[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

[Julian Vein]

Cary Ginell wrote:
They probably stole all of it from us, although I can't be certain. Our 
set is complete while theirs has selected tracks scattered over 4 CDs. 
In some cases, Michael Kieffer, who did the mastering along with some 
help from John R.T. Davies, can even identify his restoration 
'fingerprints' on the some of the tracks, isolating glitches that could 
only have come from the 78 copies we used. Not only did they steal the 
audio, Adam Komorowski appropriated chunks of my liner notes, my 
interviews, and photographs that we received exclusive permission from 
the Brown family to use, of which there was only one copy. The portrait 
of Brown on the cover of our box was blown up larger on the ImProper 
set, and you can see the dithering of the image because of the poor 
scanning job that they tried blow up. When I challenged them on this, 
they merely said "We do our own research" and basically thumbed their 
noses at us.

We lowered the price from $75 to $60 on our website, but that's still 
far above the 20 bucks they're charging for their cheapie set.

Ya had to get me riled up again, didn't you?

Cary Ginell
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I once offered some advice to David French of Frog Records. If there's 
something you want to reissue, wait until somebody does it badly, then 
jump in and do it properly. The opportunity of a third party wanting to 
rip you offer won't be so appealing. Sadly he died before he could take 
it up.

      Julian Vein