no deal with Capitol Records materialized. Genie and Brink paid to press a small number of copies of the record themselves, then mailed them around to acquaintances and friends. A half century later, Mooallem would find one in Jan’s basement and feel as though the text printed on the back of the album had been written explicitly to him: “In the future, if such questions as ‘What happened?,’ ‘What did people think and do?,’ and ‘How did people feel?’ are asked by strangers to the quake, it is hoped that this album may furnish some of the most significant answers.”
