tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36821162011-07-14T17:36:25.172-04:00Stoned Out LoudAs the Rolling Stones began their tour while welching on the more than quarter of a million dollar deal they made with my Friend, I started this e-Blogazine journal to document some of my experience of the fallout, and to create a forum for discussion and resources to reform the Music Industry. May Artists, Musicians, and Free People everywhere find it useful.d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-89209851720724211512008-11-01T12:30:00.006-04:002008-11-01T12:57:40.175-04:00Scribal Thrum - Rewriting the Social Contract Amid the Collapses of Disaster CapitalismI have moved to a new Blog at Wordpress, Scribal Thrum.It was inspired by Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine.There's a video of her discussing the current economic collapse with Bill Maher here.Cheers, -dcmd.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-1127410708076928172005-09-22T13:17:00.000-04:002005-09-22T13:47:47.180-04:00IPOD Maker Calls Music Bosses "Greedy"IPOD impressario Steve Jobs said of the music industry recently, "If they want to raise the prices, it means that they are getting greedy...".This item shows significant disagreement among industry heads about whether to raise prices for downloaded music now, or later. Either way, it won't matter. We'll be using Shareaza, the best most incredible GPL Spyware-free P2P idea sharing software ever d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-1127152932397204162005-09-19T13:34:00.000-04:002005-09-19T14:02:12.576-04:00Artists Detail How To Defeat Copy Protected CDsAccording to this item from Slashdot, Sony shipped Switchfoot's new CD "Nothing is Sound" with copy protection, enraging thousands of IPod Users. The Band offers these instructions for getting around this and ripping their CD onto PC's.Here's what Tim Foreman said:Hello friends,my heart is heavy with this whole copy-protection thing. Many PC users have posted problems that they have had d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-903902692003-02-28T15:09:00.000-05:002005-09-19T15:39:49.536-04:00Electronic Economy - Just Getting Started"There is no Maginot Line of the brain." - Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics Quite by accident I found this story while seaching for links to the Democracy Wall, to which we are giving a makeover. The altavista search was for "links:http://books.dreambook.com/vead/tiananmen.html", and this link was on page 2 of the results.Actually, this article was extracted from a submission to an O'Reilly P2P d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-903630332003-02-23T12:52:00.000-05:002003-02-23T13:10:53.000-05:00Musicians in China Don't Count on CopyrightChina and the music industry sans copyright Infoanarchy has this item from the International Herald Tribune (IHT) about China and music piracy. The IHT piece reminds me of my days as an army journalist: Decide what story you want to write, then assign a reporter to go out and get the quotes to support it. The slant is negative, and is obviously designed as an RIAA/Asia-Warner puff-piece d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-903327182003-02-16T23:45:00.000-05:002003-02-17T01:18:30.000-05:00Snyders to Industry: "If you can't give it away, you certainly can't sell it"Embrace File Sharing or Die - John and Ben Snyder
One of the most powerful, comprehensive, and well articulated articles I have seen recently on the reasons that lead to the ultimate triumph of file sharing is John and Ben Snyder's "Embrace File Sharing or Die". Snyder is president of Artist House Records, a board member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and a 32d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-902752322003-02-04T09:29:00.000-05:002003-02-04T13:31:57.000-05:00Stoned Out Loud Exits Blogspot : Cites Archive IssuesThis is the final update to the blogspot mirror of Stoned Out Loud. The reason is the archive problem. After several letters last fall to Blogger, E.V., Pyra, and Public Mind, they are still fsck'd up.Blogger is Great! It makes it easy to publish to the web. But the API doesn't seem fully baked. So I have to shop for a new interface.Sorry.Further updates will be published to the commercially d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-902693232003-02-03T03:58:00.000-05:002003-02-03T05:56:14.000-05:00Fair Use P2P Backup Communities : Unite the Cows!Unite The Cows: Swapping Value-Add Acoustic Envelopes Among FriendsFair Use P2P Backup Communities Building new Forrms and Forums of Community by making special compilations will never stop, not so long as there is a heart beating in the soul of Man. Here's an evolutionary way to take that next step: Join a mixing Community. You get to share Your favorite mixes, and be exposed to some People d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-901999272003-01-17T16:24:00.000-05:002003-01-17T17:23:52.000-05:00Fair Trade Music Public License (FPL) - L.Davie The End of the Superstar Machine:
A Proposal for Reforming the Music Industry
by Loren Davie
We see a lot about the music industry in the news these days. Legal battles about online filesharing, dropping revenues and the seeming inability of the recording industry to create new memorable Artists fill the news. There seems to be a lot of hysteria, but not a lot of
information on the d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-901998232003-01-17T15:58:00.000-05:002003-01-17T16:04:05.000-05:00SOL Resumes UpdatesStoned Out Loud Resumes UpdatesStoned Out Loud will now resume publishing updates.
None have been done since September 22, mainly because the publisher and staff have
to make a living, and this site does not pay the bills. I am going to try to make an update
every week or two, at this point.
We still want Your opinions and articles. Here is an one contributed by Loren Davie
of d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854777152002-09-22T00:23:00.000-04:002003-02-17T02:06:59.000-05:00First Amendment := P2P
MusicPundit Debate on P2P Musician Opportunity
Recently I was in a discussion over at MusicPundit about Napster's demise.
I let out a pretty good rant, published in it's entirety below.
What got me going was the following comment:
"So, the shuttering of Napster has left independent artists with no way to make
music, no way to promote it, no way to sell it? ... You're apparently 17, and d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854584932002-09-17T03:20:00.000-04:002002-09-17T03:24:04.000-04:00Embrace and Drown? Microsoft proposes flooding p2p networks with contentIBC experts find Hollywood it's own worst enemyIn a story headlined "Studios not pirates are the digital rights challenge, says IBC panel" David Benjamin, a Paris-based freelance writer, reports a few interesting quotes at a recent contentious meeting of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) convened in Amsterdam.From a Video-on-Demand company: "Technology is not the problem. It's the d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854545802002-09-16T04:52:00.000-04:002002-09-16T05:29:14.000-04:00Declaration of Independence - February 8, 1996 - Davos, Switzerland
A Cyberspace Independence Declaration "By" A ManNote: This article has it's own page for linking, which includes some introductory words from the Publisher. Just Click on the image (new window) or URL link above (same window). -g.moss
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:16:35 +0100To: barlow@eff.orgFrom: John Perry Barlow Subject: A Cyberspace Independence d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854470332002-09-13T11:52:00.000-04:002002-09-13T11:52:28.760-04:00September 11, 2001 - In MemoriamLink to 911 Anniversary PageIn case anybody wants to see the September 11 memorial gif animation again, it's located at http://www.stoned-out-loud.com/911.html
d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854440342002-09-12T17:14:00.000-04:002002-09-12T17:25:58.000-04:00Madster sues RIAA for damages - Bankruptcy Court Issues Injunction"I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight" -Johnny Deep, Madster President and Founder Johnny Deep, creator of AIMster and Madster, can be added to the list of those illustrious innovators (like Shawn Fanning of Napster fame) whose genius made them a target of the WTO's (World Trade Organisation) entertainment department, the RIAA/MPAA.But Deep will not go gently into that good night. He's fighting back.d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854336922002-09-10T10:06:00.000-04:002002-09-10T10:10:00.000-04:00From "Napster was Here" to "Work in Progress?" Rev.2What's going on at Napster?I don't have a clue. The other day, a posting at GrepLaw noted that a Judge had blocked the sale of Napster and assets to Bertelsman. When I saw that, I wandered over to http://www.napster.com, only to be greeted with the somber single, linkless page that proclaimed "Napster was here." Now all that has changed. Today's visit revealed the above graphic (altered here d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854266042002-09-08T11:23:00.000-04:002002-09-08T16:09:12.000-04:00Madster Reports Consumers, Artists Now Distrust Big MediaMadster runs a Killer BlogThe other day I was browsing around Greplaw, and spotted an interesting item entitled "Judge Rules Against Aimster". It says "a Northern Illinois District Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the RIAA against Aimster (now known as Madster)," and points to a story described in InfoWorld. The Greplaw item continued, "the judge thinks that Aimsterd.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854264012002-09-08T08:55:00.000-04:002003-03-10T02:24:48.000-05:00DotCommunist Reports 500% Annual Revenue GrowthReading between the Bottom LinesIn a recent news release, "Dot.Communist reports 200% growth in monthly traffic year-to-year, and 500% annual revenue growth for FY 2002."I guess the internet economy is ready to take off again.
d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854262232002-09-08T06:08:00.000-04:002002-09-08T08:40:46.000-04:00SC Sen. Hollings wants a Cop in Your PC"We are committed to protecting your intellectual property...but we are not committed to protecting your business model." --ITIC President Rhett Dawson to MPAA LobbyistSouth Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings (not Green, not Libertarian, not Republican), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, has circulated a legislative draft that has come to be known as "the Hollings d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854076492002-09-03T04:21:00.000-04:002002-09-03T21:00:23.000-04:00Internet Radio is Going to Die...Unless You Do SomethingWouldn't it be nice to choose a few tunes while You're here?Well, You can't.At least, not yet. I thought about webRadio-enabling Stoned Out Loud. I'd like to have a little drop-down listbox, and Visitors could then choose a station, and enjoy some tunes while they're here, streamed live from their favorite internet radio station.I found out it's not that simple. The RIAA is out to kill d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854074892002-09-03T02:43:00.000-04:002002-09-03T02:50:09.000-04:00Rocky Ramirez: Internet piracy increases word of mouth, competitionRocky Ramirez has written an excellent editorialUniversitydaily.net, the online news organ of Texas Tech, ran this editorial August 29 by Rocky Ramirez.LUBBOCK, Texas -- We have all heard the propaganda. They say piracy is killing music.
You might remember the touching little video Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich put together for the MTV Video Music Awards (or was it the Movie Awards?) a couple ofd.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854022142002-09-01T03:56:00.000-04:002002-09-01T04:27:04.000-04:00Has the Entertainment Industry Bought Your Congressman? Look it Up.OpenSecrets Blabs All Ever wanted to find out just who is donating money to Your Congressman? The Center for Responsive Politics has a site called opensecrets.org that has an exellent search page You can use to find out.The Center is "a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy." (from their "d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-854019502002-08-31T23:15:00.000-04:002002-09-01T09:44:58.000-04:00Gilmor's "Activists take on Hollywood cartel" Article of Note on Stoned Out LoudNC Congressional Candidate Tara Grubb opposes Entertainment CartelThis week's Article of Note is a piece Mercury News reporter Dan Gillmor did last Sunday about the growing movement of ordinary Americans who oppose the restrictions Congress is considering placing on our digital Freedom. In it, Gillmor discusses Tara Grubb's run for Congress in North Carolina (my Home state), and the power of Webd.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853971052002-08-30T09:23:00.000-04:002002-08-30T09:56:35.000-04:00When Is a Contract Not a Contract? - "My Say" discussed at GrepLawCheated Contractor's Alternatives Discussed Our Publisher has been engaged in a discussion over at GrepLaw about Delene Garafano's possible options to getting paid for her time since March, and the expenses she has incurred in working for Mike "Mick" Decaro and the Rolling Stones.Here's a bit of the discussion.One Person said,"There is nothing wrong with an oral contract.... She should sue for d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853930332002-08-29T06:34:00.000-04:002002-08-29T07:49:08.000-04:00Tit-for-Tat? RIAA Site Hacked after Contractor admits spreading bogus MP3sWho Calls for a Cease Fire?Wednesday the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) web site home page was replace by this version, in an escalating cycle of madness perhaps sparked after the Washington Post reported "at least one company acknowledges that it has been hired to distribute [bogus MP3] spoofs [throughout p2p file sharing services like Gnutella] as digested earlier on Stoned d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853929312002-08-29T05:07:00.000-04:002002-08-29T05:10:34.000-04:00When Is A Contract Not A Contract? Greplaw takes note.Garafano's "Working" for the Stones" article "My Say" noted at HarvardOnce more, Stoned Out Loud has published a contributed article of interest to the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Intenet and Society. Their discussion site GrepLaw yesterday accepted Delene Garafano's article My Say -"Working" for Mike Decaro and the Rolling Stones for inclusion in their news articles.The Berkman d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-802726072002-08-29T03:00:00.000-04:002002-08-29T04:20:06.000-04:00Who do You want to Petition Today? Democracy You can UseOnline Petitions. Free.at Petition Online. Online Democracy is proceeding apace. (I registered the trade name EDEN - Electronic Democracy Now in the town of East Lyme in the village of Niantic, Connecticut back in 1978 or 79, right when I got out of the Service. (grin))You know, Jim Morrison said on the "Soft Parade" album, "You Cannot Petition the Lord with Prayer!"Even so, we sure as hell d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853849752002-08-27T01:21:00.000-04:002002-08-27T01:56:14.000-04:00StonesTour Fraud 15: My Say - "Working" for the Rolling Stones(editor's note: This article with complete background url history, and a letter from the Author, is in our articles section at http://www.stoned-out-loud.com/articles/article-garafano-mysay.html The RSS v0.91 newsfeed is located at http://www.stoned-out-loud.com/stoned-out-loud.xml. -g.moss)
My Say"Working" for Mike Decaro and the Rolling StonesBy Delene J. Garafano(C)Copyright 2002 Delene d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853793022002-08-25T06:51:00.000-04:002002-08-25T17:33:36.000-04:00Bad MP3's : Music Industry Spams Servers with SpoofsClog the Servers and Subvert the NetworkDamn the Constitution: Full speed ahead!The Music industry is now set on spamming file sharing services with damaged, munged, polluted, or otherwise deflicted mp3 files in an effort to discourage, if not thwart potential file sharing. The Washington Post did a pretty good article about it August 20. Here's an excerpt:
...in recent weeks, scads of "spoof"d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853792412002-08-25T05:34:00.000-04:002002-08-25T05:50:59.000-04:00Janis Ian on file sharing and the Recording IndustryJanis Ian Interview at SJMN
In an Aug. 22 interview with Dawn C. Chmielewski at siliconvalley.com (SV), Musician Janis Ian (who wrote two of the "Articles of Note" linked from the box at the left of this page) spoke about file sharing, music downloading, and the events of the past few months.
In case You haven't a chance to visit the story, here's a bit of what it says.
"In a commentary d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853770202002-08-24T03:54:00.000-04:002002-08-24T06:36:34.000-04:00Yahoo "gets Stoned" Out Loud from Harvard LawGrepLaw.orgGrepLaw.org, a Berkman Center for Society and Internet production of Harvard Law School (whose motto is "Geeks. Laws. Everything In Between."), gave a positive review of John Perry Barlow's article "Slouching Towards Hollywood" ( -archive -article ), saying it was a "Great read. A manifesto for the emerging digital future."I checked out their site. They're using slashcode (the d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853742092002-08-23T08:49:00.000-04:002002-08-23T09:20:24.000-04:00Analyse Your Privacy on the Web: GhostSurf and Privacy.netJust how much information do they get on what I'm doing?
Good question.
One issue related to sharing our Music together in this great big room of the web is Individual Privacy. Those ad banners and hit counters, and even "invisible" single-dot images that don't even appear to the naked eye can tell advertisers and potential spammers and stalkers tons of private, personal data about You, where d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853729902002-08-22T21:50:00.000-04:002002-08-26T13:17:17.000-04:00Free Email and Browser - Linux and Windows versions of ChazBrowza now availableChazBrowza Downloads now Available:
Windows - ChazBrowzaWin32605.exe is v0.01 - no skins included, English only
Download: 3602180 Aug 21 08:08 ChazBrowzaWin32605.exe
Windows - ChazBrowzaWin_v0.02_en_32671.exe - actually includes about 3 mb of skins, and support for English, German, French, and TagologAs You can see, it's a little over 6mb. Download: 6225473 Aug 21 10:52 d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853680252002-08-21T15:03:00.000-04:002002-08-21T15:03:18.766-04:00ChazBrowza! Stoned Out Loud offers a Free Browser with EmailGet the Free Stoned Out Loud Browser-Email: ChazBrowza!
Alert! Stoned Out Loud now has it's own Browser with Email, Chazbrowza ( a branded and customised version of Opera 6.05). Windows Users can get their FREE download from our Sister organisation, StonedOutLoud.org. Download from http://www.stoned-out-loud.org/download/ChazBrowzaWin_v0.02_en_32671.exe . Linux versions should be online by d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853678262002-08-21T14:11:00.000-04:002002-08-21T14:11:10.320-04:00Napster and the Death of the Music Industry - John Perry BarlowNapster and the Death of the Music Industry - John Perry BarlowI finally got to prepare this article last night for publication here, so after an absence of some months, it is now back on the web. Originally it appeared on Technocrat.net (now on hiatus...but it'll re-emerge I would surmise, what with publisher Bruce Perens leaving HP for what the pundits have variously termed "politics" and "a d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853616832002-08-20T00:24:00.000-04:002002-08-20T00:24:08.780-04:00RMS has some tasty links
Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has one hell of a set of links on his page.RMS is the Founder of the Free Software Foundation, the Gnu Project (without which we would not have the Gnu Public License (GPL) or Linux), and the George Washington of Open, Transparent Code, and I hold him in the highest regard. If it were not for his doing a lot of the unglamourous coding and grunt work that goes along d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853615702002-08-19T23:46:00.000-04:002002-08-19T23:46:32.910-04:00Oscillation - stoned-out.blogspot.com vs stoned-out-loud.blogspot.comWhere are we this publication cycle?I don't know. Used to be, before I upgraded, I could publish reliably to One Place, and that place was aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-stoned-dash-out-dot-blogspot-dot-com. (http://stoned-out.blogspot.com).Then when I upgraded, the bloggerPro software suddenly began insisting that someone else was there. So I picked / chose to publish to d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-853612122002-08-19T21:43:00.000-04:002002-08-19T23:20:09.000-04:00Stoned Out Loud Updates Look, UseabilityNo doubt You may notice a few changes to Stoned Out Loud. If this is Your first time here (and that's more likely than not, the way we've been growing :-) ), here's a quick synopsis of the changes made over the weekend. - Now I have a template for articles.The first article published using this template is J.P.Barlow's "Slouching Towards Hollywood." It is now linked to it in several places:....d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-802397802002-08-14T22:07:00.000-04:002002-08-19T20:09:38.000-04:00Slouching Towards Hollywood: Creative Livelihood in an Economy of Verbs - John Perry Barlow Slouching Towards Hollywood
Editors Note: This article has been placed in our articles section, here.
On Wednesday (8-14) morning Stoned Out Loud's publisher emailed John Perry Barlow, co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of "Napster.com and the Death of the Music Business", asking permission to reprint it as it appeared on Technocrat.net (Technocrat has d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-801847762002-08-13T10:07:00.000-04:002002-08-26T22:22:08.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 14 - My Say prelude; IronyIrony
Here's a bit of Irony for You. In today's Time "Person of the Week" column, appearing in the new newsticker at the left, just below the Main Item in the "Verbatim" section in Time's piece, is Keith Richard's controversial remark made earlier this week.
"It's a paltry honor. He's joining the brownnoses. I said, 'Hold out for the lordship, mate.'"
KEITH RICHARDS,
d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-801321632002-08-12T06:20:00.000-04:002002-08-26T22:33:42.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 13 - My Say prelude; Mikey gets his siteMikey gets his site
Yesterday and last night was a turbulent day with Delene and Mike. He called last night late and whined at her over non performance about deliverables, while she grew increasingly impatient with his excuses about why she could not be paid, nor be allowed to have the tools or information to accomplish what he seems to be demanding.
I'm under the impression that Mike Decarod.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-801274602002-08-12T02:24:00.000-04:002002-08-12T02:37:24.000-04:00Stoned Out Loud Goes Live!
As of sometime this evening EST, Stoned Out Loud has gone live on a commercially hosted server! We are hosting with Michal Wallace's most excellent Cornerhost.com, and can now be accessed (for the moment) free of ad banners. So now, in addition to stoned-out.blogspot.com and stoned-out-loud.tripod.com, You can reach us at
http://www.stoned-out-loud.com ,
or if d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-800978782002-08-11T09:25:00.000-04:002002-08-26T22:15:31.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 12 - My Say prelude; "I don't care either way." -"Mick" Decaro"Unless You are a contractor for the Rolling Stones..." Links and Late Night Calls
For those who didn't visit the site linked from the words "Unless You are a contractor for the Rolling Stones," at the bottom of False Hopes and Bad PIN Numbers, here is what You would have found there (from google groups, a usenet posting to alt.rock-n-roll.stones he made on December 14, 1999, responding to d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-800716542002-08-10T14:09:00.000-04:002002-08-26T22:06:59.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 11 - My Say prelude; False Hopes and Bad PIN NumbersFalse Hopes and Bad PIN NumbersA little over a week ago "Mick" had Delene come down so he could give her some cash to keep going on the site. But as usual, it was the runaround again. I think he missed hooking her up with a radio station guy because either the guy couldn't come down or something, I can't recall exactly. But I do remember she mentioned that he had promised her $5000 cash when d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-800252452002-08-09T09:28:00.000-04:002002-08-26T21:15:31.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 10 - My Say prelude; "I've never paid for nothin' in my life..." "I never paid for nothin' in my life and that'll be on my gravestone" - Mike "Mick" DecaroLate Wednesday night Delene got another call from "Mick".
He was unusually lucid and calm. He began casually, as though there had never been any tension between them, as old friends might talk. First, he told her about his trip to the City.
I found out about this quite by accident...Delene was working d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-799347062002-08-07T09:15:00.000-04:002002-08-26T21:05:24.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 9 - My Say prelude; "He won't call here today.""He won't call here today."When Delene was down there working on the WAAF contest questions, she offerred to go into NY to Raindrop's offices and Jane Rose's office where the contract is supposedly awaiting her inspection and signature. Again Mike Decaro put her off for the umpteenth time. As I said before, every time Delene asks to be paid for her time, there is always some excuse.
Welcome tod.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-799340702002-08-07T08:53:00.000-04:002002-08-26T20:59:13.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 8 - My Say prelude; Manual Spell Checking for Idiots with MS-WordManual Spell Checking for Idiots with MS-WordBtw, before I forget, the day after Trooper Trott's visit Delene went down to Mick's to work on the contest questions...WAAF is running a contest to award some lucky fan a concert nite with the stones themselves. She slept on the Decaro's couch overnite, spell-checked his questions (idiot-stick Mick claims his MS-Word installation won't let it send d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-799333392002-08-07T08:24:00.000-04:002002-08-26T20:55:49.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 7 - My Say prelude; InterludeInterlude
"Mick" just called again tonite at 4am. Delene was in bed asleep like most normal People. I was up working on the web like the geek I am. I told him this was much too late to call, and just hung up and turned-off the ringer.
I guess I don't need to tell You, You've probably guessed by now: Mick Decaro has been told at least 842 times in the last 4 months not to call after normal d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-799329272002-08-07T08:05:00.000-04:002002-08-26T20:50:25.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 6 - My Say prelude; A False ReportA False ReportThree nites before I called the Police, Delene and I were watching a movie on DVD. I think it was The Fifth Element, one of my favourites. Anyway, Mick called about 3 minutes into it (we didn't sit down to start watching it until after 10:30pm as I recall). Delene told him, basically, that she was busy, but would call him in the morning. Mick wouldn't let it go at that. Of d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-799320832002-08-07T07:22:00.000-04:002002-08-26T20:46:02.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 5 - My Say prelude; Patience Runs OutPatience Runs OutAnyway Delene came in as the Trooper was trying to get Mike's attention without much success. He was able to get him to pause (by banging the receiver on the table again) long enough to tell him that she had just come in, but that he would not put her on the phone because here hands were full (they were) and that she would call him when she got situated.Decaro continued to d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-798178632002-08-04T17:49:00.000-04:002002-08-27T00:43:23.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 4 - My Say prelude; A Growing DisbeliefA Growing DisbeliefThe Connecticut State Trooper stood in my living room, staring into the speakerphone in growing disbelief. As he listened to Mike Decaro's idiotic self-important mixture of threats and assertions and maunderings, he looked at me. "This guy must be on drugs." I explained Mike's medication ingestion to the best of my knowledge, a certain maintenance program.When he had heard d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-798153352002-08-04T16:21:00.000-04:002002-08-27T00:41:57.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 3 - My Say prelude; Police at My Home IIPolice at my Home IISo, why were the Police at my house? As I said, I asked them to come because of his harassing me on the phone, invading the peace and quiet of my home, disturbing me while I was working on something.You see, it's because Mike Decaro has not cultivated his listening skills. He is much too busy enjoying the sound of his own voice, usually going on and on about how important d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-798128592002-08-04T14:55:00.000-04:002002-08-27T00:40:51.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 2 - My Say prelude; Beast of BurdenBeast of Burden
Yes, again. You see, it's my housemate, Delene.She met this MikeDecaro fellow a few months ago. He says he works for the Rolling Stones. He offerred her a good amount of money for her time. He wants her to help him sell things. What things?Himself, mostly. Rolling Stones memorabilia actually.
Pie in the SkyDelene has Multiple Sclerosis (but she doesn't let it stop her from d.manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17689941113123201413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682116.post-798008402002-08-04T04:02:00.000-04:002002-09-03T11:04:08.000-04:00Stones Tour Fraud 1 - prelude to My Say; Police at My HomePolice at My HomeThe Police were at my house tonite.I asked them to come. Mike Decaro was harassing me on the phone.Again.
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