----- Original Message -----
From: <garymaher@juno.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 2:58 AM
Subject: Aerovons


> I love this record, but I'm having trouble swallowing the story, for a
> few reasons:
>
> 1.  Wasn't Abbey Road still a long white labcoat kind of place in 1969?
> Were they really going to let a 17 year old novice take charge of a
> recording session?  Wouldn't the engineer revolt?  Wouldn't it affect the
> royalties / fees / something on the business side?
>
> 2.  How would just any recording artist get to listen to unreleased
> Beatles songs?  The song Resurrection is clearly a knockoff of Across the
> Universe, but the latter wasn't released until after the A's returned to
> the US.
>
> 3.  The record's too good to have sat unreleased for so long.  There were
> plenty of records released without bands to tour behind them.  If the
> label was willing to have Tom Hartman come back as a solo act, why not
> just retitle the record as a solo project and put together a new band?

All excellent theories Gary, very good thinking... The Aerovon's story is
the stuff legends are made of... Unfortunately I don't have the answers for
you, but I can only speculate that Tom Hartman's mom must have had a great
deal to do with the creation of the "legendary recording sessions" which led
them to even meet some The Fabs at Abbey Road (let alone sample some of
their new recordings)...

...This will be like if "Deep Throat" had died without finally revealing
that he was the man behind the Watergate scandal... Similarities between
Deep Throat and Hartman is that their both still alive and can still set the
record straight... C'mon Tom Hartman, give us the REAL story!...

Cheers,

Miguel