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Richard Gehr | May 21, 2007

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  • The great mandolin player David Grisman (formerly of Old and in the Way and many duets with Jerry Garcia; currently of the David Grisman Quartet) recently filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube and its owner, Google, for making his videos available without permission. The suit alleges that Google and YouTube "deliberately refuse to take meaningful steps to deter the rampant infringing activity readily apparent on YouTube." Grisman's suit would seem more churlish if he didn't provide free daily downloads on his website. "Is It Too Late Now?" from 1992's Bluegrass Reunion is today's special.

  • Spring Awakening earned eleven Tony nominations (including best musical and best director), while Passing Strange, its thematically linked off-Broadway competition, has been racking up rave reviews.

  • Fifteen thousand dollars will buy you a ticket to "Social," a series of summer concerts by Prince, Billy Joel, Dave Matthews, Tom Petty, and James Taylor taking place in East Hampton, New York. According to the Wall Street Journal, "the series is a new extreme in the concert industry's increasing attempts to woo big spenders. But it also reflects promoters' attempts to cash in on demand that's pushed prices on ticket-resale sites like StubHub to the stratosphere. This way, promoters can price tickets at the same level -- and keep the money for themselves." [via Idolator]

  • A "vulnerable," even "traumatized" Paul McCartney gets hugged in a better-than-average interview. It also turns out that the title of McCartney's forthcoming album, Memory Almost Full (which Starbucks, owner of the Hear Music record label, will play all day in its stores the day of its release, June 5), "is an anagram of For My Soulmate LLM--the initials of Linda Louise McCartney." And the walrus was Paul.

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