I walked to work this morning, listening to an old edition of The New Yorker's fiction podcast. Once the podcast concluded, I still had about five minutes of walking time left so I cued up a few Journey songs to kick off the day right.
I tried to find the video for "Separate Ways" on YouTube so I could share it with you, but both versions I found had "embedding disabled by request". Will someone please explain to me the reasoning why you'd request for embedding to be disabled? Why go to the trouble of uploading a video to the internets, to YouTube no less, and then forbid people from to sharing and showing it on their blogs and websites? Do you not want your video to be watched? Are music videos not made as a promotional tool? In my experience, major record labels are the biggest offenders when it comes to disabling embedding. What are they accomplishing with this?? Good for you, no one is discovering your video!
Embedding disabled by request is one of my biggest pet peeves.
So, instead of showing you the promotional music video for "Separate Ways", I'm sharing this video of one of the first live performances of the song. Could someone figure out a way to time-travel me back to this concert? Please and thanks.
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