Comments on: HOW TO MAKE A MILLION BUCKS IN THE MUSIC BIZ http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/ Mix magazine's George Petersen's rants, musings and general commentary about recording, live sound and professional audio in general Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:45:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Tony Vick http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/#comment-13006 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:13:24 +0000 http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/#comment-13006 Coming to this article a bit late, but I was signed and distributed by Rocshire/High Velocity. The Band was called "The Din" and our first Lp was released in the spring of 1983 and sold close to 25k. We were shut down and completely demoralized by the Rocshire case. I would love to know where the "tapes" ended up, and also the gear that was seized by the feds. This was a long time ago, yet the questions still course through my head.--TV<br> <br> REPLY: Tony, certainly you and everybody else who go caught up in this mess is wondering the same thing. If anybody out there DOES know where the masters from all the Rochshire artists wound up, please drop me an e-mail at gpetersen@mixonline.com and let me know. I'll try to get the word out so at least part of this injustice can be undone. Thanks!--George Petersen Coming to this article a bit late, but I was signed and distributed by Rocshire/High Velocity. The Band was called “The Din” and our first Lp was released in the spring of 1983 and sold close to 25k. We were shut down and completely demoralized by the Rocshire case. I would love to know where the “tapes” ended up, and also the gear that was seized by the feds. This was a long time ago, yet the questions still course through my head.–TV

REPLY: Tony, certainly you and everybody else who go caught up in this mess is wondering the same thing. If anybody out there DOES know where the masters from all the Rochshire artists wound up, please drop me an e-mail at gpetersen@mixonline.com and let me know. I’ll try to get the word out so at least part of this injustice can be undone. Thanks!–George Petersen

]]> by: Art McAllister http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/#comment-6233 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:36:43 +0000 http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/#comment-6233 I had a couple of songs on Lenny Williams Rocshire Album called Changing and like Phillip, I too did not get my royalties on the sales of the album which at the time was about 150,000 sold a decent little penny to start out. I'm wondering now does anybody knows who owns all the Rocshire Masters that were seized by the US government? I had a couple of songs on Lenny Williams Rocshire Album called Changing and like Phillip, I too did not get my royalties on the sales of the album which at the time was about 150,000 sold a decent little penny to start out. I’m wondering now does anybody knows who owns all the Rocshire Masters that were seized by the US government?

]]> by: PHILLIP KOHN http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/#comment-5839 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:46:24 +0000 http://blog.mixonline.com/audiobites/2007/07/31/one-way-to-make-a-million-bucks-in-the-music-biz/#comment-5839 I managed and produced Butch during this period and everything you say about Rocshire is true. After being signed and selling 80,000 units, we were completely abandoned by the record company. I suspect that things were beginning to boil at the time and saving their skins was the priority.<br> Unfortunately, I signed a production deal and only got my first check of $900...the next check of almost $50K was confiscated by the FBI and I went belly up I managed and produced Butch during this period and everything you say about Rocshire is true. After being signed and selling 80,000 units, we were completely abandoned by the record company. I suspect that things were beginning to boil at the time and saving their skins was the priority.
Unfortunately, I signed a production deal and only got my first check of $900…the next check of almost $50K was confiscated by the FBI and I went belly up

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