Turns out the ex-manager is not sitting on the Lolita Nation tapes after all! They are somewhere in Capitol Record's vaults. So, to the ex-manager - I take it all back and my apologies, but if you do still own the rights, please....help get those tapes to the folks that may want to reissue them! That would be a wonderful thing.
Gil
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One thing nice about a digital master (correct me if my assumptions, based on no actual knowledge, are totally fulla it) is that there's no such thing as an original - or rather, duplication doesn't degenerate it. So it's possible for guerrilla artist power-plays: you won't release it, the artist will. It's a damned shame there's no way to access the masters. The original recording itself will live on, since it's on CD and probably digitally duplicated all over the world - but if the master tapes are lost... Damn. (Hey - didn't know you had a bloggy thingy.)
Yep, it's a whole new world with digital, and I really like the idea of the musicians not really even needing the old fat corporate companies like they used to. Hopefully, the bloat and potentially huge monetary debt of the old school will now be handled way more reasonably and efficiently by smarter, smaller labels. And yes, as alway, I'm very late into this bogging thing!
Thanks for the comment!
Gil
I'm not sure if it's the ex-manager's rights-having that's preventing a reissue or the difficulty of locating the masters. I suspect the former, since the latter would be eminiently solvable, given a week or so.
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