To whom it
may concern (and if you are reading this, it concerns you):
Greetings!
I am Ken Kincaid, Chief Executive Officer of Terror Trax (both the music
label and the studio). I am responsible for getting Raychel Taurus
into the music business. I know that Lance likes to blame Kyle
McAllister for that but, like so many things, he is wrong. Kyle
McAllister introduced Raychel to music, but I was the one who actually
paid her to make music. Therefore, I deserve that
honor.
In fact, had
we left Raychel's musical career in the hands of Kyle, they would
currently be playing in old folks homes now. It's not that Kyle
has no business sense. He just wasn't connected enough in the
business to get them anywhere. Quite frankly, they were lucky that
Laura Douglass and I know each other. Amusing when you think of
it. A person who owns a bar had more connections in the music
business than a musician. In retrospect, it's not amusing.
It's pathetic.
I am
fortunate to know Laura for two reasons which directly relate to this
website:
1) If
Laura didn't know me Raychel never would have made it into the music
business. Without music, Raychel never would have been almost
famous. I know Lance likes to say that Raychel was a great poet,
and would have been famous through that, but name me three famous
living poets. I'll wait.
2) Laura
called me to ask me to contribute to this web site. By doing so,
she has saved Raychel's memory from being stricken with a case of
selective Alzheimer's Disease.
The second
point is the one I'm concentrating on today. Sometime later I'll
talk about the first point. However, I think it's more important
to address the second one. Then you'll know where I'm coming from
when I tell you about the first point.
So I
received a call from Laura Douglass in March about contributing to a web
site which was serving as a living memorial to Raychel. I was
pleased at first. She deserved something as a reminder after
everything she'd been through. Then Laura told me Lance Wagner was
running it. Disappointed, I hung up the phone without further
response. I didn't think one was necessary.
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"I'm
sure Lance believes everything he's posted on this site, but I doubt
many of his so-called factual statements." |
That is not
to say that I didn't visit the site. I began making weekly visits
to see what delusion or half-truth Lance would post up here hoping you
would all believe. I'm sure Lance believes everything he's posted
on this site, but I doubt many of his so-called factual
statements. (For example: He's secretly married to Raychel?)
I will address those items in greater detail in the future.
Getting back
to the point, I monitored the web site mainly for amusement
purposes. Then late in March he responded to a person's question
by directly naming me as a suspect in Raychel's murder (see
Question
4 in Lance's Q&A Responses). Suddenly, the site became
less of an amusement to me. I don't appreciate being accused of
murder, even by a clown like Lance. I felt that if I was going to
be accused of murder, I should at least be provided the opportunity to
defend myself in that same arena.
So after
getting his number from Laura, I called Lance Wagner to talk to him
about his site. I have met him a few times before, so I didn't
expect he would be too difficult. I couldn't have been more
wrong. He was obstinate about having anyone from the music
business "befoul" the web site with their opinions. He
was content to ignore the music business aspect of her life in favor of
her poetry. I reminded him that in the same response where he
named me a suspect, he said that he would approach me in the future to
about contributing to the site. He corrected me. He
specified that his use of the phrase "may approach" (instead
of "would approach") didn't mean that he would ask me to
contribute to the site, only that it could happen.
We had even
less agreement regarding Raychel's poetry. As part of her modified
contract, through a cross-promotional venture, first publication rights
for all of Raychel's poetry and notes belonged to Cain International and
their publishing houses. Lance insisted that these poems were left
in his care, and that they were his to do with as he pleased.
Besides, he stated, they had already been performed at meetings of The
Bleeders and therefore had already been published onstage. I
don't know where Lance got his legal advice from (probably Judge Judy)
but he was aching to be put in his place.
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"I
had a single demand, the same one I wanted before. That I be
allowed to contribute whenever and whatever I wanted.
" |
Since Lance
was unresponsive to my simple request, I exercised one of my alternative
options. As CEO of a Cain International holding, I have instant
access to a cadre of very good lawyers. I informed my counsel
about Mr. Wagner's web site and how it contained defamatory statements
about myself regarding Raychel Taurus' murder and how Mr. Wagner was
also engaging in copyright infringement. Armed with a copy of
Raychel's contract and a prepared cease and desist order, I dispatched
the attorney last week. The plan was simple: scare the
living hell out of Lance by threatening to shut down the web site while
a court determined whether he had violated copyright laws in publishing
Raychel's poems as well as committed defamation of character against me
on his web site. It might not have worked in a court of law (web
sites are hard to litigate). But Lance wasn't in a position to
gamble. I was.
It
worked. I received a call later that same day (April 9) from a
humbled Lance Wagner offering anything to keep the site running. I
had a single demand, the same one I wanted before. That I be
allowed to contribute whenever and whatever I wanted. He granted
it immediately.
I had a
single stipulation to that demand: That Lance Wagner exercise no
editorial control over my contributions. I am aware that he has
edited Laura's articles and I do not wish to have my work altered to fit
Lance's interpretation of Raychel's life. If I am writing
something, it will state what I want it to, not what some weakling
wannabe writer wishes it was. By the way, what's really good is
that Lance has to put this page together and post it on his website
while not altering a single word. Lance Wagner is a
self-righteous, pretentious, whiner who might get something he actually
wanted if he only worked for it. But he doesn't because he's a
self-righteous, pretentious, whiner. Lance, my boy, this is
power. And you'll never have it. Why? Because you are
poor and weak. I, however, am rich and strong. I've
got no strings to hold me down. . . but I do have a little truth to
tell.
Come back
next week and I'll tell you some. I'm tired.
