Sunday 25 May 2008

Aftra-amptp Deal Reportedly Close




Although trade journals had predicted that a deal between the American Federation
of Television and Radio Artists would be struck by today (Friday), AFTRA President
Roberta Reardon on Thursday said only that "We're making progress," while published
reports indicated that the bargaining talks may spill into the weekend. Nevertheless, most
observers expressed the conviction that the two sides will reach an agreement within
days. They were less certain about whether a similar agreement would be thrashed
out between the AMPTP and the Screen Actors Guild. Indeed, entertainment attorney
Jonathan Handel, a frequent blogger on Hollywood's labor unrest, predicted that if
no agreement between SAG and the studios/networks is reached by June 30, SAG negotiators
are not likely to seek strike authorization since they may not be able to persuade
75 percent of their members that they can force the AMPTP to accept a better deal
than the ones negotiated with AFTRA, the WGA, and the DGA. The more likely scenario,
Handel wrote Thursday in the legal daily Los Angeles Daily Journal is that producers
will halt production until a deal is reached -- in effect, imposing a de facto lockout.
"Let's hope last year's work stoppage doesn't yield a bad sequel as well," Handel
concluded.






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Thursday 22 May 2008

Peter Green

Peter Green   
Artist: Peter Green

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Blues
   Blues
   Other
   



Discography:


Hot Foot Powder   
 Hot Foot Powder

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


Bandit   
 Bandit

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 14


Legend   
 Legend

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 12


Katmandu - A Case For The Blue   
 Katmandu - A Case For The Blue

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


Kolors   
 Kolors

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


White Sky   
 White Sky

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 9


Whatcha Gonna Do?   
 Whatcha Gonna Do?

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 10


Blue Guitar   
 Blue Guitar

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 10


Little Dreamer   
 Little Dreamer

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 9


In The Skies   
 In The Skies

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 9


The End Of The Game   
 The End Of The Game

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 6




His calling riddled by drug mistreat and paranoia, Dick Green is motionless regarded by or so fans as the sterling white vapours guitar instrumentalist of all time, Eric Clapton however. As he grew up in London's wage-earning Orient Destruction, Green's early on musical comedy influences were Hank B. Marvin of the Shadows, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Freddie Mogul, and traditional Jewish music.


Max Born Saint Peter the Apostle Greenbaum just vocation himself Tool Putting green by age 15, he played sea bass originally organism invited in 1966 by keyboardist Prick Bardens to make for principal in the Pecker B's, whose drummer was a gangly chap named Mick Fleetwood. The 19-year-old Cat valium was with Bardens just ternary months in front joining Whoremaster Mayall's Bluesbreakers, whose speedily unfirm personnel department department included bassist Gospel According to John McVie and drummer Aynsley Dunbar. A bully winnow of Clapton, Green badgered Mayall to yield him a fortune when the Bluesbreakers guitar role player rent for an indefinite vacation in Greece. Leafy vegetable sounded great and, as Mayall recalls, was non entertained when Clapton returned later a smattering of gigs, and Jet was out.


When Clapton left hand the band for right six-spot months by and by to strain Cream, Mayall cajoled Green back. Fans were openly hostile because Green River was not God, although they apprehended Clapton's replacing in time. Producer Mike Vernon was appalled when the Bluesbreakers showed up without Clapton to record the record album A Hard Road in late 1966, simply was north Korean south Korean won over by Green's playing. On many tracks you'd be hard-pressed to lodge it wasn't Clapton playing. With an eerie Commons instrumental called "The Occult," he demonstrated the part of his earmark fluid, haunting stylus so evocative of B.B. King.


When Viridity left wing Mayall in 1967, he took McVie and Fleetwood to lay down Peter Green's Fleetwood Mackintosh. Jeremy Herbert Spencer and Danny Kirwan shortly later gave Fleetwood Mack an strange three-guitar front pipeline. Super C was at his apex for the albums Mr. Wonderful, English people Rose, Then Play On, and a hot Hub of the Universe Tea Party recording. His subservient "Albatross" was the band's beginning Brits number one single and "Bootleg Thaumaturgy Woman" was by and by a huge hit for Ilich Sanchez Santana. Only Green had been experimenting with acidulent and his behaviour became more and more irrational number, especially after he disappeared for three days of rampant drug utilization in Munich. He became very religious, orgasm into court onstage wearing crucifixes and flow robes. His bandmates resisted Green's proffer to donate to the highest degree of their money to polemonium caeruleum, and he left in mid-1970 later written fabric a agonizing biographic tune called "The Green Manalishi."


After a bitter, straggling solo album called The End of the Game, Green saddened fans when he hung up his guitar, demur for service the Mack fill in a tour when Spencer curtly joined the Children of God in Los Angeles and quit the striation. Green's chaotic odyssey of about a decade included rumors that he was a gravedigger, a barman in Cornwall, a hospital orderly, and a member of an Israeli commune. When an controller sent him an unwanted royalty check, Green confronted his mystifier with a strike man, although it was unloaded. Greenness went to clink briefly in front beingness transferred to an psychiatric hospital.


Superintendent C emerged in the latterly '70s and former '80s with albums In the Skies, Little Dreamer, St. Andrew Dickson Flannel Sky, and Kolors, featuring at times Bardens, Erithacus rubecola Trower drummer Reg Isidore, and Fairport Convention drummer Dave Mattacks. He reprised the Then Play On Macintosh criterion "Rattlesnake Shake" on Fleetwood's solo 1981 record album, The Visitant. British generator St. Martin Celmins wrote Green's life-time account in 1995. Psychologically disruptive, on medical specialty, and hardly playing the guitar for most of the '90s, the cloistered Green resumed sporadic recording in the hour half of the 10. He surfaces circumstantially from time to time, to the highest level conspicuously January 12, 1998, when Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Careen & Roll Hall of Celebrity. In a rare, perfective moment, Super C packed with mate conscript Santana on "Ignominious Magic Fair sex."





Mara Kayser

Thursday 8 May 2008

BBC criticised for censoring Pogues classic

BBC criticised for censoring Pogues classic



Kirsty MacColl's mother has described BBC Wireless 1's determination to edit the words of the singer's famous Dec 25 strike 'Fairytale of Newly York' as "ridiculous".
The station opted to edit out the line root "You scumbag, you maggot...", leaving out the word "faggot" at the goal.
A BBC affirmation said: "Radio set 1 ar playing an edited version of the 'Fairytale of Freshly York' that does not include the world 'faggot' as this is a intelligence that members of our audience would retrieve offensive."
A interpreter said that the bible was "faded down" on air travel, rather than bleeped come out completely.
However, the mother of the recently Kirsty MacColl, wHO recorded the original version of the song with The Pogues, has criticised this conclusion.
Referring to the birdcall, Dungaree MacColl said: "These are a couple of characters. Today we have a lot of a gratuitous coarseness and... whatever from people wholly over which I think is quite unnecessary. These are characters and they speak like that."
"It's absolute hokum. Truly, this is overly ridiculous. Shane [MacGowan, The Pogues vocalist] has written the most beautiful song and these characters live, they really live, and you have such sympathy for them."
She continued: "These are a couple of characters world Health Organization ar non in the first prime of younker, I wouldn't experience thought. They are what they ar, this is the way they speak."
A spokesperson for The Pogues said: "It strikes me as very odd and I'm for certain the band will be rattling amused."
Listen to a special curriculum on The Pogues' 'Fairytale of New York' here.