Posted by DESI CASTRO
on 2/20/2009, 2:06 pm, in reply to "An entry from my Book"
75.60.180.56
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: I remember in 1990 when two of the biggest
: Major labels "Arista" and Warner
: Brothers approached me at my nightclub in
: Austin Texas and offered me a recording
: contract for Tortilla Factory. Although we
: had been in-active for four years already.
: The thing that was so repulsive and a total
: turn-off from these jerks was that they used
: an approach of....... "Record with us
: now" or be sorry later because this
: thing [TEJANO MUSIC] is going to die fast,
: so take adavantage of it............They
: told me that they considered our music a
: blue collar regional thing that has no long
: lasting
: commercial validity..........so
: ............I said I would think about it
:
: I never called them and I would not be part
: of a money hungry culture of people that
: actually knew nothing about what, who, or
: what me and my Band Tortlla Factory are all
: about...........They even sent two Cubans to
: try and convince me and I wound up talking
: their language ......"Music
: Tropical" with them ............rather
: than Onda Tejana..........which they know
: nothing or very little about. They, the
: Cubans ......are very hard working and very
: resourceful when it comes to the
: Entertaiment Biz..........but that still
: didn't qualify them to be my producers or
: anything that took me a lifetime to learn
: and cultivate.
:
: Also this topic never seems to have an
: ending. So, In an article written about the
: break -up of La Familia Band back when we
: were on top of the mountain.......Joe
: Gallardo and I did not conspire to leave and
: break up Little Joe and La
: Familia........the truth is
: ..."WE" ......the band members of
: La Familia, were told that Little Joe would
: be firing us soon so we just
: QUIT!.........and that's the rest of the
: story as Paul Harvey would say.
: Actually this whole story is in my book I'm
: writing.........which I wish I had time to
: finish................Right now all kinds of
: activities are keeping me busy 24/7.......
: Merry Christmas everybody............Ham
: ........."And All That Jazz"
:
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