David Geffen Interview (1969)

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  • @indydude3367
    @indydude3367 4 роки тому +18

    Geffen sold her first songs (without her knowledge) to start his own label. That's why she went to Columbia Records and Geffen claims he was the victim of betrayal.

    • @DexterHaven
      @DexterHaven 3 роки тому +7

      Are you sure she didn't know? They split the money 50/50.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      Yes I was trying to figure out why she turned on him like that and betrayed him .
      .... and it did sound like she knew something about him so upsetting that she didn't even want to bother telling him because she figured he should know why she left him for Columbia .
      My guess is yes he sold them without her knowing and then of course split the money with her but if she didn't want her music sold and he did this without her knowing it that would be a terrible thing to do like selling someone's children !

  • @henryraymond8676
    @henryraymond8676 8 років тому +42

    David is a duplicitous friend who wants to help you. Usually he helps you out of your money, dignity, and spirituality because you feel like a fool when your "friend" takes you to the cleaners. Of course, by being your FRIEND he just caters to your emotions by telling you what you want to hear. Then he steals the family "silverware" but tells you he is going to help you find it. Until you finally realize who really took it. He likes young talent because they aren't sophisticated enough to understand what a real snake is, until they meet David of course. But hey, he has lots of company in a business full of monster egos. money, parasites, influence, drugs, parties, women, and decadence to the max.

    • @EvanDahill
      @EvanDahill 5 років тому +7

      Henry Raymond So, you’re on the fence about Geffen?

    • @thomaspiccirillo6820
      @thomaspiccirillo6820 5 років тому +2

      TOUCHÉ FROM WHAT I READ HE MOPPED LAURA BIG TIME. RIP MISS NYRO- KARMA IS NOT PREJUDIST

    • @GeraBrown
      @GeraBrown 5 років тому +1

      @@thomaspiccirillo6820 No idea what you mean, T. I guess it's a little open to interpretation, like Nyro's Stoney End!

    • @lacarlotta6290
      @lacarlotta6290 4 роки тому +1

      How easy to spew all of that, but what is your proof? Your first hand knowledge?

    • @DexterHaven
      @DexterHaven 3 роки тому +3

      @@lacarlotta6290 He sold Laura's songs and split the money 50/50 with her, so she didn't retire with royalties like Leon Russell did. Leon said he lived off three of his songs for decades. e.g., "Superstar" from the Carpenters cover. Laura didn't have that chance. But, without him, she was not good at business; she sold "And when I die" for $5,000 to Peter, Paul, Mary, so she got no royalties when Blood, Sweat Tears made a fortune on it for the copyright holder. David wanted Laura to sign with his new Asylum Records label, but, after he took 50% of her song money, she decided against it and went with Columbia. He felt betrayed and cried for days, he said. At least, Laura got $2.5 million by age 24, for her half, after splitting with Geffen.

  • @lupcokotevski2907
    @lupcokotevski2907 2 роки тому +3

    Nyro had already made the greatest debut pop album of all time before she met David, 'More Than a New Discovery' released early 1967. Honoured in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

  • @vsibirsky
    @vsibirsky 12 років тому +17

    Really, no artist should have trusted this guy.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      With the exception of Laura Nyro , I have been looking but can't find anything about what he did to other people especially the musicians and songwriters but I do believe he's probably done some underhanded things but I can't find anything about it .
      So please tell me what you can or at least tell me where to look because yes Google's a crappy search engine and I haven't changed my search engine yet and I'm not finding anything on UA-cam which is owned by Google but I do want to know what he did to these other people

  • @mooch9668
    @mooch9668 12 років тому +12

    he's so crafty and devious and mercenary

    • @jimmytman
      @jimmytman 6 років тому +9

      Hands off the man
      The flim flam man
      His mind is up his sleeve
      And his talk is make believe.
      Oh Lord, the man's a fraud
      He's a flim flam man
      He's so cagey
      He's a flim flam man.
      (Laura Nyro, c.1967) I loved her.

    • @GeraBrown
      @GeraBrown 5 років тому +2

      Amen. But she wrote that before meeting Geffen.

    • @robbentley4497
      @robbentley4497 3 роки тому

      @@jimmytman jerk

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому +1

      Aside from what he did to Laura Nyro , I have been looking and trying to find stories of what he did to other people and how he ripped them off because I do believe he probably did some shady things but I can't find any thing .
      Please can you tell me what he did the other people and who they were or if you can't do that can you please steer me towards the sources where I can find that info because I've looked and I give up ... maybe with all his money and power he hired people to look and let him know where people are saying negative things about him and maybe he forced them to take it down under threat of suing them but if you know of any sources please let me know where I can find this info

  • @joebassin4243
    @joebassin4243 7 років тому +5

    David made his first million dollars with his managing laura. It was her. It was her. However I really think he wouldn't ever gave her what she wanted which was her own freedom in the studio and we got some amazing music from his management

  • @Phi1l
    @Phi1l 8 років тому +20

    Geffen made a lot of artists, but I liken it to dangling a carrot in front of a horse & it ploughs 10 fields for you. He supposedly sold Nyro's catalogue without her knowledge to start up his own record company. Sounds like the kind of guy who would sell his grandmother if the price was right.

    • @GeraBrown
      @GeraBrown 5 років тому +3

      @@adamprince5547 Billionaire hoarders!

  • @77doriella
    @77doriella 4 роки тому +9

    Check out how he ruined the career of another genius singer songwriter, Judee Sill. Robbed us off her amazing talent. She upset him and never worked again. Says all you need to know about him.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you I will try to look it up as I'm trying to find about other people he messed with aside from Laura Nyro

  • @sallydickinson6473
    @sallydickinson6473 7 років тому +11

    David helped her so much but turns around and screws her!!! not a man! creepy creep.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      I assume you're talking about Laura Nyro and what he did to her was wrong but I'm hearing he did it to another woman called Judee Sill but I haven't looked her up yet and people are saying he screwed over a number of people but I can't seem to find any of that info anywhere

  • @kevinbell3700
    @kevinbell3700 3 роки тому +2

    Children, run .... not that way, that's Bryan Singer!

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      Not sure who he is it would have been nice if you could have given us a clue because not everybody's going to Google it

  • @tuneyouup
    @tuneyouup 10 місяців тому +1

    Look who he is 💨👺

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 11 років тому +6

    I was thinking..."I know that voice" but I came up short. Then I looked down here and saw, yes, it is newsman/patent medicine salesman, John Charles Daly. I guess Vito Corlenoe had it right "I don't care how a man makes his living, as lond as his interests don't conflict with mine"...I think I got that right. I love John Daly but to rip off the clever poister below, this is like Walter Cronkite and Cousin brucie working together. Joe

  • @putte2006
    @putte2006 12 років тому +2

    please post the songs she performed during this interview :) ( iv'e heard this several years ago on the web but lost the link )

    • @iantuition
      @iantuition Рік тому +2

      Search "Laura Nyro Critique"

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      Someone said he also ripped if someone named Judee Sill ... but supposedly there are others

  • @Deweydell25
    @Deweydell25 3 місяці тому

    From Critique? With John Daly

  • @crushsatan
    @crushsatan 3 роки тому +2

    what artist is this he is talking about?

    • @stevef9876
      @stevef9876 3 роки тому

      Hey how bout it. That guy is talking about someone else, not Geffen. Geffen and Nyro were way better than that. Geffen didn't get much press, just like managers never do, so what.

    • @crushsatan
      @crushsatan 3 роки тому +3

      @@stevef9876 I found out it was Laura Nyro of Stoned Soul Picnic, And When I Die, Wedding Bell Blues, etc. Glad I watched this interview.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      But he did Rip Off Laura Nyro and you can read the comments.

  • @wehaveasituation
    @wehaveasituation 5 років тому +1

    It's the MOT clusterfuck..

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      I'm trying to understand exactly what that means Mot

    • @wehaveasituation
      @wehaveasituation 5 місяців тому

      @@gardensofthegods Member Of the Tribe...i.e., Jewish

  • @ray-jf4sh
    @ray-jf4sh 3 роки тому

    Never trusted eh!

  • @Missendora
    @Missendora 11 років тому +3

    I respectfully disagree. Look at how many artists he made ginormous!
    Look how Laura Nyro treated him. He made her.

    • @canturgan
      @canturgan 7 років тому +13

      He didn't make anything, except money from other people's talent.

    • @andrewalbers8293
      @andrewalbers8293 6 років тому +8

      Laura Nyro is the real deal, a genuine talent in a world of promotional delusions. Geffen is, well, Geffen.

    • @rjlb56
      @rjlb56 5 років тому +2

      I think it was the other way around.

    • @GeraBrown
      @GeraBrown 5 років тому +1

      @@rjlb56 Don't think so Burr.

    • @randythompson5154
      @randythompson5154 3 роки тому

      Do some research, Fool!!!

  • @rsm2342
    @rsm2342 Рік тому +6

    God knows all. None of us will get away with anything!

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 місяців тому

      True but aside from what he did to Laura Nyro could you please tell me who else he screwed over and what he did because I've looked for the info and can't find anything but I do believe he probably did some shady things