[Rockin Robbins]

Many mango seasons ago I got one of my videos on You Tube muted. It used the tune Echoes off Pink Floyd's totally unknown Meddle album. Probably was exposing people to the album who never dreamed it existed. Surely it motivated some of them to seek and purchase the album. However, someone at the record company wasn't going to tolerate advertising and urging people to buy this great album.

They DCMA'd me and muted the sound. Fine. I redid the video and pretty much forgot about it although I've never bought any more Pink Floyd music. Too much good stuff out there where they don't act like thugs.

But not I've found a piece of music so compelling that I have to make a video with it. It's Dream Theater's cover of Echoes, and it's just great. Dream Theater is famous for doing a concert, vanishing---lights go out--then come back on when the band comes out and covers an entire album of another group. They've done Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Metallica....every one they do is as good as the original. And they realized that there was a market for "bootleg" recordings of these cover concerts.

According to You Tube they allow their music to be worldwide in You Tube videos. They might tag an advertisement on it to monetize it, but I say good on 'em. And it encourages them to treat people fair.

Prince was a pig about his music. He sued left and right to keep people from hearing his music. Why make it then? He would have sold a lot more and been known and loved by many more people had he not been a pig. Now he's a dead pig. It's a shame.

So it's 12 minutes long. What kind of Silent Hunter video should I make? I'm thinking of making one about conventional PK/TDC targeting, but what do you think?