HW: Hakwind prices on Ebay

[Jon Jarrett]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Doug Pearson wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:24:34 -0400, The Cold War Kid <h-loopey at FSMAIL.NET>
> wrote:
> >
> >On the CD cover it says "Under licence from Ridgetop Music". Are they the
> >actual owners of the material? Are they peddaling it onto unsuspecting
> >record lables or are Rock Fever playing a game of subtefugue.
> >Curiouser and curiouser said Alice.
>
> A quick Google search reveals that Ridgetop Music is the name of American
> folk singer Jesse Colin Young's (ex-Youngbloods, who had a big hit
> with "Get Together" in the mid-60s) personal indie label - absolutely
> NOTHING to do with Hawkwind (except perhaps that he released an album on
> Jefferson Airplane/Starship's boutique label, Grunt, and Jefferson
> Starship later shared a split LP with Hawkwind that went out to the US
> Armed Forces radio network around 1974).

        A thought, possibly a daft one, but, who holds the rights to issue
these things in the USA that Griffin once had? Could somebody have bought
out Rob Godwin?

        Doesn't explain the bonus tracks, but almost anything off F&R has
been bartered and sold so many times that its legality might also be
negotiable, no?

        Just wondering anyway. Yours,
                                      Jon

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