Back in 1972 my husband Bud Becker had a talent agency based in Falls Church, Virginia ...Domestic Sound Productions. From that Bud became
involved with national talent promotions in various venues in Virginia,
Maryland and the District of Columbia. Out of that grew a business of
supplying national talent to colleges for a 15% service fee. Because
of the volatile nature of the entertainment business back in the early
70's and the fact that things moved very fast and sometimes
according to Bud, it was nice to be able to review what had been
discussed in the heat of negotiation, Bud installed what for its time
was a very sophisticated telephone recording system with the purpose of
being able to review conversations and make proper offers and/or
responses to negotiations.
When getting ready to move our vast memorabilia collection in
2009 my husband (Bud) and I (Saintluna) came across
reel to reel tapes. After listeneing to the many tapes we were
fascinated with some of the subjects of conversations. The
one that held our interest the greatest concerned a series of Badfinger
dates in early 1973. They were carefully boxed up and moved with us.
These tapes will celebrate forty years on February 2012 and contain
voices of several individuals that have passed on and information that
needs to be explained to get to the heart of the story which is really
how Badfinger’s manager Stan Polley, Once again putting his personal gains ahead of the best interest of the Badfinger band.
The response to the past items my husband, Bud Becker, had from working with Badfinger
in the early 1970’s convinced us that there would be interest from the
band’s fans. However this project required a lot of time to
work out. First, reel to reel audio tapes and
then working over and over with CD's tapes until the
listener could understand everything! Much editing of some
materials out and breaking the rest down into parts so the listener
could follow along and understand the implications of what was being
done to Badfinger by their agency ATI , and their management Stan Polley. As usual my husband Bud Becker is narrating his "Memories of the Road-BADFINGER" CD and since a lot of this incident concerns Bud’s personal conflict with another promoter, but is not about Badfinger, we have put in a "bonus" free CD in which Bud explains further his story. As Bud, mentions at the start of the Epilogue (CD number two), if you are only interested in Badfinger, put it aside, however if you are interested in the music business in the 1970’s you may enjoy this second CD. Please continue to trust SAINTLUNA after over 8 years in business on eBay which has primary concerned itself with music, music memorabililia and my husbands "MEMORIES OF THE ROAD Series". The music history and stories only get better!!
In addition to the #1 BADFINGER "Memories of the Road" CD and the #2 Epilogue CD I have included several copies of items(paperwork etc.) of which the originals have been sold to Badfinger collectors for the purpose of establishing the positive relationship of Bud Becker, Saintluna and Badfinger. In addition to better understand Richard G. Klotzman and Jay Erlich - - Bud has included a copy of the article which Richard Harrington
wrote in the Woodwind Newspaper on Jay Erlich and his concert promoting
tactics and a 1985 article in POLLSTAR on Richard G. Klotzman, both of
which are mentioned in the Epilogue. A final note on
this project which is mentioned on the CD sleeve, the listener will have
to adjust the volume while listening since despite all efforts the
volume of the narrative and the telephone conversations are different,
but Bud and I wanted to make sure the listener could hear everything
including the comments made farther from the telephone receiver. If you
listen close you will hear Sol Saffian mention that he cleared the two show dates with Danny Aharoni off the telephone receiver. You have to listen closely, but it is there and little things like that we thought made it worthwhile for the Badfinger fans to have to adjust the volume to get everything that these forty year old tapes have to offer ( the Aharoni reference is around four minutes toward the end of the CD when Sol is checking with Ira Blacker).
I will say that this CD (CD #1) was put together with the Badfinger fans I (Saintluna) have been priviladged to come in contact with when selling the original memorabilia we had from the Badfinger
dates. I really think that this is a must have for those fans and of
course anyone wanting to know what was going on when rock and roll
touring was just getting geared up.
One last thing. May you "Rest In Peace Pete Ham". And to my dearest BADFINGER..."A Band Gone To Soon and NEVER to be forgotten in your music."
As usual, please write my husband, Bud or me with any questions or concerns. We appreciate your interest and are true BADFINGER FANS.
"SAINTLUNA"