Twenty years ago (TWENTY!) on a Friday night like this I typically would have been getting ready to go to the local dance club Bonkers in my sleepy little town of Latrobe, PA. Here are a couple of the songs I would have been desperately hoping the DJ would play, not necessarily in this order:
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lemme guess…. there were some white people in the house? sike naw. but seriously, these are mostly my jams. 20 years ago i was 10. i was most certainly rocking some hiphop already tho ;)
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Comment by tom/pipecock — February 23, 2010 @ 12:11 am
See I had already been listening to hip hop for eight years by the time you were ten! But yeah for some reason that particular club I went to didn’t play hip hop. We listened to PE, NWA, and all kinds of other hip hop other times though.
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Comment by Count Zero — February 23, 2010 @ 8:42 am
i was already listening to hiphop for 4 years by the time i was 10 ;) but like, by that time to me “dance” music was probably hiphop and maybe like mainstream-y house type shit. at least the people i knew when i was little and the underage clubs and shit were not playing stuff like this at all, i mostly didn’t get down with this shit until later….
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Comment by tom/pipecock — February 25, 2010 @ 10:31 am
Frank, if memory serves me right, Friday night was alternative night and Saturday was rap / hip-hop. Or was that after it went from Dance-land to Bonkers to Illusions, or one of the other names that little tax shelter was opened under?
Anyway, 20 years ago, wow, head-hunter / front 242. Then again, that would be the time I was introduced to Nitzer Ebb - Showtime. I still like that album, I don’t care, I like it. Now you have me thinking about what I was listening to: Pump Up The Volume - M.A.R.R.S., Move This - Technotronic, Humpty Dance - Digital Underground, Wild Wild West - Kool Moe Dee, Da Butt - E.U., Pump It Hottie - Redhead Kingpin & the FBI Store, Radio - L.L. Cool J, and the list of Hip Hop goes on. Makes me laugh that it was in 91 when I bought James Brown is Dead. Oh crap, that means next year, 20 years since my freshman college year…. oh God, I’m getting old….. Frank, just play some dance music for Chris-sake and don’t walk down memory lane……
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Count Zero reply on March 18, 2010 11:04 am:
I think you might be thinking of when it became Planet Bubba. There was no hip hop night when I was in high school. We were always pretty irritated by that, in fact.
Or maybe my memory is just that fuzzy.
Interestingly, apparently at least part of 201 Depot Street, Latrobe, PA is called Club Ice these days. I wonder if Harry still owns it.
http://www.myspace.com/club_ice_21
yeesh.
Anyway, I don’t know what to tell you about memory lane. I walk down it as often as I can, and with pride. Why not??
Also, why do you call it a tax shelter?
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Comment by nyQuil — March 14, 2010 @ 6:17 pm