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[DudeAsInCool]

I met Matthew Katz today, who was the founding Manager of The Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and It's A Beautiful Day,. He also worked with Big Brother and the Holding Co, Country Joe and the Fish and others in the San Franciso scene in the 60s. Very interesting man. He's mentioned in this Hippie - a book on the sixties.

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[Kooperman]

DudeAsInCool, on Sep 9 2008, 03:15 AM, said:

I met Matthew Katz today, who was the founding Manager of The Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and It's A Beautiful Day,. He also worked with Big Brother and the Holding Co, Country Joe and the Fish and others in the San Franciso scene in the 60s. Very interesting man. He's mentioned in this Hippie - a book on the sixties.

Matthew Katz is a villainous name in the San Francisco rock era. Ask John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater revival about him sometime...or ask David LaFlamme of It's A Beautiful Day how Katz affected his career.
http://www.bluoz.com/iabd/napster.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Kooperman, on Sep 10 2008, 09:46 AM, said:

Matthew Katz is a villainous name in the San Francisco rock era. Ask John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater revival about him sometime...or ask David LaFlamme of It's A Beautiful Day how Katz affected his career.
http://www.bluoz.com/iabd/napster.html

My gut reaction is that he is litigious - I met him at a courthouse on a proceeding regarding Managers and a California statute. According to him, he spent a lot of money on Moby Grape when they first started - he provided rent, cars, etc - so he feels they are indebted. He also told me that he came up with the band's names for It's a Beautiful Day, the Airplane's and Moby Grape's names. I do know that he recruited Spencer Dryden to play the drums for the Airplane. I haven't read enough about him to really know what his role was - but clearly he was a player at one time with all of these these bands.

[Kooperman]

The more I thought about it, the more suspicious I got about my memory of the Creedence Clearwater Revival problems. Turns out my suspicions were correct...it wasn't Matthew Katz who litigated John Fogerty into seclusion, but Saul Zaentz . However Matthew Katz did plenty of other litigation, as evidenced in my previous link .

[DudeAsInCool]

Kooperman, on Sep 10 2008, 12:28 PM, said:

The more I thought about it, the more suspicious I got about my memory of the Creedence Clearwater Revival problems. Turns out my suspicions were correct...it wasn't Matthew Katz who litigated John Fogerty into seclusion, but Saul Zaentz . However Matthew Katz did plenty of other litigation, as evidenced in my previous link .

I met Saul Zaentz - he did a lot of movies with us at Orion. He was a complete gentlemen with us. Can't speak for his business with CCR