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Age: 54
Sign: Cancer

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State: California
Country: US
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 
Sunday, November 15, 2009 
Friday, October 16, 2009 
(... indicated her support for extending the protections for small broadcasters to small webcasters as well.  Hear, Hear -R)


RAIN 10/16: Sen. Feinstein gives webcasters hope for royalty parity in Performance Rights Act

·Oct 16, 12:01 PM
Posted by: Michael Schmitt

COMMENTS INDICATE SUPPORT FOR CHANGING NETRADIO ROYALTY STANDARD

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) gave hope to webcasters looking for royalty parity by suggesting that the Performance Rights Act, which passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, include a single standard to set royalties for all music services. Industry attorney David Oxenford reports that Feinstein’s  comments during yesterday’s hearing indicated her support for extending the protections for small broadcasters to small webcasters as well. She “stated that ‘the parties’ were working on an agreement that would amend the bill to extend these rates to small webcasters,” writes Oxenford.
The Act’s small broadcaster protections prescribe a flat per-year royalty fee of $5,000 for broadcasters with revenue between $500,000 and $1.25 million. Broadcasters with less revenue are assigned smaller fees. Oxenford has a full run-down of the protections, and more details on the Performance Rights Act, at his Broadcast Law Blog here.
The Performance Rights Act would use the 801(b) standard to set royalty rates for broadcasters. Currently, Internet radio’s royalties are arbitrated using the “willing buyer, willing seller” model. Oxenford notes, however, that both the Senate and House versions of the Performance Rights Act leave out the fourth component of 801(b), “the factor that looks at the royalties to determine if they…will preserve the stability of the industries involved.” Feinstein said record labels objected to the inclusion of this component.
Monday, October 12, 2009 
Dickie Peterson, the founding member of Blue Cheer, has passed away this morning at 5 AM in Germany. A true rock and roller.

Sunday, October 11, 2009 
Dirt Road to Psychedelia
Austin during the 1960's

A folk singing Janis Joplin' the dawning of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' peyote' LSD and the first psychedelic venue in Texas' Austin was a fertile ground for the emerging counter culture of the 1960s. Seen as nonconformists' Beatnik inspired hipsters were drawn together by folk' country and Blues music while dabbling with peyote and LSD. Traditional values became challenged as they sought a lifestyle outside of the system. Civil Rights and the war in Vietnam were galvanizing factors in 1960s American society' but the advent of psychedelics made it electrified. This documentary tells how it happened in Austin Texas.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 
If any of you Brits out there will be watching Krautrock: The Rebirth Of Germany on BBC four on 23 10 09 and you tape it digitally LMK.
Monday, October 05, 2009 


http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/its-neu
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This documentary film examines how a radical generation of Krautrockers rebuilt a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Overlooked in their own country, these bands were grouped under the unsympathetic heading of Krautrock by an inquisitive British music press, when Dad's Army and war jokes were the lingua franca of the times. Nearly all of the bands objected to the term, apart from when it helped to shift records.
Today, Krautrock is one of the coolest influences any band aiming at credibility can drop.
Devotees include The Fall, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead and Kasabian.
In 1968, the world was in the grip of a youthful revolution, and nowhere were the stakes higher than in Germany. Despite a post-war economic boom, the youth of the country felt that nothing had changed for a generation growing up in the aftermath of war. Power was still in the hands of an older generation and Germany's once magnificent artistic culture lay trashed and looted, much of it sullied by Nazi associations. For young people in cities like Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Munich, it was time for something new.
Between 1968 and 1977, bands including Neu!, Faust, Can and Kraftwerk looked beyond Anglo-American pop to create some of the most radical and original sounds ever heard in the country. The experiments of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Cluster would give the world its first taste of electronica.
By the late Seventies, some famous English and American ears took notice as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop decamped to Germany in an attempt to tap into the Zeitgeist. Meanwhile, in a studio overlooking the Berlin Wall, Iggy and Bowie would record Low, Heroes and Lust For Life, taking the sound and feel of Krautrock to the bank and to the world at large.
Monday, October 05, 2009 
Monday, September 21, 2009 
Here is a little song celebrating our position at #37 in the world in healthcare.  We're Number 37
Thursday, September 10, 2009 
A young, DE fan wants to make a YouTube video for 420 Train Wreck. She needs some live, heavy psych band footage to work with. The more psychedelic the better.
Who has some they want to share for this project? She is using Final Cut and would work with avi, mov files.