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March 31 - last Tuesday - Tim and Weston were at the BYU A Cappella Jam - Tim singing his solo live-looping, Weston MCing - and this girl and her mom come up and tell us that the girl won a 2nd grade talent show singing 'Captain Organic Vegetable Man.' Whu?!?!?!?!? So Weston had her come up on stage and the two of them sang the song. She nailed every word. He did the animal sounds. She was fantastic. And I got to watch it from the audience - one of only 3 times I've ever watched Veggie Man from the audience! Hey!
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moosebutter has finally gotten attention from a major music company! Unfortunately, it came in the form of pre-emptive legal action. Corey Vidal and our Star Wars videos were taken down by Warner Music Company, or Warner Brothers, or Warner INC ... all we know is, Warner has gotten picky about 'their' content on youtube, and even though there are a dozen other videos on youtube with our Star Wars song, and hundreds of videos that illegally rip footage from Harry Potter DVDs, and fake Batman trailers and etc etc etc Warner has been kind enough to target our stuff. This means one thing: we've finally hit the big time! Maybe. So, we apologize about the videos being gone, but the youtube powers are looking into it, so we hear. We also believe that the music will still be sold from our web site, since we think we've done everything legally... but we thought the youtube videos were legal, too. So, buy the mp3 now before it gets taken down! Hooray! |
Corey Vidal and moosebutter have been nominated for a People's Choice Award, from CBS! You and everyone you know can vote daily until Jan 7th here: Click on 'vote now' and scroll to the 'Favorite User Generated Video' category. FAQ About Star Wars - there's a lot of confusion about the origin of the Star Wars song, since many people are attributing it solely to Corey Vidal. Here is information to clear up the mis-information, which we have little hope that the people who need it will read it.
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We've finally posted our response to Corey Vidal's epic video. Our version was recorded live in a studio - that's why we're holding microphones, hey? - which means we sang the song, one take, while they filmed us, and the audio sounds rough because it's live, and the mic levels peaked here and there, and because, oh ya, it's LIVE. Corey was lip synching to our older CD version in his video. I agree, his sounds better... because it's from a studio-recorded CD. We wanted people to see that the song can be done live - not that anyone who has ever seen MUSIC before would doubt that - and to see us, the guys who have been singing the song for almost ten years. For a quick history, moosebutter premiered Star Wars in May of 1999. It was arranged by Josh Slagowski and Bryant Smith, and Tim Jones did some re-arrange edits later. It was recorded in 2000 on moosebutter's original self-titled cd (now mercifully retired), and again in 2002 for the cd see dee. moosebutter has been performing the song in live shows since 1999. Our new video version: If you'd like to see more moosebutter, check out these other videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEaHJCaWMpU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhfJ0U_aMiA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQH4Sh_d78 |