Bands want to know if their music was used on Gitmo detainees

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Rock bands, including REM and Pearl Jam, want to know whether their music was played at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A series of Freedom of Information Act requests will be filed Thursday in conjunction with this week's "Close Gitmo Now" national campaign, said Trevor Fitzgibbons, a campaign spokesman.

The FOIA requests and the campaign have been endorsed by numerous artists, including REM, Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, he said.

The FOIA requests stem from testimony of former Guantanamo prisoners that heavy metal, rock, and rap music -- even children's tunes -- were part of interrogation techniques.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/22/musicians.guantanamo/index.html

would there be civil suits or something similar that could come from that list of artists?

would that be headed up by the ACLU?

Better yet, send them all to jail for using the copy righted material without permission.

get them for copyright infringement!

That POS would be proud of it, and the music would make any detainee confess to everything including the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.

Has been used which is the ultimate bastardization of music. One of my favorite bands they are (were) strongly political and very much against BOTH wars in Iraq. "Bombs over Baghdad" "Bulls on Parade" etc.

From FAUX News no less:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464685,00.html

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Music Used During U.S. Military Interrogations

U.S. military interrogators have often blasted music at detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. According to the British law group Reprieve, these are among the songs they have used most frequently:

• "Enter Sandman," Metallica.

• "Bodies," Drowning Pool.

• "Shoot to Thrill," AC/DC.

• "Hell's Bells," AC/DC.

• "I Love You," from the "Barney and Friends" children's TV show.

• "Born in the USA," Bruce Springsteen.

• "Babylon," David Gray.

• "White America," Eminem.

• "Sesame Street," theme song from the children's TV show.

Other bands and artists whose music has been frequently played at U.S. detention sites: Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Don McLean, Lil' Kim, Limp Bizkit, Meat Loaf, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tupac Shakur.

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I can't imagine listening to Britney Spears for 48 hours *shudder*

But I agree with the sentiments of your post. If they needed me to crack, they'd have to play ABBA's Dancing Queen once and I'd confess to any and everything. *shudders*

As a lifelong Springsteen fan, it pains me to see how they once again fail to understand what "Born In The U.S.A." is actually about. And it's just plain ridiculous that they had the nerve to use Rage's stuff, an irony that really couldn't be missed by anyone, even the military.

I won't even start on how they could abuse my all-time favorite metal album, "Back In Black," like this...

Ay Carumba!

10-22-2009
Musicians Seek Secret U.S. Documents on Music-Related Human Rights Abuse at Guantanamo:
National Security Archive Files FOIA Requests on Rock and Roll as "Enhanced Interrogation" Technique

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20091022/index.htm

All they needed to do was put this song on a continuous loop--a torture method as humane as it is effective.


rocktivity

Hearing them over and over in the 80s seemed like torture.