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#590295 - 10/22/08 06:21 AM
Re: Alex Chilton... One of Rock's Great Mysteries.
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westerberger
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Pretty interesting Chilton interview I came across from a few years back (Jon Tiven's name comes up in this one actually!).
It's weird when I read an interview with Chilton - I never met him or anything, but he almost seems to come off as sort of half himself, half acting for the interviewer.
I had never heard the Yoko song referenced in this interview so I'm going to seek that out.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8994/thebob.html
Edit : My mistake I have heard that song by Yoko, but here's the clip of it for those who don't know it and it does have ghostly similarities to "Holocaust"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaFJdHEyYmA.
Edited by westerberger (10/22/08 06:39 AM)
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#590298 - 10/22/08 10:01 AM
Re: Alex Chilton... One of Rock's Great Mysteries.
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JonTiven
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I cannot speak for the rest of the interview, but for the record, I do not owe Alex any royalties. I never got a dime from the Ork release of Singer Not The Song, whereas Alex got Ork to front him some bucks and pay his living expenses in NY for a year or so. Then he and his manager licensed the record to a Japanese label and I didn't get a dime off that one.
I licensed the full sessions to Line Records and managed to get enough money out of them to pay back the expenses I laid out to make the record.
Finally, I licensed a cd release with Razor & Tie and made sure I was going to be included in the royalty stream---as was Alex. I haven't gotten any royalties from it yet, but I assume that's because it hasn't sold enough.
Alex may have his gripes with not getting paid by the music industry, but I'm not part of that equation. And you can ask anybody else who's done business with me, written a song with me, or been produced by me, and you will find that they have been treated not only fairly by me but I have bent over backwards to make sure those I work with get paid as much as possible for their work.
No good deed...........
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#590965 - 10/23/08 03:05 AM
Re: Alex Chilton... One of Rock's Great Mysteries.
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MrDavis
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I was on tour somewhere in the mid-west in 1996 (Wisconsin or Michigan) and Westerberg and Alex were both playing the same night, down the street from one another. Everyone was talking about it and how both those guys completely ignored one another and made zero effort to hook up, say hi, etc.....
I saw the Westerberg gig and he didn't even acknowledge the fact that Alex was a 30 second walk away playing a gig! He knew it too.
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