My first post to this list, and I drop myself into a controversy! I read of
the plight of Nate at Synaptic Records. Having been with stores and
distribution companies where I felt as though my input was being sucked dry
without much in the way of compensation, I can certainly empathise. But I am
also hip to every story having another side. Here is the other side of this
one, in response to my e-mail to Synaptic. Draw you own conclusions...
quoted 5 lines Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:46:27 -0700
>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:46:27 -0700
>X-Sender: synaptic@eazy.net
>To: sumac@tiac.net
>From: Synaptic Records <synaptic@eazy.net>
>Subject: Re: ???quoted 10 lines Here is my response -- thank you for giving me the chance to tell the true
>Here is my response -- thank you for giving me the chance to tell the true
>story -- the following are the facts, no embellishment. I can back up
>everything I have said with documentation. I am not currently active on
>Mountain Raves, but have been getting a lot of negative feedback as a result
>of the slander that appered there. I would very much appreciate it if you
>would post this message to Mountain Raves and anywhere else you have seen it
>so that those who have just written us off will hear the true story.
>thanks,
>Rick
>----------quoted 11 lines That's not quite the case. I hired Nathan as manager at $9.00 per hour
>That's not quite the case. I hired Nathan as manager at $9.00 per hour
>($2.50 above what he was making at Albums Up!) and gave him 2% ownership of
>the business (I invested $45K and he invested nothing.) Ben and I have
>worked 70 hours a week since we started (without pay) and are working other
>jobs to support the business. Nathan was paid for 40 hours per week and
>often worked less than 25. Ultimately, I told him that I could no longer
>pay him since to do so I would have been bankrupt (literally) within another
>month. I offered him the opportunity to continue to work under the same
>terms that Ben and I are working -- working other jobs in the hope that this
>business will take off well enough to pay us all in the long run. I offered
>to increase his hare of ownership in return for his continuing to work with us.quoted 9 lines Nathan is hurt because he wanted to make this HIS store with no risk and
>Nathan is hurt because he wanted to make this HIS store with no risk and
>good pay from the start. That wasn't the agreement. In addition, he was
>using the store's long distance phone lines, the computer, and the internet
>account to work on his own side projects while I was paying him. Finally,
>he lied to our customers (claimed to have bids in his fax auction when no
>one had bid on a particular item) and, when I told him that because of the
>high cost of paying him (including taxes) he suggested that I pay him under
>the table. This is a legitimate business and I refused to break the law
>just so he could work at a record store.quoted 10 lines As for the internet busines -- I have been operating on Internet since it
>As for the internet busines -- I have been operating on Internet since it
>started and on Bitnet before that. I designed the web site myself and have
>done most of the maintenance on it. If you doubt this, watch for a decline
>in the quality or originality of the work -- I guarantee you won't see it.
>Nathan is under the mistaken impression that he is the only one who knows
>this music and the web business. He is wrong; the three of us all
>contributed but , because he spent so much less time than Ben and I, he
>contributed much less. I tried to keep all of this on a professional level
>and certainly had no intention of making our personal conflict public. I
>deeply regret his decision to do so.quoted 7 lines Synaptic Records (Rick and Ben)
>Synaptic Records (Rick and Ben)
>608 S. Broadway
>Denver, CO 80209
>vox: (303) 722-9428
>fax: (303) 722-9540
>synaptic@eazy.net
>www.eazy.net/synaptic-records/
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In addition to controversy here, I also like to occasionally drop in to the
mIRC channel #aphextwin with the nick Mira_Calix...just to liven things up a
bit.
NP: Neotropic "15 Levels of Magnification" Why are their so few women making
this sort of music?
Dave Egan
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