Contrary to their time as secondary producers AEG would now have majority control as One Reel was no longer a "financially healthy company". Because of this struggle Chris Porter, "Bumbershoot's music booker of nearly two decades", said that "this time Reel had to bow down to the way AEG wanted to do things in order to get the deal done". In other words AEG kept the festival alive but would make the major decisions it didn't have the authority to do in the past.