, something the band members claimed was a terrible recording experience. A few years later when the band returned to Portland Bono appealed to the audience to return the briefcase. He made a similar request in 2001 when the band played Portland again.

Finally, 23 years after it went missing the briefcase was returned in 2004 by a 44 year old woman named Cindy Harris, 44 who claimed she found it in the attic of a rented house in 1981. Harris would claim she had no idea that it was stolen in 1981 and when she finally realized it was improperly taken, she wasn’t sure how to contact the band’s management.

Story 2

In the spring of 1991 ahead of U2 releasing their seven thstudio album Achtung baby the band learned that theirr rehearsal tapes were stolen. The band was in berlin, germany during the recording of the album. While it’s not exactly clear how teh rehearsal tapes ended up in the hands of bootleggers there’s been two theories put forward. One was that perhaps they were stolen from the band members hotel rooms, while another is that they were stolen from the band members cars in Dublin. The LA Times would report that hotelmaids found the tapes in the band members hotel trash can in berlin, but a spokesperson for the band told the paper “It’s impossible to fathom the band leaving these tapes in the hotel trash. They would always be under lock and key.” The bootleg tapes originated from sessions done the previous year in Berlin at Hansa (hanza) studios.

Either way bootleggers around the world started selling the almost 3.5 hours of rehearsal tapes. There would be multiple versions of the rehearsal tapes put out .When U2 learned about this and the mainstream press picked it up, Bono referred to the recordings as and i quote “gobbleygook” and said that he didn’t understand why anybody would be interested in it.

The LA Times would publish a piece in May of 1991 that read “Call it the ultimate underground album. Rock radio isn’t playing it. Record stores won’t sell it. The band’s record company hasn’t even heard of it.” The LA Times would report that one bootleg that was circulating at the time was titled “The New U2: Rehearsals and Full Versions,” with the album being sold with two discs to a jacket promising 30 new tracks including “She’s Gonna Blow Your House Down,” “Sweet Baby Jane,” “I Feel Free,” “Don’t Say Goodbye” and “Don’t Let the Dues Get You Down.”

The Times would interview a fellow named Pete Howard who was the publisher of the international CD exchange newsletter who said “What makes this almost unprecedented is that these are tapes of songs that aren’t even finished yet,” . He would claim he received the bootleg from an anonymous subscriber going on to say “Some of the songs sound close to being final versions, but others are still instrumentals without vocal tracks. You can even hear (lead singer) Bono signaling the band to go into a bridge or chorus.”

The band’s label island records would take out full page ads in the british press threatening lawsuits against any music shops who were caught selling the stolen tapes. The police in London and Germany would catch a few stores selling the bootlegs, resulting in fines according to the Times. The Times would interview the general manager for Moby Disc record store chain in LA who told the outlet that the retail bootleg market in LA isn’t what it used to be and with all the media attention on the U2 bootleg, stores would have to be out of their mind to try and sell it. This wasn’t the only headache to plague the band during the making of the album as the group negativland put out their o

Cannibal Corpse: How Jim Carrey & Ace Ventura Helped Propel The Band's Career Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Cannibal Corpse: The story of how the band ended up in Ace Ventura to perform their song Hammer Smashed Face.

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#cannibalcorpse #aceventura #jimcarrey

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Despite being panned by critics the 1994 film Ace Ventura Pet Detective was instrumental in launching comedian Jim Carrey’s movie career. Apart from helping Jim Carrey’s career the film was also important in increasing the popularity of Death Metal legands Cannibal Corpse who also appeared in the film at the request of the comedian. Today lets talk about how the band ended up in the film, what happened afterwards and is jim carrey a metal head?

The film Ace Ventura Pet Detective saw Jim Carrey’s character trying to find out who stole the football team the Miami Dolphin’s mascot. In addition to Carrey the film would star real life Miami Dolphin’s quarterback Dan Marino and Friends actress Courtney Cox. The film would be director Tom Shaydac’s directorial debut and he was given a pretty small budget of under $20M. There were a lot of gambles during the filming. Actor jim carrey was mostly known from standup and his appearance on the show in living colour. How would he translate to the big screen, especially considering he improvised a lot of the scenes. It was a sentiment that carry shared with the LA Times in 1994 while promoting the film revealing

“"I knew this movie was going to either be something that people really went for, or it was going to ruin me completely,"”

Carrey would admit to Arsenio Hall in an interview a few years before the film came out that he found himself fascinated by metal as you can see here.

According to Barney Greenway of napalm death carrey reportedly asked for napalm death to be in the film, but it wasn’t clear what happened to the request so cannibal corpse was next in line. By 1994 Cannibal Corpse was still up and coming at the time, even though they had already recorded 3 albums and they wouldn’t have an album on the US charts until 1996’s Vile.

The band has always been controversial amongst politicians and even entire countries. Former U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman both called them out in his campaign speech. Dole claimed the band and i quote “undermines the national character of the United States” “mindless violence and loveless sex,”Dole’s aide later confirmed that he’s actually never listened to any of their music.

CC wasn’t allowed to play any songs off their first 3 albums [1990’s Eaten Back to Life, 1991 Butchered at Birth and 1992’s Tomb of the Mutilated] in Germany until 2006. Their albums were banned from sale in Australia until that same year and according to vice the band was kicked out of russia several times for inciting religious division

The band has also faced heat from the russian government and had numerous shows canceled within the countries bordersfor and i quote “inciting religious division.” [source: vice]

Getting back to the movie and the band. Carrey had made a special request for the film to include the band and while the band was honored to get the offer they didn’t want to be made fun of or put in a comedic light. Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz telling Vice in 2015 “We got a call from our record label, Metal Blade, saying that they’d got a call from Jim Carrey’s people saying that he wanted us to be in this movie he was making," "Of course, that’s not a call you’re expecting to get. It just didn’t compute, you know? But it was a phone call, simple as that." The drummer would admit that he was a fan of carrey from his in living colour days going on to say
"We’re a brutal death metal band, and we’re serious about what we do. This seemed like it would be a cool opportunity, but we didn’t want to be made to look like fools or to be laughed at," t "But they assured us that we were going to be portrayed as Cannibal Corpse - they weren’t gonna make fun of us."
Originally the band turned down the offer b

Prince: The Woman Who Won a Date With the Rockstar MTV Contest Under The Cherry Moon Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

The story of the MTV Contest that saw one lucky fan win a date with musician Prince.

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#prince #mtv

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In 1986 MTV would partner up with musician Prince to promote his new film at the time titled Under the Cherry Moon. MTV would hold a contest to give one lucky winner the chance to win a date with the musician along with several other prizes. Here’s a promo the network ran for the contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB97NefZmE0

The winner would be 20 year old hotel chambermaid from Sheridan, Wyoming named Lisa Barber. The town’s population was less than 11,000 people. Barber would spot the ad for the contest while watching MTV with a friend one day after work., Funny enough Prince wasn’t the most famous celebrity to visit the town as it was reported that years prior Queen Elizabeth II was spotted shopping in the town. She had been invited by Sen. Malcolm Wallop. .

The Daily Beast would reach out to Prince’s publicist Robyn Riggs several years after the musician’s death to recount what happened behind the scenes. Riggs who was 25 at the time would recall reading the paper the day after the MTV contest ended. She read an interview with Barber who was asked whether she was a fan of her boss with her responding ‘Yeah, he’s OK. But I really like Motley Crue! I hope I get to meet Tommy Lee.”

Riggs fearing that the contest could unravel would head down to Billings, Montanna, the closest major airport to Sheridan. Riggs would have to give Barber a makeover from heavy metal fan to Prince fan, and had to ensure preparations were underway for her boss arrival. A convoy of trucks descended on the small town with Prince’s equipment for the concert. Prince’s band the Revolution, didn’t have a good start to the contest with guitarist Wendy Melvoin revealing in the book Prince: The Man and his music . “We had the worst flight ever from Denver to Sheridan, everyone was praying. We thought we were gonna die," with Keyboardist Lisa Coleman adding, “The plane was a VW van with wings.”

The contest almost fell apart when. Prince’s manager, would call Riggs to tell her thatthat the musician would drive himself to the movie theatre and the contest winner could ride with the band in the bus to the event. Furious, Riggs would call up Rob Friedman who was the head of the movie studo’s marketing department to give him a heads up and tell Prince’s manager and i quote “Steven, here’s what’s going to happen. You’re going to get with your client, you’re going to tell him that he’s going to take this girl AS HIS DATE. If he does not do that, then I’m going to haul Warner Bros. out of here. And all of our promotional dollars are going home.”

Ahead of the movie premiere Barber would spend an hour getting dolled up by Prince’s haristylist and makeup artist and was given an outfit to wear for the premiere admitting to people magazine she and i quote “usually shopped at kmart”

Barber would tell People Magazine “I was so nervous, but he told jokes in the car while he drove us to the movie theater, and I could tell he was doing his best to help me relax,” “It was such a huge deal – cameras were flashing everywhere. That night was the biggest thing to ever happen in Sheridan.”

After the movie premiere the party headed back to the local holiday inn where Prince and his band played a 45 minute set. In honor of the celebration, then Sheridan Mayor Max DeBolt proclaimed July 1, 1986, as “Prince and MTV Day.”

Prince would end up keeping a fake pearl necklace he got from Barber that night, but he wouldn’t leave her empty handed giving her a goodnight kiss at her home, along with a pair of earrings and gold necklace in addition to two tickets to an upcoming concert in Denver Barber would admit to people magazine “I went with a friend and they gave us backstage passes, but he wasn’t there after the show,” “Still, he was so sweet. He left me 13 long-stemmed red roses.”
Here’s some clips from mtv’s coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdAa7t3MMY

WHAT GOTHS LISTEN TO IN 2023: Spotify's Most-Streamed Postpunk & Goth Bands Hotney 11 Streams • 3 years ago

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What Goths Listen to in 2023: Spotify’s Most-Streamed Postpunk & Goth Bands

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Brittany Howard: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 3 Streams • 3 years ago

Watch Brittany Howard play "Stay High", "Georgia", "Baby" and "Goat Head" at the Tiny Desk.

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Oct. 15, 2019 | Bob Boilen -- From the moment Brittany Howard walked into the NPR offices, I could sense her intense commitment and passion. Her eight-piece backing band, all decked out in red and black, played with a soulful subtlety that bolstered Brittany Howard's tender songs about her family — stories of a mixed-race child growing up in Alabama.

All the songs performed at the Tiny Desk come from Jaime, an album Brittany Howard dedicated to her sister who died at the age of 13 from a rare form of eye cancer, the same disease that has left Brittany Howard partially blind in one eye. On these songs (and in particular at this Tiny Desk Concert), there is more nuance than I've heard in Brittany's past projects, including her work with Alabama Shakes and Thunderbitch. The music has a sense of wonder and playfulness, even when the subject is heavy, as in "Georgia." She tells the audience that it's a tale of "a little young, black, **** girl having a crush on an older black girl and not knowing what to say and how I was feeling."

Brittany Howard knows how to tell a story, to foster empathy and understanding and, in this intimate setting, the songs feel at home. The connection with the audience felt visceral as I looked around the room and into the eyes of my workmates and their friends. Even a small child in the arms of their parent screamed at the appropriate moment during the climax of Brittany's song, "Baby." It gave us all a good laugh just when the weight of the words felt the heaviest.

SET LIST
"Stay High"
"Georgia"
"Baby"
"Goat Head"

MUSICIANS
Brittany Howard: vocals, guitar; Nate Smith: drums; Alex Chakour: guitar; Brad Allen Williams: guitar; Zac Cockrell: bass; Lloyd Buchanan: keys; Paul Horton: keys; Shanay Johnson: vocals; Karita Law: vocals

CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Kara Frame, Beck Harlan, CJ Riculan; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Laura Beltran Villamizar/NPR

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