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...Henley and Alanis Morissette in front of any crowd in the world, and you would expect an instant epidemic of air guitars. Any crowd, that is, except the Senate Judiciary Committee. Not a single lighter was raised when the ex-Eagle and the queen of ironic rock testified at a digital-music hearing last Tuesday. Indeed, the duo's presence had been effectively overshadowed by a single press release, and Henley knew it. "As Alanis and I sit here," he said, "there is a Ping-Pong game going on over our heads about business models on the Internet...
...Parading before the committee to take the side of Napster and its ilk were former Eagle Don Henley and former Public Enemy Chuck D, who spoke to Napster fans before the hearing at a rally Monday evening. And in Washington to kowtow to the music establishment was Ted Nugent, a congressional-hearings favorite (though more for his bow-hunting prowess than "Cat Scratch Fever") and EMI executive Ken Berry...
...list crowd. Courtney Love, who's suing her label, Vivendi Universal, for unfairly locking her into a long-term deal, won't be there. Olivia DeHavilland, the mid-century movie goddess who cracked the studio system with a similar suit in 1945, has since passed on. But Henley, in particular, wants to use the rise and fall of Napster as a jumping-off point for a larger debate about artists' rights and the traditional label system...
...Napster, meanwhile, is looking about as dated as Henley. The site that with Mp3.com is likely to have changed the music business forever is now struggling to make it through the spring, engaged in a tit-for-tat legal battle with the RIAA as it gets around to complying with a technologically tricky (and market-share-killing) court order requiring it to remove all copyrighted material from its service...
...combination of piano artistry and heavy lyrics on "The Way It Is" that won Hornsby a Grammy in 1986 still delivers a powerful punch. New additions to the Hornsby repertoire include "The End of the Innocence," which, although co-penned by Hornsby, was originally recorded by Don Henley. Overall, Here Come the Noise Makers presents both a retrospective of Hornsby's 15-year musical career and puts an old friend in a whole new light. B+ -Krisa R. Benskin...