Roger McGuinn Tried to Sway Metallica on Downloads

Udayan:

This piece doesn't say McGuinn wrote "Turn! Turn! Turn!" -- it says he gave it to us. Another words, it's one of his hits. And, as anyone knows, the Byrds are the ones who made that song famous.

Also, they are credited with pioneering psychedelic rock. They may not have been along, but they were one of the earliest. So it's not inaccurate.

I would never do this; however, this is the retro period, and much music from the past is being imitated and/or otherwise recreated. This is due to the fact that there is nothing new out there in the way of music today. New music is just not happening. Oldies are really popular these days. Now people want to steal- which is wrong, nevertheless. Twenty years form now years we will not have "oldies stations" on the radio that will playing the music that was created today. The stuff that is being produced today hardly outlasts itself. It feels good for the moment, but then the CD goes out the car window or in the trash. It's disposable. I'm not condemning it by any means, as it may sound- but it's a fact. Our brains, bodies and moods are at a fixation from the past or we are discovering music our parents were listing to.

Is the one who wrote this article a professional journalist? I hope not because it is fraught with inaccuracies (clearly seems to be the product of a simple internet look-up on McGuinn and not real research into his work). For example: "Turn, Turn, Turn" is a song by Pete Seeger, popularized by the Byrds (McGuinn). And since when did the Byrds become the originators of psychedelic rock.

The new technology for music sharing is wonderful! I worked for a medium-market station in the early '90s and saw the beginning-of-the-end of radio as we knew it. Many good bands and artists came and went because they couldn't get their lips far enough around the corporate fat a** to get a recording contract. Plus, the record companies dictated what was released as singles to be played on the air. Now, regional artists are given the chance to have their music heard all over the world. I can sample an "unreleased" song on YouTube, and end up buying the CD because of that song, and not the one that is pounded into me on the radio. I'm glad that everyone has an equal chance with today's new media...Rock on Roger!

Brilliant - finally a musician who gets it! You will always be ahead of the curve!

roger is completely right. musicians should be proud that people are listening. record companies have been screwing artists for decades; artists make no money from record sells, the money is in performance. maybe when the record companies decline music will come back to what it used to be. the byrds were revolutionary. god bless them!

Thank you, Roger, for being so great to all the fans over the years, and thank you, Andy Pratt for 'Resolution', a recording that belongs in everyone's collection.

This so called free market is only free when it benefits big corporations, if it benefits consumers they make it illegal.

You don't have to RIP Gene Parsons. He's still alive.

I remember when metallica was a garage band. They didnt care back then if people copied their cassettes. When they turned on their fans that way I threw out their albums. I refuse to listen to them. If they come on the radio I change the station. Their music will never be in my house again. Hypocrits