From Tom Millar Sent Wed, Jun 9th 1999, 06:05
From Tom Millar Sent Wed, Jun 9th 1999, 06:05
Actually, one of the reasons you don't hear very many James Brown breaks is because of the massive royalties associated with them, including the "Funky Drummer" sample. After that break blew up, the lawyers went crazy tracking down those who hadn't cleared it, apparently, and since then people have kind of avoided JB's beats. I mean there's plenty of decent stuff out there you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for, so why bother with JB's lawyers? Kind of a shame. Tom