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Tom, Thanks For Not Suing The Chili Peppers!!

June 29, 2006 by Jim Connelly

An Open Letter To Tom Petty,

Tom, you still don’t know me, but earlier this month I asked you to not sue the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their purported plagarism of your song “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.”

And once again, you’ve provided another example of your ongoing menschdom (menschiosity? menschitude?) by telling Rolling Stone that suing is the furthest thing from your mind:

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Filed Under: Copyright, Music Tagged With: lawsuits, Music, Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers, Rolling-Stone, Tom-Petty

Un-Spun

June 17, 2006 by Jim Connelly

I just want to take this opportunity to say goodbye to Spin, a magazine that I have read faithfully for two decades. My subscription lapses in a couple of months, and for the first time in probably that entire two decades, I have no interest in re-upping.

Not because I’ve rejected flesh-and-blood magazines for the pleasures of the online world, either: my life still has plenty of spaces for the physical reading experience, especially that of the magazine. It’s something else entirely. You see, Spin has reinvented itself . . . as Blender 2.0.

Sigh.

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Filed Under: Music, Publishing Tagged With: Blender, magazines, Rolling-Stone, Spin

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