*purifies self in Lake Minnetonka*

Trigger warning!

Someday I'll try to watch it again. I didn't make it past the first few episodes. Same with Dexter. I'm a bad tv watcher.

Yes it would, and it does. In 1998 Claude Johnson was able to prove he was RJ's son, and has done very well for himself since. (I just googled Robert Johnson estate. I do not know how to post a link here.) Strange that this was not bigger news.

You should get into mergers and acquisitions.

"Laughter is the worst medicine."

I don't.

UC Berkeley. I am off right now finishing my diss. The popular music course attracts a lot of foreign students (like, mostly) so that is very fun and challenging. The idea of why people get so upset by just the idea of White musicians stealing (whatever that means) Black music is totally new to them. I have to do a…

Zeppelin has a major reissue of their work coming out. Spirit dude is probably looking for a pay-out to go away.

*ghost of Peter Grant appears and beats us all to a bloody pulp*

Extra points for a live reference. We would also have accepted: This is a song of hope.

Actually, the devil would be getting the checks. He and RJ had an iron clad contract.

My above argument ignores that the Lemon Song is exactly the music for Killing Floor. (Also, JPJ plays the mortal shit out of the Lemon Song bass line.)

I wonder where Robert Johnson's royalties go? Where does Eric Clapton send the checks?

I don't think it's that they are white and British so much as they all got to live in castles made out of royalty money from songs they didn't properly credit. (And can we separate their ability to benefit from the system from their being white? Not easily we can't.) If Robert Johnson got super rich off of…

I am very glad that Willie Dixon won his suit, but most of those songs are indeed original, but lazy Robert Plant sang his favorite blues stanzas over them thinking that they were PD "folk" songs. Yeah, Stairway cops from Taurus, and big deal to that.

Unless he's Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Now I'm alarmed.

Didn't kill anyone? You've never listened to it backwards have you?

Hedgerows not included.