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I don't think the combined '85 Bears and '75 Steelers defenses could slow down Atlanta's offense.   All the passing and a running game to match.  And their defense is really good, too!

Julio Jones would kill you in man to man defense, Russ.  He's too big to put a fast corner on, and too fast to put a big corner on.  The only way to play him is in a zone where the safety can come and help.

Anyway, the Superbowl should be an offensive showcase, which should make it entertaining.  I'm a fan of the other birds for the time being. 

My prediction - Atlanta 42, New England 35.

They've looked wobbly most of the last 8 games.  Since Earl Thomas went down their pass defense has been terrible, which shouldn't happen as there are a whole lot of good players not named Earl Thomas on that defense.    The problem this year is the same problem for the last four years, "terrible offensive line," except that this year it was minus Marshawn Lynch and Russel Wilson's legs.   They *have* to do something to address that dumpster fire, or their run is over.   I'm not optimistic, though.  Pete Carroll's greatest asset, his eternal optimism, is also a huge liability some times.  There is only so much shine you can put on a turd.

Atlanta's offense looks *fantastic.*  It's just fun to watch those guys move the ball.   And I'm sure everyone here knows how I feel about Aaron Rodgers (best QB ever, if you didn't) so the NFC championship game is going to be a doozy,  and I'm OK with either team winning.   Atlanta coach Dan Quinn was Seattle's Defensive Coordinator when he got the Falcon's job, so seeing him win the big one would be cool.  And because I'm a big Aaron Rodgers fan, I'm OK with Green Bay winning, too.  From a pure football fan perspective, I win either way there.

I'd live if the Steelers won through (no opinion on it, in fact).  If the Pats end up winning it again, someone is gonna have to talk me off the ledge, though. 

It was the Kingsmen (the band that blew the song up) that got sued, specifically *because they hadn't paid any royalties for their cover* of it.  They won that suit.  And they weren't sued by Berry.  They were sued by the guy who ran the company Berry sold it to.

Berry sold his publishing rights for $750 but retained radio play rights.  He bought 3/4ths of the publishing rights back in the 80s.   He didn't get ripped off.  He wrote a song, sold it, and it blew up huge.   He made a pretty decent living writing songs, had one blow up to huge fame, and bought and sold his rights to it just as the law says.

It is absolutely morally correct that the owners of a song have 100% complete control over what happens with that song.  That includes all rights for play, copy, publishing, and reproduction.

No, they'd simply wait for their check from BMI or ASCAP, just like the thousands of other artists those organizations protect.  It is their job to look after McCartney and Plant's best interests.

What they do with their property is entirely up to them.  If they think it's cool you play their stuff, then good on them.  If they think you should pay them for the right to use their material then you should break out the checkbook.

It is the theft of someone's right and privilege to control how their work is used by those who think they should simply have access to whatever they want regardless of the artists desires.  And it's usually with some contorted justification based on "greedy executive" straw men and the singularly bizarre notion that by violating those artists rights, they're actually doing them a favor.  By your line of reasoning, Berry shouldn't even have received $750 for Louie Louie as anyone should have just been able to use it however they wanted.

If you want full control over stuff, write your own stuff.  When you're playing someone else's stuff, you do it according to their rules.  And for a whole lot of people, their rules are "I've joined a rights enforcement group to do that for me."

That's how it should be, as well as being the law.

Because club owners are the ones in violation of the artist's rights.  It's essentially asking a thief what he thinks of the police.

If they are making money (and they are) off of other people's music,  they need to pay those other people.  That is what BMI and ASCAP do.

No worries.   Generally speaking, if you have a speaker cone pointed at the business end of a microphone feeding that speaker, you're probably doing something wrong.  The good news is that the setup will let you know immediately by making a horrible screeching noise. 

A club has no right to host performances of a work owned by someone else any more than a publishing company has a right to put someone's work on a record if they don't own it.  That is not only morally correct, it's the law.

BMI distributed $950 million in royalties to artists this year on a little over a billion in revenue.   Most of the money they take in goes back to their member artists.

You don't pay to play cover tunes.  The bar pays so that whoever wrote that song gets paid for your right to play that cover tune.   Responsibility for acquiring those rights rests with the venue.   

It is actually to your benefit to join BMI and other artists rights organizations though, as it generally costs nothing, and it ensures you will get paid if someone is playing your original songs.

Mains are always in front of the band.  The last thing you want is your mains behind your microphones.

1.  Write more music and prose.
2.  I've dropped almost 50lbs of weight since August.  Lose another 25 and keep it off.
3.  Treat my wife better because she's really high maintenance and deserves it. 
4.  Get back on the bike.  See #2.
5.  Finish my festival scheduling tool and go to market with it.

Get yourself a copy of Room EQ Wizard, measure the heck out of that place, and treat it accordingly.

Then come over to my house and build another one. 

https://www.roomeqwizard.com/

Seahawks won decisively.   Honestly, I didn't think they were going to win.  They could barely run the ball against San Francisco, and while Detroit's defense is no great shakes, they're better than the 49ers.   Couple that with "Matt Stafford vs "not-Earl Thomas" at safety" and I thought it would be a 47-32 track meet.

Atlanta is a whole 'nother kettle, though.

Green Bay v. Dallas is going to be a classic.  Steelers v Chiefs has all the makings of a classic.

Good weekend of football coming up! 

I don't know what Pete was thinking when he pulled his starters in the 4th.  The Seahawks are already stumbling into the playoffs, slipping from the #2 to the #3 seed when they choked on Arizona.   If they had lost to the 49ers, they would have slipped to #4 and instead of seeing Detroit at home, they'd be on the road to Green Bay.

In college ball, my Huskies went out and put on a pretty good show against Alabama.  The Dawgs defense held Alabama's offense mostly in check (320 total yards and 17 points) but that Alabama defense was as good (or better) as advertised, and managed to stymie the Huskies offense and score a bunch of points on their own.    Big plays decided the game, and Alabama made them.    27-7 final.

The other semi-final game went like I though:  A blowout, but it was Clemson embarrassing Ohio State rather than the other way around like I had predicted.  I don't know if that means Ohio State wasn't that good or if Clemson really was that good, but  Alabama will let us know when Clemson plays them for the national championship. 

The Big 10 did not fare well in bowl season.  Along with the Buckeyes getting killed, Michigan lost to Florida State, and Big 10 champion Penn State lost a doozy to USC in the Rose Bowl.