[dc401-l] Shameless spam, but involves beer!

[Matt Bell]

All,
As some of you know, my friend Pat Griffin, owner of Patrick's Pub was
hit with a very large lawsuit from ASCAP; a copyright organization. His
crime? Allowing bands to come into his pub and play live music of *cover
tunes*. That's right.. cover tunes. It turns out that if you let a band
come into your business and croon a cover of a copyrighted band, the
*owner* can be sued.. not the band!

I encouraged Patrick to fight this and even hoped to invoke the EFF,
however he has a business to run and wanted to get live music back in to
keep revenue up so he settled and payed them their shake-down money for
"licensing"... and the right to have bands cover other songs.  To help
recover from the hit he took on his lawsuit and to celebrate 17 years in
business he is holding a fund-raiser this Thursday (5th) night. All are
welcome, there will be food and live music. Contact me for tickets, they
are "donation priced".. you pay what you want to donate for the cover!

If you are interested in coming out for beer, food, music, and to
support a good cause please let me know between now and then and I can
get you a ticket, or call me that night (870-761-3137) between 7:30 and
11:00 pm and I can get you a ticket.

Thanks,

Matt

(And Dennis: I hear Mayor Buddy is going to be there!)