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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] (A Tad Off-Topic) Fascinating Six-Part Article

From: jeffc@netaxs.com
Date: 2008-04-18

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, gino wong wrote:

> I have a friend who was the singer in a band called the Nazz. Their gross
> royalty rate was .05 cents per lp. He was 17 when he signed. to SGC.
> I grew up around people who were hosed by industry people because that was
> the was things were done. I was hosed by the similar types later. There are
> a stripe of people across all industries who think that fucking someone over
> even in the smallest was is every day's objective. I used to call them
> flies.


was that .05 wholesale or retail ;0)


> If the entertainment industry wasn't incidental to music in my own world
> view, there would be a few dead people between Paris and new York by my hand
> over the years.


i would, likely as not, be one of them ;0)

...jeff