Brian S Redd ~ Legend ~ FACT

You may have read before on this blog mentions of “DJ Tutor” – a website where Ellaskins (Johnathan) brings together videos and thoughts from DJ’s around the World, his main partner in crime is American DJ Brian S Redd.

Ellaskins with Brian on the right at BPM 2009

Brian shares his knowledge and passion for DJ’ing via YouTube. When I was investigating coming back into DJ’ing (3 years ago) I watched a lot of Brian’s videos, and I’ve probably watched 99% of what he’s done since then and I know Joe has done the same. Brian’s ability to speak good sense straight to camera without endless re-takes means his videos have an honesty and a warmth that makes the unmissable – even if they are on a topic that’s not of any real relevance to what we are doing at the time.

Joe and I have been lucky to meet Brian a couple of times at the annual BPM event in Birmingham when he’s been over and thank him personally for the help he’s given us.

So you can understand how sad we were to hear that Brian, still only 39, suffered a stroke a week ago! I first picked up on the news from my friend, and fellow JFSR DJ, Big Ron who is a close friend of Brian’s.
Over the last seven days news has slowly filtered through and, guess what, Brian’s actually started to post vlogs from his hospital bed.

I wanted to post about this for two reasons – first to acknowledge again what Brian has done for Joe and I, and countless DJ’s all over the world, and secondly (as I say at the end of each and every one of my radio shows with Steve) to encourage you to “count your blessings” – you never know what tomorrow may bring.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Brian and his family as they come to terms with this radical change in their lives, and for a full and speedy recovery.