At 09:34 AM 4/13/2005:
From Sebastian Bach to Shawn Gordon:
Hi Swawn,
Just wondering when I can see the corrected publishing credits on the packaging.
 Also I am wondering when I can hear some of the mixes.
 I have been cranking the roughs for tons of people & they sound real good . Cannot wait to hear them even better.
Rock on
    Sebastian

4/13/2005 3:07:05 P.M :
From Shawn Gordon to Sebastian Bach:

I'm not sure how to say this, and it will decidedly not make your day.  I'll say this as straight as I can.  We bent over backward to accommodate everything you wanted, the issue of credits and publishing had just pushed it too far, especially when I had already worked it out with Brett and that got thrown out the window at the last minute.  We all know this isn't about money because if this was successful enough that the publishing was worth anything significant, you will have made at least a million on your royalties.  We're a small company, we've got a lot of money in this, and we had to get it done.  I finally had to just give it to our attorneys because I had exhausted my ability to deal with the legal minutia that was coming up.  Our attorney reviewed the contract and then called the shots.  I'll tell you, we were honestly about 5 minutes away from scraping your vocals, writing off the money and getting another vocalist, that's how big a problem it was on our end.

So here is the situation, the album is done, it has been manufactured, I received part of the inventory yesterday and have already shipped out several thousand units as of today.  We've listed your credit and publishing for the songs "Human Grain" and "Outcast" and will submit it that way to ASCAP.  The other 5 songs you wanted writing credits on have been removed, if you choose to battle it out at ASCAP for those 5, so be it, we'll abide their judgement.  Everything has been done in strict accordance with the contract and at the direction of our attorney.  I tried very hard to keep this as positive as possible, but every time I gave one thing, you wanted 2 things - this is mostly my fault because I was too accommodating from the beginning, if I had set the tone properly from day one, we probably wouldn't have gotten to this point.

I think you're a great singer and a fun guy to hang with, no one is trying to screw you here, and we aren't going to say anything negative to anyone about you or what happened.  I know this is gonna piss you off, but it was out of my hands and I've been twisted up inside trying to figure out how to deal with it.  If you give me your address and how many copies you want, I'll get the album sent out to you.

shawn

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