I want my KDiff3

[Tom Buskey]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> > <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> > > Yes, I can use Meld, but like the song says: <lyrics artist="ZZ Top">I
> > > want my MTV</lyrics>
> >
> >   I believe the song you are thinking of is "Money For Nothing", by
> > the band Dire Straits.  :)
>
> And I believe the phrase in question was actually voiced by Sting :)
>
> But maybe Greg can be forgiven for thinking that it was ZZ Top--
> that was presumably due to the ZZ-Top-esque guitar part;
> Wikipedia's `Money for Nothing' article says:
>
>    Production
>
>    Knopfler modelled his guitar sound for the recorded track after ZZ
>    Top guitarist Billy Gibbons' trademark guitar tone, as ZZ Top's
>    music videos were already a staple of early MTV. Gibbons later
>    told a Musician magazine interviewer in 1986 that Knopfler had
>    solicited Gibbons on how to replicate the tone....
>
>
And if it was done today he'd get sued.  As it was, Sting dropped in to do
the voice "because he thought it would be cool" and created a fit for the
lawyers...
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