tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post4456735420895124405..comments2024-03-28T02:11:12.904-07:00Comments on Hooterollin' Around: Album Economics: Contemporary Live Albums From 1971 (Skull And Roses)Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-71194379494559176572018-08-10T20:27:12.976-07:002018-08-10T20:27:12.976-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-37144190069347779722015-07-21T11:07:35.199-07:002015-07-21T11:07:35.199-07:00I suggested it for the honourable mention section ...I suggested it for the honourable mention section as it fit the time line also Jimi used it to satisfy a previous record contract thus the release on Capitol as opposed to the Reprise label (Warners). To be accurate Mitch came back and replaced Buddy Miles. I enjoy your work and thanks for the reply. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-11472652554831120252015-07-12T17:12:56.885-07:002015-07-12T17:12:56.885-07:00Band Of Gypsys is certainly another high profie li...Band Of Gypsys is certainly another high profie live album from the era. However, when it was released, Hendrix had already dismantled that lineup (Mitch back for Billy Cox), so in that sense the album was archival as soon it was released. Hendrix was also a huge live act prior to its release, so it wasn't like a live album was giving casual fans the surprising information that Hendrix was great live. <br /><br />My proposition was that Warners was looking at double live albums by mid-level working bands, like JOe Cocker, Grand Funk and the Allman Brothers, and seeing how the albums put those acts over the top. Hendrix was already on top, by any accounting, and Warners would not have seen much of a comparison.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-18255717109318227392015-07-12T16:50:35.132-07:002015-07-12T16:50:35.132-07:00What about Band of Gypsys????What about Band of Gypsys????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-47693954266894651242015-05-12T16:14:19.411-07:002015-05-12T16:14:19.411-07:00LIA, thans so much for the quotes and link. It dir...LIA, thans so much for the quotes and link. It directly confirms what I had generally thought, but makes it absolutely explicit. Its interesting to hear the Bill Graham intersection as well.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-53970188963445679372015-05-12T00:23:12.061-07:002015-05-12T00:23:12.061-07:00In a summer 1971 interview (while the Dead were pr...In a summer 1971 interview (while the Dead were preparing the live album), Joe Smith talked to Rolling Stone about Warner Bros' earlier relationship with the Dead. <br />He said that sometime in late '68/early '69, when he received the studio bill for the ongoing Aoxomoxoa sessions, "I really blew at that point and offered to sell them back their tapes and let them go anywhere they wanted to." But Bill Graham (then briefly managing them) intervened, and the band agreed to deliver a double live album as well. "I said if I can get the tapes for three finished LPs...at least I have a chance, and I don't have a chance with one album to earn back $120,000... From the point of Live Dead we really took off because that was somewhat indicative of the kind of music they played, and it was by far the most successful album." <br /><br />So Warners definitely looked more favorably on the Dead as a result of the live album, and would have welcomed the followup. Smith admits that the album finances, while disastrous for the Dead, were actually in Warners' favor: "We had made money on the Dead, we had in fact come out, not very much, not very much; the Dead themselves were in a terrible hole, because of recording costs, and those indulgences over a period of time, they were in a negative position. We had not lost money because the Live Dead bailed it all out, the Live Dead was the last album in that first contract."<br /><br />Smith also talks about his reasoning for re-signing the Dead to Warners, most likely in the fall of '69. <br />"Last year we had to face the decision whether to re-sign the Dead or not re-sign the Dead...and come up with a good deal of money, and I forced that contract through... I got a great deal of static about re-signing them, 'cause the deal was stiff; I gave them a fair deal, but I knew that our record company, if we do represent something in today's music, could not afford to let the Grateful Dead go...regardless of whether they meant a lot of profit for our company or a minor profit, they're too important for us to let them go somewhere else." <br />http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2015/03/july-1971-joe-smith-interview.html Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-8299556022564280922015-05-09T18:01:24.402-07:002015-05-09T18:01:24.402-07:00Nothing shouts "rock and roll!" like neo...Nothing shouts "rock and roll!" like neo-Marxist French Renaissance history.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-11446749539423665232015-05-09T10:55:48.529-07:002015-05-09T10:55:48.529-07:00Corry, I surely won't have time to give this t...Corry, I surely won't have time to give this the attention it deserves, but it looks like a great piece of work, and of course "Album Economics: Contemporary Live Albums From 1971" sounds like a tasty helping of Braudelianism!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-55639117051065723642015-05-08T17:45:56.468-07:002015-05-08T17:45:56.468-07:00Thanks. I had no idea it hadn't been released ...Thanks. I had no idea it hadn't been released until much later. Good thing I don't have a jazz blog. I changed the reference to John Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-77390163965783395652015-05-08T17:19:28.039-07:002015-05-08T17:19:28.039-07:00It's puzzling that you mention Live at the Plu...It's puzzling that you mention Live at the Plugged Nickel by Miles Davis since that album was not released in the US until many years later.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13145916442312520291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5268955857828486331.post-40366681976879632952015-05-08T17:19:16.384-07:002015-05-08T17:19:16.384-07:00It's puzzling that you mention Live at the Plu...It's puzzling that you mention Live at the Plugged Nickel by Miles Davis since that album was not released in the US until many years later.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13145916442312520291noreply@blogger.com