Brenda wrote: > > Joni has leverage and I'd be > stunned if creative control wasn't written into her contracts many years ago.
With her first album, I believe. > She > doesn't even fund her own recordings out of her own pocket. I think she said she did fund her last recording. And presumably sold/licenced the masters to Reprise. I agree she would not want to use her own funds to "stoke the star-maker machinery". Reprise paid for the orchestras, promotion, etc for her last tour/CD. I doubt if they broke even, at least on album sales. > Highly unlikely she > wants to foot the bill for marketing them as well. > As much as she complains about the biz, she hasn't done anything yet to show that > she is interested or cares about doing it another way - for herself or for anyone >else. She was a founding member of the Artists Rights Coalition or whatever it's called. Whether she has done anything other than lend her name to the cause, I don't know. She wasn't part of the big Grammy concerts and hasn't testified in DC that I know of. RR
