Commercial UK metal band pays homage to C64

lord_matte · Post by **lord_matte** » 05/02/2003 - 11:04

I was listening to a new album from a UK band called DragonForce in the car this morning, and was bowled over to hear an excerpt from Last Ninja halfway through one of the songs! Certainly brought a big

to my face on a cold morning! The album is called Valley of the Damned and I think the song is Revelations.

I think we should all lobby Eminem to put a bit of Thing on a Spring in his next one

.

Matt.

Larsec · Post by **Larsec** » 05/02/2003 - 11:09

Yeah, I heard about DragonForce a long time ago and checked their homepage at MP3.com... I don't remember what it sounded like exactly but I remember that I could hear the theme as well. I remeber reading about it on a message board... Don't remember which one though...

Eminem would do Thing on a spring in a second if you provoked him enough, so go on... try...

DHS · Post by **DHS** » 05/02/2003 - 11:21

I think it was reported in the c64rmx mailing list.

cheerz

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 05/02/2003 - 11:24

This is exactly the kind of thing I have to deal with. They've used Ben's work to "Pay homage", but I'd be truly surprised if they actually credited him as part-composer of the work or mentioned him in any way at all. So if this was the case, it would be no homage at all: just passing off someone else's work as their own. Homages have credits in them.

As it happens, this has been known about for quite a while, so they have no excuses for such crappy behaviour.

Let's not get so excited about hearing a C64 tune outside RKO that we lose sight of the fact that they're ripping off Ben for money.

I emailed them before Xmas about this, before the album was released, but they saw fit to ignore my emails. Did they in fact credit Ben Daglish on the album in any way? I haven't seen the album.

Chris

DHS · Post by **DHS** » 05/02/2003 - 14:25

Chris Abbott wrote:I emailed them before Xmas about this, before the album was released, but they saw fit to ignore my emails. Did they in fact credit Ben Daglish on the album in any way? I haven't seen the album.

Just send out your killers from your underwater lair and fix the thing

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 05/02/2003 - 14:33

My underwater killers filled in their paperwork, and tomorrow Ben Daglish will own 10% of the track. Cool or what?

Chris

DHS · Post by **DHS** » 05/02/2003 - 17:03

Chris Abbott wrote:My underwater killers filled in their paperwork, and tomorrow Ben Daglish will own 10% of the track. Cool or what?
Chris

mmmm....

I don't believe you used your underwater killers for this job.
Say the truth, you asked the c64mafia

cheers.

Papa Sid · Post by **Papa Sid** » 05/02/2003 - 18:20

DHS wrote:Say the truth, you asked the c64mafia

Don't go spreading rumours, boy! You're playing with fire...and buckets of monkey poo!

Makke · Post by **Makke** » 05/02/2003 - 18:21

Sounds like you better watch it there, DHS! You're pissing of the mafia!

putzi · Post by **putzi** » 05/02/2003 - 18:27

LMan, Tas? The faked "C64-mafia"-users havenÃ‚Â´t been deleted yet? OK, sometimes we quote Monty Python-movies on this board, but after all, this is not a kindergarden, or what?

lord_matte · Post by **lord_matte** » 05/02/2003 - 19:11

Chris Abbott wrote:So if this was the case, it would be no homage at all: just passing off someone else's work as their own. Homages have credits in them.

That's a bit strong; I don't imagine they think their album will shift more copies on the back of a small snippet of Last Ninja in one of the songs. If I was Ben, I'd be amused and possibly flattered.

Matt.

Papa Sid · Post by **Papa Sid** » 05/02/2003 - 20:15

putzi wrote:The faked "C64-mafia"-users havenÃ‚Â´t been deleted yet?

Fake? We're oh so real. Ask Honorabili. He knows. He knows it all!

SIDizen SID · Post by **SIDizen SID** » 05/02/2003 - 21:29

putzi wrote:LMan, Tas? The faked "C64-mafia"-users havenÃ‚Â´t been deleted yet? OK, sometimes we quote Monty Python-movies on this board, but after all, this is not a kindergarden, or what?

Are you kidding me? I really hope you are putzi. You're the one who is acting like he's in kindergarden on these boards... I have been watching you and I don't think I like you... *growl*

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 05/02/2003 - 23:59

> That's a bit strong; I don't imagine they think their album will shift
> more copies on the back of a small snippet of Last Ninja in one of
> the songs
Of course it won't: but it's still pretending Ben's work is theirs. That's wrong, however you cut it.

Of course, I haven't seen the album cover. Maybe they mention it in there. What I do know is that they didn't bother to credit Ben when they did the important money-grabbing bit. Of course they didn't. No one ever does!

Chris

DHS · Post by **DHS** » 06/02/2003 - 9:02

Papa Sid wrote:
DHS wrote:Say the truth, you asked the c64mafia
Don't go spreading rumours, boy! You're playing with fire...and buckets of monkey poo!

I'm only saying that you're more effective than any underwater killers Chris may have in his lair ....

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