The Music Industry is full of promisers with promises that can’t be fulfilled. This is not an old guy’s problem nor something that only affected musicians from a long time ago. This is still an ongoing problem and those who do not learn about the history of music are doomed to fall into the same trap.
Imagine this: A local little band from a small town plays covers for a living. Then several people, including Roy Orbison, encourage them to start writing their own songs which turn out to be pretty darn good. The band starts picking up a following, decides to get themselves a manager, an agent, and to seek out a record deal. No problem, right? Wrong!!!
What: Mr. Soocher will speak about the legal pitfalls of the Music Business
When: Saturday, March 5th
Where: The Taos Room, Ramada Inn, East Colfax and Marion
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE!!!
All ages, too.
You can park in the hotel’s parking lot for free but be sure to get a pass from COMBO or you’ll be in trouble! You can also park on the street but metered parking is NOT FREE on Saturdays.
Stan Soocher’s “Baby You’re a Rich Man” Uncovers New Scoops About the Beatles’ Music, Personal and Business Disputes
The Beatles have been the subject of countless books – but none like attorney/award-winning journalist Stan Soocher’s new book, Baby You’re a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun & Profit (ForeEdge/University Press of New England).
Part Beatles history, part legal thriller, Baby You’re a Rich Man delivers a fascinating, inside look at key court battles that shaped the Beatles’ music, their personal lives and business ventures. “My goal was to place readers right in the center of the action,” Soocher said, “from backroom negotiations to detectives chasing the Beatles through concert halls and hotels with lawsuit summonses, to eye-opening courtroom scenes that revealed the band members’ inner thoughts about who they were and what their music meant to them.”
Through extensive research into rare court documents and from fresh interviews, Soocher has uncovered significant new information about the most popular group in music history. The book takes a look at everything from early legal problems over Beatlemania merchandise to relationships with the band’s first fully dedicated manager, Brian Epstein, and notorious last manager Allen Klein, Paul McCartney’s lawsuit to break up the Beatles, John Lennon’s immigration fight to become a U.S. citizen, and song copyright-infringement suits filed against Lennon over “Come Together” and George Harrison over “My Sweet Lord.”
Baby You’re a Rich Man begins in the era when Epstein opened the Pandora’s box of rock ‘n’ roll merchandising, making a hash of the band’s licensing and inviting multiple lawsuits in the United States and the United Kingdom. The band’s long breakup period, from 1969 to 1971, provides a backdrop to the Machiavellian grasping of new manager Klein, who unleashed a blizzard of suits and legal motions to take control of the band, their music and Apple Records. Unsavory mob associate Morris Levy first sued John Lennon for copyright infringement over “Come Together,” then sued him again for not making a record for him. Phil Spector, hired to record a Lennon solo album, walked off with the master tapes and held them for a king’s ransom. And from 1972 to 1975, Lennon was the target of a deportation campaign personally spearheaded by key aides of President Nixon (prodded on by a drug-addled Elvis Presley) that wound endlessly through the courts.
In all, what emerges from Baby You’re a Rich Man is a stirring portrait of immense creative talent thriving under the pressures of ill will, harassment and greed.
Stan Soocher is an entertainment attorney and the long-time Editor-in-Chief of the publication Entertainment Law & Finance. He is also Associate Professor of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado’s Denver Campus. In addition, Soocher has won national journalism awards for his music law articles in Rolling Stone and The National Law Journal, and is the recipient of the “Texas Star Award” from the State Bar of Texas. He previously authored the book They Fought the Law: Rock Music Goes to Court. His website is www.stansoocher.com.
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SKANSON & HANSEN CONCERT AT AMERICAN CLASSIC PIANO
Skanson & Hansen doing amazing acoustic guitar covers of Beatles classics. Warren of American Classic Piano will be sitting in with his crazy percussion sideman set-up.
Then, the next week, Skanson & Hansen will head to Abbey Road Studios in London to record this same music. How cool is that?!
When: Friday, March 4th
Where: American Classic Piano, 2005 Dallas Street, Aurora 80010*
Cost: Dinner, drinks, dessert, and a show for only $30. Can’t “Beat” that deal.
Time: 6:30 p.m. until the party is over!
We expect to sell out (only 60 seats) so there will be no “at the door” option. Get ‘em while you can!
Call or email me with credit card info or you can send a check to:
American Classic Piano
3104 W Jefferson Ave
Sheridan CO 80110*
*Note that mailing address and venue address are different.
Holly
http://americanclassicpiano.com
Holly @ office – (303) 761-6858
“Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.” – J.M. Barrie (Author of Peter Pan)
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SAVE THE MUSIC! AN EVENING OF JAZZ, WINE & EATS – THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th
Castle Pines, CO – Not all elementary students can afford music instruction or the instruments needed to learn. An energizing evening of rock, jazz and classical music provided by local elementary students and Colorado Chamber Orchestra professionals is set to raise funds to support those students on Friday, February 26th at 5:30-6:30 pm for children and their parents and 7:15-9:00 pm for a more adult experience at the Castle Pines Community Center in Castle Pines, CO.
The Colorado Chamber Orchestra’s Educational Outreach program provides elementary band and orchestra classes before and after-school throughout Douglas County encompassing six high school articulation areas and growing. Music instruction helps increase many educational disciplines including math and reading as well as instill a tremendous sense of self-worth and accomplishment. It also provides an emotional, artistic, and creative outlet. Even in wealthier districts such as Douglas County there are many families who cannot afford these classes or the instruments. About 10% of students enrolled are in need of financial assistance (and are also participating in the federal free/reduced lunch program).
SAVE THE MUSIC Evening of Music for Children and Parents at 5:30 pm and the SAVE THE MUSIC Evening of Music & Wine for Adults at 7:15 pm are designed to raise the much needed funds so that no student is musically left behind.
There will be light refreshments for each event. The Adult event will also feature served wine and appetizers in addition to a “Wine Pull” optional fundraiser: an additional $20 donation will allow adults to pull a number to a corresponding bottle of mystery wine holding a value between $15-$50! (These bottles cannot be consumed on the event premise). The cost per ticket is $10 each for the Children’s event and $60 each for the Adult event. The music selection will be fun and exhilarating: From Led Zepplin’s Kashmir to jazz to classical, the selections will be diverse!
When: Friday, February 26th
Where: Daniels Gate Clubhouse, 6450 Daniels Gate Road, Castle Pines, 80108 (just West of I-25 in Castle Pines, CO)
Times: Children’s Event: 5:30 p.m. | Adults: 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Cost: $10; Adult Event: $60 for one person; $110 for two.
Musical Acts not to be missed!
• CCO’s program graduate & current HS student Fionn Cool to perform Blue Bossa
• Child prodigy and current student Emma Spears to perform a piece she wrote for orchestra along with members of the Douglas County Youth Orchestra
• Top-notch, professional jazz artists Hank Troy, Ron Bland and Thomas Blomster
Eat, Drink and be Merry!
• Wine and delicious appetizers •optional “wine pull”, An additional $25 donation will allow guests to pull a number to a corresponding bottle of mystery wine holding a value between $20-$100! (These bottles cannot be consumed on the event premises).
Tickets can be purchased through http://www.castlepinesarts.org – $60 for one, or $110 for two tickets. A hefty portion of each ticket sale will be tax deductible. Donations may also be made through their website.
From Golden Music: This organization has put music back into Douglas County by ensuring schools have 4th, 5th and 6th grade band and orchestra available before and after school. Thousands of children are now involved. The programs were cut during the day several years ago and the CCO has resurrected music for this community as losing the elementary school programs has extremely severe bad consequences… not only do the 10 and 11 year olds miss out on playing an instrument, the middle school and high school music programs are diminished because there’s not many kids [moving up]! Hundreds of needy kids can’t participate without their scholarship program, which Golden Music supports with over $7,000 each year.
Mary, Golden Music owner
http://www.castlepinesarts.org
Donations may be made on the website as well.
The Castle Pines Arts & Cultural Foundation is a co-sponsor of this effort.
The Castle Pines Community Center is located at 7404 Yorkshire Dr, Castle Pines, 80108
The Colorado Chamber Orchestra is a non-profit 501(c)3. A portion of the ticket price, amount to be determined, will be deductible.
Copyright © 2016 Golden Music, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Golden Music
10395 West Colfax
Lakewood, CO 80215
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