Re: (TV) Jagger

["esgregory" <esgregory@qwest.net>]

day after thanksgiving, jagger's record sold 954 copies....so much for
buying sales...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:44 AM
Subject: (TV) Jagger


> I wouldn't go so far as to say Jagger (or Richard(s) ) steal
> others music, but on one of their early 1970s albums
> ("Sticky Fingers"?) they recorded the song
> "You Got To Move", which had been
> written and performed by bluesman Mississippi Fred
> McDowell for years.  The Stones' lyric credits and
> copyright made no mention of McDowell and the
> Jagger Stones/Richard(s) song writing team claimed they
> wrote it.
>
> Also, in a long Rolling Stone magazine article in late 1969,
> Ry Cooder claimed that although he was given some
> playing credits on the album "Let It Bleed", that Richard(s)
> used/played many of Cooder's guitar melodies and riffs
> without any attribution.
>
> Last but not least--------on Thanksgiving night(?) I
> caught the last 20 minutes of Jagger's 1 hr. infocommercial
> disguised as a documentary about him.  His producer was
> this sycophant who tried lamely to tell the cameras he was
> being objective in his effusive praise for Mick's new record.
> Then we watched Jaggeer perform the single live in front
> of a small audience----I thought the song was awful.
> But over the next several days that single has
> been everywhere (like an empty beer can), and it just brought
> back the whole thingamajig to me of how it's all about the
> amount of $ the record companies spend on promotion/getting
> on radio's playlists that determines which records get to be hits.
>
> Leo,
> who's still doubts the (naive?) claims that the internet will
> change/open-up the music business.
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