Hello Ryp and others...In case anyone is wondering. I was getting harassed by some record labels. They were leaving threatening comments and what not. So I made Redondo RoundUp private - but only I can view it. I'm trying to decide if I want to continue privately or stop.
I don't want to debate who's right, who's wrong... I was havin' fun sharing the music I love. Its not fun opening a bunch of nasty comments.
So we'll see what happens next... Ryp, thanks for all your support, I really appreciate it. I'll get ahold of you if I continue - you too Glauber.
Until then or when....
Rock'N Roll will never die!!
Regards,
Mredondo
....one more thing. If I do continue privately, I'll only invite those I'm familiar with or through a RYP recommendation.
Again, many thanks Ryp, you inspired me to blog and share my love of Rockabilly.
Take care brother and Blog on!!
Mredondo
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37 comments:
It's really hard to fathom that anyone could think that a blog like Mr. Redondo is taking enough money out of anyone's pockets to make them go out of their way to shut him down.
Blogs like this one, Mr. Redondo and so many others serve to introduce people to music they may not otherwise hear. And that can only be a good thing. When will 'the industry' realize this?
This stinks, you had one of my fav sites. I visited it daily. Good luck with whatever you do.
Hey Mr Redondo, we are with you by the thoughts !
Try to have fun, it's the most important...
Rock'n'roll is alive and well !!!
Always astonished by these records labels... Anyway...
Keep on rockin' !
Outerpsych
I want to wish you luck and I hope you are able to continue. This is one of the best blogs ever and it's one of the first places I visit every day. You've done great work here and I thank you.
Choirboy514
Ttwilightzone y Redondo RoundUp sois los primeros de mis favoritos. me gustaría que Rodondo siguiese disponible para todo el mundo, como siempre, como debe ser.
muchas gracias por los grupos que desconocía y por las copias mp3 de mis viejos discos.
muchos ánimos para seguir con vuestros magníficos blogs.
un saludo. jesumba. madrid
Dear Mr Redondo,
that is so sad. You are my favorite blog of all. I really got inspired by your music. I wish you all the best from Hamburg, Germany
keep rockin'
boppin' Gal
Was wondering what happened. Hope you get it up and running soon.
Great blog!
Sorry to hear those vampires are getting nasty again...
Your blog is one of the few, i check every morning, every evening, every hour;)
And just as YankeeBoy said, i bought so much music (way more, than i planned to), because of yours and other blogs and all the new musical horizons you guys are creating.
Thanks and good luck!
Can't live without your Blog! It has always great music! Wish you get back on the game! If not, thanks for all the good music and good moments you gave me and my friends! All the luck and keep Rocking!
REDONDO,
IT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE A COUPLE O' DAYS AGO...WELL, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING POSTS AND TAKE CARE, PAL. I HOPE YOU FIND A CONFORTABLE WAY TO CONTINUE BLOGGING. SEE YA,
GLAUBER
thank you for the time and records you shared ,and for the bellfuries link - my personel favourte find - can`t wait to get the albun ,wich should be reissued this december.
I think there are other sites to do this on, and I think we should all explore them so we can still keep this going. Maybe blogger just isn't the place to do this anymore,I'd take some advice from trustar,and move to another site that will let people blog,until that place doesn't like it either.
I'm certain,these sites love the traffic and advertising on them,so don't be so sad,just set up some accounts at other sites,and turn the music up. I insist you do this mr. redondo,we would prefer you not to leave permanantly,and I would certainly put your new link on my blog,and make it obvious where you can be found. I think we all feel that way about toxxxy too. I think many other bloggers will follow me with that-won't you all?
mojo repair shop/ garage 66
My 5 cts contribution... I have the impression that the music industry is coming down heavily on bloggers...; I want to thank all of you guys for the excellent choice of music... I considered myself a musicconnoisseur since 45 years and I was by principle only downloading the vinyl in my vast 2000 recordcollection. But then I came across these blogs and my god, I realised that I was just scratching at the surface of popmusic. Fantastic music....
I used to work in the music-industry and I am pretty sure that they don't even have the right to close down blogs with this old music as they probably don't own the rights anymore.
As for the artists cfr The Mods, they are shortsighted as these blogs give them a reknown they would otherwise never achieve.
Well any way thanks a 1000 (albums) times and good luck
Siento mucho que también el blog de Mr. Redonde quede cerrado para acceder a su música.
Lo peor es que o sé como conseguir una invitación.
Gracias por todo
John
music industry sucks BUT .... don't forget that labels like Bear family need the money to release other cd's. Without the money they earn from cd's they sell they are not able to continue those great releases and beautiful boxsets. But I loved your blog and many other and I'm always surprised to see my own recordings pop up once a while. Thanks Mr Redondo, good luck for the future.
Gracias por toda tu labor, mredondo. Muchísimos descubrimientos gracias y a tu blog y también al de ryp.
THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!!!
Please visit my blog for news...
http://redondoroundup.blogspot.com/
The harassment that some bloggers receive does more harm than good. The true collector like most of us are, after sampling if it strikes us positively are on the hunt for the original product if it is currently in print.
The music industry as a hole has showed declining sales for several years now. The reasons stated by them do not ring true for me. No it is not the internet as they so easily blame. yeah there are leechers but those were the same ones making cassettes of their friends lp's 20-30 years ago.
My theory is 1- the quality of the music being made is for such a narrow group that it leaves a lot of us in the cold there is no Motown sound no Philly sound, Nashville sound etc, just a homogenized pap they determined that you will here 2. They repackaged and reissue the same material at top prices and have got away from the budget releases like the big labels did in the 50-60's such as Decca with Vocalion, RCA with Camden, and Capitol did with the Pickwick-Hilltop releases, in short they priced themselves out of the market 3.To many accountants-Attorneys run the music business and no music men like Wexler-Ertegun-Alpert-Atkins-Bradley who knew how to make money and produce quality music are involved. They have taken the collecting out of music(if your a true collector you understand this)
The internet has provided the local artists to be heard much in the way the small/regional labels used to do except it allows world wide access for them to build a following.
Radio with the invention of the (at least for the USA) top forty format Dj's no longer have input on what to play or allow the listener or local artists input. It is all pre-formatted pre-destined music that does not allow choice or style. They think of revenue without community involvement which explains why their revenue is down except in talk radio. Having been involved in radio for close to thirty years I know this to be a fact.
Hell I am Off the soap box! Hope to see ya soon Redondo! Thanks Ryp & Gyro for not giving up!
cheers
red
hey ryp,
here's something for your new start. THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND. 2 albums. fabulous!
http://rapidshare.com/files/160370385/dirty_dozen_brass_band.rar.html
GLAUBER [brazil]
Hope you continue your work, your's is one of my favorite sites. I understand not wanting all that stress, though. Good luck!
Dr. Humpp
Mr Redondo, I hope you decide to open your blog again. Lots of amazing music there ! It was really a pleasure to get in home after a hard day working, grab something to drink and choose some good music to listen to. Anyways, thank you very much for all the music you shared ! Ricardo - Brazil
Hi M Redondo,Just a little note to let you know how much i enjoy your site, not only for the great diversity in music but the great info that goes with it, it's obvious that you love music as much as the people who visit your site, i, for one hope that you continue in some capacity.
Wishing you well,your old RockHall friend,NBboy.
You changed my life. I know that. I hope you can hang on.
Thanks for all the posts. We beggars should be glad that it lasted as long as it has. You and others so unselfishly shared with us and it is much appreciated. I would not ask you to go on for my sake. If you go private i would be honored to be invited in. I wonder if some blogs that allow others to post music are opening themselves up to sabotage.
Good luck Mredondo,I certainly hope you re appear again soon..its not often i find a blog who's owner has near to identical musical taste to me but you (and Ryp) continued to "wow" me with music i'd never heard before.Take care dude.
Sad To Hear Youve Had To Close Your Blog To Public view But I'm Sure No One Blames You For Not Wanting The Hassle ... Thanx For All Your Past work You Will Be Missed By many ... Good Luck And Best Wishes For The Future ... Keep On Rockin' Psycho Paul
Really really sad day... Thanks for everything so far Redondo - "so far" indeed, since I am sure you will surface again !
Red, you made a great analysis, IMHO.
Standardization is one of the fact that explain why music industy is declining.
And Internet is not THE fact, as some try to believe.
In France (my country), we are supposed to be the "world dlding champs". In fact, you can see different things : a recent survey (1 month old) said that 18 % of french people are dlding illegal stuff. So, 82% don't do it. And those 18% are supposed to be the "killers" of music and movie industries. How weak these industries are...
Other facts : movie entrances (people going to see a movie in a show room, sorry for the english...) are increasing. So do DVD movies sales. And "Bienvenue chez les chtis" ("welcome to north of France", in a way...) : 20 millions+ people saw this movie in a cinema hall, first of all time in France. It has been said that more than 2 millions people dlded it illegaly. But the movie DVD just came out a few days ago : 1 millions copies sold in two days ! Did dlding have an impact ?
I like to buy reissues of things I like. But it's so difficult to find them. A record shop I know in Toulouse (south west of France) had ONE copy of first Insect Trust LP reissue on CD. And I was the second to ask for it... They also had the Morgen CD reissue : 1000 copies for all of the world, completely sold, of course ! But they were at decent prices : 12,50 Euros (around 15 $).
When you see an old Led Zep at 20 or 30 Euros, no, you don't buy it.
And when you can't find this old stuff I like, you dld it. It's not stealing, it's out of print...
Yesterday, I was copying this stuff from a collector friend of mine (he has more than 3 000 LPs, I'm jealous !). There is no difference.
Let people know this old music, out of print, most of the time not reissued. And, you of record industry, create interesting reissues of this music, with more than just the CD, with booklets, liner notes, pictures, "goodies", at a logical price. And don't forget to pay the ones who created the music at the time. We don't forget them, we like them !
Outerpsych
Hey, Mredondo...
Thanks for all the music so far... And for other things. I was enjoying the Billy Wong site too.
I hope you come back soon...
Hey Mr Redondo - Sorry to hear about the headaches you've had to go thru. Ten years from now, people will look back on the hoops you had to jump thru and laugh..."you had to do WHAT just to download some music? That's CRAZY!" But it's definitely not funny now, I know. Keep your head up!
Thanks everybody.....
Hopefully I'll be back someday....
Regards,
Mredondo
(...and like that - PUFF!!
..... he's gone.)
Sorry ti hear about your problems, been a lurker I'm afraid, but realkly enjoyed your interesting stuff.
Take care,
Dave
aka Bigdog
Add me to your invitation list.
Most of the music you CANNOT buy today even if you wanted to. It's out-of-print. Still I'd like to be able to hear it. Many record companies have woken up to the small audiences out there in the new generations who want the music and wisely reissue it. With out blogs like this and other sites, no one would know the music even exists let alone make a demand for it's reissue. Too bad the execs don't see this and decide instead to be assh****.
Good luck.
Thanks for introducing me to a lot of bands I would have never known! GREAT JOB!!
Thanks for all,
take care and keep rockabilly roll!
Best regards
Bone
Wondered what happened and sad to see you go mr redondo. hope the words of those above give you the enthusiasm to keep going!
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