HW: Remaster everything on the Atomhenge Label

[mike coleman]

Cutting room floor United Artists material, reels and reels of it...CD's to
infinity, Hawkwind Brand Name Laser Tables, Vinyl minus barcodes (OK so
anti-drug messages might need a place on the inner sleeves for the fiends)
*CD SINGLES BOX.*
On 8/8/08, Steve Freight <stevefreight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think I read somewhere that EMI own the recordings up to Warrior (there
> was some dispute when this was released outside of the EMI stable) and that
> after that they were done on a licensing deal with the recordings remaining
> the property of Hawkwind or Doug.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 8/8/08, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:05:36AM +0200, Johan Edlundh typed out:
> > > Got a mail from CD Services today;
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------
> > > [...]
> > > We are extremely pleased to announce to you that the entire HAWKWIND
> > > catalogue released between 1976 and 1997 is soon to be Remastered and
> > > Re-Issued on the new Atomhenge Label... and with Bonus Tracks!!!
> >
> >        <snip>
> >
> >        Trying to pull this together in my head. We're looking at stuff
> > that was on Charisma that went to Virgin that went to EMI... and stuff
> > that was on Bronze that went to Castle that would therefore now belong
> > to Sanctuary? and stuff that was on RCA that went to EBS, and stuff that
> > was on GWR that went to Castle etc., and then just stuff that was on EBS
> > all along. So Doug Smith is involved... and I guess Sanctuary (if I'm
> > right in remembering that they picked up Castle's Essential label) have
> > had all the money they think is viable out of the RCA and GWR releases.
> > And I suppose EMI would just rather have someone else do the reissue of
> > this chunk of catalogue? Are they still printing the six they did
> > remaster?
> >
> >        All the same, it's an impressive amount of apparent cooperation,
> > goodwill and effort, which leaves the question: why couldn't they manage
> > to get Warrior? Why would EMI sit on that and not the Charisma/Virgin
> > stuff? Oh well. I mean, I have my copy, you know. But it still seems
> > odd. Yours,
> >            Jon
> >
> > --
> > "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
> >            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> > Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> >
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