Topic: Sneaky secret recordings
John Reno (guitar/vocal) and I (tuba/vocal) flew to Seattle to play a series of house concerts for our beloved parrothead buddies in the northwest. I sent my tuba out U.P.S. ground nine days before we arrived. It had no new dents that I could tell.
House concerts are a great way to enjoy live music without having to drive out to some bar or auditorium and running the risk of a DUI. A couple will invite 20 to 50 friends and neighbors to their home for a live concert. The host couple provides finger foods and some drinks. The guests bring drinks and pay $20 to $50 per couple to pay the band. Setting up four or five of these in one area can pay the travel expense and have us back home after a fun trip with a few bucks left over for mom'n'nem.
This guy secretly recorded us at two of the venues. I think he was the guy who sat in and sang with us on the "We Do" song.
He uploaded 10 videos to You Tube. I typed john reno in the search box on You Tube and got this:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … =&aq=f
This person was a fan and got no profit from the videos. He wanted to share it with his friends and we cannot fault him for it.
However some of the tunes were covers (mostly late night naughty tunes) and we have no permission or mechanical licenses to record them. We should pull them down but we'd like to leave them up long enough for all our rowdy friends to see.
Are we going to jail for this?
Sleepless about Seattle,
Dennis
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?