Comments on: The Ballad of Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Marnie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508064 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:47:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508064 Nope, no dice for me. No one has ever written a song for Marnie MacLean, ballad or otherwise. I do get two hits for a “Marni Kamins” and I get an albom by “Holdstock and Macleod”

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508063 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:14:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508063 I did a search on intellius people search and there is only one Gregory Laden in the US, formerly of Minneapolis, MN, Cambridge, MA, Arlington, MA, Saint Paul, MN and no other Greg Ladens.

I think you would have a pretty good case for misappropriation of your name to scam people into buying the music. It actually worked, you were scammed into buying it.

The promoters would probably welcome such a lawsuit because it would be free publicity and would increase sales. They would make more money even if they had to give you a cut of it.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508062 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:00:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508062 If Greg is a victim of autocorrect, then he can sue for the misappropriation of his (good?) name.

(I want a cut if you are successful).

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508061 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:58:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508061 So, it turns out there really is a Ballad of Greg Laden??/? Sort of?

Soren: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnUrqcD4W_M

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508060 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:51:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508060 And after I hit “Post”, it occurred to me that somebody involved in producing the 15th anniversary compilation might have been a victim of Autocorrect. Your last name happens to be an English word.

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508059 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:46:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508059 The “Greg Ladey” version of the title was on a CD released in 1996. Somebody decided to release a compilation this year on the 15th anniversary of Dadi’s death (that’s what the “15me anniversaire” in the screen shot refers to), which is the only CD on which the “Greg Laden” version of the title appears. My guess is that somebody who was assembling the tracks tried a Google search on “Greg Ladey”. As I suspected, the search result asks whether you meant “Greg Laden”. The person doing the track listing probably “corrected” the title to your name.

I didn’t have time to listen to any of it, but I saw several songs in his discography that were probably covers (e.g., “Both Sides Now”), and it is likely that those covers are instrumental versions as well.

]]> By: Soren https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508058 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:25:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508058 Sorry, I do not own a windows or apple computer so I cannot use itunes.

]]> By: Chris P https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508057 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:59:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508057 I didn’t find a song with my name, but I did find several podcasts by an American evangelical preacher who shares my surname. The shame! 😀

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508056 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:33:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508056 Nope. Nothing comes up for my name. I’m obviously not as important as you are!

]]> By: Greg laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508055 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:34:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/18/the-ballad-of-greg-laden/#comment-508055 I know someone who died on that flight.

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