R.I.P. Lookout Records

[Sukebe GG]

Whoever thought that Lawrence Livermore would become a millionaire??

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-lookout-records,67730/

[meanbean]

Someone somewhere is doing a book about the rise and fall of Lookout Records. Book seems almost done...

http://www.lookoutrecords.com/2010/11/rise-and-fall-of-lookout-records-book.html

[erickelric]

That's gonna be the most boring book ever.

[popcon]

This is like having the funeral 7 years after the death has been confirmed.

[RubVom]

Couldn't recommend this book more.

The "Phantom Surfers Vs. Lookout Records" chapter TELLS ALL!

[Sunshine]

Someone somewhere is doing a book about the rise and fall of Lookout Records. Book seems almost done...

http://www.lookoutrecords.com/2010/11/rise-and-fall-of-lookout-records-book.html

Around 2001 someone was doing a doc about Screeching Weasel. I heard the audio from the Steve Albini piece and it was pretty scathing as much as I remember. I hope my og Lookout presses finally reach mega status for people from Milwaukee or Florida so I can finally dump that garbage on the Machine. 

[DANGERTERRORHORROR]

Couldn't recommend this book more.

The "Phantom Surfers Vs. Lookout Records" chapter TELLS ALL!

Seconded. Hilarious recounting of the Lookout records, crazed with money.

[roche]

Mike Lucas: We actually got a book coming out called Rock Stardom for Dumb Shits. It?s a humor book, but it?s also about everything anyone need to know about the rock industry. And we have a wonderful appendix in it about our legal struggles with Lookout! Records.

Do you find yourselves being oddly chummy with bands that kind of suck? Like, you ever see the Queers around, and you?re like, ?Man, we both got jerked around by Lookout!?

Mike: Absolutely. In fact, for years before that came about, we wanted to see the statements, because what they said was on the statements didn?t make sense. But every time we?d mention it to Lookout!, they?d say, ?You know, you?re the only band that has this trouble. Everybody else is satisfied with their statements.? Every time we?d be at shows with other Lookout! bands, we?d be told that not only were they having the same problems, but they were also told that they were the only band that had that problem. The first time I found that out was talking with B-Face of the Queers, and he was like ?That?s what they always tell us!?
Divide and conquer, I guess.

Mike: It just goes to show the world of homemade labels is no less disgusting and unethical than major labels.

Mel: Billie Joe of Green Day called and asked for advice on how to get out from under the jackboot that was Lookout! We gave him some pointers, and that was that for those crooks. I wish we would have thought harder about what their name meant when we ?signed? with them.

Here ...

[erickelric]

The Gimme Something Better SF oral history punk book (which I think has gotten a bad rap) has plenty of stuff about all this crap.