Mid 90s proposal for Costello 'live' box set

[johnfoyle]

see
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/a ... h=6&day=25


Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Cancer claims O.C. label founder Greg Dwinnell
The Orange County Register

Greg Dwinnell, founder and president of
Fullerton-based eggBERT Records, died Saturday from
complications of esophageal cancer, according to a
statement issued by his publicist Tuesday. He was 42.

In 1992, Dwinnell, of Brea, launched his label as a
spotlight for local and national power-pop purveyors,
issuing albums from the likes of the Posies, the
Wondermints (Brian Wilson's current backing band) and
the Jigsaw Seen (whose "Zenith" earned a Grammy
nomination). His roster also gave space to several
acclaimed Los Angeles singer-songwriters, including
producer Jon Brion, Mumps main man Kristian Hoffman,
Dramarama's John Easdale and Baby Lemonade's Mike
Randle and Rusty Squeezebox.

Two of his most notable projects were well-regarded
covers collections based on the music of the Bee Gees
("Melody Fair") and the Hollies ("Sing Hollies in
Reverse").

Most recently, he helped produce a live tribute to
Elvis Costello benefiting the USC Norris Cancer
Center, featuring performances by several of the above
as well as Aimee Mann and Michael Penn.

Dwinnell is survived by his mother, Sharon, and his
brother, Brian.


Copyright 2003 The Orange County Register

[bobster]

Sad indeed. I never met him, but I have a very loose connection to some of those bands (I used to know the Wondermints -- they even played at the wedding of one friend of mine and Baby Lemonade put on some of the best sets I've seen around town.).

And the show was pretty great, and you could tell that people really liked him.

[johnfoyle]

A recently sold item on ebay -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271646597681





Back in the mid-90’s, when Rykodisc had the Elvis Costello Catalog, they hired the EC fanatic Greg Dwinnell of Eggbert records to put together a proposal to send to EC & his team of (largely) jerk managers, in the hopes of putting togethger a box set they had discussed since the deal was first coming together. Of course, EC declined, holding onto his huge vault of unreleased recordings to continue milking his fans with new versions of his albums until (oops) he signed to Universal (a label he HATED) and those fans finally stopped buying them even though they were paired with previously unreleased live records. Guess he should’ve struck while the iron was hot and he hadn’t alienated much of his devoted fan base.

Anyway, here’s that proposal - the only copy from my vaults. See what an EC fan’s dream of a perfect live release would be!

[sulky lad]

Is there any likelihood that the purchaser might divulge to contents on this forum - please ?

[sulky lad]

I've always been intrigued by the absence of legal recordings being released in full or part such as the Ksmpuchea concert in 1979 (which surely would have had a load of GH songs) or the full BBC recording of Hope And Anchor from 1980. It seems incredible that there is such a dearth of information about the Kampuchea show - if it had been in Dublin we'd know everything about it but there's not even a set list