You can still get copies of their live albums and other memorabilia such as T-shirts, videos, and original artwork by Eric Burdon himself at the official web-site, www.ericburdon.com. They have secure on-line ordering and they take all major credit cards. The "Official Live Bootleg," pictured at right, is a great album with many of his greatest hits such as "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," "Monterey," "When I Was Young," "San Franciscan Nights," "House Of The Rising Sun," and more. And it's only $14.49, shipping included. Check it out, and if you get the chance, go see the band live. You won't regret it. His current tour schedule is printed below.
Major Label Recording Contracts
This is an unedited transcript of Courtney Love's speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on May 16, sent to Still Fumin' Records by Jorge Bermudez.
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Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts.
I want to start with a story about rock bands and record companies, and do some recording-contract math:
This story is about a bidding-war band that gets a huge deal with a 20 percent royalty rate and a million-dollar advance. (No bidding-war band ever got a 20 percent royalty, but whatever.) This is my "funny" math based on some reality and I just want to qualify it by saying I'm positive it's better math than what Edgar Bronfman Jr., the president and CEO of Seagram, which owns Polygram, would provide.
What happens to that million dollars?
