The New Album Thread

[BLY]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

Will WB invest the time & money on re mastering Mirage & Tango when it's possible that they will loose the rights to those albums in the near future?

WHAT?? Why would they loose rights to their music?

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by BLY

WHAT?? Why would they loose rights to their music?

No...Fleetwood Mac would regain the rights to the original recordings...

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

No...Fleetwood Mac would regain the rights to the original recordings...

Even if the band should happen to change labels, Warner Bros will still retain rights to the albums Fleetwood Mac released with them.

[BlueDenimLamp]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Even if the band should happen to change labels, Warner Bros will still retain rights to the albums Fleetwood Mac released with them.

I'm not talking about FM changing labels...I'm talking about artists (FM) being able to get the rights/ownership of their recordings back after WB owning them for 35 years...
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...issue-20110907

If there is as chance WB will forfeit ownership of FM's catalog starting with Tusk (albums before 1978 are excluded.. Can you imagine WB loosing Rumors) will WB spend the money re mastering albums if they have to give ownership back to FM after 35 years?

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/don-henley-record-companies-not-going-to-roll-over-on-copyright-issue-20110907

Thanks for the article. I remember reading something about that a while back, but had forgotten.

If there's any chance WB might lose 'Mirage' in three years and 'Tango' in eight, that seems like all the more reason they should try to make as much money on them while they can.

Come on, Warner Bros....

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by BlueDenimLamp

I'm not talking about FM changing labels...I'm talking about artists (FM) being able to get the rights/ownership of their recordings back after WB owning them for 35 years...
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...issue-20110907

If there is as chance WB will forfeit ownership of FM's catalog starting with Tusk (albums before 1978 are excluded.. Can you imagine WB loosing Rumors) will WB spend the money re mastering albums if they have to give ownership back to FM after 35 years?

thanks for that link. Here's an interesting piece (it's a Q&A with Don Henley on the issue):

What are the options?

Artists have several things they can do. They can re-up with the label and use this as leverage to renegotiate a recording agreement. They can invoke termination rights and take back their master recordings and see what they can do themselves. If they get it back, they can shop it around and see if anybody else wants it – another label or an indie label or they might market it themselves on the Internet. Or artists can go back and re-record everything


I hardly think FM's organizational skills (or lack of) lend themselves to the band doing the internet self-marketing thing. But I can certainly imagine them leveraging ownership of the tapes to get a recording deal (i.e. allowing Warner's to keep ownership longer if they give the band a recording deal… but I don't trust Warner's to do it right that is, I could easily see WB negotiating to keep ownership of the masters, giving the band a deal, and then not really promoting the new music.) I'd rather see the band shop ownership around and get a new deal on a new label.

[iamnotafraid]

Carson Daly www.nbc.com/last-call-with-carson-daly
from last night's show Carson is reporting that the first song
for the new Fleetwood Mac album is completed.

Mentioned only, not played over end credits. You have
to go to the website to see the lyrics. I copied them before
they were taken down.

It's new to me. At least I've never heard her sing it before.

Walking In The Shadows

I know you're a lonely man and I love you
Someone else is waiting and she owns you
If she should ever wake up, be sure your story is straight love

If you talk in your sleep don't mention my name
If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came

Walking every night here in the shadows
So afraid that sometimes you may follow
There's always a chance she'll find us
So I don't need to remind you...

If you talk in your sleep don't mention my name
If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came

Love is so much sweeter when it's borrowed
I'll feel a little easier tomorrow
Don't give our secret away
Be careful of what you say

If you talk in your sleep don't mention my name
If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came

Forget where you came now
Don't mention my name

Forget where you came

__________________________________________

That has to have been written during or after Say You Will
if that's about Lindsey. Sometime in that past ten years or
so.

There's certainly no beating around the bush in that song.
Direct and to the point. Very bold for Stevie, especially
considering the circumstances.

Someone find out when it was written.

[michelej1]

April 1 is two days away, though.

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

But I can certainly imagine them leveraging ownership of the tapes to get a recording deal

Yes. I think you have hit the nail on the head.

Michele

[not_the_torment]

Did it actually say this is a Stevie song? Could it be one of Christine's?

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by not_the_torment

Did it actually say this is a Stevie song? Could it be one of Christine's?

I don't believe it's Christine's. The end credits
mentioned Welsh Witch Music.

[not_the_torment]

Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

I don't believe it's Christine's. The end credits
mentioned Welsh Witch Music.

Ok. Thanks!

[iamnotafraid]

I'm dying to hear it.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by not_the_torment

Ok. Thanks!

Iamnotafraid is our resident prankster. Rest assured there are no completed songs yet (aside from the ones Lindsey, Mick & John recorded last year, that is).

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by not_the_torment

Did it actually say this is a Stevie song? Could it be one of Christine's?

That's what I was wondering, too.

I looked through some copyright information, and there were some songs from the 80s and 90s credited to Christine and Eddie that I've never seen before.