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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Beatles tribute details... |
| Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:25:36 -0400 |
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At Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:10:21 Brian wrote:
>A long time coming indeed. We Oohs recorded our contribution back in early
>2002, long before finishing our last album "Saturday Morning Dream." In
>fact, I remember our guitarist's arm was in a sling as he had suffered a
>hairline fracture at the time! We wanted to get in early, I guess. I'm
>anxious to hear everyone else's tracks, and I'm excited to see this beast
>finally hit the racks!
Apologies to all those who've been hanging on needles & pins for this to
come out. The initial release was supposed to have Randy Bachman on it....in
fact, some Canadian newspapers ran a national story about it (without
consulting with me). They said I was still looking for material [which we
weren't] and I got bombarded with nearly 300 submissions. Randy never did
record a track....and went off with the Guess Who on another tour.
Then we got another member of the Guess Who sent a track....a swing version
of "I Feel Fine". Alas, it was completely incongruent with the pop/rock
flavour of the other material we were getting from people. Same goes for
some other well-known 'stars' (Kim Fowley, Scott McCarl, et al) who sent
GREAT versions....but when assembling this thing we had to juggle between
good production vs. poor production, name acts vs. newcomers, with to
include cover versions of Beatle cover versions (which we ultimately decided
to disallow), and the headache that is the legalities of dealing with that
sacred cow that is The Beatles (needless to say SONY/ATV have been
unforgiving in royalty reductions -- which is a John, Paul, George & Ringo
edict not SONY/ATV's....but otherwise quite co-operative).
The set was actually compiled and assembled by a community of Beatlephiles
-- Greg Godovitz (who claims the largest single Beatles memoribillia
collection in Canada) and has performed a Beatles track our 500 with both
Fludd, Goddo and The Carpet Frogs; Terry Draper of Klaatu who, at one time,
was told he WAS a member of the Beatles; myself, my business partner (who
has a seemingly unlimited knowledge of the Beatles...and owns some original
song manuscripts including the score to "Yesterday") and this list's very
own Beatle-ologist Gary "Pig" Gold.
Alas, there was stuff we had to leave off....there was stuff that conflicted
in one context but not in another....thus the freebie sampler we're giving
away featuring material from acts that didn't suit the flavour of the double
disc set but deserve to be heard....mainly the plethora of artists from both
the Bullseye and Jam Records roster and some other notables.
Brian...sorry your band has changed line-ups 12 times since this was
recorded....hazards of the biz :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages
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