I'm glad that the case has reached the stage that it has. Yes there have been issues with blatant 'lifting' in the past and in all those cases not once did the band refuse to reach out of court settlements. Yet in this case they decided to go to a federal court hearing which was to be decided upon by a jury of 8 lay-people who may not have had the technical knowledge of pulling these musical passages apart. In the end, and to their credit, the jury came back with a unanimous decision. No question in their minds. Now we have ongoing dialogue from the plaintiff's side with regards to the case. On the video interview he says at 1:44, that they were able to prove that Page & Plane has access to and heard the song, 'live'. My answer to that is absolute rubbish. That never happened. Finally, right at the end at 4:25 he says, we're going to fight to see this through to the end, we're not done! So the bun fight will continue, or will it? On what grounds do we believe that they will appeal this, regardless of what has already been said by the plaintiff's lawyer? There has been this ongoing complaint that the jury never heard the recorded version, yet as the case was structured, if the case was based copyright then the only thing that the case can use as a cornerstone is the original sheet music that was copyrighted at the time. There was this original notion that the plaintiffs wanted to play all these live recordings of STH etc., The whole thing was a smokescreen to try to confuse the jury. I'm not confident that this will go away but if it is to go on, what is the next step? Do they go to the Federal Court of Appeals and I'm sorry that I ask this as I am not from the USA.

Here's a record store in Melbourne, Australia that has been in operation for many years. Attracting customers from all over the world. Most of the stock in this store is VINYL. Yesterday Matt Cameron from Soundgarden/Pearl Jam was there along with our favourite photographer, Ross Halfin. Picture courtesy of Ross Halfin.