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I am a Songwriter. I have been doing this since 1972. I even have records, whoopie dee dang poop-doo! This is why I just got to say, I've got hundreds of songs written, many of them as collaborations, and NOBODY but NOBODY can prevent me from performing and DIGITALLY TRANSMITTING any song I was either FULL author or Part author of. Why do I talk about this? It is because in the Summer of 2009, my right to perform my own WORKS was challenged - By a scrodsucking bastard named Mitchell Ian "Scrodsucker/MotherFooker" Huppert, who caused me all manner of grief. This is why I say to ALL Songwriters - YOU HAVE RIGHTS and you must do WHATEVER it takes to MAINTAIN those rights. And those rights are as so: EVERY Author of a song, if that song is not published, has the right to PERFORM that song- Meaning, you can PLAY the song LIVE at a Coffee shop. You can play it at a BAR, you can play it on the street, you can PLAY it. You may ALSO perform your songs by uploading them to your PERSONAL Website or any other website that hosts Music you have written... This is called DiGITAL TRANSMISSION and it is your right as full or co-author of any song you have had a hand in writing- Nobody can STOP you, nobody has any legal right to PREVENT you. Of course if the songs are PUBLISHED you must acceed to the stipulations of the Publishing contract - But what I am saying here, is that if you have written a work, if you just made up one WORD that is used in a song, then you become full partner and full co-owner of that song. In 2009, my rights in this regard were invaded by a Walking OZONE-OF-SUCK named Mitchell Ian Huppert, but it was OK, cos his jackass-actions caused me to investigate my full rigths as a songwriter. What I found out is that, if someone tries to copyright a sopng you wrote, and they left your NAME out as full partner, then YOU can make a brand-new Copyright registration, which includes yourself and all the roles you had in the song creation- And this way, your rights are not tramples even later when the bastardo TRIES to get the song published, leaving your name out, this gives you legal ground to stomp and whomp his butt, legally.
The last year anything COOL was made in the United States - That said "Made in USA" on it- was 1957, the year I was born. That year they made Chevy Bel-Aires, and also those penies with the laurel leafs on one side. in 1958 they started using the Lincoln Memorial. Actually back in 1957 a penny was worth something- You could buy a piece of Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum.
I Got a huge snare drum when I was 9. Didn't know what to do with it, but I learned all kinds of cadences.
When I was 11, my dad got me an electric guitar with Blue Chip stamps. It was a piece of shit, the nut was higher on one side than the other, but I learned how to play on it.
I had a string of POS guitars, An Italian Vox Bulldog, a A Hagstrom III. I did not know that they were classic guitars... I sawed em in half. All I ever wanted was a Les Paul. So in 1976 I bought a Les Paul from a guy for 500 bucks. best deal I ever made, but I sold it in 1997, the worst deal I ever made, cos I was broke and I had to eat.
In 1977 I bought a brand new telecaster from a sailor for 150, And then I bought a POS drumset, a bunch of mikes, and my Mom got me a Martin D28 and a Rickenbacker 4003 Bass - So I started messing around with multitracking, ping ponging from one tape deck to another, then later my dad got me a Tascam 244 Portastudio, which I used until it finally fell apart in 1996.
When I got back from tour in 1980, all my hippie friends were no longer hippies and had stomped all their Jethro Tull albums.
But then I heard a song that kicked my arse: I fought the Law by the Clash. I learned it was a Buddy Holly song, and that kicked my arse again!
In 1980 I joined Social Spit. Then I moved to SF and joined AlieNation, fronted by Dan Hicks fiddle player, Naomi Vice, and then we did Umbrella Defence with Paulette Reese-Denis, Dan Reilly, and Gil Ray (The drummer for Game Theory) which became Fade to Black after they kicked me out... And I became Dangerous Visions with Scott Spencer and Jon Norwood - And there are examples of these bands here somewhere, just dig around.
In 1986 I came back to San Diego and we re-assembled Social Spit... In 2005 we did our 25th anniversary shows: But in the meantime, from 1972 to today, I have been writing my own Brand of garbage, so here it is, you punks!
Now, you might call me a religious fook, and I get it from all sides: My Christian fiends are appalled by my "Secular" song content, my Non-God-Fearing friends abuse me cos I am, well, God-Fearing. My retort to both of these classes of people is that I have a deep measure of FAITH but I am not "religious" or conservative in many way shape or form - There are two kinds of dangerous schools of thought, one being that there is NO God and Faith is worthless, and the other is that God Fearin' Religious Folk gotta be Ultra-Conservative. Both of those are the extreme ends - One end, total athiesm, and the other end, over-conservative, NON-fun, Fanatics. I want to be in the middle, so I put myself in the middle- I have both Religious and Secular content on my music page, and there are even dirty words in some of my songs. Jesus himself was not a fanatic, he was planted firmly in the middle - Between God and Man. The religious leaders hated his guts and so did the government. So, because I want to be Like Him, I am also reviled by my so-called religious "fiends" and also by my ultraconservative, REPUBLICAN, "fiends". So what I want to say to both of these groups of people is basically: Get FAITH, have FAITH- And you will see that your various LABELS are an affront to God - Just as your lack of Belief in God is an affront to sensibility. Anyone with a true measure of FAITH will always find themselves - Right in the middle, where I am.
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weAponX
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9/19/2009 3:01:47 AM
YAY! My SONG IMAGES are BAAAAACCCKK!
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Nikolaus von Knorring
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9/6/2009 5:13:59 PM
Thanks your self for writing the tread.
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Noah Spaceship
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9/3/2009 9:47:02 AM
weap, your'e a badass - glad to see you stomping about - page kicks butt
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weAponX
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8/29/2009 11:52:50 PM
Thanx Alot - Looks like your back on top again, I voted for you at least once!
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Conversation Suicide
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8/29/2009 10:52:53 PM
Wow. I just read your previous comment there.
Very Enlightening, and I hope it's true.
COOL.
By the way, Welcome to :
Phlegm Phavourite Country and Blues
I'm sure I'll be adding more of your punk tunes on OTHER stations too.... DIG your vibe, sound, and politics You seem to be trying to LIVE the Punk ethic, as much as any of us can, ya know?
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weAponX
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8/29/2009 8:38:14 PM
Note that this sexually perverted and extremely disturbed individual, Mitchell Ian Huppert, is still HARASSING iacmusic - He knows that if he sends the complaints directly to me, they'll be immediately forwarded to an open complaint on the FBI IC3 Website. He is depending on information retrieved from a NON-LEGAL website, whereas I got my information directly from the United states copyright office.
For anyone else who has had this happen, I need to give assurances: If you co-write a song with somebody and it does not immediately get published? Then BOTH authors own it and BOTH authors can do whatever they want to with it. It does not matter if one person wrote words, and another wrote music, or any other combination thereof, the US Copyright Office states that IF NEITHER AUTHOR WAS A WORK FOR HIRE, AND i WAS NOT A WORK FOR HIRE, then they share 100% full ownership of the project - Including rights to DIGITAL TRANSMISSION.
Publishing a song on a Website is NOT actual PUBLISHING if that song is there for STREAMING - Instead it is being DIGITALLY TRANSMITTED: This FUCK-ASS thinks he can best me in this, but I beg to differ: I have many more years experience dealing with LEGAL BULLSHIT and I have WON every court case I have ever been involved in. I had to deal with this once before with Doug Moody - Who published material I did not authorised, in that case he printed a Vinyl Record. Even though I was owner, there was NOTHING I could do about it. But it didn't matter anyway, cos a printed record only adds to the whole BODY OF WORK of an artist.
Take it from me, if you write a song with someone? and then they RENEGE and try to shove Ownership rights at you - Fuck them, because as CO-AUTHOR you have all the consummate rights and privileges the other author has - And YOU CAN DOD WHAT YOU WANT with SONGS THAT YOU CO-WROTE.
If you did NOT sign any documents agreeing it was a work for hire? Then YOU have RIGHTS.
Amen.
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weAponX
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7/26/2009 8:54:45 PM
I opened my email box on 7-25-09 and there are No LESS than 125 threatening emails from my EX-songwriting partner, using about 5 fake email addresses- Plus he had been harassing the folks at IAC here about some songs we CO-WROTE together, and so because I they had not heard from me, the management removed the song "Grandma Lost The Farm" from my page (Which I co-wrote and recorded and produced, the version of which my ex partner had told me he had NO interest in copyrighting), and so I have that version going through the copyright process. - When it is done I'll be putting it back up simply on principle: I co wrote it, and I want it in my catalogue.
The guy had taken a work-print I had made, with both of our voices singing, which had my breaks in a different place, and he copyrighted THAT version and he did NOT give me full share of the copyright - Which I am going to start a challenge on, because I can prove my full co-authorship and also that I was NOT hired to write it but in fact did so as a full partner.
Now you take these two songs: HOBO by Danny Hunter and Jonny V and "Grandma Lost The Farm" by Jonny V and "Partner"
And that is the difference between Professionalism and a Hack-ism
This whole episode is sad really, because we could have been a fine songwriting team: Most of the best music has been written as a team, Rogers and Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, Lennon and McCartney.
I hope that none of youse guys have had to deal with what I have had to deal with with this utter jerkie.- I am just sorry that the management at IAC here had to put up with his crap!
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Hugh Hamilton
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5/11/2009 4:25:07 PM
Thanks for stopping by. The axe is a 60s Gibson ES-125TDC (Thin, Double pickups, Cutaway). I've had it since the mid-80s. Keep on rockin' and good luck on the new tunes staying put...I know the feeling...
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weAponX
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1/11/2009 11:47:14 AM
Welp, I got most of my songs put back up, after they mysteriously vanished. Actually, the IAC server where they were stored magically vanished and the link led to the website where that had been hosting the MP3s, which had been taken down.
At the time I first discovered this, I was barred from simply re-uploading the MP3s, several months later, I was finally allowed to reup the songs.
I took the time to remaster the songs that magically vanished, so enjoy.
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weAponX
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2/17/2008 9:35:07 PM
Thanx GagS!
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Gunsite
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12/7/2007 2:23:50 PM
Have a Merry Christmas, dude, and a Happy New Year!
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Nerol
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11/29/2007 5:53:00 PM
Hey WeAp, how's it goin'?
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weAponX
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11/10/2007 1:35:02 AM
Got a newwww song for you but its old.
:p :p :p :p :p
Enjoy
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The Evil Seagulls
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10/8/2007 8:59:25 AM
awesome stuff here !!
cheers,
mark
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Larree
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9/18/2007 9:18:40 PM
Snogg the Troll kicks ass! Hope all is well, man! ROCK!
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