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Thread #133425 Message #3782767
Posted By: GUEST
02-Apr-16 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: Lal Waterson BBC Radio4 Nov 2010
Subject: RE: Lal Waterson BBC Radio4 Nov 2010
Dave Bulmer of Celtic Music died a few years ago - isn't Mike Waterson now dead? Whether this has led to a resolution of the disputes between DB and the artists formerly with Leader Music (if I ahve got the facts right) I do not know. There is I think a whole thread about this; my impression is that it was not just a simple case of greed on DB's part - if so he would have released a lot of the music and not paid the artists what they were legally entitled to. I suspect once people began to criticise him this got his back up and he became fairly intransigent (I emphasise that on the whole my sympathies would have been with the artists). Anyway a sad situation all round.
I bought a vinyl version of "Bright Phoebus" in the early 1970s (I still have it though don't have a normal working turntable to play it on. although I do have one of those ones which enable you to convert to digital format). I think the vinyl version is worth around £50.
I also remember hearing (at least some of) the radio program about Bright Phoebus while travelling in the car some years ago.