On 14 Aug 2002 at 18:18, Randy Remote wrote: > 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.
If that's the case, then she's funding all of the albums under the deal or at least she will fund all since that one. They would have renegotiated that if it wasn't in the original contract. It may also be that she paid the overages herself, meaning anything that was beyond what was in her contract for that stage of the deal. (I wonder if it was 5 albums. If Hits & Misses were the first, then there have been four.) > > 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 It's called the Recording Artists Coalition and Joni was not a founding member. It was founded by Don Henley and Sheryl Crow. Maybe Joni was a member of Artists Against Piracy that was founded and run by Noah Stone (Ron Stone's son). The two organizations merged last year. If she was a member of AAP she wasn't very visible. And if she's a member now of RAC, she doesn't seem to have an interest in publicizing it. http://www.recordingartistscoalition.com/artists.html Brenda n.p.: Wes Montgomery - "Con Alma" -------------------------------------------- "Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin, 1897
