SELLING NORTHWEST RELEASING CORPORATION

Even though I was riding high as half owner Northwest Releasing Corporation just two years prior, it wasn’t that easy to plug back in to the top strata of young movers and shakers on the Seattle business scene. 

I was able to score enough consulting work: The Hurok Concert’s Tollar Cranston ice show tour across Canada, a Dave Brubeck tour, and booking and managing some concerts for owners of the Paramount Theater.  But I no longer had the working capital to fund the cash deposits that would be necessary to continue touring name attractions on my own.  

Glenn Ross, the managing director at the Seattle Opera was a friend and he asked me to produce a Seattle Opera sponsored concert with Dave Brubeck at the opera house.  I had toured with Dave twice before. 

It wasn’t until I sold my interest in Northwest Releasing Corporation (NRC) in 1972 and moved to the Midwest to tour concert attractions in Minneapolis, St Paul, Milwaukee, St Louis, Kansas City, et al that everything went to hell in a handbasket.  It was there, at age 32 and with no partners, using my own money going into the severe recession of ‘72-73 that everything came apart.