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posted by n1 on Friday June 12 2015, @12:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the irony-is-dead dept.

TechDirt reports:

[Congresswoman] Sheila Jackson-Lee submitted a House Resolution honoring Frankie Knuckles, the pioneering House DJ (and, here, we no longer mean "House of Representatives") who passed away last year. Such resolutions are pretty typical and a nice honor, if fairly meaningless overall. Still, it seems somewhat bizarre that in a resolution honoring Knuckles, who won the first ever "Remixer of the Year" Grammy back in 1998, that Jackson-Lee used it as a reason to argue for stronger copyright protections.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by ilPapa on Friday June 12 2015, @01:55AM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Friday June 12 2015, @01:55AM (#195228) Journal

    I was lucky enough to have done a little keyboard work rhythm programming for Knuckles a few decades ago. He always made sure musicians on his records got paid on time and he didn't really think worry a lot about where the samples came from. I was a young guy who couldn't really afford the very expensive sample libraries of the time, and had to make do with a lot of innovation.

    I wasn't all that good back then, but the technology was new enough that not that many people had access or new how to use it. But whatever I played poorly came back magical after Frankie got done with it. I don't remember a whole lot else from those years except the heavy, banging music in Chicago clubs.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @02:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @02:39AM (#195243)

    musicians on his records got paid on time

    What other attributes did Frankie Knuckles share with Benito Mussolini?