EMI without DRM, is it guacamole time, a day of sanctioned and heralded foolishness, receiving Gonzalo Rubalcaba from Japan
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YIKES - HERE'S A FASCINATING ABOUT-TO-BREAK PIECE OF NEWS. (We'll have to wait until 7 AM Central to know for sure.) If the rumors are right - and I love rumors re technology as much as I love to make errant political predictions of potential Dick Cheney shooting victims - this is great news for those of us who want to use our music and video how, when and where we want. I'll be able to better edit sound files, and therefore, be able to better understand and discuss music, copyright and IP issues.
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From this website:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will appear at a joint EMI and Apple press conference on Monday 2 April at 1pm.
Jobs will join EMI CEO Eric Nicoli at the event, which takes place at EMI's London headquarters, according to invitations from the music company distributed to journalists on the afternoon of Sunday 1 April.
The invitation reads: "Please join EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli at EMI's headquarters on Monday 2 April at 1pm London/8am New York time to hear about an exciting new digital offering, with special guest, Apple CEO Steve Jobs."
A special live performance by an unannounced artist will also feature at the event, the invitation confirms.
This event takes place after months of rumours claiming that music from The Beatles will be made available through iTunes, but Macworld sources have warned that tomorrow's announcement is not related to that particular piece of speculation."
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And there could be more, the REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF - the stripping of DRM from EMI songs....
"Late last week, MacRumors had heard rumblings that Steve Jobs and EMI would jointly announce the dropping of Digital Rights Management for EMI's music associated with iTunes. We were unable to confirm, so we were unable to publish, but this invitation certainly adds credence to this story.
EMI has previously been rumored to have been considering dropping Digital Rights Management from their music. Add to this, Steve Jobs plea to the industry to stop forcing Digital Rights Manangement.
Macworld.co.uk speculates that this may also relate to the rumored Beatles / iTunes distribution partnership, but no new rumors on this have emerged."
Thanks, KP for this information.
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OTHER THINGS - this is April 1, the anniversary of Marvin Gaye's death. On this day in 1984, in what I hoped would have been a very distasteful April Fool's joke, Marvin Gaye's father shot and killed his son.
On April 1, 1917, Scott Jopin died.
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And my April One began late last night as the midpoint of a five-hour conversation - an excellent "date" with an old girlfriend who is in New York.
I just heard Gene Simmons say, "Life seems to happen to me while I'm busy making other plans." I wish he had credited John Lennon with that great line. Gene Simmons is on A & E holding a baby and bragging to a woman from social services that he's never been marrried or divorced, I'm writing some technical stuff, pondering what to drink, what to write about the five hour conversation, someone near Gene Simmons just stated or likes "sex-ercise," wondering whether my avocados (would Dan Quayle spell the singular, "A-V-O-C-A-D-O-E?") are ripe and ready to be brutalized and made into guacomole (this time I'll be less lime-heavy - two limes were a mistake but I always think that if something is really good, more of it must be better), how will the Red Sox do in Kansas City tomorrow, should I leave Gene Simmons (yes, I will right now), and will this sentence ever end.
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I wonder what happened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today.... They are the best at hacks (what they call pranks - good old fashioned juvenile delinquency). Check out this Wikipedia entry on MIT hacks.
I behaved today, damn it. I need to make up for my unexpectedly mature ways later on. Tomorrow might be good to extend the day of sanctioned and heralded foolishness, i.e., April Fool's Day.
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GONZALO RUBALCABA
IF YOU DON'T THINK Gonzalo Rubalcaba is the best pianist on the planet, watch, hear, receive, transcribe and study this performance from the 1992 Mt Fuji Jazz Festival. God made him much different than others. I have had the supreme good fortune of hearing him live six times - receiving his music - and meeting and talking with him. He is a fantastic and nice person as well.
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Dave Matthews' bus driver did this to many people in Chicago a few years ago. Sadly, I bet there were many groupies who wish they could have been stationed or floating under the bus along with the Coalition of the Unwilling.
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