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	EFF: Grey Tuesday
		As of March 5, 2004, EMI has sent cease and desist letters to those who are posting the Grey Album as part of the Grey Tuesday online protest, and Sony/ATV has sent a DMCA "takedown" notice to at least one ISP.
		Because the White Album was released in 1968, it appears that EMI has no federal copyright rights in the sound recording.
		the posting of the Grey Album is intended as part of a commentary on the use of copyright law to stymie new kinds of musical creativity.
	www.eff.org /IP/grey_tuesday.php (868 words)

	The Grey Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both the Velvet Underground and Beatallica's eponymous albums are often referred to as "The Grey Album".
		The Grey Video is a music video made in the fall of 2004 by directing team Ramon and Pedro to promote the single "Encore" from The Grey Album.
		Grey Tuesday was a day of coordinated electronic civil disobedience on February 24, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Grey_Album (1056 words)

	February 2004 weblog entries (kottke.org)
		Late last year, a DJ named Danger Mouse took The Black Album by Jay-Z, mixed it with samples taken from the Beatles' White Album, and produced The Grey Album.
		EMI, one of the big five record companies, parent of Capitol Records, and owner/controller of the Beatles musical catalog, sent Danger Mouse a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that he had infringed on their copyright of the Beatles tunes in question.
		The album was a new release and widely available everywhere, but it took them two months to process and ship the order...and then it never actually showed up.
	www.kottke.org /04/02 (5172 words)

	The Flagler College Gargoyle:The Grey Album
		The fl was Jay-Z's farewell Black Album and the white was the self titled double LP better known as the White Album.
		Sites were encouraged to provide The Grey Album to users free, and those who did not because they wanted to avoid the copyright issues were asked to change their Web site home pages to grey to show support.
		The Grey Album gained so much exposure that a four-part collector CD cover set was produced and the album popped up on E-bay for as much as $80.
	www.flagler.edu /gargoyle/march-16-2004/arts/greyalbum.html (791 words)

	Banned Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Grey Album is a remix of Jay-Z's Black Album made using the Beatles' White Album as the sole source material.
		When EMI (who claimed to control the copyright for the White Album) sent a cease and desist letter to DJ Danger Mouse, and to several record stores and websites that were selling the album or making it available, the whole thing blew up in their face.
		When DJ Danger Mouse began garnering attention for "The Grey Album," his inventive remix of a cappella tracks from Jay-Z's "The Black Album" and music from the Beatles' eponymous 1968 album commonly known as "The White Album," it was always a question when -- not if -- his unauthorized project would be shut down.
	www.bannedmusic.org /albums/grey_album.php (2303 words)

	DANGER MOUSE The Grey Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although DM announced than this album was only intended as a promotional tool, well-trained puppy dog EMI jumped perfectly on cue, issuing the artist with a cease-and-deceit regarding the project, forcing retailers to destroy the copies they had received and threatening numerous websites if they continued to offer the album for download.
		Grey Tuesday was already announced as a huge success well before the day had ended.
		Even an in-depth knowledge of the Beatles’; album cannot prepare for the culture shock that is the Grey Album.
	www.themilkfactory.co.uk /reviews/dm_greyalbum.htm (361 words)

	sfbg.com \| Grooves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With The Black Album, at least five mix CDs have already appeared, including D.M.'s Grey Album, Kev Brown's Brown Album, Kardinal Offishall and Solitair's Black Jays Album, and Prince's Purple Album (that last one is a joke, but you never know).
		In essence, The Grey Album doesn't just transform the original songs from both artists into new forms – it also transforms how we listen to Jay-Z and the Beatles.
		Judging from her way with a meatier lyric on the album's few covers, she has a patch to go before she steps out of the shadow of giants.
	www.sfbg.com /38/20/x_grooves.html (973 words)

	scot hacker’s foobar blog » Thoughts on The Grey Album
		DJ Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album has been on my iPod for a week now, and I’m still feeling conflicted by it.
		In case you’ve missed the story, executive summary: DJ Danger Mouse has taken Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” and remixed it with samples from the Beatles “White Album.” The results are brilliant, frustrating, obnoxious, beautiful, and an insult to the legacy of the Beatles (though ironically, probably intended as a tribute).
		Scot Hacker’s thoughts on the Grey Album, pretty on point, although I’d argue that Jay-Z’s talents as an MC are mainly of the subtle sort that is difficult to impress on the non hip hop fan.
	birdhouse.org /blog/2004/02/27/thoughts-on-the-grey-album (1632 words)

	THE GREY ALBUM by Danger Mouse
		Brian Burton is the creator of the "Grey Album", which combines the vocal content of Jay-Z's 2003 "Black Album" with new beats from the Beatles "White Album".
		Burton said that the similarity in the two albums' names sparked an impulse to do the remix, further explaining that, "It was an experiment", and that the album "was supposed to be an underground project.
		There is a bit of irony in a hip-hop version of the "White Album", especially when you think of Charles Manson's affinity for that album and the fact that he is an established racist.
	members.tripod.com /earcandy_mag/greyalbum.htm (955 words)

	DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album - Review - Stylus Magazine
		The Grey Album, however, utilizes the rumble of John Lennon and George Harrison’s muscular guitar interplay to transform stale sentiments like "I’ve got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one" (Taken from "99 Problems") into slightly more legitimate concerns.
		Claiming his inspiration for The Grey Album came to him as suddenly and unsolicited as to be an epiphany ("I thought, hey; I can do this!"), the album does indeed contain a revelatory amount of cohesion.
		But whatever the outcome of the legal entanglements surrounding it, The Grey Album’s influence may irrevocably bridge the underground and mainstream hip-hop communities, allowing their influence to reflect off of–and in turn, influence–each other.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=1794 (691 words)

	CNN.com - DJ mixes Beatles, Jay-Z into 'Grey' - Feb. 19, 2004
		The resulting "Grey Album" -- an unlikely mix of the often explicit lyrics of Jay-Z with samples of music from the Beatles' 1968 classic -- has become an underground hit among hip-hop aficionados.
		The album was produced by 26-year-old underground hip-hop disc jockey Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, who found modest fame last year as half of the hip-hop duo DM and Jemini.
		Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University, said "The Grey Album" comes at a time when the Beatles have re-emerged as "an avant garde band" for a new generation.
	cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/19/leisure.grey.album.reut/index.html (910 words)

	The Grey Album Cover Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For those of you who downloaded the Grey Album and have already or want to burn it to CD, here's some hi-res printable art you can use to print out a full professional looking CD case.
		In case you've never heard of "The Grey Album", an artist named Danger Mouse [or sometimes "DJ Danger Mouse"] did a
		of the lyrics from Jay-Z's Black Album and the music from Beatles White Album to create what some have called "The greatest thing to happen to music in years".
	sigmaecho.home.comcast.net /greyalbum.html (311 words)

	The College Dropout \| The Grey Album \| Rubber Factory : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		The Grey Album Danger Mouse Jay-Z, meet the Beatles: Only in the age of accelerating technology could someone have thought to pinch rhymes from the rapper's Black Album and synch them up to random riffs, refrains, and snippets from the White Album.
		Yet far from being a wack job, The Grey Album — a free download before the Beatles' reps not surprisingly put a halt to it — is the ultimate artistic validation of technology and the mash-up.
		The astonishing thing about The Grey Album is that despite its mad-scientist origins, it feels more organic than so much other music released this year.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1009259_4_0_,00.html (485 words)

	mathcaddy.com: The Grey Album
		DJ Danger Mouse took the instrumental track of the Beatles' White Album and the vocals from Jay Z's Black Album and created a bunch of angry folks in the record industry.
		Along the way, he created The Grey Album, available here at illegal-art.com.
		Rap is not typically my favorite -- with the exception of Jurassic 5 -- but mixing it with the Beatles' instrumentation made Jay Z's album very attractive and, in fact, enjoyable to me. "December 4th" was my favorite track, using the Beatles' "Mother Nature's Child." for its backbeats and sample track.
	www.mathcaddy.com /history/2004/02/the_grey_album.html (243 words)

	Justin's Links: fade to grey
		Rapper Jay-Z released a "Black Album" and DJ Dangermouse remixed that with the Beatles "White Album" - making the eminently logical "Grey Album." The music of the Beatles is artfully chopped, spliced and shoveled out under Jay-Z's hard spit self-contemplation.
		I carried the album's MP3 around on a USB key and left copies of it where I could.
		The DJ at Boujis played an original Jay-Z album cut and I thought about giving him a copy of the remix, but I didn't have the digital music in the disco.
	www.links.net /daze/04/02/24/fade_to_grey.html (374 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| EMI blocks Beatles album remix
		A DJ who has remixed The Beatles' White Album and rapper Jay-Z's Black Album to make The Grey Album has been ordered by record label EMI to stop it being sold.
		DJ Danger Mouse created The Grey Album using Jay-Z's vocals and beats made by sampling music on The White Album.
		When the album was being promoted, DJ Danger Mouse - real name Brian Burton - boasted that all the music on The Grey Album could be traced back to The Beatles' 1968 classic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3493091.stm (298 words)

	Techdirt: Grey Tuesday Begins With Cease And Desist Letters
		A DJ recently took the vocals from The Black Album (which had been released without instruments for the sole purpose of letting DJs mix it with other music) and put it to music from The White Album, thus producing...
		Someone then came up with the idea of "Grey Tuesday" where a bunch of sites would all post the tracks from the album on Tuesday, February 24th.
		I suspect most folks are enthralled more with the idea the album is good if for no other reason than to thwub (yes, it's a word!) their collective noses at a percieved commercial abuse of copyright law.
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20040223/2320232.shtml (925 words)

	Danger Mouse :: The Grey Album :: DJDangerMouse.com
		Ironic Danger Mouse chose to mix The Black Album's acapellas with beats from The Beatles' White Album, because, as daring (and illegal) as this idea was in and of itself, many critics acknowledge the double-disc White Album as The Beatles' most daring and experimental.
		While The Grey Album will likely stand for a long time as a pop music anomaly—a bastard child of two pretty different music genres—it will also maintain credibility as not just a one-listen-wonder.
		Those without a copy of The Grey Album probably won't be able to find one of the few thousand original presses (which will some day fetch a pretty penny on eBay), but this is one of the rare cases where the artist likely encourages file-sharing.
	www.rapreviews.com /archive/2004_03_greyalbum.html (733 words)

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		The infamous Grey Album, which was never legally released but still made the rounds as a popular download, is Associated Press writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody's ninth best album of the year.
		A spokesperson for Downhill Battle, coordinating the protest, says, "Danger Mouse’s album is one of the most 'respectful' and undeniably positive examples of sampling; it honors both the Beatles and Jay-Z. Yet the lawyers and bureaucrats at EMI have shown zero flexibility and not a glimmer of interest in the artistic significance of this work."
		More on rapper Jay-Z's "Grey Album" at Undercover Music, which says the White Album is being used as the source for the rapper's album.
	abbeyrd.best.vwh.net /news/217greyalbum.html (1754 words)

	unmediated: Grey Album is Album of the Year
		Because of current copyright law, the Grey Album is illegal.
		The best album of the year is illegal because of copyright law.
		In case you missed it on my del.icio.us or Restoring the Balance or Waxy's Linkblog (which is where I got it, and run by the guy whose blog who put the Grey Album into the world's ears) the Grey Album is Entertainment Weekly's best album of 2004.
	www.unmediated.org /archives/2004/12/grey_album_is_a.php (1309 words)

	SPIN.com: Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
		The initial advertising campaign for Jay-Z’s (alleged) swan song, 2003’s The Black Album, featured a picture of a tape box with the names of 12 of hip-hop’s greatest producers scribbled on it.
		But Danger Mouse’s album is a whole different rodent–it doesn’t sound the least bit slapped together, and while the novelty factor alone makes it worth the download time, it works as a cohesive album long after the initial shock (“Blimey, he’s rapping over ‘Helter Skelter!’”;) wears off.
		Danger Mouse–who, with his MC partner, Jemini, released the excellent indie-rap album Ghetto Pop Life last year–chops and dices and jumbles the Fab Four, building weird, astonishing beds for Hova’s rhymes instead of just letting extended loops of Beatles bliss ride out.
	www.spin.com /reviews/magazine/2004/04/danger_mouse_grey_album (390 words)

	The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Last year, he teamed up with Jemini, a rapper from Brooklyn, to record the album “Ghetto Pop Life,” which was considered one of the most innovative releases of 2003.
		Last December, he made an unauthorized remix of “The Black Album,” the most recent (and reportedly the final) record by the rap superstar Jay-Z. This is a common hip-hop practice: up-and-coming producers take the vocals from a hot record and reattach them to new backing tracks.
		Part of the challenge of “The Grey Album” lay in matching the tempos of Jay-Z’s raps with instrumental passages from the Beatles.
	newyorker.com /talk/content/?040209ta_talk_greenman (587 words)

	Wired News: Grey Album Fans Protest Clampdown
		Six independent radio stations around the country will play the album Tuesday, said Holmes Wilson, co-founder of Downhill Battle, the group that organized the protest.
		Danger Mouse caused a sensation when he released the album last month.
		He said he hopes people will download the album, see the work as art and work to change the current copyright system.
	www.wired.com /news/digiwood/0,1412,62372,00.html (818 words)

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