Flock of Seagulls - equip theft

[jhale667]

This story reminds me... haven't backed up my recording drive in a week or two...

[Seshmeister]

Score says the stolen gear included ... hard drives containing the songs for his first solo album — 18 months of work gone.

If that's true then I'm sorry but that's just too dumb.

[FORD]

It's sort of the 21st century version of when Bono's briefcase got stolen somewhere in this neck of the woods, which contained all the original lyrics he had written for the "October" album, back in 1981.

Which is ironic, considering Flock of Seagulls' entire first album was pretty much a ripoff of the U2 song "A Day Without Me".

[sadaist]

karma



LZ has been ripping off other musicians for decades

Sadly for you but Kristy is gonna love that post.

[jhale667]

If that's true then I'm sorry but that's just too dumb.

I dunno, since it mentions drive(s), sounds like he was backing up the files, but if you're working while traveling what other option do you have than to carry them both? Imagining backing up entire Pro Tools or whatever sessions to a cloud server is way time-consuming and probably not really feasible while traveling on a tight schedule.

[Nickdfresh]

It's sort of the 21st century version of when Bono's briefcase got stolen somewhere in this neck of the woods, which contained all the original lyrics he had written for the "October" album, back in 1981.

Which is ironic, considering Flock of Seagulls' entire first album was pretty much a ripoff of the U2 song "A Day Without Me".

Um, you know the people that (accidentally - because he was a fuckwit and left it) took Bono's suitcase gave it back?

[FORD]

That's not exactly true.....

He did get it back, in 2004, but only because some chick happened to find it in the attic of her house in Tacoma, and didn't realize exactly what she had until she called a friend of hers who lived in Olympia at the time, but since moved south to Vancouver (the Washington suburb of Portland, not the Canadian one) and that's where she arranged to meet with Bono and return the briefcase....

http://u2log.com/2004/10/21/bonos-stolen-briefcase-returned-after-23-years/

[Kristy]

Which is ironic, considering Flock of Seagulls' entire first album was pretty much a ripoff of the U2 song "A Day Without Me".

Which is no news at all when one considers how much U2 ripped off Echo & The Bunnymen (U2 used to open for them in the early 80's).

[FORD]

Don't think so... both bands formed around the same time. Both released a single in 1979 and an album in 1980, and in the meantime, U2 was playing in Ireland and the Bunnymen were playing in Liverpool, so I doubt either one influenced the other.

Both did horrible covers of "Paint It Black" though. There's only one band (other than the Stones) who have ever done justice to that song......