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ESP-Disk is Back

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

In the early 1960s, Bernard Stollman started the iconoclastic music label ESP-Disk. Over the next decade he put out records by Albert Ayler, Charles Manson, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman, Timothy Leary, and The Fugs, to name just a few. Now, after a 30-year hiatus, Mr. Stollman has brought ESP-Disk back into business.


Comments

  • [1] eligit from astoria April 29, 2008 - 01:26PM

    great interview!

    i can't believe the guy who ran esp disk became a D.A!!

    ha!


  • [2] Josh Lomaco from Bronx, NY April 29, 2008 - 06:38PM

    Wow, what a character. ESP-Disk has been my favorite label since I first discovered it 30 years ago. I am glad to know he is still alive and doing business again. There goes my retirement money.


  • [3] jimi lalumia from long island May 24, 2008 - 07:28PM

    tell bernard I'd appreciate an accounting on the Psychotic Frogs Live At Max's Kansas City CD...ESP 2013


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