Latin Motel (Joe Bataan/Pete Rodriguez discogs)
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
I was getting annoyed at how little, accurate info was out there so I just decided to throw these together. Corrections/additions welcome. Thanks to Faux, Garcia and Reynaldo for their discographic work which came in very handy.http://soul-sides.com/2010/05/the-joe-bataan-pete-rodriguez-discographies.html
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This has come to mind. Seriously though, Faux and Garcia did an incredible job with all their discogs and the fact that Rey took on the Fania LP AND 45 discogs is impressive in its own right.
At this point, I think the internet is a much better suited medium for discographies--for one thing, it allows for constant revision.
That, or he's been lying to me.
I know but I didn't have his real name handy so I just went with what I knew.
And I agree: internet discog > printed discog. No dough though!
Yeah - pretty nuts. I went with all the usual suspects to try to track him down: Mike Amadeo, Joe Conzo Sr., Joe Bataan, Bobby Marin and Benny Bonilla. Nada. I tried tracking down Manny Rodriguez too but he hasn't been heard of in decades either; he moved down to Venice FL at some point and I did find a 74 year old guy near there named Manny Rodriguez but turned out to be a false lead.
If you have any luck, please let me know!
Yeah, probably true, but at the same time stuff like Acid Archives and the god-awful "Funk Lexicon" continue to sell, and I mean people buy those Japanese rare groove guides even though they don't understand a single word of them.
I agree it's way more useful for the general public online, but kind of fruitless for the compilers.
I've just never sat with it so I couldn't really evaluate properly. Best LP cover though!
I agree with faux that online > book when it comes to reference stuff like this. Online info is easier to search, copy, edit, reformat, etc.--and it's cheaper to produce. I'd be down to do a book just for vanity's sake, though.
yeah, I thought about it. Too lazy. If someone feels like organizing them, I'm down to cut n' paste (and in any case, I'd need help with all the Remo releases).
i hope the list continues to grow and gets revised further
and your connections to fania.com put you in a perfect position oliver
Whoa, I didn't know he's not been heard from for so long. "Now" is one of my favorites too, and I object to the Christmas Boogaloos lp in the completists category, there's several good songs on that album.
I thought about this but man, the discogs system is a pain in the ass to 1) write for and 2) organize. I applaud them as a resource in general but I fault them for having a less-than-manageable system for contributing or reaggregating data to fit user needs.
The Groovecollector.com site is actually superior in this sense; less hoops to jump through, but their information is incredibly prone to misinformation.
I'll revisit the latter but dude, it's called *personal recommendations* for a reason.