UPDATE FEB 2011

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DEAR FRIENDS, AFTER RECEIVING FIVE NOTIFICATIONS FROM DMCA, I HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE MY BLOGS, SO ALL THIS SHARING-LINK ACTIVITY IS FINISHED. YOU CAN READ THE COMPLETE TEXT I POSTED ON MY PILOT BLOG - - > HERE

FOR THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FOR RECORDS: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T FULFIL THEIR REQUESTS, IT ALL CAME TO A POINT THAT'S 'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR ME. I HAD TO REMOVE THE 97% OF THE ALBUMS I HAD POSTED ON THE SERVERS. The few exceptions are: the bootlegs and the few studio albums authorized directly by the copyright owners.

FOR ALL THE OTHERS, Cyrus (who wants to buy some of my vynil records), Maxoom, Caroalt, Jiro, Trolley Dolly, Phil (who wants my copies of the COB albums), Marnie (who wants my copy of the original "Ptooff"), XJ64, Antiamnbient, Arman, Nicolas, Rick, etc etc , please WRITE ME AGAIN WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, OKAY?

Last: I RE-UPPED THE FOREST'S LIVE ALBUM FOR THREE PEOPLE WHO ASKED FOR IT, SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.


VAN DER GRAAF FANS? - Click ==>> HERE

KISSES - YOUR COUNTESS VANESSA

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No pretention of completeness in mind, this blog sees the light with the idea of filling a good number of gaps here and there, where I notice that certain music that I particularly like is missing in other blogs. Therefore my intent is avoiding posting albums that are present elsewhere. Exceptions are: where I'm reported of dirty record scans, incomplete reissues often remixed and unfaithful to the originals, or when I can offer higher bitrate scans, or also when posting a title is necessary for the completeness of a thread or a discography.


Here you won't find links leading to downloads, whenever the "Link" is featured, the album is available, otherwise, it means "work in progress".... If you want an album, please write me a request in the comment section including your email address and where in the world you visit this blog from.

...and if you don't get an answer from me after a certain time, please write again - I'm sorry, but it's not rare that some emails get lost in outer space, unfortunately...

After seeing that certain people keep using some of my pictures (which are not first class, I admit it, but nevertheless were made originally by me) for their blogs, without mentioning me as the owner, I decided to apply a "watermark" on some of them.

Thanks for existing

Thanks for existing

03 May 2010

"..... ORIGINALLY POSTED ON ...."

DEDICATO AL FAGOTTINO KE PISHA CONTRO L'OTRE DI EOLO!






DEAR "COLLEAGUE-BLOGGERS"
WHO DOWNLOAD MY ALBUMS AND AFTERWARDS YOU RE-PUBLISH THEM ON YOUR SITES:

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..AT LEAST, YOU MIGHT ADD A NOTE LIKE THIS - "Originally posted on Countess Vanessa's Castle Blog", DON'T YOU THINK?
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... OR AT LEAST YOU COULD TAKE CARE TO CHANGE THE TIMINGS OF EACH SONG, OR THE BITRATE,  ISN'T IT?

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TALKING SPECIFICALLY TO ONE OF YOU:
WHY DON'T YOU MAKE YOUR ALBUM SCANS BY YOURSELF?
WHY DO YOU USE MY ALBUM SCAN INSTEAD OF YOURS??
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DO YOU THINK THAT SHOWING DIFFERENT FOTOS OF THE SAME ALBUM COVER IS ENOUGH?

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I ALWAYS ASKED PERMISSIONS TO LOAD HERE ALBUMS OF OTHER PEOPLE AND I ALWAYS MENTION THE ORIGINAL UPLOADERS!
SEE WHAT ONE GETS IN RETURN...

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TWO VISITORS NOTICED THE TRICK AND REPORTED ME ABOUT IT, TWO DAYS AGO.

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FOLK MUSIC IS SOMETHING SO NARROWLY SPECIALIZED, AND THIS PROVES THAT VISITORS ARE NOT SO STUPID AS YOU THINK.


















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11 comments:

  1. Lets move out of blogger to other service...
    create a platform for communication between us with no links just information and communication and links only via email...

    Or move to private invited forum again far away from blogger.

    Sisters and brothers...don't let them get to you.
    Love goes on
    Folk goes on

    KISS

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  2. #ROLLIN' ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING#
    I had to give the link to other friends of mine, I NEEDED to share with some1 that dedication in PINK!! - LOL
    Vanessa, although you can't be in a good mood, and I respect it because I know you are a great person, sorry, we laughed so much, couldn't help

    Hey, you know, we love you
    GURNEMANZ

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  3. To GURNEMANZ:
    10000 times thank you, I don't mind having friends, REAL friends, having a fkk good time, so much the better if one of them is you! :-))
    Keep spreading the word, the more fun we make, the better!

    KISSES, see you

    Dame Vanessa

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  4. To JANISFARM:
    Of course your attitude, dear Janisfarm, deserves all praise, but it's not always so easy as it seems, too many problems can't be solved by just preaching love.
    Coz still people write dirty emails without a reason, hundreds of people D/L my albums and just 6 or 7 say 'thankyou', other people write bad comments about me (last December, on another blog) but don't disdain "DIRTENING" their hands by using MY scanned music to be re-spread around without quoting the first source!
    It comes more and more to me the will to update all my blogs and keep them open only to a bunch of friends, that's what I'm gonna do sooner or later.
    Anyway, thanks for your water on the flames.
    KISS en retour,
    Vanessa

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  5. Hello again,

    I have seen this things happen a million times and this is why i stopped bloging but did not loose my friends (the real ones). My intention is not to pray and just be possitive , i can also be practical but decision is up to you.
    My solution is private forum for the ones you choose and then you will never get strange mails, your albums will be downloaded by the ones you selected and in my opinion communication is better. Only bad thing is that you loose views and friends that are outside the forum but deserve to be in it. For this reason you could leave a pilot blog just with folk information and find out for more people that are really interested. (YOU KNOW 3 YEARS AGO WE HAD A BEAUTIFUL PRIVATE FORUM WHICH WE CLOSED A FEW MONTHS AFTER WE DECIDED TO MAKE PUBLIC)
    I know that all this administration for a blog or forum (pictures, scans, links, information....)takes a lot of time that maybe some of us don't have. All job cannot be done by just one or 2 persons. We all have to help in what we can do better but keep just few to the admin.
    I could help you technicaly and in any way i can. I can look for a free and decent platform, organize format, permisions, help with transportation of files links etc,

    I 'd like to help and don't want this thing to happen once more because i think that one day you will say i close my vinil hall to myself and dont want to hear another word about internet anymore.

    I respect your decisions

    Thank you for all the music feelings you spread, pink black or blue

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  6. It is all very interesting what you suggest, dear Janisfarm. The fact is that - as I told somebody else months ago - this is no less than my NINTH blog that I had to open in order to avoid all the bad connections and links ,and the problems with the feeds, etc etc. Yes, I admit that sometimes, at the beginning, a part of the fault was mine because I'm not very expert of blogging things, but now I learned - the life on the road effect!
    To transfer the pages and the contents from site to site is not a problem, I do it often every time that I place the LINK to my Folkoteque blog, it's enough to copy the HTML scripts, and *poof!* every page is the perfect copy of the one before.
    If I want and decide to close this blog again to the public, like it is today with Merlin in Rags (for example), I can just do it with this as well.
    The "Folkoteque", as you know, is already private, nevertheless there are intruders, as you can see written there, coming always from Spain, Tokyo and South Africa: they visit me every day, and their towns are never named in the list of my visitor widget :-)
    Anyway, at the moment I really have found - as you suggest - a completely new platform, totally free, with memberships and other safe features. Let's see how it goes. Otherwise, and this would be the last stage - I will probably take all my album-teque and let it co-flow together with some other big river and we'll be part of some huge musical ocean-company, made by never-to-die Folk and Progressive hooligans, one fine day!
    We MUST save these albums, for ourselves and for the posterity. There's no other way, otherwise, because industry and multinationals tend to destroy all creativity and individualisms that don't constitute a BUSINESS for them!
    We are not lemons-to-be-squeezed-and-thrown-away, to quote a definition of Leonard Cohen, on an interview of 1975.

    Hugs to you, dear Nikos, thanks for being my friend :-)
    Vanessa

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  7. By the way, dear Nikos, what was the magic Blog that you and your friends used to run, long time ago?

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  8. Hello,

    I completely agree we will not let the music and feelings we love to die.

    The magic blog was a private forum not in blogger called gathering of the tribe. We all contributed music, info, scans, opinions, completed each others requests etc.

    On the the side 5-6 others and me were running LOST IN TYME which is closed by blogger now ...
    Other forum members were running or still running
    GARDEN OF DELIGHTS,
    PLAYIT AGAIN MAX,
    PROG NOT FROG,
    GROWN SO UGLY
    CITIES ON FLAME (RIP DIRK)
    CHOCOVERE
    CRIS GOES and a few more great blogs. Unfotunatelly most blogs as you can see are deleted or are inactive. The reason the same as here... stupid or no comments 2000 dloads per link per day and no communication with all these people. And of course big legal problems with bloger etc. So we moved away from all this
    Forum closed because IMO we made mistake to make it public, allthough reason was to find and share with more great people. Some of us put huge efforts in there and in blogs and could not continiue like this anymore. So we closed but still i have some great real friend s from there.

    LET THE RIVERS FLOW

    Kiss

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  9. Dear Janisfarm,
    one preliminar question: did you understand what is the person that I write about in my post? And what is the scanned LP that he published on the blog? Answer me PVT, of course :-)

    Now, coming to the point:
    Incredible, there are the best of the best Blogs around, in the list you made, wow
    I used to know very very few names of these blogs, because my very first time that I entered in a blog was 7 or 8 months ago, not earlier.
    I have been locked for about 20 years away from any musical events, till a collector in Italy, great old friend of mine, told me about the existance of the Blogs online. And he also told me about how many were already deleted, so this means that I am one of the last arrived in this blog-world.
    Neverthelsss, I think I am one of the first who decided to open ONE principal PILOT-BLOG plus TWO SUB-blogs using them as mirrors, last December. Today we see other blogs (let's not make names) doing the same I did. But I think we still didn't reach the solution.

    Maybe we all should cohalize ourselves all, maybe we should unite all and open a gigantic SPACE, where we lay all our albums and videos and bootlegs, with the help of a huge private server - or a group of secure servers - which DON'T delete our albums - and remain in permanent sharing-functionment. This should be working for all of us collectors, all together, apart from the rest of the world, so that each of us can have everything available from any other of the others contributors.
    Is it Utopic?

    hmmm .............
    Maybe.

    But wouldn't it be great?

    Kiss

    Vanessa

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  10. Note: THE TEXT OF THIS EMAIL IS EDITED BECAUSE IT CONTAINS PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS.
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    I agree with your opinions and i know that they will never let us just share in public, because they say it is illegal. You also know that there are some collectors who just want to keep copies for themselves and sell it later and get the money. Some of them do it because they are just fuckers... their collection is like a collection of vinyl plates and covers they have never heard or loved.
    The gigantic space idea is great but difficult to be implemented. Because gigantic means a lot of great people commited to this, i mean people that act like you and don't take advantage of the space and peoples good feelings.
    This is very difficult because you have to admin the place and judge people that you don't know...takes time to know better.
    This was our effort in the forum but you see how it came out. So i stick to smaller private places. maybe later unification of small private places would lead to gigantic folk planet.

    I started bloging 3-4 years ago and i come to this music from the opposite way(12 years ago). I did not have the luck to be alive when all these things were happening , but i managed to find out about this music loved it and that is why i am looking so much for it and also people that share same feelings with me.
    When you communicate with others by this kind of music i think there are no more words needed. Communication is complete (almost).

    Solution for me is to keep our love for music and don;t let f**ckers separate us people that love this music so much. that is why i say we should move private.
    Don;t know it is just my opinion.
    I respect what you do because you give me a chance to listen to things i really love and would never ever had a chance to listen. So this music would eventually die if there were not people like you( there are very few) to share their souls.
    I like to do the same also but i just stated collecting since 1995 so internet is great place for me to find some of the things i love and don't pay a fortune to some crook.

    Anyway lady.. things will find their correct way ... together with our minds.

    Finally, the scanned LP: when i saw your post i got disapointed because i respect wht you do and don;t want you to be disappointed with all this. So i shared my opinion.

    Kiss

    Nikos

    Ps.. after all i thing i won;t make it to SPYROGYRA live performance.....

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  11. "THE DISCOTEQUE of ALEXANDRIA"

    You say a lot of absolutely exact things, dear Nikos.
    You are right especially when you say that we cannot know all these people personally, who of them is really interrested in preserving the MUSIC and who is an asshole, and one must be the administrator of all them"
    Yes, it's true, and I had already thought long about it, last December: I had found this solution, but I would have taken too much time to put it in practice, therefore I simply gave it up. But the basic idea remains, and it is this:
    1. We should manage to make a huge space where only REAL collectors are present, who have already a good number or albums in their collection. Each of us would be an Admin.

    2. here online, those among us who belong to the group of REAL music lovers are not so difficult to find, we know many many collectors who have a huge reserve of albums in stock. And many of them are also bloggers.
    3. So each of us should contribute to gather a big big catalogue, like the Biblioteque of Alexandria, which was said to contain EVERY book existing in the world, at that time.

    4. then we should find a place (and I already have a precise idea about it, the easiest idea of the world, but I can't tell you here, I will in PVT, to you and to the other few friends) where we all can lodge all our albums, we should make this enormous container. Not public, but PVT for us all contributors.

    5. and each of us will be secure that at least one copy of all these thousands of grandios albums is PRESENT there, available also for the others

    For example: I personally have about - or more than - 25.000 vinyl albums, plus about 3000 CDs, plus various tapes of live recordings and concerts.
    Therefore, I can declare that I can contribute in some measure.
    So, if someone else has also some 1000s of albums to contribute, let it be welcome.

    As I say, it sounds utopic at the moment, but it's MONTHS that I am thinking about the realization of this idea, and recently I finally found a solution that should make the dream come true, and it should ensure me - at least - to have all my albums saved "somewhere" without intruders to disturb!

    About the PRG. album, yes, if you allow me I will share it with the extremely few who demonstrated to be REAL good friends in these months, anyway I will tell you - first - who they are :-)

    Last: unfortunately I won't be able to be there at the super gig of Spirogyra, and this tortures me day and night... but what can I do?
    On that day I'm on another side of the planet... :-((( And the Grand Maestro, Martin Cockerham, knows it... :(

    ... Hey, Janisfarm, maybe my next blog will be really this:

    "THE DISCOTEQUE OF ALEXANDRIA"

    You see, the "castle" starts to be a bit small.... TOO SMALL!! Hahaha!! :-)))

    Thank you again, big hug
    The Countess

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