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Thanks for a fun bit of insight to a fan base. For those curious about the Creep cover: > The most jaw-dropping moment of the night came near the end of the m
by nostromo 3y ago
Thanks for a fun bit of insight to a fan base.
For those curious about the Creep cover:
> The most jaw-dropping moment of the night came near the end of the main set when he broke out Radiohead’s “Creep.” He had never played the song in concert before (or any other Radiohead songs for that matter), but across eight glorious minutes, he completely made it his own. It popped up on YouTube the next morning – with shots from many different angles – but the Prince camp is extremely vigilant with the Internet and had them all taken down. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke found this hysterical. “Really? He’s blocked it?” York asked an interviewer. “Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment. Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our song.” It was hard to argue with that, and it remains on YouTube even though most Prince material has been yanked for quite some time.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-prince-plays-a-jaw-dropping-cover-of-creep-at-coachella-223898/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-prin...
The cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uu5vMLufNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uu5vMLufNA
- vr46 3y agoThanks for links, really need to go listen to that tonight. Took years for Radiohead to play it again after originally getting sick of it, was stunned when I first heard them play it. There’s a band that REALLY understand things.
- toyg 3y agoTechnically there are two set of rights: writing and performing. In this case Radiohead own the former, but not the latter. Prince would still have been in his legal rights to block reproductions of that particular performance, and I'm sure he was advised as such; he probably just made a call based on marketing instincts or as a favour to Yorke.