HW - Garibaldi's back!!!

[Paul Mather]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:

=> First, in response to the one guy who asked about the BBC Sessions album
=> - not much of a story here I'm afraid. What basically happened was that
=> one of the mail order operations who spend oodles of money advertising
=> in the likes of Record Collector, had an album advertised for sale by
=> Hawkwind called 'BBC Sessions' or similar. Knowing nothing about it, I
=> called EMI, who confirmed that it was coming out, had a release date and
=> even a catalogue number for it, but no other info. So, naturally, to get
=> the full info on content, I called Doug Smith who was quite amazed when
=> I asked the question. It turned out that the album had been arranged
=> between Doug and EMI but had not got as far as any terms or contract
=> being signed for its release to take place and that, I suppose, EMI had
=> 'jumped the gun' assuming it was all signed, sealed and delivered. All I
=> can now presume, since it disappeared off the schedules a while later,
=> is that an agreement couldn't be reached [...]

So, if I get this right, the _BBC Sessions_ was all ready to hit the
players of unsuspecting fans until you called up Doug Smith and wrecked
the whole thing?!?!? ;-)

We may have to revise the cherised BOC-L tenet that Steve Swann is to
blame for everything!...

>;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

NP: Pink Floyd, _Meddle_

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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