Lurkers To This Forum, Please Introduce Yourself

[LDisco75]

Just wanted to introduce myself, after reading "Videoskooter" welcoming "Rainwave" (Junior Member) to this site & to have fun.

Well! I am a junior member alright @54. I did quite a bit of DJ'g back in 75-84 (mobile) played in many places around MA & RI, lately I became unemployed due to cutbacks, so I have spent quite a lot of time here, since I joined last month, trying to recapture those found memories of the Disco era, much of the memories are returning & its great reminisceing those songs I read off the charts & trying to match against my collection. Finding out I missed a few I never heard before!! Yes, I became a vinyl junkie, I used to own it, now! it owns me. lol

The music was great, nothing matches it to this day, I do love all types of music, but for some reason I always get into listening to the Disco/Funk, and it sounds & feels good, I guess its in the blood.

The adventure in exploring the music; My favorite was picking up all the new releases every week from the Record pool (short time) & the record stores (Rainbow Records) on Friday's, go home quickly & sample the new stuff & play my selections that night at the club & see how the crowd reacted to it.

Folks, people almost always remember where they heard that song 1st.

Nice work Bernie & crew, you guys are fantastic, I have enjoyed searching, and getting re-educated again!!.

Keep up the good work, I'll have to get some new equipment shortly & will help inputing some of my records. Thanks for this site.

Peace, Louie

[Bernie]

Welcome once again to all our new members! Please join in...

[Mr.Ree]

Originally Posted by Bernie

We know you are out there each and every day. The lurker. The person who enjoys this forum, but hasn't yet posted.

We are actually a very friendly group of people who share the same love of Disco and dance music as you do. We don't bite so please take a moment to register if you haven't and break the ice by replying to this post and telling us a little about yourself.

We'll welcome you to our growing community and make you feel right at home. Let's hear from you!

Bernie: I'll bet my last dollar these lurkers are folks who want to keep their admiration for disco a secret. Disco's still a dirty word in certain circles.

[Jose Jones]

Hey all

Long time lurker, used this site to influence various Disco vinyl purchases. Tyring to set up my own night in a small town in Wales (no picnic!), thought it was about time I registered..

So er... hello

[Videoskooter]

Hi guys, great to see you. Hope you will have a good time here. And DO post, your Disco needs you

[Mr.Ree]

Originally Posted by martinihoudini

Hello all. I am new here. Just want to say hello! Been a long-time disco fan since the mid-70s. I was recently able to pick up an Italian import CD box set of Jacques Fred Petrus, which includes the full albums of Peter Jacques Band, Revanche, Macho, etc... so I am as happy as a clam! Worth every darn penny, too!

Martin: is there an American distributor whose address you can pass to me who sells this box set? I'm terrified of sending money to a foreign country. thanks.

[efunk_adelic]

welcome guys from this page... I'm a long time member but you're just as important as everyone else here. please post in the forums.

[wever]

yeah! welcome everybody!!!!

[keesee]

Hello from Calgary, Canada. I found this site by accident, but I love it already. I have posted in the "Help me with this song " section. I can barely wait to get aquainted with the "old skoolers" and of course "the younguns".
Happy to be aboard,
keesee

[Westwood]

Hey guys, well I guess I may have not introduced myself the first time around when I registered years ago. I had found the vast amount of information to be really huge and if I had the time I would read all threads and take notes and make sure I buy most of the stuff mentioned. However lack of time and money prevent me from doing this. Also Disco is not the only kind of music that gets me going so I buy releases usually when I get high on some disco tune or album that I happen to hear or play and then I start small revivals in my home ;-)

I'm 30 years old. I was very premature with music.
From the music I was made listen to by my older brother via relatives' mix tapes etc, to the first I chose to listen to myself, 80s music is in my heart and soul.
When i was barely ten I started to buy music on cassettes and 7"s, I had no idea 12"s existed. So my first idols, who I never let go, were Samantha Fox, Sinitta, Kylie Minogue, and Mandy Smith. I can see most of you laughing ;)
I started making mix tapes when I was 9, and I stopped when I was 20 because I have this strong hate towards picking songs to listen and leaving the rest of the album unlistened to and singling out tracks is bad imo. Also, you wear out the good ones.

Thanks for my appreciation for SAW, I once heard Donna Summer's This Time I Know It's For Real on the radio and I was hooked, I bought the LP too. This was my first foray into Disco by proxy lol, it was still Donna Summer. Back in those days the music stores here were not big or carried much, I remember seeing a Donna Summer compilation that I have never seen after that, it looks more like it was a budget release.
In 1995 I was made aware of a remix of I Feel Love (the Rollo & Sister Bliss one) and found the French GH cd. I fell in love with most of her songs
Anyway, once I started to go to Milan for shopping sprees of music, to the now defunct Virgin Megastore, which stocked loads of imports, I was able to find all of her albums, with the mid 80s one found in sale bins and I actually never played them (All Systems Go etc).
Thanks to that and other original albums on cd I started to extend my collection in the late 90s with these cds. I started to buy all the Bette Midler albums (Thighs & Whispers my favorite), Grace Jones, Diana Ross, The Supremes etc.
When I discovered eBay I started to buy a lot more records, the DS ones, and I think the most time-consuming project I had was getting all the Cheryl Ladd releases lol. I have multiple copies of her albums, not that they're that good anyway, I even found her tv specials.

Since then, given that the current music industry does not appeal to me that much anymore, I find more interest in going back in time, I always liked to live in the past anyway ;)

My real disco basis however was when UK Attitude magazine featured Salsoul 30th in their reviews of music page and I bought that, and the Walter Gibbons 3CD Anthology. Since then I haven't stopped. I am buying disco compilations, although mostly the ones with titles that I have never heard. I love Salsoul.

My favorites compilations have to be the Loleatta Holloway Anthology, the First Choice one, the Salsoul Orchestra, the WG Anthology, Sounds Like 54, Deep Disco Culture 1, Disco Trance & Cosmic Flavas, Disco Connection 1+2, The Original Disco Selection (introduced me to pre-Salsoul First Choice, Cissy Houston, Loose Change, VSR...)

I basically discovered The Three Degrees last year, I only knew their name, I had no idea who they were, I actually thought they were men.
I love them, I always mean to buy all their albums, like The Ritchie Family.

I love Tom Moulton mixes, Walter Gibbons, Shep Pettibone...

Music is the biggest passion in my life, along with movies and tv shows from all eras.
I could not live without music. It brings me so much joy, and nobody can ever take that away from me :)

I love a lot of other music, pop from the early 60s (before that, only Doris Day I would say), disco, SOUL, electro, new wave, SAW, trance, vocal house, Motown, etc. I mainly prefer female voices.


Is that enough? I hope you will appreciate my opening up :)

[Dayna]

A BIG Hello and welcome to all the new and non new but introducing themselves tothe forum members
Have fun and play nice

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Originally Posted by Westwood

So my first idols, who I never let go, were Samantha Fox, Sinitta, Kylie Minogue, and Mandy Smith. I can see most of you laughing ;)

Definitely not laughing here. But smiling pretty wide.
In South Florida, mine is considered the definitive SAW collection. I did most of the promo-only US Remix Service versions of the SAW catalogue, for Hot Tracks. With Sinitta's "Who's Gonna Catch Ya" and Kylie's "Love At First Sight" (from the KYLIE LP), being my first.

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Westwood

Is that enough? I hope you will appreciate my opening up :)

Now, that's what I call an introduction! Westwood, welcome here and I'm looking forward to read your posts.

Keesee, great to see you and don't hesitate to connect!

[Westwood]

Thank you Day, Stephen and Skoot (you don't mind me nicknaming your nicknames do you ;)).
I made it a bit shorter than I intended I didn't want to open up completely with my quirks and small details I remember about discovering my music, but maybe I'll add another one later :)
Actually I forgot to mention that Tina Charles had always been an artits that kept on eluding me.
There's this music festival in Italy called Festivalbar, don't ask me the rules cause I don't know them, but well it was a great showcase for artists in the late 80s and early 90s whenI watched it.
Thanks to a compilation of the show's songs I had and fell in love with two Tina Charles songs. They were both 87 reissues and remixes, but they left a big mark in my heart. Dance Little Lady Dance and I'll Go Where The Music Takes Me, with the latter giving me goosebumps just writing this down.
I only had those two songs in two cheap cassettes. I was never ever able to find an official release of hers, until Sony decided to do a Best Of collection and I bought that. I was in heaven. It did not include the versions I knew, but it was good enough. They were all original versions, and I have to say some songs were really crap (2 of them are terribly repetitive and not that melodic) but overall it was a great purchase.
IT was only years later thanks to a very cheap German site that I wasable to purchase (basically blindfolded, no info on the site) the aforementioned remixes! I swear I cried when I plaied them. To finally be able to play those songs I had not heard for more than 15 years, and in great quality, from a clean record, I cannot tell you how I felt, that is why I say that music brings me such joy :)
Yes Tina didn't have a great voice, but I've heard much worse and her songs are, in a part of the disco movement, by themselves, pretty good.
I have seen what she's been doing once or twice on her myspace page, and well, I have to say, kudos to her for trying and not being ashamed of it! ;)

Stephen, I have to say that after once again going back several thread pages (now at no.30) and reading those I find of interest, that you and markdefad are my favorite guys as I see to love what you love :)
And the fact that you had a hand in the promotion of my beloved SAW girls is really great! Thank you :)

I was able to get almost all of Sinitta's releases from her first two albums (and some of her later stuff), all versions and stuff, as she also was very elusive. Nobody freaking knew who she was here. I said thank you when I began reading she was in the spotlight again thanks to those uk music shows. Better than nothing I guess.
Oddly enough, Samantha Fox's singles (how many singles did she release from every album??? Was she trying to outdo Madonna?) are not expensive at all, but she's got every format possible for every one of them. 7", 12", 12" Pic Disc, Special Box (for a single, yes), jeez, I wonder, how could Zomba put out all those formats, was she selling that much??? I^m happy tho, i think I have them all now.
As with Sinitta's records, I plan to soon record all these on digital. However I always get into some problem, I may do a thread in the tech forum. I bought a Minidisc recorder (dont ask me why, I wanted it) :))
I have been buying stuff to make complete collections so i can later put them on digital and have my own music wherever I want.
The artist I am most proud of having completed a discography of was Dolly Parton, hehe. I got all her LPs in EX/NM condition over 2-3 months two years ago. They should be framed, so beautiful.
If anyone doesn't know her music, they should give her a try, her early country music is just adorable, her southern accent and all.

Oh btw Stephen, that Love At First Sight of Kylie, was along with Turn It Into Love, my absolute favorite song of hers. I lost track of her until 1994 for some reason. Anyway, while I never ever played her first album again, I did listen to TIIL on her GH cd, but never to LAFS.
I plan to listen to it in the future. I know it will be like I died and gone to heaven.
Does anyone here ever do that as well? Put a song or album in the freezer for some reason, and knowing that you will increase the pleasure once you finally listen to it again? I do that all the time. I did it with depressin music (Tori Amos for example), but also with great music that I think people call uplifting. To me it's very depressing. I don't know why, maybe because they put you in such a high that the only place to go after that, is down...

[kdavid13]

Originally Posted by STEPHEN L FREEMAN

Definitely not laughing here. But smiling pretty wide.
In South Florida, mine is considered the definitive SAW collection. I did most of the promo-only US Remix Service versions of the SAW catalogue, for Hot Tracks. With Sinitta's "Who's Gonna Catch Ya" and Kylie's "Love At First Sight" (from the KYLIE LP), being my first.

I absolutely love what you did with WEST END's "The love I lost" [Huge Sybil fan here !!!] and NANCY DAVIS' "If you belonged to me" [This one should have been HUGE on the pop charts !]

My favorite Kylie song "What kind of fool" was done by J.Mark Andrus though.

NRG FOR THE 90's - the sound of my generation !!!