Looks like it’s time to travel back in time to when we were teenagers so we can smash all our copies of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in protest, hopefully whilst avoiding some sort of devastating tear in the space-time continuum.
Aussie band The Gooch Palms recently took to Facebook to vent their frustrations at skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, who used one of the duo’s songs in a recent social media video but failed to give credit to the band, despite a prearranged agreement.
“TFW Tony Hawk uses your song to promote a vid that has been seen hundreds of thousands of times but don’t pay or credit you,” the band wrote, later clarifying that they signed off on use of the song without payment so long as they were “properly credited”.
“Just to be clear, we agreed to allow them to use it for free (aka ‘exposure’) if they properly credited us with links across all social media, which they didn’t do,” the band told their fans. “So just bummed is all.”
“We emailed them and they said they would fix it, but then didn’t fix anything,” they added. After a fan pointed out that they did spot a credit for The Gooch Palms in one of The Birdman’s videos, the band clarified further.
“We’re referring to the Instagram vid but this isn’t what we agreed to when we allowed them to use our track for free. We were told there we would be credited on all platforms and there would be a clickable link,” they wrote.
“But at least if folks can read this in a split second they might know its us? Judging by the amount of people asking what song it is, doesn’t seem so though.”
“The second band being credited, not us, on YouTube was annoying but if they had of done the right thing and chucked @thegoochpalms after his schpiel on Instagram that would have been sick and probably resulted in some new people discovering our music.”
