Promoter of the Steve Hurley / LRR DJ Battle at Sauers in the 80's - Rob Burns.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

The brother just sent me a email with this pic, we haven talked in over 20 years!!!!!!!!!! Cant wait to get a number from him and chat. He is one who attended Whitney Young High School in the 80's and is also a great source of info on this thing we call House as of it's history. Can't wait to talk to him and plug him back in with Frankie, Farley, Chip & Steve.

[jojaujae3]

Is that Reggie Theus?

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Is that Reggie Theus?

I don't know, Rob is on the right. He just sent me his number so, I gotta hit the phone!

[Rudy Jordan]

Rob is one of the guys who taught me to spin. Tell that brother I said hello.

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Rob is one of the guys who taught me to spin. Tell that brother I said hello.

Man he remember Chip E hanging out in my basement before he was spinning. He was around when I was Opening for Larry Williams (The DJ who would had played the Musicbox instead of Ronnie had there not been creative differances between He and Robert Williams back then).

It sure is funny that Andre Hattchett remember Larry Williams well, Lady Linda of the Waterworks too but nobody outside of We Two seem to recall these two GREAT CHICAGO DJ's.........shame.

When I hit him on the phone I will most def tell him you asked about him. I am loving this because he is one of the few people that can prove that I was not making up stories IE: I had a large black wood box that I kept my records in. Top opened so that it faced the crowd and the box had (((In Big Ass Letters))) House painted on it in School Bus Yellow Paint.

[Cordell]

Rob was "our" boy back at Whitney Young and got alot of us organize in our little dj crews..
Rob got Greg Gray, Jere & Tim McAllister, Kurt Landrum, Lemar Brown, Keny Baker, Olumadei & Rudy Jordan together and organize. Rob was a huge influence on me as I got into Djing.

[Sensei Melei]

Yeah Rob Burns got me into spinning back in 1981, when we were in high school. The pic LLR posted is of Rob Burns & David Burton (RIP), both were my boys back then...

[chldfknungrnd764]

The night of the battle at Sauers will always live as one of the most famous nights in House Music history for Chicago.

[Rom]

Yo Leonard, when you gonna stop using photobucket for your pic posts bro? You know half our firewalls have photobucket blocked now. Flicr is coming through with no probs...think of your audience mang dag!

[Cordell]

I am loving this because he is one of the few people that can prove that I was not making up stories IE: I had a large black wood box that I kept my records in. Top opened so that it faced the crowd and the box had (((In Big Ass Letters))) House painted on it in School Bus Yellow Paint.

Foooool, Rob told me about you back in '83-'84 and insisted that I come over to your house and hang out.. I never forget the feeling I had when I saw that huge black box.. you had everything in there.. And that battle at Sauer's, I remember people asking "What's in that box?" All I could say was "you'll see"

[LEONARD REMIX RROY]

Foooool, Rob told me about you back in '83-'84 and insisted that I come over to your house and hang out.. I never forget the feeling I had when I saw that huge black box.. you had everything in there.. And that battle at Sauer's, I remember people asking "What's in that box?" All I could say was "you'll see"

That Big Black Box had House painted on it in School Bus Yellow, I would flip up the lid so it could face the crowd. It had compartments in it from Records, Cleaner, Rags, Tape Deck, Patch, Mic & Power Cords.

I got that box from James Hines of B.T.O.
Pic. Leo H.S. Home Coming Dance 1981. Left to Right. Brian Frazier, Leonard Rroy, Otto Hines.

Mike Dunn & Tyree Cooper got their start with B.T.O. in 1980.

Hugo Hutchingson (s/p) and I were their first teachers.


James Hines used to work for Bob Simmons of Fox Player 77 Sound.
Bob's sound guy James Bunkley was the set up man for the bottom end sound for the Rink Zone. James Bunkley was my sound guy for a number of years, I always wanted Bass so where ever I played, James brought the Subs or Double Scoops.


In the later Rinkzone days, De'andre Saunders was the sound man.

After that (Pictured Right) Tommy (sound man for The Basement) took over and worked with JR after I left Chicago.
This photo was taken Nov 1988 during my first visit back to Chicago from Germany in just under 2 years.