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Gazza |
February 02, 2003
Restless native: Bootleggers get no satisfaction
Allan Brown
You may know that Glasgow’s Barras market does a roaring trade in bootlegged CDs and computer software. If two neds with an Apple Mac can copy something, they will and they offer the results at a fraction of the retail price. Strathclyde’s finest are much troubled by this black market but their attempts at prohibition are continually foiled by the wily stratagems employed by Glasgow’s grubby Kulak class. Ironic, then, that their job is now being done for them by Keith Richards, right, the lawless guitarist of the Rolling Stones. This story comes to us via Alan McGee, the rock mogul commonly credited with having discovered Oasis.
McGee was recently in Glasgow to host one of his Death Disco club nights at Barfly, accompanied by BP Fallon, a music biz mover and shaker once employed (or so his biography claims) as Paul McCartney’s drug taster. The morning after, McGee decided that a visit to the Barras would be the very thing. He and Fallon browsed the stalls and happened on one selling home-made music CDs. Fallon picked up fake copy of Forty Licks, the new Rolling Stones compilation, and pointed it out to the toothless woman behind the counter. Naturally, the toothless crone indicated a lack of interest.
There was nothing else for it, Fallon took out his mobile and rang his mate Richards. He told the guitarist that forged copies of his life’s work were available on the streets of Glasgow at a fiver a throw. Richards demanded to speak with the vendor. He then harangued the stallholder to the effect that theft was really bad karma. Just be cool and stop ripping me off, he advised. She said that, as the song said, this would be the Last Time. Do we believe her, boys and girls?
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Angiegirl |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Do people get bored already?
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