RE: Safe (from Harm)

Elson Trinidad
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:07:04 -0800


At 04:00 PM 3/19/98 +0000, Matt Mullen wrote:


>>I know that when The Verve did Bitter Sweet Symphony, the orchestral bit
>>is from a classical version of the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time"
>>performed by the Loog-Oldham orchestra.

>Mind you....The Verve used the sample without permission and were pretty
>powerless to stop Alan Klein (the owner of the copwrite) asking for 100% of
>the publishing royalties. Must amount to a great deal of money....

Wow, that's news to me. I also heard this ambient/trip hop track on the
radio that also sampled the "Bittersweet Symphony" string section... The DJ
mixed it in pretty seamlessly from a remix of the Verve tune, and said the
people who did the second tune sampled it from The Verve...

Hmmm.... so if you sample from a sample, who takes the credit?

Elson

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