Vegas music scene mainstay, record store owner recovering from stroke

“Do what you emotion and the wealth volition come,’” Ronald Corso explained. “And that’s benignant of the story.”

Flashback 5 years ago.

Corso, the proprietor of 11th Street Records, which besides houses the National Southwestern Recording studio, was relating proposal that his woman had fixed him anterior to the opening of said businesses successful April 2015.

Corso, a seasoned instrumentalist and engineer/producer who recorded galore Vegas bands, from punks Holding onto Sound to indie rockers A Crowd of Small Adventures — which helium was a erstwhile subordinate of — was astatine thing of a vocation crossroads backmost then.

“I had gotten implicit the euphony scene, signaling thing, and I was like, ‘What americium I going to bash adjacent with my life?’ helium recalled successful a 2016 interrogation with the R-J.

And truthful helium followed his passion, gathering upon his vinyl postulation and opening 11th Street Records arsenic good arsenic his studio, some of which person go staples of the downtown euphony scene. He fought hard to physique some into the successes they’ve since become.

Now Corso is engaged successful a antithetic benignant of battle. On July 21, helium suffered a changeable and has been hospitalized ever since.

The Vegas euphony assemblage has begun rallying astir him.

A GoFundMe run to assistance with Corso aesculapian expenses has been organized by Mike Henry, erstwhile endowment purchaser for The Bunkhouse Saloon and co-director for the Neon Reverb Music Festival, which Corso besides was a portion of.

The Killers, who tracked overmuch of their 2017 medium “Wonderful Wonderful” astatine National Southwestern Recording, person Tweeted their enactment for Corso, calling him a “pillar of the LV euphony scene.”

Our pal, Ronald Corso suffered a changeable and is inactive hospitalized. Ronald is simply a pillar of the LV euphony country and runs 11th Street Records, wherever we recorded overmuch of Wonderful Wonderful. Your support, nevertheless you privation to explicit it, is greatly appreciated. https://t.co/XDR3UAJ2Md

— The Killers (@thekillers) August 12, 2021

Ryan Pardey, erstwhile amusement manager astatine The Bunkhouse, recalled successful a Facebook station however Corso often opened his facilities to acts playing the venue.

“At the Bunkhouse, I often called upon him for usage of the signaling workplace arsenic an other abstraction for artists to acceptable up portion waiting to instrumentality the stage,” Pardey wrote. “Ronald ever welcomed my guests and made his spot a comfy resting spot for weary musicians.”

Hopefully, it volition lone beryllium a substance of clip earlier Corso is backmost greeting visitors astatine 11th Street Records.

“People locomotion successful present each the clip and say, ‘Wow!’” helium said successful 2016. “Nobody ever does that erstwhile they footwear up Spotify.”

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