The Getaway PlanThough they just put out their newest and third record, Dark Horses, debuting at #10 on the ARIA Charts, Melbourne alt rockers The Getaway Plan were faced with British rock extraordinaire Rod Stewart holding up the use of the song Lost In The Woods on the album.
Lost In The Woods samples Stewart's 1981 song, Young Turks.
As The Music Network reports, frontman Matthew Wright said they didn't sample the song directly but Wright sang it himself, but Stewart's reps didn't reply with a clearance when the band reached out last October.
Wright says, "We were like ‘Fuck it we’re just going to go ahead and do it' … [We] mastered it and then a week or two after we mastered it they said no."
The band were even prepared to offer Stewart 100% of the royalties from the song, as well as mark the song as a cover, but to no avail.
Wright added, "To me [being refused is] flattering almost … That we would have a song that could potentially interfere with something. If it was shit they’d just be like ‘pfft go for it’."
The replacement track-ten Monuments was pulled off the band's acoustic EP, with the band implying Lost In The Woods may "see the light of day" as a free download in the future.
