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I have to say that the keyboard is the biggest reason I’m not sold yet on the iPhone. Okay for the weekend but I really type a lot on my Blackberry. I do it with my thumbs - not sure I could get the speed I need with the virtual keyboard and not "feeling it"
With 3G coming out - it will be hard to resist though. Maybe they should come out with a version based on the old iPod design with a keyboard instead of the spin wheel. I wonder what other models will come out next year?
Thanks Andy for pointing this out to me and messing with a memory. Just kidding - you know sometimes a sample is a feeling - like I was just channel surfing and came across this chick-band Pussycat Dolls: Live in Manchester - had to stop: eye-candy. I don’t see much original coming out of these girls either. They are just plain singing other peoples stuff. But at least they aren’t taking a tune and moving the words a bit. The "music memory" that caught my ear on that show was a pop song that has the sample from ELO’s Mid-evil Woman. I don’t know the song, its a sort of Rap.
Tributes are good - remember how Run DMC revived one of my favorite bands - Aerosmith! Explicit rebirth of a great old song.
So I think its okay to sample - after all music is supposed to elicit a feeling, move you. If these rappers pull a few bars from the original recording its makes you miss the next few bars and that will make you think, or feel. Pulling a melody, chorus and changing the words a bit just pisses people off though as Kingston does here. The Zeppelin song was so much better and the words made more sense anyway.
Okay - I’m really out there now! Facebook, MySpace, Linked In - all over the net.
One day I’m going to go the bank and have no money, no credit, no identity - but I’ll be able to prove I am who I am because I have a face in the book.
JimmyC
