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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

A GREENER SHADE OF PALE: Procol Harum's former organ player, Matthew Fisher, is suing singer Gary Brooker for a share of copyright in the multimillion-selling "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Fisher claims to have composed the organ melody, and particularly the eight-bar Hammond organ solo which gives the song its distinctive baroque flavor. Johann Sebastian Bach was unavailable for comment. Luckily for them, Judge William Blackburne studied both music and law at Cambridge University and has requested the keyboard and sheet music of the song so he could run through it after court hours. You can watch the original lineup play it o­n Top of the Pops.

NEW RELEASES: It's pretty much a lull in advance of the storm of the holdiay season. Neil Young (Live at the Fillmore East) is streaming in full from AOL. Joanna Newsom releases the much-anticipated and previously leaked Ys -- an album sure to make many year-end "best of" lists. Legacy Recordings releases the super-expanded Johnny Cash: At San Quentin, which includes the entire concert (including performances from Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers and the Carter Family), plus a DVD of a British documentary o­n the concert. Legacy is also releasing The Clash Singles Box, which is why Mick Jones has been turning up in the press recently.

CULT of the iPod: The Wall Street Journal covers MOG.com, a site that links its users -- including a number of alt-musicians -- by displaying the digital music stored o­n their computers.

THE THEME IS BOND: In advance of Casino Royale hitting theaters this Friday, NPR has an audio feature and streaming tracks from four Bond films. The ANALOG Blog featured all of the Bond themes last month.

FRANK BLACK takes compliments for the Pixies from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and songwriter P.F. Sloan in an interview with the Daily Californian. He tells the Seattle Times that Kim Deal remains reluctant to record a new Pixies album: "She doesn't want it to be fake

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