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Originally Posted by KeithBMI  Who? |
I have to check with some who gives a crap about the game (I do not) to verify...but I THINK it was Foghat. They even came out publicly and said that friends of the band had called to say that they had heard THEIR perfomances in the game, and were rather surprised. Upon inspection, it became obvious what had really happened.
The producers of the game apparently payed people to re-record their tracks, in order to circumvent having to pay ANYTHING to the band for their "performance".
I have to check my facts, though...however, while I may be wrong about the artists affected (it might not have been Foghat, but I think it was), I am not wrong about the methodology used to rape them. Apparently, they re-did a lot of the tracks in the game, using 3rd party musicians in order to avoid having to pay people directly. SCAM.
Apparently, in some cases, they just paid royalties for the use of the song, but re-recorded the performances EXACTLY, ripping off the most subtle nuances that make a performance unique to a band or artist.
In this way, it's no different than the famous case where Bette Midler sued Ford for having a "ringer" perform her music, thus leading anyone listening to the commercial to believe she had "sold out" to Ford.
It's one thing to re-do a song, it's another thing to take it to the level of IMPOSTER, and THAT, according to CASE LAW, is ILLEGAL.
Technicalities of LAW have apparently not stopped the greedy makers of this game, however. Apparently the millions they're making shouldn't be shared with the artists that made it all possible...in THEIR opinions.
Such as it is with the opinons of effing PIGS in the music biz.
It's never anything positive or kind to musicians...funny that, no? Few industries rape the very font of all that IS the industry like music.
Sickening. It was VERY hard to type this post and remain within the posting guidelines of this site.
