If like me you thought that in most cases copyrights were a pretty clear-cut thing, Prince and Radiohead are showing this is not the case. You probably know by now that Prince recently covered "Creep" during his Coachella set (not his most inspired cover by the way - check out BARON ZERO version of Creep here instead).
But you probably had difficulties in finding footage of his performance since he has systematically removed every clip posted on the net.
Obviously the only problem is that Prince does not own the copyright for the song; Thom Yorke does. In a recent interview, he said he heard about Prince's performance from a text message and thought it was "hilarious." Yorke laughed when his bandmate, guitarist Ed O'Brien, said the blocking had prevented him from seeing Prince's version of their song. "Really? He's blocked it?" asked Yorke, who figured it was their song to block or not. "Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment." Yorke added: "Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our ... song."
Well, if you feel like checking out the Purple cover, the video is available here (for a limited time only, I guess) and here is the mp3:
PRINCE Creep (live at Coachella 08) download
repost all of them!
Posted by: MUSSELS | June 04, 2008 at 09:13 AM
that last comment was supposed to go to your last post. whoops.
Posted by: MUSSELS | June 04, 2008 at 09:14 AM