On 17 Oct 2002 at 21:29, johnirving wrote:
> Thanks Brenda for the info and clarifications. Much of my commentary, > and opinion, is fed from a very poor memory. My brain is a sieve. -But > there IS a Joni commentary where she mentions having a handsake > 'gentleman's agreement' with the head of Warner only to have it all > turn into thin air when he left. (I assumed it was retirement... not > forced.) Well, all the articles said he retired cuz that was the PR line, but that's not what happened. After leaving Warner, he started Dreamworks Records with Lenny and is still there last I heard. Anyway, in the interview it's obvious that Joni hits a raw > nerve bringing up the subject. Perhaps one or two of you > Brainiacs-Of-All-Joni-Facts remembers the interview... Yes? Brenda, > given that you know these time lines better than I ever could, my > brain sorta remembers this happening on the cusp of her new (present) > deal. So gone or not, she had to deliver new material. (TI, TTT), but > as time went along, there's less and less new about the material. As > my boyfriend, Rich put it when I mentioned the threat of a Dreary > Christmas CD..., "It's obvious she wants out of her contract." > I searched the archives and found a Vogue article that talks about Mo leaving, but she certainly doesn't seem to lay any blame at his feet...in fact she comes off as being very "devil may care" about it. Maybe there was something else? http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/9504v.cfm I really think that given that Mo was her guy, if she just wanted out, they would have allowed her out after the greatest hits or certainly after TTT since it was a disappointment. Unless her lawyer really sucks, she would not have had to muster up a bunch of covers to complete delivery. As she says, she's not going to recoup, so unless the head of the company has something personally vested in keeping her, he would gladly let her go. > Keep us posted on the contractual stuff... I certainly will. B n.p.: -------------------------------------------- "Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin, 1897
