weird Tom Waits lawsuit question

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Was told tonight that Tom Waits sued Stone Temple Pilots for intellectual property theft for singing through a megaphone (and lost).

Sounds like bullshit, and googling didn't locate it, but it did locate enough other Tom Waits litigousness (against Frito-Lay, against MP3) that it's not totally out of the question, I suppose.

Anyway, I'm guessing this was a joke that was misinterpreted, but if anyone has knowledge other than that, chime in please.

― doug (doug), Sunday, 16 February 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

waits didn't invent singing through a megaphone

(i tried to google a pic of rudy vallee doing it: there's a famous one of him dressed as a cherub)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 16 February 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

oh dear..... this all sounds believable.

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 16 February 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Rudy Vallee (but no cherub costume, sadly)

Also just last night watched the second season of Mr. Show; one of the standout sketches spoofs this whole tradition of megaphone singing.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, I didn't mean to link, I meant to post the image:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp300/p353/p35380zuruo.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Waits' attorney would probably point out that Rudy Vallee's thingamajig has no amplification, and is really something else entirely.

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 16 February 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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