{"id":24580,"date":"2022-12-20T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?page_id=24580"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:50:08","slug":"best-classic-bands-essays-and-interviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/best-classic-bands-essays-and-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Classic Bands: Essays and Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most publications &#8212; online and\/or in print &#8212; assert a kind of temporary ownership of commissioned pieces; after that embargo, the non-exclusive rights to those works revert to the author. It&#8217;s at that point that I repost my work for other outlets (features, interviews, essays and such) here on Musoscribe. But occasionally there exists a publication that doesn&#8217;t follow this industry standard. In the case of BestClassicBands.com, they assert ownership of writers&#8217; work <em>in perpetuity<\/em> &#8212; <em>no, really<\/em> &#8212; and don&#8217;t allow it to be republished elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I found that out only after I had written eight pieces for them. Of course I stopped writing for them as soon as I discovered that policy, but in the process I unknowingly signed away seven essays and an interview. More fool me, as the saying goes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s links to them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/moody-blues-future-passed-review-9-21-17\/\">The Moody Blues\u2019 Masterpiece, \u2018Days of Future Passed\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/love-forever-changes-10-4-1777\/\">Love\u2019s Brilliant Landmark \u2018Forever Changes\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/black-sabbath-debut-12-20-17\/\">Black Sabbath\u2019s Debut LP: Where Metal Began<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/traffic-mr-fantasy-review-10-24-17\/\">Traffic\u2019s \u2018Mr. Fantasy\u2019 Debut Album: In Your Mind<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/steppenwolf-debut-album-review-11-27-17\/\">Steppenwolf\u2019s Debut Album: Heavy Metal Thunder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/bob-dylan-blood-tracks-review-2-4-18\/\">Bob Dylan\u2019s Masterful \u2018Blood on the Tracks\u2019 Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/eric-clapton-rainbow-concert-review-1-17-18\/\">Eric Clapton\u2019s Lifesaving \u2018Rainbow Concert\u2019 Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/moody-blues-days-future-passed-interview-8-31-1777\/\">Moody Blues\u2019 Ray Thomas: His Final Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most publications &#8212; online and\/or in print &#8212; assert a kind of temporary ownership of commissioned pieces; after that embargo, the non-exclusive rights to those works revert to the author. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[235,332,356,5032,1353,1512,1794,2603,2257],"class_list":["post-24580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-essay","tag-arthur-lee","tag-black-sabbath","tag-bob-dylan","tag-eric-claptom","tag-love","tag-moody-blues","tag-ray-thomas","tag-steppenwolf","tag-traffic","cat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30501,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24580\/revisions\/30501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}