Steve Jobs and EMI Press Conference - No More DRM?

[winstano]

Press conference MP3:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/QlVqTkFqTSsxUUEwTVE9PQ

 

[TheSpaz]

NO MORE DRM! It's a welcome change from me!

 

[Rocketman]

I was under the impression EMI was leading the way to DRM free music, not being "persuaded" into it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2007/04/02/behind-the-apple-emi-deal/

I told you so.

Rocketman

 

[inkswamp]

Um, Pink Floyd are friggen awesome, they really are, but I'm pretty sure you're significantly confused about who did what when and why what they did was important.

The Beatles' came out with the album Rubber Soul in 1965, and Revolver in 1966, both totally ground breaking (and psychedelic, but I don't think that's the main important thing about those albums). Pink Floyd's first album was released in 1967.

I respectfully disagree, and I take issue with Rubber Soul and Revolver being called "psychedelic." Most people don't view anything by The Beatles to be truly psychedelic until Sgt. Pepper's and by then, what they were doing was modeled on the underground psychedelic scene. Pink Floyd emerged into the music scene in 1965 under a variety of names and played primarily underground shows for the first few years of their career. They were at the forefront of the whole psychedelic movement, being the first band to display oil slides behind them amongst other standard psychedelic stage effects. Pink Floyd were frequently referred to as the "house band" of the psychedelic movement, and, not mentioned in the Wikipedia article above, were visited by The Beatles during the recording of their first album in 1967.

I'm not saying The Beatles are bad, but they often get credited for things they did not originate. The psychedelic movement was spearheaded by Pink Floyd and appropriated by The Beatles.

 

[surferfromuk]

I'm not saying The Beatles are bad, but they often get credited for things they did not originate.

Don't get me wrong I love Pink Floyd and the Beatles weren't the only ones doing great music, nor were they uninfluenced by their peers but there was a wave cresting and the Beatles were riding it harder and faster than anyone else on the planet...right time, right place - maybe but they left a legacy of incredible music that has made all our lives better...

An entire generation of wierd and dreadfully bad psychadelia is one thing and will be lost in the mists of time, but 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is another and IMHO is the benchmark for just about all modern music.

Tomorrow Never Knows - Revolver 1966

I don't know if somone on a mission cares to dig up some obscure precursor, but anyone who hasn't heard TKN's go listen to this then listen to say 'the chemical brothers' and I guarantee you'll go 'wow!!WTF?, 1966 you say?...Jees, the Beatles really did invent modern music'....

Has that trippy beat ever been bettered ?

I mean what must the average man in the street have thought when he heard all those wierd distorted seagull noises on that track - if they hadn't done drugs by then at least they'll have had an equivelantly 'sober assimilation experience' when listening to it!.

The Beatles forever - remember folks this was 1966 - a brutal patriachal society of bigotry and control - and this music gave ordinary people happiness, and then hope followed...we 'children' of the children of the revolution live under freedoms achieved by these people today..