I heard something on the radio that absolutely sickened me today...

[Erose999]

and it wasn't even talk radio. It was the Atlanta's "classic rock" station. They took Eric Clapton's "tears in heaven" from his "unplugged" and fucking spliced in soundbites of George W. Bush's speeches about 9/11.

What the fu- can they even do - Clapton's legal people know about... can they sue?

GNARRRRRRR!!

Such a pretty song, ruined by some fucking dick-ass rightwing fuckbag who thinks he's clever. I should mention also that this radio station is owned by Cox, who are also responsible for a lot of rightwing filth.

I'm pretty much done with any terrestrial FM radio station with a frequency above 92.1. I wouldn't have even been listening to this station at all if I had been driving instead of my friend.

[teddy51]

1. With any luck, maybe they get their asses sued off. Lets hope. n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

2. That song is sad enough....

Without Dumbya screwing it up.

BTW, Clapton originally did that song for his four-year-old son who fell out of a high-rise window. :cry:

[Ken Burch]

3. I'm not sure Clapton would care

At home in the UK, he supports the Tories(and at one point during a 1970's concert, got up and make an extended campaign speech for openly racist M.P. Enoch Powell). It's likely that Clapton is ok with this.

[Lorien]

7. Doubtful. Most Brits would tell you that they consider American Democrats

to be the equivalent of UK Tories, and the GOP to be just plain scary.

[gratuitous]

4. Send 'em a wave file

Take "Tears in Heaven" and intercut it with fart noises. Tell them you heard their version with Bush, but you've improved on it. Immeasurably, in my opinion.

[virgogal]

5. Calm down,it's not that important.

[Erose999]

8. It just angers me to hear Bush remembered as some kind of hero.

[ladywnch]

6. I don't believe that kind of use is actionable. I'm no lawyer, but

since record labels NEED and supply material to radio stations with the sole intent for the station to play it as much as possible, I don't think they can dictate how it gets played. It's probably a one-off use so by the time they'd file suit, ...... well, too late.......we promise not to do it again.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Sean Hannity used to open his crap radio show with Bruce Hornsby's "the way it is"

it should tell you something that right wing cranial-rectal inverts have to appropriate songs by talented liberals, with progressive messages that they either ignore or don't understand (i.e. "Born in the USA")...

know why that is? Because all the right-wing "musicians" SUCK.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. I think he still does....

"But see, he's saying "THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS" and "GET A JOB!".......HE'S RIGHT!!!! GAWD BLESS AMUUURIKKKA!

Idiot.

[Raine]

10. Shut the radio off till midnight tomorrow night and I'm sure you'll never ever hear it again

at least not for another 10-15 years.

[evrstrong]

11. You're right, that is sickening...

I wouldn't listen to that station anymore. Yuck.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. Ahh....the DJ remix

It started with that damn Springstein song from Jerry McGuire when someone decided to inter cut movie clips into the song.

Radio DJ's suck ass.

[Zanzoobar]

14. A lot of people were sickened by Clapton...

He took a lot of heat for it at the time. He put his emotion over the death of his kid into a song and played it for people.

Can't get much more crass than that.

[Nye Bevan]

15. Seriously? You think you have the right to tell a bereaved parent how to grieve?

Eric Clapton wrote the song “Tears in Heaven” for his son Conor which was released on the album Unplugged.<8> Unplugged topped charts and was nominated for nine Grammy Awards the year it was released. Though his grief was intense, Clapton made multiple public service announcements to raise awareness for childproofing windows and staircases.<8>

In an interview with Daphne Barak, Clapton stated "I almost subconsciously used music for myself as a healing agent, and lo and behold, it worked . . . I have got a great deal of happiness and a great deal of healing from music".<9>

In an interview Will Jennings says: "Eric and I were engaged to write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song called 'Help Me Up' for the end of the movie... then Eric saw another place in the movie for a song and he said to me, 'I want to write a song about my boy.' Eric had the first verse of the song written, which, to me, is all the song, but he wanted me to write the rest of the verse lines and the release ('Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees...'), even though I told him that it was so personal he should write everything himself. He told me that he had admired the work I did with Steve Winwood and finally there was nothing else but to do as he requested, despite the sensitivity of the subject. This is a song so personal and so sad that it is unique in my experience of writing songs." – Will Jennings<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_heaven

[Zanzoobar]

16. No. Absolutely not. Don't go off half-cocked.

But I would refrain from selling my bereavement to a large audience in a stadium, or maybe even MTV.