"If I could Fly" is near the top of my list too..it's a very good positive attitude booster for me.

GlitzMan....of course I don't drink whiskey like wine. I prefer to sip now and again between beers. If I can just sip, it'll whoop my ass by the end of the night. And I'll dance when I'm drunk too...do the robot..and all that 60's surf dance stuff...make a complete ass of myself and love every minute of it.

Ohhh how we missed you Cube! lol!

To celebrate, let's all watch THIS.

Chad and Flea - that's the shit!

Very Good Joe, glad to hear your suing him

I don't know if he'll win a jury case, but Joe sure has a strong complaint. Pretty darn blatant swipe of his song. I'm glad he's standing up and saying something about it. It will be interesting to see what Coldplay puts out on their next album as they'll have to write original stuff (not that I'll ever hear it though as I had never heard the "Viva" song until this morning).

Joe might also have a case with Metallica (seeing them in 2 weeks btw) as "The Day That Never Comes" has hints of "Chords Of Life" however, on the flip-side "Starry Night" sure sounds like "People Get Ready"

Dear Joe;

Best of luck to you man on your suit. I don't know what really happened. But please know that we support you, and your songs have touched our lives.

I don't know if it's your label that is suing, or your personally. However, I wish you luck in all your endeavors.

ha! ya think?

whats up! i am back in the freezing cold weather, its 18 F here. i love it. i can't take temperatures over 100 F, but it's true what they say, its. not the heat its the humidity.

renting an apt. for now. now i repeat the whole process over again. wait another 2 months for my shit and try to find a job, and find a decent house to live in.

Well this is an intereresting development isn't it?

My initial thought about the Coldplay video on YT was "who is iGotSpaceLikeNASA"? The person only registered on 17 June. I wondered at the time if someone connected with Joe had registered as a gentle way of pointing out the similarity of the 2 songs - it would seem to be a Joe-style way of doing things wouldn't it? Does anybody know this person?

As someone pointed out, it may not be clear whether if it is Joe's record company, his publishing company or some other entity who has filed the suit. Companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to protect their IP/assets/whatever so it may not have been Joe's call personally.

I also know that, in any jurisdiction, law suits are filed as a last resort, after letters are written and talks are held (or maybe no talks were held if Coldplay's reps ignored the letters) so the two parties have already been in contact and no result has come out of it.

I often think about how many permutations and combinations of notes in a 3 minute song (that sound good) are possible. When will we run out? I once thought about creating a software program that generated combinations of notes ( to different timing and rhythms) to find ones that sounded good to the ear.

This also begs the question about what do composers do at the moment when they write a song, in order to check that it hasn't been written before? Is there a "matching" service that they can check their song against in case someone wrote a similar song in Russia in 1972? How do you cover the risk that you are writing something from your memory or that you once heard when you were 5?

Anyway, I wish Joe all the best in the world with this - court is a last resort and I doubt there are ever true winners.

Do The Stu - any chance you can interview Joe for T2J to get his side of the story?