5 years ago in nyc nightlife: Frankie Crocker We Love You!! august 2004
august 5, 2004 behrouz was at cielo, one of the better underground SF house djs. and tony humphries was at discoteque, one of the most legendary 20th century NY/NJ house masters.
Check out Behrouz next time he's in town, soulful deep house.
august 6, 2004 kerri black's Strike! party was at tribeca rock club with aerovox. HQ was at pianos. and junior vasquez was holding down his intiomate friday residency at discoteque, 1 of 2004's best weeklies- while it lasted!! JR's a cielo resident in 2009; and kerri moved to westchester & started a family.
august 7, 2004 the everyothers were at rothko. I hope you have picked up their 'pink sticky lies' EP on kill rock stars- or even better their debut LP- the EO were prob my favorite NY band of the 21st century.
august 12, 2004 beavher was still at don hill's every thursday with guests corinne, vito, greg, caroline, EB, curt, bob, & angelo. top tunes; B52's roam, burning down the house, J5 the love you save, emotional rescue, spinners' its a shame, & franz' take me out. stayed til 3:15. *** of 5 stars.
Frank should play Philadelphia- mphil. has soul - L.A. is 100% ersatz.
* then over to discoteque for NY/NJ house music legend tony humphries mid-2004 residence. top tune: the JB's 'doin it to death' - the full version! made it til 4:30 am closing, the soul, disco & r&b was superb. **1/2 of 5 stars.
* also armin van buren played central park's summerstage. AVB, Tiesto & PVD are still filling stadiums with their trance !
august 13, 2004 john 00 fleming was at avalon with his banging progressive & hard trance - a somewhat under-rated dj who doesnt play nyc enough!
august 14, 2004 the strokes played randall's island with the raveonettes in support! 5 years later I think the raveonette's are giving us the better music of the 2 bands, including their new LP; and the Strokes are making mediocre studio LPs and insignificant solo work. well Albert is a nice guy, anyway...
august 19 2004 guided by voices and ambulance ltd played a great double bill on west 13th st & the hudson river . GBV stands as one of the best bands USA produced since in the last 20 years. ambulance havbe taken 6+ years for a 2nd LP; wassup ?!
* beavher at don hill's with guests donna baxter, becca, christy, jeff from nj & shawn from sophomore. top tune: morrissey's suedehead & our lips are sealed. stayed til 3 am *** of 5 stars.
* over to discoteque one more time for tony humphries. closed it out one more time at 4:30 am with best tune MFSB 'TSOP' [the soul train theme] full, rare 12" version circa 1974: Bliss!!! **1/2 of 5 stars
august 20, 2004 saeed & palash headlined crobar with behrouz opening- that's a great bill of underground deep & hard house!! rewind! crobar is now Mansion/M2 and it's shite
* and benzos were at sin e . sin e long closed.
august 21, 2004 HQ was at luna lounge; and the death of fashion played tiswas at don hill's !! luna moved to BK & is now knittiong factory.
august 27, 2004: sander kleinenberg played a great set at crobar with steve porter opening. hi-lites of sander's set: doors riders on the storm dance mix. blur song 2 hard house mix. made it til 5 am. ****1/4 of 5 stars one of sander's best crobar sets. sander plays pacha now but his sound got more techy and less melodic/percussive.
august 28, 2004 roger sanchez was at crobar. S-Man had nyc's best radio show imo 'release yourself' every friday latenight on WKTU 3-5 am. and his bi-monthly crobar residence gave us at least 3 of 2006's best NYC house sets. sanchez- total worldwide house superstar.
* and my favorite was at sin e , a much missed long island band.
august 30, 2004 the republican convention came to town at madison sq garden & I LEFT town! as if nominating GW Bush for a 2nd term wasnt bad enough,. there were repeated incidents of police brutality & supression of protests/free speech. Vote Democratic in November 2006!!
some of my favourite bands/djs in august 2004 incl. ambulance ltd, guided by voices, danny tenaglia, derrick carter, junior vasquez, paul oakenfold, deep dish's recent BBC essential mix, & morrissey was riding high on you are the quarry & its popular 45 singles.
some of my horoscope lucky colours in august 2004 incl. purple, white, red, gold & silver .
* shout out! to the Chief Rocker Frankie Crocker from WBLS-fm.
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junior vasquez on ktu juniors world :
vernessa mitchell 'took my life'
david morales on wktu davids house:
vicky d 'this beat is mine' disco classic remixed
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and 20 years before, 21 August 1984, here was my music playlist in Firenze Italy, Roma , Italy, and London England:
scitti politti 'absolute'
frankie goes to hollywood '2 tribes'
bronski beat 'smalltown boy'
george michael 'careless whisper'
david sylvian 'red guitar'
lloyd cole 'perfect skin'
gino soccio 'turn it around'
industry 'state of the nation'
also in aug. 1984 I saw bruce springsteen at meadowlands touring born in the usa.
echo & bunnymen at the beacon on 'ocean rain'
ghostbusters was the top film
and terry may & anne bezamat were top nyc models.
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