Conversation with André de Raaff, Imagem Music, and Ralph Peer II, peermusic

[brmaz]

The characterization of Ralph Peer and the way he handled copyrights by "nonproducer" is historically inaccurate in every single particular. If anything, he BEGAN the practice of seeing that performers and songwriters actually got paid. The Carter Family continued to receive royalties for years and years after...Nice hotheaded bit of uninformed slander though.

[moproducer]

Ralph Peer II, "successful independent music publisher". Son of the cruelest bastard in musical history, Ralph Peer, founder of Peer International and robber-barron son of a bitch. Peer made his multiple millions by starting the trend of keeping artists on pathetic remuneration - reminding them they'd be 'nowhere without him'. The copyrights he obtained from A.P. Carter for a handful of dollars are some of the most valuable musical properties in existence.

What a bloodsucking asshole.