Its good to think that all the companies currently on ebay with all the new copies of classics will be contacting  ASCAP to pass on the owners share of royalties on - probably not???? some have stick on labels FFS

 

BOOTLEGS, 2ND ISSUES, RE-PRESS. Or whatever they are called serve one purpose only, to make money for the manafactor of the items,  In all the years I have collected RARE SOUL I can only think of about 75 of these records that are worth collecting, in the past I have written about the appeal of SOULSOUNDS OUT OF THE PAST & the other Bootlegs of the late 6ts, also we can add a few of the early/mid 7ts 45s like Billy Prophet Candi Staton  Duke Browner, but 35 years on the vast majority of all such records are worthless & non collectable, however the question is why do they still sell, & why do company's such as EBay let people sell them even though they are well aware that they are counterfeit  good's?.

Way back in 1971 Dave Godin wrote about artists not receiving royalties from DJs playing their records & Blues & Soul also wrote a piece about selling Bootlegs after they were duped into selling OOTP white label Northern Soul pressings they got from the International Soul  Club,  but the message fell on deaf ears, at that time even Dave Godin did not quite understand the subject of rare record collecting by stating that DJs should not cover up rare sounds and dealers were charging to much for records that so;ld for 85p in his shop, (how many of us have sold records cheap only to find out that they were worth far more)?

The thing that I dislike about the latest list of bootlegs is the impact that it has on my own rare US recordings it goes against the grain of the soul scene I love which is elitist in structure, years ago if you wanted to hear rare records you attended the few clubs that played them or you purchased them from dealers at the going rate, nowadays there are rare soul clubs all over the place playing all them records that have been bootlegged, surely people must be able to see they are being conned?/  KTF