I find it very interesting that our resident lunatic Gene Rosenthal is bringing up his father's practice and his father's access to prescription medications.

According to John Fahey himself (as well as several key individuals who worked at Takoma on Pico), Takoma Records went bust because of poor record keeping AND because of a barter system that was set up between Charlie Mitchell and a certain Silver Spring son of a physician who had access to his father's prescription pads. MItchell and his cohorts and Takoma were only too happy to send boxes of sealed Takoma LPs to the dude in Silver Spring who would then send prescriptions to Santa Monica. Because the $$ return never showed up in hard cash but instead went up people's noses or in their veins, the label's bookkeeping went to hell fast.

I also find it interesting that in 1964, according to Gene's post, he showed concern over his father's medical license and yet eight years later, he was more interested in boxes of Takoma LPs.

It's probably good that all of the "Truth" is coming out -- as it always does in the end.
Glen