#discos
Quizás faltas tú o quizás te falto yo.
Como se fosse apenas mais um encontro entre um homem e uma mulher conhecendo um ao outro, minha amada se ajoelhou em frente à estante onde ele guardava seus vinis. Mulher de gostos sofisticados e amante de música, ela comentava os discos chamavam sua anteção enquanto ele servia algo para beberem. Ele não podia imaginar que uma esposa depravada que transa com outros homens com as benesses do marido fosse uma amante de jazz. Alcançou-lhe a taça e que ela, levantando, pegou com uma das mãos e com a outra apalpou-lhe o pau duro por cima das calças: “E o que você vai colocar para a gente ouvir enquanto transa?”
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Concluding this series of transcribed articles from The Advocate’s August ‘75 ’Discos!“ issue is an interview w/ Hollywood DJ, A.J. Miller.
While not much is known about whatever happened to Miller, the interview is an interesting look into just how influential gay DJs and discos were.
At the time Miller was working at a club called Our Side, which had formerly been the The Paradise Ballroom (owned by the notorious Eddie Nash), which would later become the long-running Probe. Miller was apparently also a close associate of the late writer/producer Bob Crewe and was instrumental in his disco productions at the time.
I love Miller’s last line - “[t]he most substantial thing that gay people have contributed in the last five years is the discotheque. We’ve got people turned on to music they never heard before. I think it’s the most beautiful kind of sharing thing that we can do. We have shared something that has sort of been our secret.”
Scans and full transcription on the main blog.
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Another instalment in this continuing series of time capsules from The Advocate’s August ‘75 Discos! issue. Here, their regular city entertainment columns became a quick trip through the NY, Hollywood, & SF gay disco scenes.
A bit of a lengthy preamble from me on the blog post, had to make a note about the decidedly tainted legacy of LA’s Studio One and it’s racist door policies, which would be the subject of community protest multiple times.
Scans and full transcription on the main blog.
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From the Larry Levan facebook page, a 1981 performance schedule and letter to members from the Paradise Garage.
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