uberbelly: Pop music from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Submitted by uberbelly on Fri, 2008-08-01 19:56.
Terry McBride and Nettwerk...Internet visionary or schoolyard Bully?
Yesterday I received an email from my friend David Gratton of Project Opus Technologies (also known as www.projectopus.com). It contained a cease and desist order from Nettwerks’ lawyers demanding two songs, Captive and Temptation, be immediately removed from my Project Opus web-page. Now these two songs were co-written and recorded 20 years ago with Sarah McLachlan and I had them uploaded and available for streaming from my Project Opus page. They were just part of my ‘archive’ of old songs that I wrote and played bass guitar on. Now, I co-wrote these two songs so you would think that I had/have the right to post these songs on my web-pages such as Opus and MySpace BUT think again!
Submitted by uberbelly on Sun, 2008-07-20 12:00. (from uberblog)
So, what do you do after your first heart attack?You heard me right...I just turned 44 years old and had my first heart attack (not that I'm hoping for a second one!). Well, actually it was more of an angina attack, my heart didn't actually stop but I can tell you it definately wasn't a pleasant experience.So let me explain a little bit...less than a month ago I had an experience where I was just walking up the hill heading home from Vancouver's Wreck Beach. It's quite a steep hill but I've done ...
Submitted by uberbelly on Fri, 2008-06-06 13:10. (from uberblog)
Hockey fans might have heard that the CBC has decided to change the theme song to Hockey Night In Canada. Wow, to Canadians that's like changing our National Anthem to a Nickleback song! It would SUCK!Anyway, here's some HNIC composer trivia...Most of us should remember a Vancouver band called MOEVThe original line-up was Mark Jowett (from Nettwerk), Cal Stephenson, Tom Ferris and a sublime vocalist by the name of Madeleine Morris.Well guess who Madeleine's mother is? None other than Dolore ...
