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Can't wait to finally sample Thomas Edison on the phonograph for my Soundcloud tracks, and not having to worry about the police knocking at my door!
by hippie_queen 5y ago
Can't wait to finally sample Thomas Edison on the phonograph for my Soundcloud tracks, and not having to worry about the police knocking at my door!
- kristopolous 5y agoHey be careful what you wish for! Check out "I am the Edison phonograph" from 1906 https://youtu.be/EQC9CjFezrQ https://youtu.be/EQC9CjFezrQ I'd use that, totally would.
- btilly 5y agoSadly, that's still under copyright. The problem was that various music copyrights were being dated from the 1970s for historical reasons despite the music itself being much older. Congress passed a law fixing a whole lot of that in one lump. Which is why music from the 1920s becomes public domain at the same time as movies from the early 1930s.
- kristopolous 5y agoI guess it's Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton then. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE Alright, that's fine for now. The distance between this and modern pop music is actually razor thin. Update the instrumentation with synthesizers, give it percussions and you'd be done. Interesting, the covers are further away from modern pop than this is
- Clubber 5y agoOr getting sued for twice your current net worth.
- odiroot 5y agoKnowing Edison, he can get up from the grave any day, to sue you into bankruptcy.
- LocalH 5y agoHe probably had a patent on doing that, so be careful
- filoeleven 5y agoAlternatively, with a reinforced casket mounted on a turbine, his grave-spinning could be a viable and fitting alternative to fossil fuels.
- toast0 5y agoPrior art, I believe that's where Disneyland gets its zero carbon energy to power the park.
- lapetitejort 5y agoGrave spinning? Sounds like that dangerous Alternating Current malarky. Don't you know that AC can kill an elephant??