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LOST TAPES

posted 17 years ago by thelefthandedgun
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Question.....didn't the LOST TAPES,,Officialy Belong to the "recording guy'that Doc signed over to in 1964????....And I Think it was Doc' who trashed Word mans' cribe ....looking for the tapes????

[–] unholyinferno 17 years ago

I don't know if the tape initially belonged to Doc (the Cruisers' manager). I think they belonged to Satin Records (the company who signed the Cruisers). It was Doc who trashed the Word Man's place. He also trashed his own to make it look as though someone else did it.

[–] thelefthandedgun 17 years ago

right,,thats what i think too.......(great movie))...the sequal was terrible..

[–] rooprect 17 years ago

Yeah this is the one point that confuses me a bit. The tapes belonged to Satin Records (the guy named Lew), so how could Doc possibly profit from them? He would have to turn them over to Lew or else get sued for theft, copyright violation, etc.

[–] unholyinferno 17 years ago

Maybe since the band owned the rights to the tapes and Eddie and Joann were members of the band (since Eddie disappeared) Joann would have the rights to the master tape. Therefore she could go back to Satin Records and get the master. But why didn't she leave it there? Would Lew have chucked it? Maybe Joann went back to get it and hid the tapes in Palace Depression so no one would throw them away. She wanted to get the tapes so they would be able to be heard. Maggie Foley should've gotten a hold of them from Frank. Doc stalks Joann and gets what he wants? Give me a break. Aside from the Doc thing with the tapes it was a great movie.

Maybe Doc has since been sued. Maybe Joann bought the rights to the tapes and signed them over to Doc. I don't know.

[–] heymrbluesman 17 years ago

Well, Lew (or whatever his name was from Satin Records) didn't want the tapes. He thought it was junk - thus, leading to Sal telling Eddie that he was wrong in making this music ("they want 'On the Dark Side'") which led to Eddie leaving in a huff and. ultimately, disappearing.

It's been a while since I saw it, but, I guess Satin Records rejected the tapes from what happened on that fateful last night and, therefore, they belonged to the band to do with what it wished. Now, Satin may have a claim that the band owed it more material and, therefore, any new tapes should forst go to Satin.

Also, it's been ages since I saw the sequel (something I'd like to forget) but didn't Satin Records release the lost album in the sequel?

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[–] thelefthandedgun 17 years ago

good point....and yell he does play a lot of sleaze ball charaters...(i like him as an actor)...he wasn't to sleazy in the fugitive........

[–] Shadowjack1965 15 years ago

In the sequel Lew Issan's protege is at the Eddie Wilson look alike contest and he announces "Satin records has just reacquired the rights to the missing album..."

That leads one to believe they didn't have the rights to begin with, or it's just covering up an oversight from the first movie in the sequel...