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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    eeriepadave wrote:
    Eddy Grant claims Gorillaz' 'Stylo' copies his song
    Eddy Grant said he is consulting lawyers after claiming there are substantive similarities between Gorillaz' recent single 'Stylo' and his 1983 song 'Time Warp'.

    Speaking to NME.COM, Grant said he feels the keyboard section on his song is the same as the recent release from Damon Albarn and co, and even suggested that the track's creators were aware of the clash.

    "Damon Albarn knows in his heart of hearts – it's unfortunate that we cant get into people's hearts – he knows that this is a song that he's loved, in his club days…I don't know the guy…but he knows this is a song he loves," he claimed, although he admitted that he had never met Albarn and had not realised the Blur man was behind Gorillaz until recently.

    Ironically, Grant explained that both he and Gorillaz/Albarn share the same publishing company, EMI, and was critical that they had not highlighted the issue to him before the new song's release.

    "It has to go back to the beginning, where it should have started with a phone call from Damon to my publisher. My publisher would have contacted me – the publisher being of course the same EMI that looks after his [music]," he explained.

    Grant suggested EMI have consulted a musicologist to compare the two tracks before he had been made aware of 'Stylo''s existence.

    "In a properly configured relationship I would have gotten a call from EMI to say, 'Damon wants to use 'Time Warp'. What arrangement can you guys come to? Would you claim 100 per cent, would you claim 60 per cent, or 70 per cent of whatever it is?'," he suggested.

    "That phone call never came. Instead what happened is somebody went straight to a musicologist, implying that there was some kind of pre-knowledge of some kind of infringement."

    A spokesperson for EMI Publishing told NME.COM: "This is a private matter between Eddy Grant and Gorillaz, and we're not intending to make any further comment."


    Here's Eddy Grant's song for "Time Warp"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHx3E_mea4U

    Huh. Who knew Eddy Grant did something besides Electric Avenue...
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    This is the best part

    "I don't know the guy…but he knows this is a song he loves," he claimed, although he admitted that he had never met Albarn and had not realised the Blur man was behind Gorillaz until recently."

    :? :roll:
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    same 3 chords but its a a pretty redundant melody, I just dont see it.
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Gorillaz touring band:

    Mike Smith - Keyboards
    Jesse Hackett - Keyboards
    Paul Simonon - Bass
    Cass Browne - Drums
    Damon Albarn - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
    Gabriel Wallace - Drums
    Geoff Wotton - Guitar
    Mick Jones - Rhythm Guitar


    Not bad, you got two ex-Clash members in your band!
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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Got tickets this morning to see them next month ... excited :mrgreen:
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Corso
    Corso so poor I can't afford to comment on the PJ forum Posts: 201
    This is the first album I have purchased by Gorillaz and I say indeed it is good. My brother always had an appreciation for Gorillaz so I gave it to him for a bit to listen to and he likes it. Tonight I get it back.
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Good album. Not quite as good as Demon Days, but I'm happy with it. Some Kind of Nature w/ Lou Reed - that's gotta be my favorite.
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Live stream of their show tonight (in london)

    http://gorillaz.com/

    9pm GMT, which I think is 1pm PST for me.
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    are they done with the whole virtual band thing? From what i have read until recently they didnt even appear as real people at live gorillaz shows. they would be in the back behind a curtain maybe, and they would have a screen projecting the cartoon images of the band. just in the last couple weeks the band played coachella in human form, and of course the colbert show performance they did the same.

    is the days of the cartoon gorillaz over?
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Yeah, i think they are beyond it as far as a live show goes. Marketing wise, I think they stay with the virtual band.

    According to this article here:

    http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/arch ... 20723.aspx

    It was too difficult to pull of live.
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  • pearl spam
    pearl spam Posts: 154
    i would love to catch this band live! i bet they are very good live
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    pearl spam wrote:
    i would love to catch this band live! i bet they are very good live

    In about 20 minutes, they'll be streaming live here:

    http://gorillaz.com/

    But yeah, I'm hoping for a U.S. tour.
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  • pearl spam
    pearl spam Posts: 154
    merkinball wrote:
    pearl spam wrote:
    i would love to catch this band live! i bet they are very good live

    In about 20 minutes, they'll be streaming live here:

    http://gorillaz.com/

    But yeah, I'm hoping for a U.S. tour.

    cheers dude :D
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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    I was at the show last night ... it was awesome! ... hopefully the footage tonight does the venue justice.

    You could see the band but there was a huge screen above/behind them.

    Loads of the singers were there incl. Shaun Ryder, De La Soul and Mos Def but Snoop was on the screen at the beginning for Welcome to ...

    ... and Mick Jones always looks like he is having the best time ever :mrgreen:

    The most dancing I#ve ever done at a show :lol:

    A review from the gig I was at which pretty much sums it up http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... eview.html

    "When Gorillaz last played a gig in London back in 2001, it was to a certain amount of collective head-scratching. It wasn’t just the fact that with Blur seemingly in decline, Damon Albarn had chosen to channel his abundant talents into the creation of a fictional cartoon fourpiece, sketched by his friend the comic artist Jamie Hewlett and featuring a demonically-possesed drummer called Russel.

    It was also the nature of the live show. To resolve the knotty issue of how to put on a performance by a fictional band, Albarn and his band had decided to play at the back of the stage behind a screen bombarded with footage of the cartoon group. The most that was seen of the real musicians were shadows bobbing blurrily at the back of the stage. If it was all a post modern joke it didn’t feel like a terribly good one.

    But what a difference a decade makes. The band that arose out of a bit of questionable rock star whimsy have gone on to become one of the biggest acts in the world, selling more than 12 million records internationally. And if their early gigs appeared half-baked, Thursday night’s performance – their first proper concert in Britain since they performed for five nights at the Manchester International Festival in 2005 – was extraordinary, an ambitious and brilliantly conceived show that thrummed with wit, energy and a seemingly boundless sense of possibility.

    It began with a mere 19 people on stage, a string section, a choral group, and Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash among them. By the time of White Flag, an unlikely fusion of grime and middle eastern classical music, the number had risen to more than 30, with London MCs Kano and Bashy leaping around while players from the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music provided a puckish accompaniment of flute and strings.

    That may have been the night’s most unusual cross-genre hook-up, but it was by no means the only one. Albarn traded verses with soul legend Bobby Womack on the pulsing electropop of Stylo, Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys duelled with rappers De La Soul on Superfast Jellyfish, and throughout the night there was a succession of cult musical figures queueing up to perform. Best by a whisker was Shaun Ryder who slouched onstage to supply ramshackle vocals on the 2005 Number 1 Dare.

    Cynics may carp that the success of Gorillaz albums – and in particular, their latest Plastic Beach - owe as much to Albarn’s contacts book as to his songwriting skills. But it’s the ingenuity with which he manages these collaborations which allows them to take flight, the legacy of the dizzying array of projects – from Chinese opera to Malian pop - he has undertaken over the past ten years. No matter how starry his co-conspirators it was Albarn who was the most magnetic presence, prowling around the stage to spur on the other musicians, or stomping his feet at the piano, not so much tickling the ivories as bashing the hell out of them.

    Hewlett’s visuals took a back seat. Witty cartoon collages and short films were broadcast on a giant screen above the performers heads but you didn’t really want to take your eyes off the musicians. This gig may been performed under the auspices of the fictional 2d band whose images popped up on the screen occasionally, but it was down on the stage, that it came thrillingly to life. "
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,165
    Gorillaz confirm North American tour! :D

    3 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre (on sale 8/14)
    5 - Wallingford, CT - Oakdale Theatre (on sale 8/13)
    6 - Boston, MA - Agganis Arena (on sale 8/6)
    8 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden (on sale 8/6)
    10 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center (on sale 8/6)
    11 - Washington, DC - Patriot Center (on sale 8/13)
    13 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre (on sale 8/6)
    14 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre (on sale 8/13)
    16 - Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion (on sale 8/27)
    17 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center (on sale 8/13)
    19 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center (on sale 8/6)
    20 - Dallas, TX - Verizon Theatre (on sale 8/13)
    22 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center (on sale 8/13)
    24 - Denver, CO - Wells Fargo Theatre (on sale 8/13)
    26 - Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre (on sale 8/6)
    27 - Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre (on sale 8/6)
    30 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena (on sale tba)

    November 2010
    2 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena (on sale 8/20)
    3 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena (on sale 8/13)
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • Tangerine
    Tangerine Posts: 880
    My son's very first favorite song ever was Song 2 when he was about 9 months old and able to "get into" music, as much as 9 month olds can ;) And he's loved the Gorillaz for years (and no I didn't quite know all the lyrics until a few years back). Anyhow, he's 15 now and they're finally playing Boston and we'd all like to see them. He still seems to want to go (if you're a parent you know what I mean when I say "seems to"..."um yeah, I'll go...", like if you don't get tickets they won't be irate!) so I have two questions-->

    1--Is it worth it to see them without all the "special effects"? I watched a couple of the Coachella clips and I wasn't that impressed.
    2--If we do go, where is the optimal viewing area? Up close, far back, far back in the middle...I'm assuming side views are out due to the screen so I'm really looking at the benefits of being close to the stage. Is it worth an extra $200 for the 3 of us?
    2006: Boston I, Camden II
    2007: Chicago
    2008: Hartford, Mansfield I & II, EV Boston
    2009: Philly III & IV
    2010: Boston
    2011: PJ20
    2012: Philly
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,165
    Saw them in Camden, NJ last night, very cool show. NERD opened up and played for about 45 mins. or so. Gorillaz hit the stage and played for about an hour and 45 mins. We were originally suppose to be in section 200 but got upgraded to section 100 (towards the right) cause there was no row "N" or something. This was the exact set list from NYC the night before which i didn't mind. Unfortunately the Gorillaz couldn't perform because they were stuck in their dressing room and couldn't get out :lol: so there was a "Gorillaz tribute band" instead.

    Setlist:
    1.Orchestral Intro
    2.Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (with Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
    3.19/2000
    4.Last Living Souls
    5.Stylo (with Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
    6.On Melancholy Hill
    7.Rhinestone Eyes (with Rosie Wilson)
    8.Superfast Jellyfish (with De La Soul)
    9.Tomorrow Comes Today
    10.Empire Ants (with Yukimi Nagano)
    11.Broken (with Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
    12.Dirty Harry (with Bootie Brown)
    13.El Mañana
    14.White Flag (with the American Syrian Orchestra, Bashy, and Kano)
    15.To Binge (with Yukimi Nagano)
    16.DARE (with Rosie Wilson)
    17.Glitter Freeze
    18.Sweepstakes (with Mos Def and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
    19.Plastic Beach
    Encore:
    20.Cloud of Unknowing (with Bobby Womack)
    21.Feel Good Inc. (with De La Soul)
    22.Clint Eastwood (with Bashy)
    23.Don't Get Lost In Heaven

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    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Saw them in Madison Square Garden the other night. Amazing show.

    Lou Reed was there!
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    End of the tour coming up. Caught them last in San Diego, great show. Getting Mick & Paul from the Clash in the lineup was genius, Paul in particular was a blast to watch. Really liked the way they structured this tour putting all the musicians front & center.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    eeriepadave wrote:
    New Gorillaz video for "Stylo" :D Pretty bad ass. and yes album is out also, pretty decent.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs


    Nice!

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