ghost of miles Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 Doesn't sound good: Layoffs at Rhino Quote
AllenLowe Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 (edited) I did some work for Rhino a while back - then the original guys sold it and started Shout - than I did some work for Shout, until they got annoyed at me for putting the kibosh on a Scott Joplin piano roll reissue - I informed them that these rolls, which for years were alleged to have been done by Joplin himself, were actually not (I think it was Mike Montgomery who found this out) - so they were a bit pissed off, as I think they would rather not have known this and just issued it, but now that they knew it they couldn't do it anymore, so I guess I lost them some money. oh well.... Edited September 26, 2009 by AllenLowe Quote
7/4 Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 and now they don't return your calls? . Quote
BFrank Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 A friend of mine who used to be in the record biz, thinks this might be the end of the line for them - at least as far as box sets are concerned. He's thinking that the new "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968" set might be the last. Quote
mjzee Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 A friend of mine who used to be in the record biz, thinks this might be the end of the line for them - at least as far as box sets are concerned. He's thinking that the new "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968" set might be the last. That's why I grabbed it. It arrived today. Packaged like a coffee-table book, which I think is a very smart way of packaging a CD boxed set, since it'll fit on any bookshelf. I'm looking forward to listening to it. But certainly, this doesn't auger well for any of the die-cut boxes currently on the market. I think if you want one of those, you should snap them up now. I'm currently listening to "What It Is." Besides being an interesting compilation full of obscurities (and funky!), the packaging is just lovely. I can appreciate the box, book, graphics, etc., as much as I do the music. Quote
AllenLowe Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 (edited) looking at the track lineup for that one, I think, well, that was always the problem with Rhino - they were too compromised - I mean, tracks by Sonny and Cher, Gary Lewis....their comps always seem too nervous about appealing to everybody, audience-wise; ultimately this was why I did not do a lot of work for them, as they were just too conventional to do real deep collections. Edited September 26, 2009 by AllenLowe Quote
BFrank Posted September 26, 2009 Report Posted September 26, 2009 Sounds like the packaging is very much like the SF Nuggets set that came out a couple of years ago. I'm sure I'll pick it up at some point. Quote
BruceH Posted September 27, 2009 Report Posted September 27, 2009 A friend of mine who used to be in the record biz, thinks this might be the end of the line for them - at least as far as box sets are concerned. He's thinking that the new "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968" set might be the last. I was thinking the same thing myself; seems a little late in the day to be coming out with a big compilation like that. Quote
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