My opinion is that she could easily go to her roots and record and album of piano and guitar songs and release it on her own label and own the whole thing so that all she has to do is set up Les and Jim to be her personal distribution and license it out to someone like Ryko to help move it. Many artists are going this way and enjoying much more of the profits and less of the label aggravation. She could produce a new record and packaging without the help on anyone for very little of her own cost.
Just a thought Paz on 8/14/02 8:18 PM, Randy Remote at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
