(TV) Arthur Andersen was Electra's Accountant / Canadians Responsible for Verlaine's Poverty

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

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From: g grant 
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) # of Copies 
of 1992 "Television"

>At least Tom tried to trade a CD for
>a carton of Export A's (fondly referred 
>to as Green Death here in Canadaland)....  
>Mostly Canadians just gave Verlaine 
>half a carton,unless he threw in a 
>t-shirt with the cd.  Why I remember
>telling Tom during his tour stop in 
>Moosejaw Saskatchewan that I wanted 
>the cd, shirt and an autograph plus
>a boot of the concert in exchange for
>the Export A's.  
> greg
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Snippet from a Boston Rock (BR), Sept. 1981
Interview [This is a real interview---not
from my fevered imagination--entire BR
interview to follow later.]

	Leo

Boston Rock:  Did Elektra make you even
more wary of this business?

Verlaine:  Well to this day I don't know
what those records sold.  It took a long 
time to get off Elektra although it was 
easy to get another deal.  I was supposed 
to do three records for Elektra and they 
didn't want to let me go.  It took a year
to get off.  The latest Elektra accounting
report said that one cassette has sold in 
Canada in the last six months!    
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