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| From | "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Swag: are there two versions of this album? |
| Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:49:27 -0700 |
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As I remember, Cheap Trick the legal entity raised a stink because
of Tom's envolvement in Swag. I think he was also being billed in
ads and on tour as "Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick". I bet Bruce
knows the details.
- michael
On 8/10/06, Rafael Paulino Neto <rpaulino@bignet.com.br> wrote:
> Sorry if this was covered here before.
>
> I bought the Swag cd 'Catch-All' soon after it came out. Now, this
> friend of mine - who is a big Cheap Trick fan - bought one too, same
> label, same catalog number (YEP 2023). Then, to our surprise, his cd is
> very different from mine. He got that mostly because of Tom Petersson,
> but for some reason his edition has very little of Tom on it. There is a
> mention of Tom as one of the writers of three songs and that seems to be
> all. It's like he was erased from the album. The insert photo was
> replaced by another without him. His name was erased from the line up on
> the back cover. The comments on tracks where he played were rewritten.
> On 'You' the new comments say 'Todd Rundgren guests on bass'. Even parts
> of the front cover (like Tom with a gun on Dream Police) have been hidden.
>
> I presume that some kind of contractual problem might have caused this.
>
> I still didn't listen to this new edition, but just by looking at the
> whole thing I suspect that even a 'Ozzy style' bass re-recording thing
> might have happened on tracks were Tom originally played.
>
> Would someone please help me clarify this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rafael.
>
>
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