Thanks, your post just made me remember a chat I had with Doug during
the Fun and Games tour where he said they recored a bunch of Burt Bach
arach songs under the name April Fools, does anyone have any info on
the where abouts of this project. I also have a video interveiw I did
with George arounf the One simple Word tour where he talks 'bout the
stink w/ TVT, I'll dig it out and get back with ya.
 
Tom
 
 
 
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>Chris Fisher writes:
>>>My concern is that we may not be getting the best the band
>has to offer as a result of their obvious discontent with TVT.<<
>
>I have a newspaper article out of my parent's local (Pottstown, PA)
paper
>from several years ago floating around at home which addresses this
topic.
> If I can find it, I'll post it here.  If I recall, there was a big
stink
>between the band and TVT about an independent project ?Doug? wanted to
do
>with some other folks on another label.  Doug said TVT wouldn't let it
>happen, because they thought people would think it was a Connells
project.  I
>think Doug was also quoted as saying the band would break up before
they
>released another record on TVT.  This was during the One Simple Word
tour.
> If I remember, his biggest stink was with the president of the
company.
>  A later article (the music writer was a fan, I think) indicated that
the
>band relented, because they did want to put out an album, and because
the
>situation with TVT had improved to the point that they were relatively
happy.
> This may explain the long delay between One Simple Word and Ring.
The
>article also said that the band had been playing Ring material live
for a
>long time prior to the release of the album.
>
>Jamie
>