Reading 92 SBD vs Official AUD

[Ian Abrahams]

Err, thanks for all of that, I was just pointing out it was Carol's book rather than mine :)

Re the RCA thing (rather than fired I think contracted not renewed, which is a bit different)... I'd have to check but I think most of the albums you've noted came after the RCA deal had ended, but it's certainly true that recollections of most members of the day seem to be that a glut of stuff released away from the principal contract was at least partly responsible for the deal not being renewed... I assume this is therefore early flicknife, Weird Tapes etc... but you'd have to also assume that generally RCA didn't want to renew as the volumes of stuff outside the contract was, at the time, real cottage industry turnover surely and I can't see in hindsight it could have been the sole reason for non-renewal. 

Ian




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Ian ,Carol indeed in her book has a few pages devoted to the Voiceprint
situation with members and Douglass Smith complaining about Dave B . signing
for the releases himself only and comments from people on the bad sound
quality of the releases . I'm looking at it right now .She also has a few
pages on Hawkwind being called into the office and fired from the RCA
label,their last major. RCA tells them it is because of all the bad sounding
audience tapes out there being sold as legitimate recordings alongside the
RCA releases . In other words the Yuri Gargarian ,Text of Festival, Space
Ritual 2 and the Acid Daze and all their various reincarnations . Its still
happening today . Only now to Atomhenge with Reading ,Minneapolis ,and still
all the various versions of Text of ,Acid Daze,Space Ritual2 ,etc. Matter of
fact ,another remastered new version of Text Of Festival is now on all the
websites. Go to cduniverse.com .for example .Guess the first two featured cd
titles on page 1. Quark reissue,25 years on? NO ! Its Reading 1992 and a
Brand new remastered Text of Festival . The Atomhenge releases are not
highlighted at all and are actually on sale already. A lot of fans who may
already have some of the the Griffin or EBS issues of the Atomhenges in the
USA are buying the Reading ,Minneapolis and Knights of Space instead because
they are something they don't have at all. And because they are in
legitimate big box stores ,they assume they are official great sound quality
releases .After spending almost $100 for those 3 in this economy ,when they
get those 3 in the post , think their happy?