I've spent too much time today dealing with a little contretemps on the Film Score Monthly message board, where another label owner basically said why didn't we come to him, that he had the bona fide Albert Glasser session tapes for Earth vs. the Spider and why would we use anything else. First of all, he should have and could have e-mailed me to ask this question, but instead he posted it on a public forum to specifically make us look bad - without, I may add, actually knowing what source we used. He did this last week to another label about another score and was roundly hissed. Had he asked he would have been told what is now posted on the board - our source was exactly those "bona fide" tapes - a digital copy of which was made long before this cretin wormed his way into the elderly family of the composer and had all tapes given to him. So, not only are they the exact same source, there was no loss of quality.
So, do we think this butt cheek had the human decency to apologize? No. Therefore, I turned it all over to MGM because, as their legal department put it, he is doing contract interference by raising the specter of something completely false and which could hurt our sales. Not only that, his admission of having NOT composer copies of the score tapes but, as he put it, BONA FIDE original session tapes, means he will be getting a little missive from MGM because those tapes belong to the master recording rights' holders (MGM) and not this buffoon. As I said, he's coming down and coming down hard. Everyone on the board has seen this for what it is.
