Re: Let's Buy Swagger Appeal

["Phill Merchant" <phillmerchant@ho...com>]

Top ideas in general, but I`m not sure about the publicity aspect - if this 
is, as it seems, a knock down price, then maybe the record company might get 
cold feet and back out of an unsigned agreement if they feel they might run 
the risk of setting a precedent. I`ve no idea if this is true or not. In 
fact I`m talking about things I have absolutely no knowledge or experience 
of. So maybe I should just shut up.
I`m going for a little lie down.

But before I do - did we ever establish if anyone taped the gig? That missed 
`opportunity` to hear Your Ages live is haunting me...
                                        PhillM...........





> From: Ruadhri@ao...com
> Reply-To: blueplanes@st...net
> To: blueplanes@st...net
> Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Let's Buy Swagger Appeal
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:46:55 EST
>
> Hello
> I am not quite sure of exactly what sort of thing is going on here, if you
> know what I mean. About this £1000 for Swagger.
> I have read the posts, and in general I think "count me in on anything
> towards getting Gerard's Swagger back".
> All the suggestions seem quite feasible. I like the idea of a get together,
> whether its to raise money or just for fun.
> A few of us have raised some practical points, which I think we need to
> consider to some sort of conclusion, and out of this may be born a workable
> plan.
>
> Now, if Nick thinks that Gerard appeared diffident, I think that should be
> taken into account. After all he was there with Gerard.
> Also, if as David says, the price is usually £1000/track, then we really
> ought to make sure that we have this right. It good be a misunderstanding,
> and we could find ourselves over £10,000 short after raising £1000.  Gerard
> may have been simplifying for conversations sake, or anything.
> Surely we need to get Gerard involved with this.
> Stacey says that knowing Gerard, she doesn't know how he would react to 
> this,
> so we really need to gauge this. Also, I agree with Stacey that this is for
> us as much as it is for Gerard, and I think he would go along with that.
> From Gerard's point of view, there could be some good promotional mileage 
> in
> this thing a-happening around Swagger. Hey, we might even get our names in
> tiny print in a block of text on the album sleeve, seriously.  You could 
> say
> that the act of doing this may be worth much more to Gerard (and us) than 
> the
> £1000 we would raise. This is the sort of thing that Q magazine would jump
> at.
> So,
> Can anyone put the ideas mentioned since the gig to Gerard?
> Can we ascertain the amount required?
> Will there be addtional costs (legal perhaps) that need to be considered?
>
> Then we will need a way of coordinating the responses and converting them 
> to
> decisions. We don't want it to turn into
>
> Pick a card,....any card,..............
> WRONG!
>
> Rory.
>
>
>
> Edges and Change is all there is.......
> and edges can't be found.
>
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