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Post by Partridge on Jun 10, 2017 13:55:14 GMT -5
There is no official Linda Ronstadt website. (ADMIN NOTE: This was posted prior to the official website being launched.) I have been receiving an abundance of autograph requests, picture requests, interview requests recently. And it is very time consuming to relate that mine is an unofficial Ronstadt website. I suppose the visitors don't make it to the bottom of the page where I have that disclaimer. I think the problem is that both Yahoo and MSN have my website listed as Linda's Official Site. They are wrong. It is not. Google does not have it listed as official. I have added some new verbage to the email link near the bottom of the page. Please check it out and see if you think this should get the point across. I don't mind answering questions that people send me but it seems to be getting out of hand. The next step will be to remove the email link entirely. site link: Linda Ronstadt Homepage
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Post by sliderocker on Jun 10, 2017 16:59:56 GMT -5
That's a good disclaimer and it should get the point across, but there will probably be some who won't take the time to read it. And think they can write to Linda and she will read it and respond. Pity there couldn't be someone working for Linda who could contact a website like yours or this forum to let you know you could forward emails to them and they would get them to Linda. I know there were some celebrities who hosted online chats with fans, but who were not very computer literate or fast, but had assistants who could provide the responses on their behalf. I sometimes wished Linda would do that one of these days, especially those of us who live nowhere close to areas where she makes the personal question and answer appearances. Course, she might get some questions not related to her book, which most of the questions at her personal appearances seem to focus on.
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Post by Guest on Jun 10, 2017 17:22:38 GMT -5
Good disclaimer - you might direct them to Rhino/and or Great Easter Music(Boylan).
Perhaps a short disclaimer upfront uptop under Dedicated to American' Greatest Singer ("this site is not officially associated with Linda or her management")would help.
Ronstadt has to be one of the very few performers(living or dead) without a website or active FB - more power to her -but it makes promo a bit tricky. Thanks for your fine site whoever you are!
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Post by erik on Jun 10, 2017 17:58:45 GMT -5
I know it would probably be a full-time job to manage an official website for Linda, even if her public appearances are few and far between due to her Parkinson's condition. And I know that Tony's is not the only unofficial one there is on the Internet, but it is the best and best-known of them by far; and Linda likely knows of this site's existence.
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Post by philly on Jun 10, 2017 20:25:46 GMT -5
The disclaimer should be at the top also...maybe even one in the middle of the page too, considering it's size. Maybe even inform them that there is no known "official" website at present either.
I would hope MSN and Yahoo would honor a request from you to remove the official designation too.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 10, 2017 21:54:15 GMT -5
Why not put "unofficial" in the title of the homepage? Or just a line under it? If it is in the title it can't be missed. Linda Ronstadt Unofficial Homepage or underneath "an unofficial homepage dedicated to America's Greatest Singer" or " unofficial website of America's Greatest Singer" I noticed that Linda's manager John Boylan has a direct link to your homepage from his site so people might assume it is official: greateasternmusic.com/index.htmlBack in the heyday (late 1970's) before the internet was invented running a fan club for Linda was no small thing. Tons of requests and personal letters which took a lot of time and postage. I didn't even have a working typewriter half the time. I found about half of the letters I received were from people who thought they were writing to Linda and not to a fan site. I usually forwarded those on to Ira Koslow at the time and let him handle it lol. Some scary letters also. I have done searches and often I have seen on major publications that the homepage was official. That is why it may be better in the title unless someone else has taken that name. But I would try it out the way you have just changed it and see if that works. Can you make your disclaimer flash on and off lol?
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Post by Tony on Jun 11, 2017 0:34:06 GMT -5
I used to have a line underneath the heading that said Unofficial. I will put that back when I do my next update.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jun 11, 2017 7:14:22 GMT -5
How about put under the title "A Fans' Site (webpage if you prefer) Dedicated To the Greatest Female Singer" Site not associated with Linda Ronstadt herself/ her management or staff". eddiejinnj
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Post by Robert Morse on Jun 18, 2017 23:45:32 GMT -5
It's funny - when I ran Linda's official fan club back in the early 80's I never had any of those letters. It was quite a feat getting it up and running after getting Peter Asher's approval for it. Peter's caveat was that it focus on the music and not Linda's personal life "which is private". It eventually morphed into Rich's club-the precursor to this site. I think I still have old newsletters in my basement.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jun 19, 2017 8:18:48 GMT -5
GM, Rob!!!! It would be great if you could scan a cover of a newsletter and put on this site if you could find them. Did the newsletter have a name? Was it out monthly? Wonder if they have some copies on ebay. eddiejinnj
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Post by Tony on Jun 21, 2017 14:06:31 GMT -5
It's funny - when I ran Linda's official fan club back in the early 80's I never had any of those letters. It was quite a feat getting it up and running after getting Peter Asher's approval for it. Peter's caveat was that it focus on the music and not Linda's personal life "which is private". It eventually morphed into Rich's club-the precursor to this site. I think I still have old newsletters in my basement. Maybe the age of the internet gives people the power to the be rude and anonymous. Take for instance this somewhat incoherent email that I received yesterday:
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Post by moe on Jun 21, 2017 15:17:46 GMT -5
It's funny - when I ran Linda's official fan club back in the early 80's I never had any of those letters. It was quite a feat getting it up and running after getting Peter Asher's approval for it. Peter's caveat was that it focus on the music and not Linda's personal life "which is private". It eventually morphed into Rich's club-the precursor to this site. I think I still have old newsletters in my basement. Maybe the age of the internet gives people the power to the be rude and anonymous. Take for instance this somewhat incoherent email that I received yesterday: Another Trump University grad, perhaps?
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Post by moe on Jun 21, 2017 16:57:47 GMT -5
So, you really mean to down everybody that has graduated from a particular university? I am not saying you are but words can be powerful. Just reminding people of War Room. To be honest, I don't really understand all that stuff quoted in middle. It doesn't make sense to me. Maybe, we should all take Linda's advice "If you listen to one critic then you have to listen to them all." eddiejinnj I wouldn't normally respond to the above comments but I respect the participants in this forum too much to leave them unanswered so I will explain myself. First I am not denigrating any real university-Trump university, at least in the eyes of the NY attorney general, did not even come close to meeting the definition of university. The so-called university was essentially a scam and was sued out of existence and cost Trump millions of dollars in settlements. It was perhaps a tiny bit insensitive of me to conflate the writer of the subject prose with some poor schmuck scammed by the "university". My point was to denigrate the writer and his abundant inability to express a cogent thought, not by some circuitous means put down the poor unfortunate people who were victimized. I will however reserve the right to respond to what I saw as crazy incoherence where I see it. Personally I kind of saw the quote as typically incoherent and amusing befitting a true troll and I felt the uncontrollable urge to respond with (bad) humor nothing more than that. Sincerely offered, Terry Moe (at least I can't be accused of being anonymous)
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jun 21, 2017 17:57:14 GMT -5
I had removed my above post in like 5 mins. Wasn't going to get involved as your example was not a true statement as there were no quote grads as you expressed. He could also have a legitimate mental illness (crazy incoherence). It would seem to me that by reading his post that one could make a judgment of whether to take the person seriously or not. Instead of denigrate, maybe, write such a profound response that accuarately expresses your opinion with respectful debate if desired. It was cool of you to respond so quickly. :-) eddiejinnj
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Post by moe on Jun 21, 2017 19:13:17 GMT -5
I had removed my above post in like 5 mins. Wasn't going to get involved as your example was not a true statement as there were no quote grads as you expressed. He could also have a legitimate mental illness (crazy incoherence). It would seem to me that by reading his post that one could make a judgment of whether to take the person seriously or not. Instead of denigrate, maybe, write such a profound response that accuarately expresses your opinion with respectful debate if desired. It was cool of you to respond so quickly. :-) eddiejinnj Hi it's me again! I wish you would quit making me think-it hurts! I re-read the post and came up with what I think were the person's points: 1. He (or she) didn't care for the size of the pix. 2. The person thinks that we are somehow using Linda as a filler for a missing piece of our collective personalities? I don't know--his argument, never clear, becomes really opaque at this point. It seems that we fans, in his eyes, are in it for some other reasons than admiring a great singer and all around cool person. A final thought occurs to me: it is entirely possible that this person does not have English as a first language and his (I keep saying he for convenience) somewhat disjointed prose is the result of a lousy translation app. And his thought processes are more rational than they first appear. Just trying to be charitable! To get to the point of this thread however I think that a disclaimer at the top in addition to the existing one is the way to go. I don't know how you would do it but some brief way of discouraging autograph and contact seekers would help also. Whatever happens with respect to the "unoffical" site keep it going. It is a great resource for all things Linda great and small and I use it a bunch for research and amusement.
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Post by Tony on Jun 21, 2017 20:35:08 GMT -5
I responded to the letter writer and received a followup from him that was more coherent and he apologized for his rudeness and impulsiveness.
So then I told him:
"I am sorry if you were disappointed in the size of some of the pictures. That part of the website was done 20 years ago, and people had smaller screens back then. The pictures are not stolen… many of them are screenshots from TV appearances and that is the best I could do with the software I had then. You can make them bigger using the CTRL + function."
I think what he really wanted was contact information for Linda.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 22, 2017 5:42:45 GMT -5
When I got letters like that I always waited to respond. Some longer than others so I'd respond with a clear head. Most of the mail I received was good but 1 in 20 were bizarre. What I learned from running a fan club was something Linda had been saying all along. Stardom is an illusion. Celebrity is an illusion and something to eschew. I think that is one of the reasons Linda preferred to stay out of the fan club business but from a management point of view they must see a benefit especially in marketing to have allowed the clubs to exist. I don't see the website as a fan club though. It is less personal and more informational and interactive if there is a forum. Linda is a focus but it most often brings like minded people together even if we don't agree on some other things. This site under Tony is heads above anything that existed previously.
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Post by Robert Morse on Jun 29, 2017 2:08:09 GMT -5
GM, Rob!!!! It would be great if you could scan a cover of a newsletter and put on this site if you could find them. Did the newsletter have a name? Was it out monthly? Wonder if they have some copies on ebay. eddiejinnj GM, Rob!!!! It would be great if you could scan a cover of a newsletter and put on this site if you could find them. Did the newsletter have a name? Was it out monthly? Wonder if they have some copies on ebay. eddiejinnj Hi Eddie, I think I have some stored in the basement at my Mom's house. I will look when I am there next. The club was called "Get Closer". We did a quarterly newsletter. It was pre internet so it was hand done and printed. I will scan a copy when I find it. Rob
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Post by Robert Morse on Jun 29, 2017 2:10:36 GMT -5
It's funny - when I ran Linda's official fan club back in the early 80's I never had any of those letters. It was quite a feat getting it up and running after getting Peter Asher's approval for it. Peter's caveat was that it focus on the music and not Linda's personal life "which is private". It eventually morphed into Rich's club-the precursor to this site. I think I still have old newsletters in my basement. Maybe the age of the internet gives people the power to the be rude and anonymous. Take for instance this somewhat incoherent email that I received yesterday: Man, Tony. I never received anything like that. My guess is you are right. The internet fosters an environment where folks feel free to write that trash. Much harder when you have to write it out and mail it
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Post by musedeva on Jun 29, 2017 16:39:26 GMT -5
We should do a petition to Linda to have her hire you!!! Seriously! why not...you are clearly doing her a service...AND thank you...I have visited that site many many times but yeah.....if it so moves you, eliminate the email or rather just bury it better PUT the new "Verbage" at the top BTW!!! There is no official Linda Ronstadt website. I have been receiving an abundance of autograph requests, picture requests, interview requests recently. And it is very time consuming to relate that mine is an unofficial Ronstadt website. I suppose the visitors don't make it to the bottom of the page where I have that disclaimer. I think the problem is that both Yahoo and MSN have my website listed as Linda's Official Site. They are wrong. It is not. Google does not have it listed as official. I have added some new verbage to the email link near the bottom of the page. Please check it out and see if you think this should get the point across. I don't mind answering questions that people send me but it seems to be getting out of hand. The next step will be to remove the email link entirely. site link: Linda Ronstadt Homepage
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Post by Kaela Jehnke on Oct 29, 2019 1:43:28 GMT -5
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Post by Dianna on Oct 29, 2019 1:55:19 GMT -5
Awesome! Thank You!
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Post by musedeva on Oct 29, 2019 16:47:42 GMT -5
THAT!! is sooo sweet...her dad?
They're great....first linda song i ever learned
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 29, 2019 18:26:45 GMT -5
Saying that it is "Unofficial" under title should cover it you would think. eddiejinnj
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Post by Phil on Nov 15, 2019 12:16:44 GMT -5
Linda, I cry every time I think about your loss of the most beautiful voice in history. My wife of 42 years and I saw you at Painter’s Mill in MD during the late 70s. I know you don’t need the money, but would you please...please release some of your recorded concerts on dvd. For example, the Atlanta concert that was used to produce several of your “official” music videos. Please...we all remember...let us see and hear you again. Thanks, Phil
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Post by Rene on Dec 10, 2019 16:20:17 GMT -5
I am from Az, I am so proud of you for speaking up at that Kennedy function. I have always loved your music, and now I love you even more. Gracias Linda
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Post by Leslie Card on Jan 9, 2020 13:16:00 GMT -5
I lost chief Pete Ronstadts address when I forwarded it to my email. Is it still available? Thank you.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 9, 2020 14:18:31 GMT -5
Leslie: Sorry, I was going to put a reason on the deleted post but it went through before I could tell you that Mr Partridge feels it just best for us not to publish that. Regards, eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jan 9, 2020 14:21:01 GMT -5
Welcome to all the guests that posted on this thread!!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by Jeff Rooke on Jul 30, 2020 16:06:03 GMT -5
God bless you Linda .
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