Chuck Nessa

I'll give you a map. Leave the store and follow the instructions to my basement. I'll help you load the cart.

Yup.

Can't shake the "moderator" tag, huh?

Nah, I remember.

I will be waiting.

I enjoyed those posts and found them enlightening. Too bad you couldn't move them to another thread. Now it will be more difficult to remember why I distrust Mike somebody from MN. Though the "flirting thread" should have been enough.

Chubby Rachel?

Thanks for mentioning Warne's date. Lou was a wonderful player and great sideman. On his own dates he seemed to be a bit "over romantic" for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, he was a great player, I just think his talent was best displayed as a sideman. Dare I say he was a "white" Kenny Drew.

Thanks Chris. I really want to "up" the topic so more can see it.

Pizza from the freezer. Neither of us wants to cook tonight.

and

Time for you to get out of Kansas.

I agree with that.

Did some moderator remove my post in praise of Ms N E?

Nothing I can remember.

Since this download stuff/RIAA started many years ago, the BBS have attacked the RIAA for going after "poor individual downloaders" and most of them have proven to be folks uploading files for "mass" downloads. I hate to be on the side of the "big guys" after all these years but after discovering folks like "Rab/Granny Hines" and a bunch of others I have developed another opinion. Here is the text of some messages sent to RapidShare by me: The following links infringe on copyrights held by us: http://rapidshare.com/files/35469020/aec-nssa.part01.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35467535/aec-nssa.part02.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35465819/aec-nssa.part03.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35464028/aec-nssa.part04.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35459071/aec-nssa.part05.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35457181/aec-nssa.part06.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35454251/aec-nssa.part07.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35451334/aec-nssa.part08.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35448196/aec-nssa.part09.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35445914/aec-nssa.part10.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35443935/aec-nssa.part11.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35441821/aec-nssa.part12.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35439725/aec-nssa.part13.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35437666/aec-nssa.part14.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/35435454/aec-nssa.part15.rar The links were provided by http://xxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/ The infringed work is a 5 cd set and booklet titled The Art Ensemble 1967/68. Charles T Nessa Nessa Records PO Box 394 123 Tulgeywood Ln Whitehall, MI 49461 USA NEXT: The following link infringes on a copyright held by us: http://rapidshare.com/files/49898728/processnn.zip . This link was provided by http://xxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com/ in a "comments" page located at https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=xx...mp;isPopup=true . The infringed work is a compact disc by Leo Smith titled Procession of the Great Ancestry. Charles T Nessa Nessa Records PO Box 394 123 Tulgeywood Ln Whitehall, MI 49461 USA Phone 231 894-4088 NEXT: The following link infringes on a copyright held by us: http://rapidshare.com/files/29831524/Snurdy_.rar . The link was provided by http://XXXXXXXXXX.blogspot.com/ in a "comments" page located at https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=XX...mp;isPopup=true The RapidShare link is via http://tinyurl.com/2mpr79 . The infringed work is a compact disc by Roscoe Mitchell titled Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes. Charles T Nessa Nessa Records PO Box 394 123 Tulgeywood Ln. Whitehall, MI 49461 USA Phone 231 894-4088 RapidShare deleted the files within 48 hours to cover their ass. Why do I have to search out these thieves to stop them? These links had been up for months before I discovered them. I have found similar postings of my Air, Fred Anderson and other Mitchell sessions. Roscoe's Nonaah, which I am in the midst of reissuing at the cost of a few thousand dollars, has been discovered on 4 different sites.

Guess you don't have any dogs in this fight.

Are you willing to stop your income for a couple of years to make a point? More importantly, are you willing to ignore/abandon your "calling in life"? If the answers are that simple for you, you have my sympathy. Oh, I missed the part where you wanted me to work as minion at Wal-Mart. Would you like a cart?

I remember posting cost of a reissue (not a new release where there are session expenses) on the old BN board and most folks were amazed at the expenses and profit margins. Forever indies have tagged along with the "majors" to feed on the bottom. The majors are fading and the indies (not the artist owned outfits where no musician is paid) have been in trouble for a few years. I did a reissue of my Art Ensemble stuff and paid the band $25,000, issued the stuff and it took me 13 years to sell 2500 copies. In order to finance the set I sold my lp collection, took out a $37,000 second mortgage on my house. I am still paying off the house and the AE boxes are gone. The indies always have to live with the market created and sustained by the majors. If there was no WEA, no RCA and no Columbia I would not have had lps in Tower stores in the '60s-'80s. The paridigm has been destroyed and now you have a bunch of indie labels recording bands live and giving them "product to sell" in payment for the issue. We all suffer as a result. Can you imagine how I feel when a board member posts links to one of the sites offering free downloads of my stuff?

Enough to make us stop. Believe me.

I fucked up. In an earlier thread I said "I quit". Sorry.

Not the whole truth. The suit is not about legal copying. I suggest more research. This is about the 4th time this same (partial) story has been circulated. Edit to say the RIAA are heavy handed fools but the problem is real and I really resent the presentation of only part of the story.

Can you identify the originals? He seemed to update/rewrite the notes for each repressing of Riverside lps. Sort of instant rewriting of history.

and your point is.............. I have found the majority of my catalog online for free download. I'm sure the rest is up there somewhere. Why should I spend thousands of dollars to create "entertainment" for folks when some assholes seek kudos for giving this work away? The RIAA looks heavy handed but what do you expect folks like me to do? I am in the midst of spending about $50,000 to issue/reissue a bunch of music in the next year. At this point I don't believe I will get all of my investment back, don't look for sympathy but hope some folks will think as they download this stuff for free. FUCK!

Well that rules out Fever.