PTET is a strong company, having bought INTERSOUND. Beach Boys, Peter
Cetera, John Denver and Crystal Bernard, as well as the Blues Brothers, Taj Mahal and expanded its roster to include George Clinton, The Ohio Players, Cameo, The Gap Band, Crystal Gayle, the Bellamy Brothers and Eddie
Rabbitt. Also selling music by The Band, Taylor Dayne, Kansas, Juice
Newton, The Atlanta Rhythm Section, Dionne Warwick, JGB (formerly the
Jerry Garcia Band), Dan Seals, The Gatlin Brothers, Earl Thomas Conley, and Jo-El Sonnier.
During 1997, the Company released STOP THE GUNFIGHT by the Rap artist
and nonviolence advocate known as Trapp, which includes two tracks
featuring the late Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. The album STOP THE GUNFIGHT debuted at No. 2 on BILLBOARD'S Heatseekers chart. The company is expanding its Urban music division in 1998.
The Company's initial release of DVDs, scheduled for June 1998, includes the following 12
titles:
The Beach Boys' NASHVILLE SOUNDS, Roger Daltrey's A CELEBRATION: THE
MUSIC OF PETE TOWNSHEND AND THE WHO, Harry Chapin's THE BOOK OF CHAPIN
(Soundstage), Phoebe Snow with David Bromberg (SOUNDSTAGE), Luther
Allison's LIVE IN PARADISE, Walter Trout's LIVE & KICKIN', George
Clinton's LIVE AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES AT THE ATLANTA OLYMPICS, Various
Artists' ESSENTIAL GOSPEL- LIVE AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES, George Winston's
FORBIDDEN FOREST, Cyberlin's THE SEASONS, and the first two DVDs in a
series of classical compositions by various artists set to African
wildlife footage--CLASSICAL SPECTACULAR and CLASSICAL FIREWORKS.
Smaller deals with independent labels and subsidiary labels have too
many artists to include here. The EDGAR has a more complete roster as of May, 1998:
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Suffice it to say this is a real company with a future [And I don't
often say that].
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