A lost fan?

[pete howe]

Regarding who has the rights to the studio material..HOW DID EMI MANAGE TO 
RELEASE THE 30 YEAR ANTHOLOGY TRIPLE CD??..which covers ALL the different 
Hawkwind studio label recordings etc etc..Surely then..EMI..COULD, 
theoretically, RELEASE ALL the Studio cds AS WELL???
     ? :-/



>From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: A lost fan?
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:16:14 +0100
>
>On 10/07/2006 10:48, M Holmes wrote:
>>I was talking to a work colleague last night.  It seems his 18 year old
>>son had gone to the Hawkwind website looking for MP3 samples to
>>download. He'd expected to be able to get at least some of their older
>>songs. He was apparently unimpressed by what's available and it doesn't
>>compare well to what he expects given experience of other bands online.
>>
>>It's a shame.  He's a big fan of The Who and seems a good potential
>>convert.  I'll send some CDs on loan to see if the situation can be
>>rescued.
>
>Perhaps he can at least be directed to the Roadburn stream (which ought
>to still be up).
>
>That said, even if Hawkwind *wanted* to provide some MP3 samples of
>older recordings on their Web site, they might have legal problems doing
>so.  The obvious samples to include would be stuff from the EMI
>remasters; who, actually, has the rights to that stuff at the moment?
>
>The best bet may be to rush off to iTunes Music Store, the UK version of
>which (at least) has quite a lot of vintage Hawkwind available in
>standard iTMS-style 30-second samples.
>
>I definitely owe my fandom to the kindness of a few BOC-L members back
>in the early 90s who sent me cassette tapes of things that, at the time, 
>hadn't yet ever been released on CD (let alone withdrawn! ;)
>
>Cheers,
>Carl
>
>--
>Carl Edlund Anderson
>mailto:cea at carlaz.com
>http://www.carlaz.com/

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