Come on Universal, Motown, or whatever you call yourself these days, we want it and we want it now!! Isn't that right guys?
One of these days you'll decide it's time to fetch it out of the vaults and we'll be too old to be able to afford to buy i,t or we'll have impaired hearing etc. While you're sitting on these tapes we're getting older!! Never mind about your David Ruffin and your Elgins and Velvelletes, great artists as they are, it's time for some unreleased Rare Earth!!!!!!
Was that telling them? : ) I'm sure my efforts will be wasted. Deaf ears and all that type of thing.
Judging by articles and interviews I've seen and read, Harry seems very astute, yet at the same time approachable. Several Rare Earth members and associates visit and contribute to this forum. It would be great if Harry popped in to say "hello". I'm not sure if his position at Universal prevents him from doing so.
Live In Chicago was due out two to three years ago on a third party label.
I've made contact with a few people at a third party label and have suggested Live In Chicago to them. The label is not a fly by night label, for sure. They've reissued albums from the RCA and Capitol labels and have used the original master tapes. Plus, their reissues have extensive liner notes, all original artwork and interviews with band memebers. The work this label does is thorough.
I haven't given up...I'm part Belgian, part German, part Dutch...I never give up