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Dromedary Records - A Thing I Did Once
http://dromedaryrecords.wordpress.com/
dromedary records was a small label based in New Jersey that released eight titles and hosted dozens of shows in the New York/New Jersey area between 1993 and 2000. Specializing in indie pop with a punk ethic, dromedary was a cool little company that tried new things, had big ideas, and ultimately crashed and burned like so many other micro indies of the time.
Dromedary released music from The Mommyheads, Footstone, Godspeed, cuppa joe, and Melting Hopefuls, distributed music from many other labels via mailorder, and at the time the label was put on “hiatus,” had plans to work with literally dozens of indie bands from around the country. But alas, all good things must come to an end.
This site is intended to document the stories and experiences, and ultimately to keep the embers glowing so that the people we knew, and the bands we loved, know that we haven’t forgotten about them.
- Added on: Apr 20th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Al Crisafulli
- Listed in: Music Industry Musicians and Bands
- Tags: indie Alternative punk
Recent Posts
career change.
Eventually, as most jobs do, my dayjob went south. It wasn’t really my “dayjob” anymore; it was my career. I had been with the company for seven years and worked my way to a decent level; I had a fantastic relationship with an out...
gonna eat a lot of peaches.
In the summer of 2002 we took Lissette away on vacation with us again, to Cape Cod. This time, I stayed the entire week. What I didn’t do was accompany her and Sandy as they rowed out into Cape Cod Bay and scattered Rich’s ashes. I di...
death train motor man.
Lissette invited me over. She had some of his stuff, and she wanted to get rid of it. He hadn’t been gone long at that point, and I would imagine that it must have been painful as hell, just walking into your house and seeing these constant...
redesigning the cosmos.
It was 75 degrees on the day of Rich’s funeral. In January. Only Rich could have a funeral on a 75 degree day in January. Snow was melting. It was a warm, beautiful day, in the middle of the winter. I wore an Armani suit to Rich’s f...
darkness.
Rich Grasso It was an afternoon in late January that Sandy called me in the office, to tell me that Rich had gone to the hospital again. Things had not been going well. The chemo treatments were not shrinking the tumor, and so they had begun lookin...
january.
Your whole life changes, it really does. We found comfort in a group of people that, aside from Matt, we hadn’t really been friends with prior to Rich’s illness. Rich had a circle of friends that existed independently of the circle we s...
