Joy schreef:
vreemd trouwens dat apostrophe weer onder frank zappa staat en niet onder frank zappa en the mothers
Had volgens mij ook te maken met
Herb Cohen, die Zappa's manager was toendertijd.
Zappa & Cohen hadden zakelijke (lees: financiele) problemen en om daar zo gunstig mogelijk uit te komen, besloot FZ verder te gaan onder de naam Zappa...
Herb, Frank & Tom
RE: why the breakup?
From: Andy Hollinden (
[email protected])
As I understand it, it all came down to money and how it was used. Howard Kaylan told me (I got to spend an afternoon with him last fall) that what started it all was that Frank found out that Herbie was "double dipping." It seems that his contract with Frank stated that he got a percentage of Frank's earnings, which is perfectly normal. Now, in addition to being Frank's manager, Herbie was also his partner in DiscReet Records. Frank was pissed when he found that Herb was taking the same percentage of his earnings that came into DiscReet, not just the live performance earnings. So, in essence, Herb was skimming the top off of Frank's earnings in the business where they were co-owners. Technically, I gather that Herb was not doing anything illegal here; his contract did say he was entitled to a percentage of Frank's earnings. It just should have been rewritten when they became partners in the label.
Frank eventually charged that Herb and his lawyer brother, Mutt Cohen, were delinquent in paying to him his DiscReet earnings and using the money to pay for the production of Captain Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller album. That album in its original version has never seen the light of day. Frank also claimed that Cohen was using DiscReet money to take vacations, hence "Mo 'n Herb's Vacation." Herb claimed that DiscReet had paid Zappa all the money due to him. Herb was pissed when Zappa took the Zoot Allures album directly to Warner Bros, bypassing DiscReet entirely (that album came out ont he Warner Bros. label). Herb, I believe, sued Zappa and Warner Bros. for this.
I don't know the details of their lawsuit; whether or not it went to court or was settled in whatever manner. Like I said, when I called him, he just shut me down saying, "Why bother? It's a waste of my time" and shit like that. Totally unwilling to tell his side.
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