On 17 Jul 2002 at 0:22, J. G. wrote: > on 15 Jul 2002 16:37:06 -0700 Brenda wrote: > > >I think Aimee's situation was quite different [from Wilco's]. Imago > >>went out of business and wouldn't let her put the record out once > >she >signed with >Reprise. And her subsequent releases on Geffen lost > >>money. No one > > >wanted to sign her. > > Just as my own two cents, I'd say it was Geffen's fault that I'm With > Stupid failed to sell. Unless you were a die hard fan or a genuine > music whore, you'd have been hard pressed to know it was out. They > put "That's Just What You Are" out on the Melrose Place CD and then > didn't release IWS in a timely fashion. >
Well, not to go to deeply into defending Geffen, mostly because I didn't work there and I didn't sit in those meetings. There's no question that Aimee got the raw end of the stick. But things often look one way on the outside while there's something different going on inside. I think the blame in this case lies squarely with Imago. She was still signed with them when the Melrose Place CD was released in '94, so they licensed the track to Warners. Geffen didn't enter the mix until sometime in '95 when the head of Imago negotiated the deal for them to take her contract and he took his sweet time doing it. I don't think that deal was closed until late '95. So the timing was out of Geffen's hands. Again, I wasn't there, but my experience has been that no label will turn its nose up at a hit. I'm sure the folks at Geffen were anxious to get that record out as soon as they could because there was momentum. They wouldn't have just sat on it. But you can't release what you don't own. B n.p.: News on NPR -------------------------------------------- "Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin, 1897
