At 12:03 PM 6/2/2001, Kevin Ryan wrote:
quoted 5 lines (2) Most people hear about problems like these and automatically assume>(2) Most people hear about problems like these and automatically assume
>that it's the evil corporations who are to blame. Isn't it possible that
>PCM is telling the truth, that Craig really did fail to meet his side of
>the contract? I guess it's a moot point as long as Craig's suit is
>pending, but I've got my money on the corporations.
I hopped onto the email-your-gripe bandwagon and got a letter back from
Carol Marvin which varied somewhat from those I saw posted on 313-l.
She said she sensed that I wanted to know details (which, btw, wasn't the
impetus of my email, but I did stress that I couldn't pronounce judgment as
I DIDN'T know details) and didn't hesitate to mention that the
"contracts...were hardly the issue...but was something the media had chosen
to focus upon". While she didn't come right out and SAY the issue was
creative differences, she certainly made it clear that it wasn't about Carl
being late on contracts AND that the differences ran deeper than that. When
I combine this with an interview she did on a local PBS DEMF special (I
think it aired last Sunday via the Flint, MI.channel - WFUM ?) where she
said that next year's DEMF would "build on the base already there...and
expand on ...business opportunities...and making a much wider appeal to the
whole 'Detroit party' community", I take it to mean that there's a stinking
good chance that commerciality "on the whole" is what the DEMF may be
headed toward in the future.
While I will have to wait and see until next year when the jury comes in,
I'm betting this is the case.
And speaking of betting, *my* money is on Carl. Most of the corporations in
general (with the exception of using bits here and there for commercials)
don't have a great track record for making great 313 music or
starting/supporting labels and formats which do. Carl Craig does. AND he
seems to have somewhat of a clue as to the business end of things (DEMF
2000/ Planet E) in general. Somehow, siding with Carl doesn't seem so much
of a bandwagonesque concept at all - even if I don't know all of the gory
details.
He's already earned the benefit of the doubt in my book.
jeff
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