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quoted 22 lines On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, erik wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, erik wrote: > >> anyway, curious if coil's horse rotovator has been released domestic.. > >Nossir. Well, it was available domestically waaaaay back when it first >came out, but only on vinyl and cassette. CD has always been import only >(and a hard-to-find one at that). > >Rumours have abounded for quite some time about a Reznor-sponsored reissue >(along with the earlier "Scatology" release) on nothing, but given the >time it's taken for the *new* Coil material to come out on the label, I >wouldn't count on it. Another recent rumour had both those albums coming >out on Thirsty Ear, but legal issues have scuttled that for the time >being. > >> any good comprehensive websites out there on coil? thanks in advance. > >http://www.brainwashed.com/coil - partly maintained by your's truly, with >mucho input from the band themselves. > > >Greg

Hi The situation is more and more complicated as each day goes by. Basically Stevo attempted to sell the Scatology and Horse Rotorvator releases to Thirsty Ear behind our backs without us knowing. We found out somehow and asked him to explain. We have always contested that we own the rights to these two releases as we paid for the majority of the recording costs out of a mixture of our own funds, royalities to Peter from Psychic TV. We have never had a complete and full accounting of monies made nor sales figures. Stevo has lied and obscured the facts to suit his own financial ends ever since there original releases. We had no contract with Stevo or Some Bizzare, just a one page agreement that we wouldn't go elsewhere to record in the first few months of being on K422, Some Bizzares offshoot label, run by Rob Collins . Now with the US sampling laws tightening it transpires that Thirsty Ear want to clear any possible sample problems before re-releasing the CDs. We are NOTco-operating with them because Stevo quite recently re-pressed both CDs for UK and Europe which earnt him £28,000 +. He freely admits this and also admits he owes us £14,000 and equally as freely admits he cannot or will not pay this to us. Period. He has spent our money.He is cursed by me. We already had a lose agreement with Nothing for them to re-issue these records. With their structure and distribution and given the good nature of our relationship with Trent and Nothing we will be persuing a Nothing release when we can clear all this tangled mess up. Stevo will not sign away the rights he believes he has to these records. He really is a most pitiful piece of work. It guts me to think that these two early Coil records are hard to obtain. But in honest truth I would rather have every copy ever made destroyed and buried deep underground and never repress them again if there is any further association between them and Stevo Pearce of Some Bizzare. O Happy Daze John Balance of COIL Apologies if this is deemed off-topic