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Markus Rose's avatar

Enjoyed your review of this album, probably the one Velvets album I would own if I could only have one.

I’m an amateur journalist who is working on a biographical piece about Sesnick. You write that he didn’t own the band’s name when he approached Mercury with the tapes. My understanding is that he definitely did own the name. That’s how he got to release Squeeze in 1973. I think what happened is that both he and Lou needed to sign off on the release of 1969 Live and Lou made his agreement to sign contingent on Sesnick giving up his rights to the name. Not sure why he didn’t do that two years earlier with the Max’s live album. Sterling who was generally on good terms with Sesnick but didn’t like 1969 Live, said later “I signed off on it because Steve Sesnick told me he needed the money.” I’ll hopefully have more information when my revisionist history finally comes out.

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Patrick Baird's avatar

Weirdly, especially because of the cover, my local public library had a copy of this in the early 70s.

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