[Dixielandjazz] Posting to DJML on the Sony fiasco justification.

[David Richoux]

Lowell,

Something like this story has an immediate (and possibly harmful)  
effect on anyone who buys Sony CDs and uses them on a Windows OS  
computer. Probably most everybody on DJML except us few Mac OS odd- 
balls would be a target if the massive nature of the problem had not  
been revealed so soon...

Dave Richoux

Not much OKOM content because Sony/CBS/whoever had not gotten to the  
"back library" yet!  (there is a whole lot of early Columbia stuff  
under Sony's control, including Louis Armstrong Hot 5 & 7s etc.)


On Nov 16, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Lowell Busching wrote:

> In posting more on the Sony protection fiasco to the DJML  
> yesterday, along with several others including Bob Ringwald, I  
> forgot to point out to those members who may question the Trad or  
> Dixieland qualifications of such postings, that at least in my  
> posting, Bela Fleck was quoted.
>
> To those who may not be aware, Bela is a well known, outside trad  
> jazz even, banjo player who even makes money playing the banjo with  
> his group, the Flectones!  This might come as a surprise even to  
> many banjo players like Bob Ringwald, who has had to resort to  
> playing piano with the Boondockers and Fulton Street to regain his  
> credibility as a musician.
>
> Bela may not always play OKOM, but I am willing to bet that he has  
> encouraged a few string players to become proficient on the banjo,  
> and that can not be all bad.
>
> Lowell Busching
>
> AKA Mad Dawg