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| From | "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: I love Elvis, but enough... |
| Date | Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:51:39 -0700 |
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> For what it's worth, I couldn't help but notice that there's no quote from
> Elvis in that "Billboard" article...or, rather, the only quote from him is
> from 2001, back when Rhino began their reissue program. Not that we don't
> all have our price, but I'm just wondering how of a hand he'll have in this
> round of reissues, or if it's anything to do with him at all. (I don't know
> if he owns his back catalog or if it just bounces from label to label.)
I have a little bit of insight about this particular issue -- but I see it just angers
people on this list (and music fans in general, I guess) when I've tried to
explain the reasons why labels make these kinds of decisions (Jaimie and
a few others who work for labels can back me up on this), so I'll just say this....
Rhino wanted to keep the Elvis reissues from 2000-2001 in print, but Elvis
opted to go with Universal. Oh, and catalog titles don't just "bounce" from
label to label, but that seems rather obvious to me. Maybe that was a joke?
The Rhino reissue terms were lfor five years, and put together by Elvis and
his company -- yes, he owns his masters -- and Gary Stewart, ex-Rhino Sr.
VP of A&R, who no longer works for Rhino. The titles are now going
out-of-print (if they're not already), and I think some of you would agree it's
good idea to keep his catalog in print -- maybe some of you would prefer it
if albums came out one time only, in one configuration only, and were never
ever updated or remastered, or were never treated with "deluxe" editions,
new packaging, bonus material previously unavailable...I don't think like that
myself, but maybe some of you do. Rhino tried to offer something more to the
consumer by providing a lot of previously-unreleased material at a discounted
price; I have no idea what Universal plans to do.
B
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