SF2K4 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I was curious about The Beatles music in drum corps so I went over to CorpsReps to see what all of their music has been played... I knew Bloo did Imagine this year and apparently VK did Magical Mystery Tour in '07... but then I noticed that the only corps that played Beatles music going back to around 1998 was Kiwanis (they played one like every year... pretty cool... kind of wonder why lol). There used to be a lot of Beatles music played it seems, a lot of Let It Be... Norwegian Wood showed up a few times... et al. I'm just curious, why don't more corps look into their music? They have a vast library of songs and cover a surprising number of musical genres. It's the offseason... why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow Adam Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 There are copyright issues, pretty much to the degree of John Williams - though that may change now with MJ's death, since he owned a huge chunk of the library. Also, to be technical, Imagine is John Lennon, not The Beatles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF2K4 Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 There are copyright issues, pretty much to the degree of John Williams - though that may change now with MJ's death, since he owned a huge chunk of the library. Also, to be technical, Imagine is John Lennon, not The Beatles. Yes, technically you're right, but it's the closest thing to The Beatles done by a Top 12 corps this decade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skajerk Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 (edited) How did you do your search? I came up with tons of music under Lennon/McCartney and also found a few under Harrison Edited November 3, 2009 by skajerk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF2K4 Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 How did you do your search? I came up with tons of music under Lennon/McCartney and also found a few under Harrison Same way you did. There were a lot of charts however once the 2000s started, other than Kiwanis, no one really played their music anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Murray Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Bluecoats 1992? "A Day In The Life" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGCpimpOtimp Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 There are copyright issues, pretty much to the degree of John Williams - though that may change now with MJ's death, since he owned a huge chunk of the library. Also, to be technical, Imagine is John Lennon, not The Beatles. I think it being John Lennon and not the Beatles would make it harder to get, don't you have to go directly to Yoko for Lennon's stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
709 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I think it being John Lennon and not the Beatles would make it harder to get, don't you have to go directly to Yoko for Lennon's stuff? Yoko liked the whole 'cloud people' thing, so she gave it the ok. Come to think of it, it does sound like a Yoko idea, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFL Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 There are copyright issues, pretty much to the degree of John Williams - though that may change now with MJ's death, since he owned a huge chunk of the library. Not in our experience. We would have played a Beatles show had we the money being asked for the licensing. Our lack of funds was the only thing that kept us from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
709 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 There are copyright issues, pretty much to the degree of John Williams - though that may change now with MJ's death, since he owned a huge chunk of the library. I'm pretty sure he sold this asset some years ago to pay for lawyers so he could touch little boys and not go to jail...alledgedly. But seriously, I'm pretty sure he sold them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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