Good morning fellow collectors, its a sunny day here in Holland, have a nice cup of coffee (or tea) and look at what we have done this month. More or less an Andy Summers special and not a Police special. Will save this police special for one of the next issue updates when I get the Strontium 90 CD from Japan.
Feel free to contribute your article for this FREAKS Police annual special. Could use some personel POLICE experiences from you as a collector.
In this issue:
Andy Summers and Dennis Miller
Andy Summers and Eric Burdon
Andy Summers tour dates
Andy Summers & Larry Corell "lost Album"
Strontium 90 tracks
2 new Sting bootlegs
An interview with a bootlegger
Erwin Kempen : The Dennis Miller show is a US late night talk show, Andy appeared as a band leader in the first shows.
********************Dennis Miller Live
20. Has the show won any awards?
DML '96 has won in the categories of OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES AND OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A VARIETY OR MUSIC PROGRAM (for the second year in a row). Miller's HBO Special, Citizen Arcane, had also been nominated in the category of OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SPECIAL. DML won the Emmy in 1994 as well for Best Writing in a Variety Series beating out the prominent and favorite, Late Show with David Letterman. In its sophomore year, Dennis Miller Live repeated by winning the Emmy for Outstanding individual achievement in writing in a variety or music program. DML lost in the category of Outstanding Variety or Music Program.. DML was in fine company as it joined the Late Show with David Letterman in the loss to.. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Put it this way...the 8 people who watch Leno's show were on the Academy's committee. Miller was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a variety or music program, but was later stripped of that honor because of a pinhead emmy technicality. It seems he wasn't supposed to be nominated because his name can not be part of the title of the program.
21. What is the Format of the show?
It is a 1/2 hour program. Monologue (Rant) -> Guest/Call-in -> The Big Screen
6. What were some of those great songs that played him in to the Update with that dancing Statue of Liberty?"
Break on Through to the Other Side- The Doors
Layla- Eric Clapton
Roxanne- when Sting was on the show
Communication Breakdown- Led Zeppelin
My Funny Valentine- Frank Sinatra
Touch Me- The Doors
19. Who was his bandleader?
For the first few weeks it was Andy Summers formally from the Police. Then one day he mysteriously left. Chris Costello explaines... Andy Summers apparently said that the deal was that he would get the show started, and never planned to be a permanent fixture. The band started with Summers on guitar, Chad Wackerman (Allan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa) on drums, Doug Lunn (Ed Mann, Fire Merchants) on bass, and David Goldblatt (LA Session musician) on keyboards. I don't recall the guitarist who came in after Summers left. With the exception of Goldblatt, it was the same group that toured to support _Charming Snakes_, Andy Summers' 1990 release on the Private Music label. When Summers left, Goldblatt became the bandleader, and the band was dubbed "Goldie and the Wackermen".
Eric Burdon Album Discography
At least one of the visitors to these pages was hoping to find an Eric Burdon discography, so I volunteered to start one. I can in no way claim to be an expert, but every project has to begin somewhere....
Following are some of the more recent Eric Burdon LP's / CD's available.
Please feel free to add any information you might have on Eric's releases since 1984. I will add your additions and gradually work back to even earlier materials.
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Roadrunners
Raven RVCD-11 (CD) Australia, 1990
Eric Burdon: vocals
Barry Jenkins: drums
Hilton Valentine: guitar (1-4)
Dave Rowberry: keyboards (1-4)
Chas Chandler: bass (1-4)
John Wieder: guitar & violin (5-19)
Vic Briggs: guitar (5-13)
Danny McCullogh: bass (5-13)
Andy Somers (Summers): bass & guitar (14-19)
Zoot Money: piano & organ (14-19)
Recorded
1-4 BBC Radio, 1966
5 German Television, 1967
6,7 Monterey Pop Festival, 1967
8-13 Festival Hall, Melbourne, 1967
16-19 Stockholm, 1968
1. Heartbreak Hotel 2:35
2. The Work Song 2:46
3. Corrina Corrina 2:43
4. Jailhouse Rock 2:47
5. Roadrunner 2:47
6. Gin House Blues 7:47
7. Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) 8:10
8. Shake, Rattle & Roll
9. When I Was Young
10. See See Rider
11. Rock Me Baby
12. Tobacco Road
13. So Long
Note: tracks 8-13 total time 18:09
14. Inside Looking Out 3:39
15. Maudie 2:58
16. Yes I Am Experienced 4:07
17. San Fransiscan Nights 4:25
18. Monterey 6:05
19. Paint It Black 6:15
http://www.pollstar.com
Andy Summers
Dates from 01/01/97 to 12/31/97
Show all dates
06/10/97 Los Angeles CA Catalina Bar & Grill
06/11/97 Los Angeles CA Catalina Bar & Grill
06/12/97 Los Angeles CA Catalina Bar & Grill
06/13/97 Los Angeles CA Catalina Bar & Grill
06/14/97 Los Angeles CA Catalina Bar & Grill
06/15/97 Los Angeles CA Catalina Bar & Grill
06/20/97 Emeryville CA Kimball's East
06/21/97 Emeryville CA Kimball's East
06/22/97 Emeryville CA Kimball's East
From: Holly Murdock
To: "Police Internet Mailing List"
Hi all,
I saw Larry Coryell last night in concert on the first stop on his US tour for his new album Spaces Revisited. In a small theater with less than 150 people, Larry (just him and his guitar) played for 2 1/2 hours. It was phenomenal. As some of you may remember, Larry toured with Andy last spring.
I got a chance to talk to him for a few minutes. He is one of the nicest musicians I've ever met, and I politely found a way of bringing up Andy. I had heard they were going to record together, and asked if they'd had the chance. Larry told me that they had recorded an album but because of contractual problems it will never be released! He wasn't too happy about it, but there's nothing he can do. All I can say is that we have been robbed of what a little bit of heaven must sound like.
Erwin Kempen : Not completely, for those who are interested in Andy and Larry Corell try to find this interview. KCRW "This morning becomes eclectric", it is an interview (45 minutes) with Andy on May 2 1996. Andy brought a DAT tape with him with one track of that "lost album". This is on the net aswell (http://www.kcrw.org/g/live96.html), but the complete tracks can be found as an audio tape from a few collectors.
Strontium 90 album:
1. Visions of The Night
2. New World Blues
3. 3 o'clock shot (live)
4. Lady of Delight
5. Electron Romance
6. Every Little Thing :) demo
7. Tover Tumble
8. Electron Romance (live)*
9. New World Blues (live)*
10. Lady Of Delight (live)*
11. Tover Tumble (live)*
* recorded live at Paris "Hippodrome" May 28th 1977, tracks 10 and 11 are only available for the Japanese issue, release date Japan is July 9th,Europe and USA August 26th (WHAT!!!!!!!) almost 2 months later?
Release date for Regatta Mondatta "A tribute to The Police" will be for Japan on June 6th, Europe July 15th and for USA July 29th.
That's all........
There are 2 new bootlegs, here is the info about them (thanks Lit.).
Made in USA by SVP Music Manufacturing LTD. 1995
It's called "TST Tour Live in USA", it's American and comes in a papersleeve. It has the following tracks:
1. Heavy Cloud
2. Seven days
3. FOG
4. Synchro
5. Every little
6. Roxanne
7. Shape
8. EINY
9. KOP
10. Bring on
11. She's 2 Good
12. Nothing 'Bout Me
13. EBYT
14. Fragile
Today I received a new bootleg called "I shall Be Released"
Catno. CID 20 197, Dolphin Production, made in Canada 1997 (!?)
Two funny things: Emi, IRS, A&M, Mercury, MCA etc are thanked for making this compilation possible
(Canadian humor ?) and on the disc it says additional "part one", so we might expect another one ?
1. Why Don't You Answer
2. Only The Wind
3. Gabriel's Message
4. The Ballad Of Mack The Knive
5. Sister Of Mercy
6. Strange Fruit
7. I shall be released (live in London'81, Amnesty gig)
8. I Been down so long (live, Greek Theatre, L.A. 1986)
9. Demolition Man (soundtrack)
10. A Day in the Life (Live Villa Manin, 1993)
11. Another Day
12. Murder By Numbers (live with F. Zappa)
13. If You There (12" version)
14. Spirits in the Material World (with Pato Banton)
15. Nice Work If You Can Get it
16. Only You
17. Spread A Little Happiness
To be honest a CD and cover is nice done, but I wouldn't encourage such releases. Some Police semi-live studio work would be much nicer.
An interview with a Bootlegger
http://www.webnoize.com/97-5/features/rodney/
The Mysterious Mr. Rodney sells bootlegs on the Internet. The bootleg industry is discussed more extensively in an accompanying article, The "Other" Record Industry.
Webnoize: How long have you been doing business on the Internet?
Mr. Rodney: I've been working on the 'net seriously for about two years, and for about a year before that. I dealt in boots for a year or so before moving to the Internet.
Webnoize: What Internet tools are your main venue (WWW, Usenet, IRC, email solicitation, etc.)?
Mr. Rodney: My main tools are Usenet and email. I think the WWW is too conspicuous -- it would seem too much like I have a business, which I'm not interested in, and neither are my customers.
Webnoize: Who is your typical customer?
Mr. Rodney: Like regular retail stores, there's a wide range of customers. If you count a customer as someone who actually makes a purchase, it seems to be someone, usually male because of the bands I deal in, just out of college, who has a decent job and more money than they've seen in their life. These people are usually direct and articulate and don't have to be coaxed along as to how to get boot info on the 'net and how to conduct a deal. One email to me, one back from me and the deal is done.
If you count a customer as anyone who wants to make a purchase, then you're talking about a hesitant college kid with eyes and ears bigger than his or her wallet. I can tell from their email grammar and syntax that I'll get less than 50% sell-through on these customers. Some barely seem to know how to buy stamps to send money. Sometimes I feel like that comic book guy on the Simpsons dealing with these people. Nirvana fans are particularly vacuous.
Out of this realm are non-US customers, who make up about 30% of my business, and often complete a nice cycle, as the bootleg CD itself gets to visit Europe again. The northern European countries, which are supposedly the most online, are particularly productive. Most non-US customers are very articulate and level headed, so I guess they'd fall into the first category.
The non-US base is expanding very quickly, particularly in countries such as France, which are finally starting to dump MiniTel in favor of the Internet. I send stuff to Singapore often, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Taiwan in Asia (and Israel), Australia and New Zealand, Brazil and Peru in South America, South Africa and Kenya in Africa, all of Western Europe except the little municipalities, plus Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. Also most of the 50 states, plus lots to Canada and a little to Mexico.
Webnoize: What acts are the perennial sellers? Who is especially hot right now?
Mr. Rodney: The names you'd guess would always be hot are always hot: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Stones, etc. But on much of the material by these bands, a saturation level seems to have been reached, just as it has been reached by CD clubs like BMG and Columbia House. Only the highest quality new releases sell. A lot of the classic titles for these bands are out of print.
The post-Nirvana bands, such as Tori Amos, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Oasis, and the "new" R.E.M. are, like on the Billboard charts, hot when a tour has just started, but then unreliable in terms of consistent sales and, for the releases themselves, unreliable in terms of quality. As far as quality goes, good word of mouth, or a review in a certain publication will dramatically increase sales, whereas bad word of mouth will kill a product.
A good product by an established artist who doesn't get much boot attention, such as Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, or even the Monkees, will sell multiple copies quickly. An amazing product by a highly regarded new talent such as Portishead or Massive Attack or the Chemical Brothers is usually a stiff.
Webnoize: Have you ever felt in danger of getting into trouble?
Mr. Rodney: I've never felt in much danger myself, but one of my connections was arrested, then suddenly developed "indicted old guy" disease and was able to avoid jail time. There have been times when I've hesitated getting in touch with my contacts for fear that their lines were tapped, which they probably were.
Webnoize: Busts in the last year have become awfully dramatic.
Mr. Rodney: I knew about that huge Florida bust the night it went down. It was the heads of most of the major Western European boot companies. From my understanding, the US will be hard pressed to make any charges stick; there's a real question whether they have jurisdiction over the guys charged. They'll end up with slaps on the wrists, not be allowed back in the country, and have a much harder time getting stuff into the US. But they still will. This is like setting up ant traps around the house instead of trying to kill the nest. If a government employee can steal a plane full of bombs, the system will allow for a customs official who will take a few bucks to let the CDs into the country.
Overall, I think the busts happened as an example to other countries. The US, who wants free trade, especially on the 'net, wanted to flex its muscles first to show other countries that it means business, and second to show that catching copyright infringers is possible. The US wants to police the world copyright market, but doesn't want to spend the money, especially in places such as China and Eastern Europe -- this was a "how-to" experience.
Webnoize: How long were you out of business after the busts?
Mr. Rodney: After last summer's busts, I was out of commission about 3 or 4 months. This most recent time, there's been no lag thus far, but the system of distribution and warehousing changed after the last busts, so the effects have not been so dramatic. There will be a lull, but there's been no indication that the market will go as dry as last time.
Webnoize: Is business back to where it was before the busts?
Mr. Rodney: It's not back, it never went. But it's hard to judge. New titles are still coming out.
Webnoize: How have parties other than law enforcement authorities made things difficult for bootleggers? For example, people representing Dave Matthews Band sent letters threatening to fine some record stores.
Mr. Rodney: One distinction between Dave Matthews and a few other bands from most artists is that they have the backing of their fans, who have mostly bought into the "no CD" boot thing, adding it to the morality chart somewhere between not killing and not coveting thy neighbor's wife. This is how it is with Blues Traveler fans, as well as a good chunk of Dead fans. It's different from the Garth Brooks situation a few years ago, when he tried to stop used CD sales, which was like kicking his fans in their ten-gallon hats. But like Brooks, Matthews has hit the real problem: the retailers. They're the ones who make the killer profit, present company excepted. This raises a question: are the artists really concerned about having material out there without their approval, or are they just jealous that they can't make obscene, Eisner-like profits?
Webnoize: To many people bootleggers are heroes, getting rare material to starving collectors who are not respected by the big labels. To others, bootleggers are leeches.
Mr. Rodney: People rarely give me any crap, except the real high-and-mighties like the Blues Traveler fans. And even in those cases, there's one person who writes a message saying that, while they're not out to get me, I should be warned that I'm going to get a million flames. And then the other flames never materialize. This leads me to believe that, just like in most communities, mailing lists and Usenet groups involve only one or two people who really care about anti-bootlegging, and the other community members do whatever's expedient at the time. A person can be against bootlegs in general, but if they were at that Madison Square Garden gig where Oasis did the rare song, the disc makes a nice souvenir.
There's a difference between the bootleggers who make the discs and the bootleggers who sell them. Anger is usually aimed at the first category because they actually make the stuff (and they should be blamed for bad product). But if the sanctimonious, anti-profit loudmouths had any sense, it would be retailers who would shoulder the scorn: why make $.30 on the new Madonna when you can make $15 off some sap who will pay for a Metallica boot CD?
Webnoize: Will there always be bootlegs?
Mr. Rodney: Sure. If the record companies had any sense, they'd start making "bootlegs" themselves. With CD-R, they could hire some mailroom schleps to run off quick, cheap, collector's copies that could be sold to fans through mail order or exclusive distribution. The major labels manufacture small runs of "promotional copies" that are often nothing more than non-taxed perks for their employees who sell them to dealers. And just like bootleggers, I don't think labels pay royalties to artists on these products. In general, bootlegs are like the other so-called vices: sex, drugs, and at one time rock and roll itself. They're attractive because they're dangerous -- people always want to taste the forbidden fruit, to think they're secretly getting more than the other "normal" fans, to find out that their heroes are human and make mistakes. Hell, the Israelites were probably circulating Ten Commandments outtakes before Moses finally showed up with the "official" pressing. And the Bill of Rights is really just the more interesting and important outtakes from the Founding Fathers' Constitution sessions. Of course there will always be bootlegs!
Last rumour is that there will be a TWANG II CD release very soon. It will be an album as a tribute for The Ventures, thisone has a song with Stewart Copeland and Jeff Beck..........more later !!!
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