the Heliocentric sessions for ESP. i think he was going to call it "heliocentric worlds, vol.3". anyway, after i posted that info, i got an email from Bernard Stollman himself, wondering who this label was. all this leads me to believe Stollman still maintains some sort of (financial)interest in the ESP catalog.
Stollman loves the music and the musicians he put out in the sixties, and he loathed the fact that either NOTHING IS or the KAHOUTEK album came out under the Volume three banner in the seventies. Those were definitely bootlegs. Stollman loves the catalogue as a whole, and wouldn't mess with the titles. That's why I have doubts about the plans of a 'HW volume three'. Because such a thing doesn't exist, to my knowledge. If it existed, Stolman would have released it already, just as he put out Ayler's Prophecy and Slug's Saloon posthumously. Like WH vol. 3, those kind of belong to the original ESP Catalogue. But... Stollman does have access to hundreds of hours of live Sun Ra from the seventies, so called soundboard recordings. I don't know if he's still busy finding an outlet for that. When the Dutch Deal was starting of well, he talked about releasing them -in the long term- on ESP Calibre. Of course, nothing came of that. Regards, Remco