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09-29-2008, 05:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Iowa | | | Metallica serves Fernandes a cease and desist.
Sign in to disble this ad
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...and-metallica/
The jist is that Metallica wants them to stop using Trujillo in their advertising.
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09-29-2008, 05:53 PM
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09-29-2008, 05:56 PM
| | | | A cease and desist letter isn't a suit.......yet.
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09-29-2008, 05:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland | | | Could this be why people have been reporting seeing Rob playing Yamaha instead of Fernandes ? Me thinks so.
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09-29-2008, 05:58 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Very, very bad taste. |
09-29-2008, 06:00 PM
|  | So much flame, it burns............ | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV. | | | It's not a lawsuit yet. Just a C&D letter.
However, if Robert is still under a contract with Fernandes, yet knowingly signed something conflicting with ESP to join Metallica, he might be the one in legal trouble.
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09-29-2008, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad  Very, very bad taste. | Agreed. I'm not a big fan of Metallica or Trujillo, but I wonder if his pre-existing deal with Fernandes frumps Metalllica's ESP deal.
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09-29-2008, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Stingray_EB Could this be why people have been reporting seeing Rob playing Yamaha instead of Fernandes ? Me thinks so. | Funny how he's playing one of his Fernandes sigs on the cover of this months Bass Player (and meantions them by name in the article).
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09-29-2008, 06:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southwest Virginia | | | Hmmm... Sticky little legal situation... Metallica will end up paying Fernandes an 'undisclosed sum'. It's not Fernandes' fault that Truj joined, and their agreement is legit... And Rob definitely shouldn't be forced to use ESP basses just because of the Metallica agreement...
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09-29-2008, 06:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sacramento CA | | Metallica is filing suit or restrain/desist? get outta town...Lars must have more time on his hands than my disabled grandmother.....
This is why I won't spend dime ONE on anything that will profit these money-grubbing butt-munchers...I hear that their new album is great, but not gonna buy it as they have proven to be fan/product-negative yet again...and Trujillo (while a notable and talented bassist in his own right) doesn't hold a candle to Newstead, BTW, IMHO.....good luck to them...they've lost another album and ticket buying fan...... 
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09-29-2008, 06:11 PM
|  | (V) [;,,;] (V) | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Michigan | | | There's a picture of Rob in the new Rolling Stone using a Warwick Streamer LX 5-string....
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09-29-2008, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Yeh Rob has a new Custom Shop Streamer Stage 2 I beleive, although it looks like an LX!
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09-29-2008, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | Well Rob has a deal with Zon, but he's always using a Fernandes or a Tobias and recently a warwick.
Seriously, the guy needs to settle down with the company which whom he has a deal.
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09-29-2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by AngryJason Metallica is filing suit or restrain/desist? get outta town...Lars must have more time on his hands than my disabled grandmother.....
This is why I won't spend dime ONE on anything that will profit these money-grubbing butt-munchers...I hear that their new album is great, but not gonna buy it as they have proven to be fan/product-negative yet again...and Trujillo (while a notable and talented bassist in his own right) doesn't hold a candle to Newstead, BTW, IMHO.....good luck to them...they've lost another album and ticket buying fan...... | I couldn't agree more.
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09-29-2008, 06:53 PM
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I don't think Rob should have to choose a company, either. If I had a gig like his, you can bet I'd have a truckload of different basses at my disposal. I don't think these guys depend on the endorsement deals financially when it comes to affording they're instruments...
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09-29-2008, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Little Rock, Arkansas | | Honestly, if I had the kind of money they have, I would do my best to stay OUT of endorsement deals. Why do you need free instruments when buying a new one for them is like buying a coke for the rest of us? For a smaller band, I can see it...but honestly I just don't think they need it... 
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09-29-2008, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by flipper_gv Well Rob has a deal with Zon, but he's always using a Fernandes or a Tobias and recently a warwick.
Seriously, the guy needs to settle down with the company which whom he has a deal. | What about Paul Stanley? |
09-29-2008, 07:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sacramento CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gopherbassist What about Paul Stanley? | What about him? A guitarist with another money-grubbing, fan-unfriendly band? Not sure how this applies.....not trying to be rude at all (so please, take no offense, Mr. Gopher, as absolutely NONE is intended), but not sure how this applies to bass forum....if it does, please forgive my, um, unforgiveable ignorance......I'm just the bass player 
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09-29-2008, 07:42 PM
| | | | hes in metallica, he should just wait fo royalties and buy what ever the hell he wants |
09-29-2008, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | I am going to send Lars a letter telling him that I illegally downloaded their new cd. I didn't of course, they blow, but it will be funny.
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