It does state in the Cycle World article that a big part of the politics at HD was a push to ratchet up the output to 600K machines a year. Yeah, that's the ticket, over-saturate your market and then start shuttering your satellite operations to make ends meet...
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Yeah, I saw the servitude thing and guessed he took what he perceived to be the financial backing to make his dreams come true... only to find way too many strings attached. Live and learn.
You see the same thing all too often in my line of work. Players/Singers will do that repeatedly just to get a record deal so they can get a quality record cut and into the distribution pipeline. Then it plays out like that VH1 "Where are they now?" show. I understand what drove Erik to the choice as I've seen it done; it's just a shame HD made bad choices for him as well.
