The Chi-Lites - My First Mistake

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[57dms]

@dirtyedna Dear Dirty The first 12 inch was Ten Percent by Double Exposure a disco record on the edge of the new universe of HOUSE. The music you describe Larry as playing is exactly what house music is: an eclectic mix of different genres of music. Rap music was not called Hip Hop initially but songs such as the Jackson Five's Hum Along and Dance are considered Hip Hop Classix! This song is NOT a John Travolta White Suit Disco Song----This is HOUSE BABY!!

Keep Bangin if you can, I still do!

[57dms]

@dirtyedna Dear Dirty

I "banged" at the Garage as well as most of the other clubs and discos in NYC at that time. So what the record came out in '77! Disco was melding into house during those years. I can name a bunch of records that were purely disco and Larry would never play them. He played Curtis Blow's The Breaks and I don't consider that house, but Larry used it to intro House records. You, however Keep Bangin!

[kkelner]

2:20 for of Needin U...

[breckerbros]

@dirtyedna I worked up in the booth in the early days of the garage(76-79). I remember one night he was playing Melting Pot - Booker t stuff and had Janis Joplan playing in the background. Made it sound like it belonged there, total amazement. Or the night he blew it up with MSFB - Love is the message with Martin Luther Kings speech.I had a dream. almost pissed in my pants.Great nights and memories.

[dirtyedna]

@lefreak79 (cont'd.) In other words, I don't recall ever seeing anyone at the Garage in a white polyester suit (at least not on a Saturday night ! )

[dirtyedna]

@lefreak79 ...go back and read some of my earlier comments...I wasn't "knocking" the Ritchie Family (a studio group/project of Jacques Morali,like the Village People)One of my favorite LP's is their Brazil LP (1975).Peanut Vendor and Frenesi from that LP are just gorgeous. AND I never said SNFever "ruined" disco, it just brought it to the masses and alot of us in the "underground" (ie. GAY culture) resented that aspect of it.

[lefreak79]

@dirtyedna DON'T TALK DOWN ON DISCO!! NOT EVERY TYPE OF MUSIC IS PERFECT. DISCO SET THE TONE FOR UPTONE PIECES LIKE THIS ONE FROM THE CHI-LITES--FAST, HEAVILY ORCHESTRATED--SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER DIDN'T RUIN DISCO, I HAD A GOOD TIME. AS FOR THE RITCHIE FAMILY--DON'T KNOCK THE GIRLS DOWN! I LOVED IT ALL--DISCO/FUNK.

DISCO AL

[lefreak79]

DISCO BABY!!!!!

[lefreak79]

@57dms THIS AIN'T HOUSE!! WHY DO PEOPLE TRY TO CLAIM THAT SOUL/R&B/70'S DISCO IS HOUSE?!?!?

[cleanerfloors]

This is a wonderfull upload...thanks for sharing!

[57dms]

Dear Dirty

I don't agree with his final conclusion (but that's OK everyone has a right to their opinion) but I think alkh3myst said it best six months ago: "Disco and House are different in some ways but the continuity is way more important than the distinctions." I say AMEN to that and thank God for good music.

Keep Bangin!!