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Music du Jour

Music: Okay those of you who know me, know that I am completely hooked on The Airborne Toxic Event, an Indie band out of L.A. who were featured on the Late Show with David Letterman last Friday. Wow, that was one freaking awesome performance. At the end of the day, you kind of forget (or most likely have no idea) what it's like to be an Indie band.

So the band plays Letterman, wakes up the next morning checks their PVR's (portable TIVO's maybe?) only to find out that they didn't tape it right and they now have no record of their performance. That's cool, it's CBS, they can get a copy right? Well no, it's now Saturday and CBS is closed. They know that they've just pulled off their best performance ever, possibly one of the best ever on the Late Show, but they have no proof. Some doofus-dude in Toronto has illegally gained possession of the Letterman show, thrown it into his Windows Movie Maker, edited the interviews and other parts out of the show and thrown the video of the concert onto YouTube. The band sees this, and their only course of action is to email said doofus-dude and ask for a copy of the video for their own website. There are about 500 copyright infringements taking place including some cross border ones that I would rather not think about. In the end, the band has their video, the world is talking about the performance and the doofus-dude carries on in obscurity in his average home in the average neighbourhood with his exceptional children and his exceptional (and only) wife (who's really good looking by the way!). And here you were thinking that Indie bands lived on champagne and Strawberries and M&M's (with the brown ones removed)….NOT

posted by G.M. Shier @ Thursday, January 22, 2009