HW/NIK: Question for Messrs Anderson & Turner

[Colin J Allen]

Dave Brock has never received any royalties for Yuri or any of the other
Dave Anderson releases.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: HW/NIK: Question for Messrs Anderson & Turner


> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:03:26 +0100, Jon Jarrett
> <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> >        Either way, again, it's a live recording not owned by the
> >band, and there are therefore no royalties to be paid.
>
> Yes, and no.  There would still be royalties paid on the
> songwriting/publishing.  Which means that, presumably, Dave Brock is still
> making more money off of these than anyone except Dave A (and the owners
of
> EMI publishing).  So it's only the non-writers (Del & Dik, Simon King, and
> Lemmy [who, of course, doesn't need the money relative to the others]) who
> can legitimately complain about getting screwed financially.
>
> The one shady bit that I just noticed on my Decal/Charly 'Yuri Gagarin' CD
> is that the non-EMI tracks which are Calvert poems ("In The Egg", "Wage
> War") are credited to Nik, and not Bob.  Although one can easily argue
that
> if it had the correct songwriting credits, it wouldn't be a real Hawkwind
> live album!
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>