[OutVoice] Thanks for the bleeping Help !!!

[freddy at freddyfreeman.com]

I have learned so much reading the reponses. Thank you all for taking the time to enlighten me. The concensus seems to be that there are a variety of options, but as long as I am respectful to programmers and warn them that there is a song with an objectionable word they can choose to bleep it out or not play that track. In my case, the word sticks out all by itself and is EXTREMELEY easy to edit out. I will make sure when it goes out to all of you DJ's that there is a sticker attached showing the track number and counter time of the offending word , and maybe even include a radio edit. It would literally take me about 2-3 minutes to do the edit. So, thank you again everyone. Once again this is an example of why we are so lucky to have a groups like Outmusic and Outvoice, where we can give each other advice and share our expertise with others. I have been working on this album for 6 YEARS, and seen these songs go through countless incarnations of demos, and finally it goes out to the manufacturer TODAY !! So, thank you again to all of you who have been so helpful.  

Freddy Freeman 
Singer Songwriter 
Founder of Bearapalooza
BREAK THE SILENCE - December2006 
www.freddyfreeman.com 

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 From: "Joseph A. Maulucci" <Poetbear at bearradio.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:55 AM
To: freddy at freddyfreeman.com>, <outmusic at yahoogroups.com>, <outvoice at outvoice.net
Subject: [Outmusic] Re: [OutVoice] FCC Bleeping 

Including a "radio version" may be a good idea as then the station will not
have to go out of it's way. I would think the first syllable gets the idea 
across.
An actual beep would draw a strong attention to it. If the song is less of 
a
rocker (and you are able to still edit just the vocal track) you may try 
just
fading out the rest of the word.

Since I'm just an internet station, I'd play the original during my more 
adult
time slot which is 9pm to 5am (est) and run the edited version the rest of 
the day.

--Joe
Bear Radio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <freddy at freddyfreeman.com>
To: <outmusic at yahoogroups.com>; <outvoice at outvoice.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: [OutVoice] FCC Bleeping

>I am all for freedom of expression. I hate censorship.
> However, I dont want DJ's of radio shows, to have the extra hassle of 
> having to worry about
> not playing one my songs because they may get fined for my use of the word 
> Fuck in a direct quotation of a friend in a story song. Although the use 
> of the word is integral to the plotline, it wont lose it's impact if it is 
> bleeped out, as the listenener will know what its supposed to be. I'd 
> rather not do this, but if it will present a problem for radio 
> programmers, as I said, it can be done without changing the meaning. I 
> ship the masters off to be manufactured in a few days and I am considering 
> bleeping out the word.
>
> The question is this, How MUCH of the word needs to be bleeped out ?
> The only information I could find online, is that the FCC does not 
> actually have a list of banned words and everything is contextual.
>
> Do any of you radio people have any thoughts on this or know what is 
> acceptable and not acceptable?
> Would you play a song with a bleeped Fuck in it, have things changed, can 
> you now play it unbleeped?
> Just looking for some feedback from Y'all
>
> Freddy Freeman
> Singer Songwriter
> Founder of Bearapalooza
> BREAK THE SILENCE - December2006
> www.freddyfreeman.com
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> 

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