When and where did you realize you were house?

[Kream]

I realized I was house the summer of 1983 when I tried to imitate the dancing style of the Spy Guys from the Playground aka the Candy store in Chicago, those boys used to get it started. It was further solidified when I would stop doing everything look at the radio, get charged put on my penny loafers (they were the house dancing shoes before Zodiacs) and start dancing every time I heard that Tarzan call, which meant it was time for Farley Keith's mix on WBMX and dance all night in front of the radio. I was in eighth grade, and 20 years later I am still house, but now I can dance in front of my computer in my bowling shoes aka "2003 Zodiacs".

[AD]

88-89 was when I was first introduced to it by a friend of mine that used to get tapes from his cousin in New York. I got into the deeper side of house around 90-91 when I first started to hear Marques Wyatt and Tony Largo play like no one else was playing.

[Kream]

I remember those days

[Austin/Dallas]

When all the thugs said I was preppie and I did not deny it. When I used to live at the Playground and Sauers and only hang with peolple that listened to the "hot mix 5"

When I would hate to leave the marathons.

When I would risk ear and eye damage from listening to Frankie blair all night at the Powerplant and leaving out when the sun was up.

When I would cruise certain area for house parties to crash late nights to satisfy my lust for the music and the people that perticipated.

When everything in my life revolved around the music and the class of peeps.

[TurntableSoul]

I WAS BORN HOUSE! graemlins/grinyes.gif

Nah, I totally got hooked on House in '85/'86. I went to my first "house party" when I was in the 8th grade. It was a Mendel Bi-Level (Chicago headz know what I'm talkin' about). I think Pharris Thomas was playing. I was totally turned out. Every weekend from then on out was non-stop: Farley JMF @ the Raquetball Club parties, LaMirage, Ron Hardy @ The Muzik Box, Frankie Knuckles @ AKA's, The Warehouse, Medusa's, Limelight, Lil' Louis @ The Bismarck, Leo High School's parties, Unity High School, De La Salle High School (My Almer Mater), DJ Rush @ The Reactor, Terry Hunter, Boo Williams, Ron Trent, Gene Hunt...WOO-LAWD, I go on for days. And I was only 14, 15, 16 years old! No drugs, no alcohol, just two very informed and understanding parents, a piece of shit '82 Nissan Sentra, my twin brother, and a love for the music.

I am so thankful I got to experience House from the very beginnings. graemlins/1luvu.gif

[Soul abyss]

I didn't wake up from living in the Matrix until 94, I am 26 now so I have been spending all of my time trying to make up for lost time. But I'd have to say in one way or another the music always spoke to me since I was a youg lad, whether it was thru one of those rare videos that they use to play on BET or listening to the Friday night mix on WGCI which now stands for (WE GONE CHANGE IDENTITIES) the music has always been there. I guess I got to the point were I felt there's really no need to listen to anything esle, I got tired of catching a quick vibe I wanted all the time and thats when I woke up. AND NOW I AM FREEEE! graemlins/sleep2.gif graemlins/acclaim.gif graemlins/cheering.gif

[DJJM3.COM]

I was house when it was Disco........ and WDAI was a disco station.........

[MC]

Been HOUSE since 1984, 8th grade. I was riding the school bus with my friend Joanthan, and he played a BMX mix for me biggrinangel.gif

[ May 27, 2003, 01:19 PM: Message edited by: Michael J. Carmona ]

[Discogoddess]

I'm loving how yall are taking me back!

My parents, like many of yall's were "pre-house", so the seeds were sown when I was a wee little Discogoddess:
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I grew up DJing my parents' basement parties in the most non-House spot on the planet: Holland, Michigan! I "spun" the disco, soul and funk stuff the most. Grew up with my dad teaching me to hustle, watched wistfully as my mom would strap on her wedge sandals to go out with my dad, and when my cousins would head to roller rinks in da Chi.

During one of my annual summer visits to Chicago, I got turned out by the mixes I heard on the radio. When I went to my first Powerhouse party with Ron Hardy spinning, it was if I found my musical home! From there, it was a constant search for all the livest house parties and music. Even my clothing purchases were dictated by my love of house music!

Sidenote: Corny, I know, but I hosted a little radio show--"It's House"--on my high school's radio station in NJ, then on a college station in MI...my little contribution to spreading the house/disco "love is the" message!

[ May 27, 2003, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: Discogoddess ]

[lola desire]

i've definitely liked house since i first heard it on the radio in '85 (age 10 *snicker).

i joined the church and was baptized at medusa's in 1989.

i was born again in 1991 at the bizmark.

[Sean G]

I had been listening to my friend's deephouse mixes at the age of 16 and was getting into some of it. But I realised I was house when I was 18 and heard a Frankie Knuckles mix. It blew me away! I passed it on to my friend and we started really getting into house and buying lots of records, new and old. Once I educated myself in the music, I bought my equipment and now.......at the age of 21......I am definately HOUSE!

[DJJM3.COM]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:


Sidenote: Corny, I know, but I hosted a little radio show--"It's House"--on my high school's radio station in NJ, then on a college station in MI...my little contribution to spreading the house/disco "love is the" message! Stop it!!! You are not Corny.....If you remember Chip E. record was called "Its House" and he is Godfather because of it........Its all love here....

[Jamie 3:26]

I was born with a 45 under my arm.I was raised around good music.I have been playing music since the age of 2.

I always played 45's and found cuts I liked.Most of the ones I was crazy about became classics,like Bra and Jungle Fever.

I grew up around heads,including my moms,so it was infused in me.I come from a musical family.Music was always around us.

I always remember wanting a dope box cut as a shorty and they were not having it.I wore waves instead and my Izod shirts and super straight leg Levi's and lofer's with quarters in em.

Man,I remember hearing disco on Dai so well.I used to sneak and listen late nite.

I guess I can say,it's always been in me.No need to wear it on my sleeve anymore,my battle scars and war stories can say enough.

Going to the house sets,kept me out of trouble and even though it got me in trouble,it was always worth the punishment.

My moms could not understand me..."Mom,the party don't get jumpin' til at least 2..."

[ May 27, 2003, 01:43 PM: Message edited by: JAMIE 3:26 ]

[richierich]

Been a music head all my life. Maybe I was house and didn't know it.

[Discogoddess]

Originally posted by DJ JM3:
Stop it!!! You are not Corny.....If you remember Chip E. record was called "Its House" and he is Godfather because of it........Its all love here.... [/QB]*Blushing* Why, thanks!

Actually, I looped that record for my show's intro/outro...I had such a ball feeding yummy morsels to the club/house (NJ) and unhoused (MI) masses! I met many cool people thru my shows, including this fine azz Puerto Rican DJ from the next town over in Michigan (and jacked some of his records, too)!!! ;) Couldn't mix a record for my life on those studio turntables, though!

*Mentally jackin to the "It's House" beat right now*

[JMJ]

Never really thought about it, but I guess it was after the first time I visited the original Warehouse on Jefferson in 1981. I'll never forget the ride home, drenched in sweat, as the sun was rising. I was hooked.....JMJ smile.gif

[AD]

Originally posted by JMJ:
Never really thought about it, but I guess it was after the first time I visited the original Warehouse on Jefferson in 1981. I'll never forget the ride home, drenched in sweat, as the sun was rising. I was hooked.....JMJ smile.gif old ass!... http://deephousepage.com/smilies/tongueout.gif

[vinny from the Burgh]

my grandmothers church house

[JMJ]

Originally posted by Albert D.:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by JMJ:
Never really thought about it, but I guess it was after the first time I visited the original Warehouse on Jefferson in 1981. I'll never forget the ride home, drenched in sweat, as the sun was rising. I was hooked.....JMJ smile.gif old ass!... http://deephousepage.com/smilies/tongueout.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Old ass = Classic. Bow to me, sphincter boy.....JMJ AR15firing.gif

[AD]

Originally posted by JMJ:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Albert D.:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by JMJ:
Never really thought about it, but I guess it was after the first time I visited the original Warehouse on Jefferson in 1981. I'll never forget the ride home, drenched in sweat, as the sun was rising. I was hooked.....JMJ smile.gif old ass!... http://deephousepage.com/smilies/tongueout.gif </font>[/QUOTE]Old ass = Classic. Bow to me, sphincter boy.....JMJ AR15firing.gif </font>[/QUOTE]graemlins/rofl.gif ;) hail.gif

[Terri 447]

Three-four years ago.

I was having a CRAPPY day. I didn't have an umbrella and it started to rain. I just wanted to go home and I was at the bus stop listening to one of the NERVOUS cd's and "DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP" came on and I started to cry!!! I told myself that I was a strong woman and that I could handle ANYTHING!!!


It's absolutely amazing what music could do for you!

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[AD]

Originally posted by Terri 447:
Three-four years ago.

I was having a CRAPPY day. I didn't have an umbrella and it started to rain. I just wanted to go home and I was at the bus stop listening to one of the NERVOUS cd's and "DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP" came on and I started to cry!!! I told myself that I was a strong woman and that I could handle ANYTHING!!!


It's absolutely amazing what music could do for you!

graemlins/OLA.gif graemlins/OLA.gif Are you refering to "Don't you ever give up" by Melonie Daniels?

[Drrtynewyork]

friday night at the battle

[MusicFilter]

My father's older brother was a DJ, then he became a DJ. I grew up on Sly and the family Stone, MFSB, Salsoul Orchestra, Ohio Players,ect.

My parents threw "red light" parties and I refused to go to sleep so my father put me to work behind the turntables (anyone remember Garrard?). I won't say I was 2 (because at 2 the show and tell turntable doesn't count) :rolleyes: but I was young enough for my father to give me control of the equipment and party (maybe 7). :rolleyes:

Soul, R&B, Funk, then Disco I went through all of the genres, but when I heard and endless stream of dance music (mixes) on WDAI I was hooked. My dress was always a little to the right of fashion but with my own twist. I was a DJ so I had to look the part. Paisly shirts were big before the 80s, I wore colors that caught your eye and cool clothes.

Once I ripped a perfectly good pair of jeans in '79 right near the front pocket. I didn't want to throw them out so I put a piece of leather on them to cover the whole people thought that was cool. I went through the preppie phase, I was an IZOD man. I must have had 15 IZOD polos and cardigans.

Then I got the hair. I got called everything from "black elvis" to Frankenstien because I wore this box haircut I saw from the "motown" days but with the "processed" look. My hair was straight on top with a some hangin' in my face. Some thought I was a cross between punk and preppie, but it was just that DJ look.

Then one day My friend Irwin Eberhart ;) took me to to the Music Box on 16th Indiana(the real Music Box) and I saw a lot of people like me. Now mind you I'm a heterosexual man, but I seemed to fit right in with the fashion and look.

That I believe was in 82. That's when I realized I was "house". It wasn't so much that I was "house" but I found the music and place where I felt most comfortable and knew I could contribute to it's growth. graemlins/acclaim.gif

AND THE REST IS HISTORY graemlins/beerchug.gif

[Terri 447]

Originally posted by Albert D.:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Terri 447:
Three-four years ago.

I was having a CRAPPY day. I didn't have an umbrella and it started to rain. I just wanted to go home and I was at the bus stop listening to one of the NERVOUS cd's and "DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP" came on and I started to cry!!! I told myself that I was a strong woman and that I could handle ANYTHING!!!


It's absolutely amazing what music could do for you!

graemlins/OLA.gif graemlins/OLA.gif Are you refering to "Don't you ever give up" by Melonie Daniels? </font>[/QUOTE]that's the one...

[AD]

Originally posted by Terri 447:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Albert D.:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Terri 447:
Three-four years ago.

I was having a CRAPPY day. I didn't have an umbrella and it started to rain. I just wanted to go home and I was at the bus stop listening to one of the NERVOUS cd's and "DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP" came on and I started to cry!!! I told myself that I was a strong woman and that I could handle ANYTHING!!!


It's absolutely amazing what music could do for you!

graemlins/OLA.gif graemlins/OLA.gif Are you refering to "Don't you ever give up" by Melonie Daniels? </font>[/QUOTE]that's the one... </font>[/QUOTE]Great track! It's very uplifting. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[DJ George Bates]

I realized I was house when I went to my first high school dance and my locker partner, Randall Jackson ( dunbar Mighty Men ) was playing this music on 2 turntables....

From there my life was changed ...it also didn't hurt that one of my best friends in high school was /is Lee Collins... smile.gif smile.gif

" was that all it was ....??? A way to pass some time ...? A momentary thing ... not worth rememembering ...in the morning ????"

smile.gif The memories !

[MusicFilter]

From there my life was changed ...it also didn't hurt that one of my best friends in high school was /is Lee Collins... smile.gif smile.gif

" was that all it was ....??? A way to pass some time ...? A momentary thing ... not worth rememembering ...in the morning ????"

smile.gif The memories ! [/QB][/QUOTE]

Yo! I rocked a couple of those Dunbar parties with Lee Collins. We lit that place ablaze graemlins/grinyes.gif

[Dr. Freud]

Got into hip-hop in 7th grade... then, in maybe 10th grade, got heavily into breaks (funky, electro, etc.)

Didn't really get into house music until about 1998 after going to see Marques Wyatt here in L.A., and got hooked on it.

-Peace

[DJ George Bates]

chgodj3 ...

who are you ? maybe I know you ....

[(Im)poster]

Originally posted by Terri 447:
Three-four years ago.

I was having a CRAPPY day. I didn't have an umbrella and it started to rain. I just wanted to go home and I was at the bus stop listening to one of the NERVOUS cd's and "DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP" came on and I started to cry!!! I told myself that I was a strong woman and that I could handle ANYTHING!!!


It's absolutely amazing what music could do for you!

graemlins/OLA.gif graemlins/OLA.gif SOFTIE! That kind of thing happens to me too. ;)

[Mah'chew]

When I used to hit up illegal ‘Blues’ parties in my home town – the promoter’s modus operandi was to go to a Real Estate office during the week, dressed up in a suit and ask to be shown redevelopment properties in the ghetto area. The Agent would usually hand over the keys for these old Victorian houses, as the Real Estate Agent had no way of selling them, as the house was just shell, four walls and a roof, if you were lucky.

Once the promoter had got the keys from the Agent for an hour or so, on the pretense of going in there with his team of surveyors, he would run a number of copies of the keys and then come back saying it was not exactly what he was looking for and did they have any others?

So the entrepreneurial promoter now had his space, a three story town house in the ghetto. With his team he would move a sound system into this house, usually one of the community’s reggae sound-systems, maybe even knock the odd wall through to make a longer dance-floor, stock a handful of fridges in the kitchen with Red-Stripe lager for the guys and sweet desert wine for the ladies.

Come the weekend the party would be fired up at around midnight and the crowd would get to the party by word of mouth, as it was usually in one of the worst streets in town, nobody complained about the noise, same as they didn’t complain about the hookers that worked that area and because it was a Ghetto area the police were not really that bothered (this is when I really realized the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’) – the police were not bothered about what went down in the Ghetto, as long as the Ghetto stayed in the Ghetto they were doing their job.

Anyway, at these parties you would get a real mix of people, with one expressed desire, to get down, smoke a bud and throw down in the lounge to this massive Jamaican sound-system playing a mix of European Balearic Cuts, Reggae, House, Soul, Rare Grooves, Techno and Hip-Hop – all in the mix & we didn’t call it eclectic either, we called it House!

This was 1988/90 the parties were called the ‘Twilight Zone.” in Leeds, I believe the Manchester equivelant was called "The Kitchen" and was in Moss-Side – I was 17/19 years old and this was when I knew that I was House, although, saying that I’ve been learning everyday since and also kicked out when my Dad used to put the speaker up on my Mum's stomach and play James Brown or Rolling Stones (pre-born House ya'll :D ).

Twilight Zone Classics = Alison Limerick – ‘Where Love Lives’, Mike Hit Man Wilson – ‘Another Night’, Silver Bullet – ‘Bring Forth The Guillotine’, Jibaro – ‘Jibaro’, Adonis – ‘No Way Back’, Baby Ford – ‘Children of the Revolution’, 808 State – ‘Pacific State’, Unique 3 – ‘The Theme’, Odyssey – ‘Native New-Yorker’, Lamont Dozier – ‘Going Back to My Roots’, Public Enemy – ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’, Double Trouble & The Rebel MC – ‘Just Keep Rocking’, Orbital – ‘Chime’, Rhythm is Rhythm – ‘Nude Photo’, ‘Strings of Life ‘, ‘The Dance’, Teule – ‘Drink On Me’, James Brown – ‘Turn It Out & Turn It Loose’, Maceo & The Macks – ‘The Tracks’, Lonnie Liston – ‘Expansions’, Fred Wesley – ‘House Party’.

Not long after this House exploded as a brand in the UK, these illegal parties got shut down, the Hacienda’s play lists were increasing dictated by the majors, drug gangs wanted their share of the House commodity in every club in town, we saw the rise of the super-star DJ’s and super clubs and House became a label you would wear like a label on a weekend.

[AK]

Originally posted by chgodj3:


Then one day My friend Irwin Eberhart ;)

Couldn't let this pass. Have to "out" him. Irwin Eberhart aka Chip E!

[Ligoligoa]

This is probably one of those TMI posts, but **** it.

There are two kinds of “When did I become house.” There is “When did I become club,” and then there is “When did I become house” in the sense of the new sound that started in Chicago.

As to the first, I had just come back from the Peace Corps in Fiji. I had been Rip Van Winkle for three years. I hitchhiked around the country and ended up as if by divine mandate in San Francisco. Like I’m sure many on this board, I became house by hanging around the clubs. Clubs like the Trapp in the Tenderloin (if black gay men had any status in this society, that place would have been preserved as a National Historical Site instead of torn down to become a Holiday Inn. Was there any black gay man who migrated to the promised land of Oz who didn’t end up in the Trapp?), the Pendulum in the Castro, the Eagle on Market, the I-Beam in the Height, and later, for ultra-lowdown, Club 187 in the Tenderloin, where I danced with my boyfriend of the time, Danny Taylor (his cousin was Dizzie Gillespie. Where or where are you now Danny? Are you dead or alive? I still owe you $25!), danced with him to the funk of “You’re the One For Me.”

But if you mean house in the Chicago sense, well, by that time I was in Atlanta. I didn’t hear it until 1986. But when I did, there was no question it was MY MUSIC. Disco had evolved into something much too electronic, much too over-produced. Yes, the dub version of Xena’s “On the Upside” is awe-inspiring (I heard Larry Levan swirl that intro around the four corners of the Garage as if it were a hallucination), and, yes, Sleeping Bag Records were cool, but Marshall Jefferson and Larry Heard and the others pared all that down to the real feeling.

AIDS had hit fiercely. There was no denying it any longer. The children were coming to Lolo’s with makeup on to cover up their KS. And house knew all that. It was understood in the music. Ultimately, that knowledge of death is what made house separate from what came before.

The perfect one was Larry Heard’s “Can You Feel It.” If you want to know house, that is where to begin.

And here we are, decades later, a few of us alive to testify. The rest alive just to enjoy.

[Djay Raare]

Originally posted by Albert D.:
88-89 was when I was first introduced to it by a friend of mine that used to get tapes from his cousin in New York. I got into the deeper side of house around 90-91 when I first started to hear Marques Wyatt and Tony Largo play like no one else was playing. I got the same brotha it was 88-89 my friend Teeto wich now is guest on sammyrocks web-site he got me started on hip house with the likes of doug lazy,todd terry,borriqua posse,latin rascals records oh & jungle brothers (ill house you)he hook me up when he moved back to Brooklyn NY in 1990 when he busted out with this crazy NY deep house tape by Tony Touch thats when I knew i was house & always will be......Peace & graemlins/respekt.gif

[(Im)poster]

I realized I was house when I would stay up all night making an unusual outfit to wear to a place where the men rarely ever noticed me. A straight woman has to be house if she gets dressed to go to a club full of gay men because that is the only place where the music and the energy is right. I was -- and still am -- more interested in music, release and self-expression than what man I might meet at a club. There was also a certain freedom that came from not being hassled at gay mens clubs.

[Chip_E]

AK, you and Sherm ain't right.
JMJ, you's an old-ass mo-fo if you was at the Warehouse in '81.
JM3, thanks for the props.

As for me, I was 12 years old (circa 1979) when I was snuck into a Vertigo party by Eric Bradshaw, at the Loft on Michigan Ave.
Alan King was on the tables, bangin' "Martin Circus". I never heard music so loud and so deep. I never seen so many beautiful people gettin' there groove on. It wasn't about being shy or lookin' kewl. It was all about the music. Everybody was on a natural high, and I got an instact contact. A bunch of peeps enjoyin' the music, enjoyin' life. The floor was movin', the walls were sweatin', and booties was shakin'. And like the rest of yall, maLifeAin'tNevaBeenDaSame.

-e.

[DJ RON C]

The first of many nights I snuck out of my parents house to jump on the King Drive bus and sneak to the Mendel parties. It was all over.

The best thing of all though, almost a full twenty years later, I am still very proud to tell people I meet that I am house. graemlins/cool_shades.gif

[Terri 447]

Originally posted by (Im)poster:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Terri 447:
Three-four years ago.

I was having a CRAPPY day. I didn't have an umbrella and it started to rain. I just wanted to go home and I was at the bus stop listening to one of the NERVOUS cd's and "DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP" came on and I started to cry!!! I told myself that I was a strong woman and that I could handle ANYTHING!!!


It's absolutely amazing what music could do for you!

graemlins/OLA.gif graemlins/OLA.gif SOFTIE! That kind of thing happens to me too. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]I KNOW!!!

what can i say?!?!

i'm a girl...

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[Austin/Dallas]

To tell the truth and shame the devil...

When I found out I can get laid without effort by some of Chicago's finest women during that time just by dressing the part and being knowledgable about the music and people involved..

Hell the pay of was great to be a house head

[ May 28, 2003, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Austin/Dallas ]

[Wild i]

'Bout 7 years ago, I was walking down the streets of Manhattan, catching this reflection in the store windows and wondering who the hell was that fat woman following me -- then realized it was me!

Oh, when did I realize I was house, not -- when did I realize I was big as a house!!! graemlins/scared.gif

[M3taPhsX]

I realized I was house/hip hop/punk/new wave/indie/underground as long as I can remember.

[JMJ]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chip_E:
[QB] AK, you and Sherm ain't right.
JMJ, you's an old-ass mo-fo if you was at the Warehouse in '81.

Yeah Chip, it was June of 1981 to be exact. I had just graduated from high school a couple of weeks earlier. Between Monday nights at the Nimbus and the visits to the Warehouse it was a summer that changed me forever. I'll be 40 in September, but I guess you're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty good. Hope all is well with you.....JMJ smile.gif

[Linedog]

When I was 9 and I would sneak into my cousins gang social club to hear those soulful records being played so everyone can get thier freak on. Watching the bump & grind. That's House!

[Wild i]

Originally posted by Wild i:
'Bout 7 years ago, I was walking down the streets of Manhattan, catching this reflection in the store windows and wondering who the hell was that fat woman following me -- then realized it was me!

Oh, when did I realize I was house, not -- when did I realize I was big as a house!!! graemlins/scared.gif Seriously, I go with the response "I was house back when it was disco."

Tee's house party circa 1974/5 at his apartment on Gerard Avenue in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. I remember 4 things about that night:

1) The aparment was crowded as hell.
2) Tee had a picture of Popeye and Olive Oyl doing it hanging on the wall (very racy for a fairly sheltered 17/18 year old).
3) The music was very loud and bumpin' -- I wondered how he got away with it without complaints from the neighbors. He told me they complained when he turned it off. graemlins/grinyes.gif

4)I danced to "Car Wash" for 15 minutes -- my first 15 minutes of being house.

[Jolyon]

From the first time I heard a house record in 1986 I was hooked. That record was 'Love Can't Turn Around'.

[Mah'chew]

Originally posted by Jolyon:
From the first time I heard a house record in 1986 I was hooked. That record was 'Love Can't Turn Around'. The club was Ritzy :D :D :D ????

[Jolyon]

Haha, Tiffanys probably.

[Kream]

I am poriud to say I am House...
No I am House...
No I am House...

[Kream]

I am Proud to say I am House
No I am house...
No I am House...

[rob brito]

september 1989 on this little boombox to the tune of "pump that body....work that body--WORK--pump that body...work that body hehey!!" i was taping all of it and taking it to school where no one had a clue!

robs was 12 years old.

[DOTSmusic]

i'm not House.
i'm aKiLa, the one fascinated by sound.

[rob brito]

Originally posted by aKiLa:
i'm aKiLa, the one fascinated by sound. graemlins/bighug.gif

[TAC]

Originally posted by Chip_E:
AK, you and Sherm ain't right.
JMJ, you's an old-ass mo-fo if you was at the Warehouse in '81.
JM3, thanks for the props.

As for me, I was 12 years old (circa 1979) when I was snuck into a Vertigo party by Eric Bradshaw, at the Loft on Michigan Ave.
Alan King was on the tables, bangin' "Martin Circus". I never heard music so loud and so deep. I never seen so many beautiful people gettin' there groove on. It wasn't about being shy or lookin' kewl. It was all about the music. Everybody was on a natural high, and I got an instact contact. A bunch of peeps enjoyin' the music, enjoyin' life. The floor was movin', the walls were sweatin', and booties was shakin'. And like the rest of yall, maLifeAin'tNevaBeenDaSame.

-e. Yea, that's all fine and dandy. But Chip, Irwin Eberhart?

[ June 16, 2003, 08:42 PM: Message edited by: TAC ]

[Kream]

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[bigg donn a.k.a bigg donn]

When i would fall asleep with my finger on the record button,listening to BMX when i was about 14 years old!!!!

[Kream]

bigg donn
Junior Member
Member # 3178

posted June 18, 2003 10:20 AM
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When i would fall asleep with my finger on the record button,listening to BMX when i was about 14 years old!!!!


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I remember those days when you fall asleep trying to record and falling asleep while recording and your tone master tape reaches the end and you miss parts of Farley's mix. Those were the days

[So easy a protic can do it (QUAD)]

IN 1983, SOPHMORE YEAR, ABOUT TO LEAVE THE LOCKER ROOM, NINTH PERIOD, WHEN A FRIEND OF MINE ENTERED AND TOLD ME TO PUT ON HIS HEADPH0NES AND LISTEN.... THE ORIGINAL UNRELEASED VERSION OF JAMIE PRINCIPLE'S "WAITING ON MY ANGEL" WAS PLAYIN AND I REMEMBER THE TINGLE THAT CAME OVER ME, LISTENING TO THEM DRUMS AND HI-HATS IN RHYTHM AND I SAID "THIS SHIT IS SOOOOO HOT!!!!" HE THEN EXPLAINED AND EDUCATED ME ON WHERE PARTIES THAT PLAY MUSIC LIKE THIS WAS AT. AND HE ALSO INTRODUCED ME TO AND TOLD ME IF YA WANNA SNAG A BABE AT THE PARTY AND START JACKIN, PUT THIS COLOGNE ON! HENCE, THE ORIGINAL "LAGERFELD" COLOGNE. BEEN HOOKED EVER SINCE. AT THE SAME TIME, VINCENT "DEEPHOUSE" (EL KNOW WHO THIS IS)LEWIS, BY EXPERIMENT, DECIDED TO INTRODUCED ME TO MY FIRST CASIO RZ1 DRUMMACHINE AND THE AX80 KEYBOARD BY ACCIDENT!!! BIGGEST MISTAKE HE EVER MADE!!! AND NOW I'M TRAPPED IN THE HELL OF MAKIN MUSIC THAT KEEPS HAPPENIN IN MY HEAD FOREVER!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: graemlins/scared.gif graemlins/scared.gif :D

[ June 18, 2003, 06:15 PM: Message edited by: DJ QUAD ]

[Insert pseudonym here]

1986 --

I was 12, going on 13. A guy that I had a crush on lived across the street went to Leo HS. After my cousin had brought me a bootleg tape of Ron Hardy at the music box and told me that they play the same music at Leo HS... I figured I would go up to Leo with a fake ID and then smooze up to the boy across the street.

I just ended up being fingered by everyone else in the neighborhood... and jacking it up all night long.

That was the beginning.

--- Or the pinnacle was throwing a 360+ tantrum so that my mother would let me take the "L" with my friends up to the Bismarck to see Lil' Louis.... my dad said be outside at 12:30 and I was five minutes late because I was in a dance battle listening to the "commerical" premiere of Blackout (though I had the bootleg tape of the original for 3 months) ... and my father had me paged at the party, then I got the a** whipping of a life time... but then it was worth it!

That was the thick of it....

and I guess it never did end.
I'm still House --- and I love it.