I've done the occasional royalty recording and those are the ones where you can run into problems cause the guy might think you're ripping them off. But you've got to pay for the recording and all the stuff we talked about earlier and that comes out of the same pie. If they received an advance, well it was against the royalties - so right there, that could be a thousand bucks. If a record only sold five hundred or even a thousand copies there might not even be enough to pay for the costs of recording the damn thing let along royalties.
This is the end of part one of my interview with Bob Koester - founder and owner of Delmark records in Chicago. You'll be able to read part two tomorrow
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