{"id":823,"date":"2012-07-09T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:40:21","slug":"get-me-to-the-copyright-lawyer-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/09\/get-me-to-the-copyright-lawyer-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Me to the Copyright Lawyer On Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 2002 to mid 2005 I led a band called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=111\"><strong>The Echoes of Tyme<\/strong><\/a>. Our concept \u2013 most all of my bands have what&#8217;s known as \u201chigh concept\u201d \u2013 was to play <em>Nuggets<\/em>-style garage\/psychedelic rock. The more obscure, the better. One song we did was a cover of <strong>The Electric Prunes<\/strong>&#8216; \u201cAre You Lovin&#8217; Me More (But Enjoying It Less),\u201d the 1966 b-side to their second (and last) charting hit, \u201cGet Me to the World On Time.\u201d The song is incredibly catchy, and features a wonderful arrangement, but in the end that arrangement probably hurt its commercial prospects: it was perhaps a bit too, er, <em>subtle<\/em> for mass consumption. Certainly its shifting dynamics and changes in volume would have confused AM radio listeners of the day.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m convinced the song did have influence of great import. Take a moment and listen to the opening, with its chugging\/stuttering guitars line, punctuating drums hits and bleep-bleep organ parts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Electric Prunes - 04 - Are You Lovin&amp;apos; Me More, But Enjoin&amp;apos; It Less (by EarpJohn)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOkh4IWzh08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now tell me you don&#8217;t hear more than a passing similarity to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?tag=pink-floyd\"><strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s single \u201cAstronomy Domin\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJh9OLlXenM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s perhaps worth noting that \u2013 according to our friends at Wikipedia \u2013 the 45rpm with \u201cAre You Lovin&#8217; Me More\u201d on its b-side was released in 1966 and reached #42 on the UK charts. \u201cAstronomy Domin\u00e9,\u201d however, was recorded in April 1967, and released in August of that year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">In a brief exchange of emails with Electric Prunes&#8217; <strong>James Lowe<\/strong> a number of years ago, I pointed out the similarity. He hadn&#8217;t noticed it before but heard it clearly when he gave it another listen. None of this is intended to take anything away from <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong> or Pink Floyd; Barrett \u2013 a big fan of the psychedelic sounds coming out of the USA at the time \u2013 was already on record admitting that the the descending riff of \u201cInterstellar Overdrive\u201d was based on <strong>Love<\/strong>&#8216;s version of <strong>Burt Bacharach<\/strong>&#8216;s \u201cMy Little Red Book.\u201d So like the saying goes, everything is connected. Or: there&#8217;s nothing new under the sun. Or: good writers borrow, great writers steal. Take your pick.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for a full review of Real Gone Music&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/30\/album-review-the-electric-prunes-the-compelte-reprise-singles\/\"> <em>The Complete Reprise Singles<\/em><\/a> \u2013 a 24-track CD collecting all of The Electric Prunes&#8217; a- and b-sides in glorious back-to-mono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2002 to mid 2005 I led a band called The Echoes of Tyme. Our concept \u2013 most all of my bands have what&#8217;s known as \u201chigh concept\u201d \u2013 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","cat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/32212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}