Keggs reissue...

[cass]

Clearly done by someone unconcerned with the fact that you can find a boot of this on 7" for $5 any day of the week. it just strikes me as odd. Would make it seem like the folks behind it are just completely out-of-the-loop for 60's garage...which could be a good (or bad) thing.

also, never really knew...does Tim pay royalties on ALL the BFTG cuts, or just certain specific ones?

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicag...male-keggs-dmitry-samarov/Content?oid=4757826

Two weeks ago local label Priority Male Tapes reissued "To Find Out" b/w "Girl," the only known recording by 60s Detroit garage band the Keggs, on vinyl. The long-defunct Orbit label released it in 1967, and the originals are extremely hard to come by—a couple years ago a shattered copy sold for almost $400.
"The whole story goes that there were only 75 copies made, and most of them burned in a studio fire during the race riots in Detroit," says Priority Male honcho Matthew Hord. Further enhancing the Keggs' mystique, one of their guitarists was supposedly decapitated in a motorcycle crash shortly after the release.
Hord first heard the single in 2008, when he was living in San Francisco with a garage-loving roommate, Benjamin Phillips, who played a bootleg for him (Phillips also helped fund this reissue). Lots of bootlegs exist, and the songs appear on the fifth and sixth volumes of Crypt Records' Back from the Grave series, both released in '85. Hord got the idea to reissue the single himself about a year ago, and used an uncompressed .wav file he found on a message board in 2009—making his version a bootleg too.
Hord did try to get the band's blessing, though. "I talked to some juggalo on Facebook that had the same last name as the guitar player [Art Lenox]," he says. "He told me, 'That was my dad. He passed away, but he wouldn't care.'" To buy a copy, e-mail [email protected].

 

[greenfuzz]

An uncompressed .wav file as the source - that's all I need to know to spit on this release.

 

[Heitkotter77]

An uncompressed .wav file as the source - that's all I need to know to spit on this release.

I was ready to spit long before that line; this did it for me:

Hord first heard the single in 2008,

Another 'expert'.

To answer. cass' question, royalties have been paid to all BFTG bands that Tim has had contact with. To my knowledge, that would be the vast majority of them.

 

[MopTopMike]

Idiot.

Also, the dude did not "reissue" the songs, he bootlegged them. A big difference. Reissue implies a legal release - permission granted with graces from band members and usually some sort of compensation.

 

[buckeyebeat]

What's remarkable about this is that it got mentioned in what I'm guessing is the local 'alternative' weakley...err, weekly paper. Clearly a case of someone's pal getting a wank. Like the twits that read this stuff can't find the songs elsewhere and are going to buy some crappy boot record.

 

[mansson66]

He dind't even hear the single... he heard a bootleg - and now he made another bootleg... the whole thing seems pretty embarrasing...