Opal - Early Recordings/Happy Nightmare Baby

yeah it's a bit weird to blame him now given he's dead

the 'immoral' statement makes me assume that there was some assertion on Roback or his estate's part that would have denied any funds going to Kendra. Did they hate each other?

well that's depressing!

Low would be great for a tribute album.

there's already four Opal tribute albums, the last one was called Seasons of Your Day

haha, really? well i missed those.

oh lol, i get it now.

Wouldn't mind hearing William Reid sing "She's a Diamond".

so weird that they are going to destroy the remaining copies of this. I get that they can't sell them but surely they could give them away, at least?

that's a pretty typical aftereffect of these kinds of injunctions, iirc. like Prince w/the Black Album.

it's hard to believe this band or anyone associated with it has the legal or financial wherewithal to impose any kind of injunction though.

I'm guessing they made a fair amount of money from Mazzy Star over the years, especially "Fade Into You"

Roback and Hope, yes. But Roback is deceased. So I guess this falls to whoever is handling the estate, or whoever owns the rights to these recordings; I also know, from the little I've dealt with the American music club reissues, that dealing with rights holders for independent music from the 80's and 90's is a complete pain in the ass. Hats off to Light in the Attic and Omnivore and other reissue labels that have the patience to deal with it

I mean yeah, remember that Happy Nightmare Baby was released on SST!

I believe it was a similar rights issue that kept the Game Theory records out of print in Scott Miller's lifetime, after Enigma Records had collapsed.

So sad that there's this kinda of wrangling over what must be a thin gruel of royalties

exactly. Pat clarified on twitter that the rights are owned 50/50 but Roback's demands were unacceptable. Hard to understand what kind of demands you can have when it's understood that you only own 50%. Frankly owning 50% of your rights for this stuff is pretty good.

Is the thinking sells on Discogs for $75, therefore the demand must be huge!?

god who knows. it's probably more along the lines of 'fade into you has made oodles of money and so there must be huge demand for his back catalogue' but I don't think reissues of Emergency Third Rail Power Trip sold out instantly and made trillions of dollars.

which songs on Early Recordings II are actually Opal songs? I assume the ones where Kendra is singing, but other than that...

seeing as some CDs were supposedly sold have the extra tracks surfaced anywhere yet? really want to hear the properly mastered Sailing Boats

belated thanks to f hazel, just my webmail for the first time in months!

enjoy!

A 1988 show after Hope replaced Kendra. Audience recording but good once they get going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWhLwJ-kyY