There have been some great musical thieves in history. Elvis Presley stole blues and R&B music from greats like Chuck Berry and B.B. King. Led Zeppelin pretty much just stole indiscriminately from everyone. Kevin Federline was a thing for a while.
However, no musical theft has ever been so egregious as the one perpetrated against me by someone I thought was a friend and colleague. JT Eberhard has unapologetically stolen my idea to record and post songs as part of SSA’s Blogathon:
::UPDATE::Ian Cromwell is auctioning off songs. I think that’s brilliant! For $10 Ian will post himself playing a song of your choice. I’ll do the same (I sing a bit). For a $10 minimum donation to the SSA (because you can always donate more) I’ll record a song of your choice in the courtyard of the SSA office (the acoustics are great!). I prefer musicals. I’ll get to as many as I can and post them as a Blogathon entry on Monday.
This. Will. Not. Stand.
As a response, I hereby challenge JT to a ‘sing-off’. No idea-thief is going to out-fundraise me. So here’s the deal: if JT’s Blogathon and mine raise a combined $1000 (that’s only 100 pledges of $10 – I know there’s at least 50 of you out there with a tenner in your pockets), we will join forces and sing the epic Queen ballad Under Pressure, with JT holding down the Freddie Mercury part and yours truly doing David Bowie’s lines.
As an added bonus, if we outraise JT, I will make him be the RikRok to my Shaggy on It Wasn’t Me, and we will post that as well. My Shaggy impression is actually pretty decent (Boombastic used to be one of my go-to songs back when I hosted karaoke back in my undergrad days).
The gauntlet has been thrown down. Don’t disappoint me, Cromrades!
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Jaketoadie
June 7, 2012 at 5:56 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Man, from the title of your post I thought you might have been having an issue with Phisioproffe…
JT Eberhard
June 7, 2012 at 6:02 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Pfft! Freddie is a gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd!
Crommunist
June 7, 2012 at 6:12 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
False. We have evidence that Freddie Mercury existed.
Nicole
June 7, 2012 at 6:27 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Best idea ever. Now I have to think of a good song I’d like to see you cover.
jolo5309
June 7, 2012 at 6:48 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Do you know the Shuffle Demons?
jolo5309
June 7, 2012 at 6:49 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
or at least any songs by them?
Crommunist
June 7, 2012 at 6:52 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
No, but that doesn’t mean I can’t try to learn something. Throw me a song title and I’ll do my level best to have it ready on Sunday.
Riptide
June 7, 2012 at 8:31 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I LOL’d.
jolo5309
June 7, 2012 at 9:55 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
“Get out of my house, roach” and a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6_sLmuze98
If you are not up to singing jazz about roaches, how about buses?
“Spadina Bus”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnLjRi_g9o
Or Dream Warriors “My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXAJZmlRMdc
Singer’s choice