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Chris Barron of The Spin Doctors:
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at The Circle got to meet Chris Barron, lead singer
of The Spin Doctors, in an up-close and personal setting.
The Grammy-nominated songwriter treated the audience to an unplugged
performance of Can't Kick The Habit, from his newly released
CD, Pancho and the Kid.
He also played one of his big hits, Two Princes, and then
went on to give the inside story behind a multi-million dollar
lawsuit he and the band won against Miller Brewing Company
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The lawsuit went on for close
to three years and involved "thousands and thousands and
thousands " of documents, explained Barron. Miller
argued that their commercial did not infringe because "Two
Princes" was not an original song to begin with. Using
a musicologist, Miller tried to persuade the jury that The Spin
Doctors' hit was "substantially similar" to other songs
such as Straighten Up and Fly Right. |
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Barron explained in detail --
sometimes with great humor -- how those arguments were dismantled,
which enabled the jury to rule in his band's favor after a six
hour deliberation. |
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"Two Princes" along
with Little Miss Can't Be Wrong were huge hits for The
Spin Doctors. Their album, Pocket Full of Kryptonite,
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