[Harp-L] King Biscuit Thievery

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got this from Pete Sheridan:

From: VintageAmpsandGuitarLovers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:VintageAmpsandGuitarLovers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Junior
Jackson

Most of you have heard about the big rip-off of The King Biscuit Blues
Festival name by Performa Entertainment Real Estate in Memphis. In
short, the NYC company "King Biscuit Entertainment", who produced the
rock shows for radio in the early 70s, won the rights in a New York
court to the King Biscuit name and leased the use of that name to
Performa. Performa is now planning to hold a festival just across the
river from Helena, AR (where "The Biscuit" is held) on the same weekend
as the original festival, bringing in hip-hop and pop acts, and calling
it "The King Biscuit Music Festival". They also plan to force the "King
Biscuit Time" radio show off the air at KFFA in Helena, where it has
been broadcast from since 1941, so that they can broadcast it from Beale
Street. they are also planning to open a chain of "King Biscuit"
restaurants.

This move of pure corporate greed is a huge slap in the face to all
Blues fans. They are stealing the heritage of the best free festival in
the country and trying to steal festival goers and income from an
impoverished area in the Delta, the place where it all started. It may
be legal, but it is WRONG.

An online petition has been started to help combat this injustice and
return the King Biscuit name to the festival that has nurtured it for 20
years.
Please help by signing this petition and boycotting the Memphis Festival
and any project Performa is involved in. It`s simple to do. Just click
this link, sign the petition. You have to include your e-mail address,
but rest assured it will be kept private. Only one person (me) can see
your e-mail address if you choose to keep it private. My only agenda is
to bring The King Biscuit name back to the Helena Festival, and your
e-mail address is only needed, and will only be used, for confirmation
purposes.

Please show your support as a Blues fan and help us bring the "Biscuit"
back where it belongs!
Just click this link and sign, and Thank you for your support!

http://new.PetitionOnline.com/Biscuit/petition.html