Ken: This all happened when I was working at Koch International, which distributes Smithsonian Folkways. It was my understanding, from the guy who was running Folkways at the time, that a deal had indeed been tendered to Stollman. The fact that the Folkways guy was carrying around a ring binder containing all of the ESP CD reissues done by XYZ Germany led me to believe that things were happening. So in a sense, it's hearsay, but it's certainly *enlightened* hearsay. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Art Ensemble of Chicago, "Reese and the Smooth Ones, Part 1," 'Reese and the Smooth Ones' (ESP/Sunspots) - caveat emptor: major vinyl swish during the first 60-90 second of this new CD reissue and minor clicks and pops throughout...vital music, nonetheless. On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:59:16 -0400 (EDT) Ken Waxman <mingusaum@yahoo.ca> wrote: Steve: I'm not party to anything inside that happens in the big US music biz, but was Stollman really made an offer? I heard about it at the time, but stories about deals are always floating around and some never come to fruition. If Stollman got a dollar offer and turned it down -- and he's often maintained that his ex-wife got the ESP rights as part of the divorce settlement -- then that's too bad. But if it was just someone from the Smithsonian Institute suggesting that they do a deal, or a floating rumor that maybe it should be done ... Anyways if that happened and he found out about it, John Ashcroft may have launched an investigation into why an institution so close to his office was paying money for this subversive stuff. regards, Ken Waxman --- Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com> wrote:
Not that it would have helped Remco, but just imagine how different things might be now if Stollman had accepted the offer for the entire ESP catalog offered to him by the Smithsonian Institute on behalf of the Folkways label, just prior to his making the deal with Calibre.
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