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June 05, 2005

Nostalgia Via King

King Banaian at SCSU Scholars took a run at my last post - and raised me a topic:

First and last songs I played with bands for money -- first was "Just What I Needed" by the Cars, and last was "Johnny B. Goode". The band had already found another bassist, so I walked the stage and played every instrument and sang it, concluding with setting the bass on fire a la Hendrix. (It was a very junky bass -- I had already sold the rest of the instruments to finance grad school.) That last was on a deck overlooking a lake for a house party with about eight boats moored off the dock with people partying.
First song I ever played for money? Hmmm. The first song my band in high school, "Blitz" - with the Gallagher Brothers and Dan Sad - ever played for money was...um...I think it was Johnny B. Goode, at a junior high dance at the Canteen in Jamestown. The last was at the Turf Club in 1996, with my last band, "the Supreme Soviet Of Love" (a name I fully intend to use again; consider it copywrited); it was either Richard Thompson's "Shoot Out The Lights" or my own "Great Northern Avenue", I can't remember.
Question to the others: Where were you when you first heard "Year of the Cat"?
Sitting in the corner of my room, switching between homework and the guitar.

Posted by Mitch at June 5, 2005 09:50 PM | TrackBack
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"...consider it copywrited...."

That's a trademark; it's almost certainly not copyrightable. If you are serious about protecting it, you might want to talk to an intellectual property lawyer. (I am definitely no sort of lawyer.)

In my limited understanding of the issue, to protect a common-law trademark you need to continue to trade under that name. This is complicated by the fact that trademarks are industry-specific. I suspect that trying to sell band-related merchandise would help your claim.

I repeat, I am not a lawyer, if you are serious, talk to one.

Posted by: Doug Sundseth at June 6, 2005 01:08 PM
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