[linux-audio-user] Cactus Data Shield copy controlled cd's
Jan Depner
eviltwin69 at cableone.net
Thu Jul 3 15:27:00 EDT 2003
Daniel,
Wait a minute - I used to love to listen to his work with the Isley
Brothers (Yes, I am actually that old).
Jan
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 05:12, Daniel James wrote:
> > I can find higher quality music being given away by the artist
> > for free than its possible to find in all the archives of major
> > labels (well, ok Hendrix is major label, but look, they assassinated
> > him).
>
> Hendrix is actually a great example. Far from unknown and then
> 'discovered', as most people would have it, he was playing live for
> years but no-one in the industry would give him a break.
>
> It took an outsider (and a musician, not a label executive) to
> recognise his talent, and introduce him to other UK-based musicians.
> It was on their insistence that he got the gig at Monterrey in 1967,
> which I think was his first big break in the US.
>
> As for assassinated, I think it would be fairer to say that they
> didn't look after him very well. He actually died due to the
> combination of sleeping tablets and alcohol, shortly after playing a
> storming set in a field just outside our village to 600,000 people.
> He's kind of a religious figure around here...
>
> Cheers
>
> Daniel
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