Here’s a question. Some of you may know that cheapskate venues, who do not want to pay high fees to record companies for playing the actual recordings of popular songs, can instead licence the use of “sound-alike” recordings for which the fees are lower. I heard one of those in the restaurant last night. I thought I had been whammed, but then realised I had not (assuming cover versions don’t count, which I was told up-thread).
But here’s a theoretical issue. The volume of the music in the restaurant varied. At one point all I could tell was that there was music somewhere in the hubbub of a busy restaurant. But my both daughter and her fiancee, with their younger ears, could detect you-know-what, though probably that was the sound-alike as well (fiancee also agreed that the one played more loudly was not the Whamtastic original). So the hypothetical question is, if I can’t make out the tune, but it is decipherable by peeps with better ears, have I been whammed?
Well, back to wrapping presents, it appears I made it. Merry Christmas
