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| From | Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> |
| Subject | Robbs...licensing info |
| Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:28:45 -0600 |
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> I just confirmed with Gordon at Collectors Choice
> that the Robbs disc won't have any bonus tracks,
> which is a bummer. There are some good tracks
> out there....just like David and Stewart said...still,
> it's a great album.
The main reason they can't do bonus trax is that many of the majors have
policies regarding licensing their recordings to third parties where
agreement is set up to *only* include what was on the original release.
These are done to streamline, I believe, their legal work and make the
application for many potential licensors easily applied to any of the indie
labels they work with in licensing their lingering music assets.
A label, like CC(or even Not Lame), *could* add bonus trax, if they really
wanted to----BUT the minimum amount guaranteed by the licensing label
increases by a factor of 3+, making the realistic numbers that an
niche-styled re-issue like this could obtain, well, unobtainable.
Not Lame will be doing, increasingly, some catalog reissues w/ WEA and
others in the coming years and almost all them will be like this----without
bonus trax. But they will have great booklets and liners and sound great.
Great news on the Robbs!
Peace,
Bruce
@ Not Lame Recordings
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