Chicago House Music Truth 1 - Leonard Rroy

Video one in a group of Videos that tell the truth about the start of House Music in Chicago. Where the term House Music came from is stated on this video.

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Music

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• Chicago
• House Music
• Rink Zone
• DJ
• Leonard Rroy
• Ron Hardy
• Farley jackmaster funk
• Musicbox
• Warehouse
• deephousepage
• Bringtheheat
• SHMC
• The Chosen Few
• Deephouse
• powerplant
• frankie knuckles
• robert williams

[soulfood357]

Hi Leonard, thanks for the great videos and for being so earnest. Just wondering, have you ever asked Frankie Knuckles, or some of the other people who do make it into the mainstream stories about the history of house music, why they think you aren't included in the documentaries? What do they say about that? Cheers!

[lrmxr1]

@soulfood357 - I have not been available to take part is some of the documentaries. I was nominated and one of the most enfluential 100 Chicago's of 1975 - 1995 last year and could not be there for that:) Google > gridface leonard remix rroy < to read my first offical interview.

Thanks!

[sofumba]

This guy means well, but he said House Music started in 1981...WRONG! It was in 1978-79 and Frankie Knuckles started it in the "WareHOUSE", hence, "House Music". Larry Levan was spinning in a club called the Garage in NYC, but at that time Rap was the beat, disco, soul,salsa, etc. and NYC was puttin the beats down; but Frankie actually launched the evolution of House music by adding his own flavor while in Chicago. The homage from this music genre, is to Chicago and no other city.

[lrmxr1]

@sofumba - I know you mean well too but. U.S. Studio was nicknamed The Warehouse due to it's location and NOT due to the music Frankie was playing. His patrons called what he played (Served to use the correct term from back then) Rice & Beans. Frankie needs to do some interviews with them who were there then - so some of the inconsistant timeline stuff can be straightened out.

[nutso23]

@sofumba Yes this dude means well but he needs to get his facts in line. I love house. But dudes like this make it hard for peopl that really don't know it.

[lrmxr1]

@nutso23 google this text - MIY Title: What Kind Of House Party Is This? - read it, then get back with me.

I am making it easy since you say i'm making it hard. Read what Frankie said and what Farley said. Book was written in 1995, way before I made videos.

[soulamente]

WRONG!!! We were callin Disco HOUSE music long Before Marshall came out with the record. House wasnt the music but a CULTURE. If your not from the Chi, you wouldn't know that! I knew PPL who went to the Warehouse in late 70s and referred to the UNDERGROUND Disco as warehouse or HOUSE music. When I was old enough to get in the parties, within our HOUSE CULTURE , what we called HOUSE was anything WE accepted and danced to (soul funk boogie disco and even some punk) If we jacked, its was house

[Christiantodd1]

I was always under the impression that Frankie Knuckles Dj'ed for a little while with Larry Levan in New York, and then brought his experiences back to Chicago with him.

[SONNYAMM1]

He did & is from N.Y . I used to buy aalot of my vinyl at Import's Etc. @ Plymouuth ct. . This is kinda weird because I was in Chicago at this time period & so much of this ring's true & I can relate to it .Warehouse,Powerplant,Bistro The Paradise these place's were SMOKIN !!!

[messthetics]

@kifagi Your forgetting classical music which is the foundations of all music especially dance music but in a contemporary sense, the black man is the musical god and has been for the last 100 years.

[khmerwolf1]

Where is the video by your mother informing people how she invented the name 'House Music'?

Just kidding my friend, good videos :-)

[kifagi]

Where so ever House music came from, it is one thing that is clear IT WAS A BLACK MAN THAT CREATED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Black people are creators of everything we know and love about music damnit!!! It is the melinated people who are the creative force behind civilization, just like in the ecological system, which contains melanin. If the ecological system and animals had no melanin in it, it would not exists.

[abxtale]

@tonyluga1 NY Djs Francis Grasso, Grandmaster Flowers, Pete DJ Jones, brought blending/beatmatchn to the game from the 60s. Frankie brought those Philly classic along with those Loft(NY) bangers by Gil Scott, Talkn Heads, Westend, Salsoul stuff, which was not played in the Chi before Frankie got there. Now Ron Hardy was making the music himself along w/ experimenting with playn local production at his gigs. But even w/ that said NY is the precursor. NY was the 1st to do remixes & re-edits.

[tonyluga1]

@abxtale Chicago never caught wind of any movement. NY and Chi were playing the same music at the same time. Man, Disco was also in Europe and a little before the US. There were many DJs everywhere all doing the same. My wife has a Uncle that has been playing on turntables and Tape players with pitch controls dating before that time and has been a collector. He is living proof, but he is a no name and has played in many disco clubs in Chicago, rollerinks on the northside and southwest side.