Thanks for the info. Mike and I still haven't had a chance to meet up so he can give me the copy of the book he got for me. (It was to be an xmess present, but was waylaid by Seattle's SNOWPOCALYPSE 2008 -- so bad it even stopped the mails.)
At 11:10am on December 22, 2008, mike whybark said…
Muhammed! Welcome, and thanks a TON for contributing to the Ben Ishamel stuff! What a fascinating topic, huh? Hopefully the rest of the talkers in the threads will show up and we can move things forward again.
Mahan Kalpa, a respected musician in this community, works at a folkore institute associated with IU in Bloomington and has mentioned he has something on the Ben Ishmael tip - whether that's archival audio, personal thoughts, or some music that he's written I do not yet know. But I am surely looking forward to it!
I'm all for MFT and the artists both making some money whether it's NP or not. I'm glad there is another way of getting us out there.
If I would have sold an album in the 80s, I remember most little labels and artists would be happy to sell their t…
PJ- I thought of that too! I could use a new Ping hat.
We aren't too far down the road of the NP thing to turn back. But John is right, if we can find a way to funnel money to artists then I'm all about having MFT make some of that transaction. It…
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Mahan Kalpa, a respected musician in this community, works at a folkore institute associated with IU in Bloomington and has mentioned he has something on the Ben Ishmael tip - whether that's archival audio, personal thoughts, or some music that he's written I do not yet know. But I am surely looking forward to it!