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Dangerous Dave Miller

Florida area Disco DJ (February 17, 1951 - Present)

In 1976, I was working (part-time) at a country station in Oregon, a job I swore I'd never do. Unfortunatly it was the first job offer I recieved fresh out of brodcast school, so I took it. Big mistake, cause Oregon in the winter was no place for a boy from Southern California, so I loaded up my $200 special and headed for the sunshine of Florida.

I had never heard of Disco music. but as soon as I crossed the Fla. boarder it came through load and clear on the radio and I fell in love with it, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was my first "FAVORITE" in a soon to be long list of favorites. I had traveled 3000 miles to get away from the cold and don't ya know it snowed in Florida as soon as I got there, god does have a sense of humour.

I also couldn't find a job, even pumping gas..Finally, as luck would have it I score a phone sales job, because of my brodcast voice, anyway, the guy sitting next to me told me about this job, working the cruise ships, that he just turned down, because he was married. I told him to call the guy who offered him the job and tell him he had a guy ready to go.

The guys name doing the hiring was Bo Crane. It was about 9pm on a friday night, I was in ft. Lauderdale and he wanted to meet me at a club in Coral Gables called Honey for theBears. I didn't have a clue where Coral Gables was, let alone the club, but I was there and met with Bo we clicked and he said I had the job.

Of course there was one thing I had to do befor shipping out, a little dance at the Surf Club, a private club for miami's rich and so-so famous. Of course I agreed to do the job even though I knew nothing about Disco music or mixing, but I was taught a very handy piece of advice in school, "fake-it-til-you-make-it"!! And that's what I did, I ran to a Peaches record store and told the saleman I need the absolute latest & hotest disco albums and bought about 10 of what he told me was "HOT".

Well, I get to the Surf Club and it reminds me of the private clubs in Beverly Hills and I'm led through this gigantic dining hall to a little room in the back that's set up to be a make shift Disco. I uncover the equiptment, figure-out how to turn it on and start previewing the records I had just picked-up and guess what, that salesman had duped me big time, everything he sold me was jazz and the kids were coming into the disco ready to party and I was sweating like a pig. Finally, I was digging around in the equiptment locker and stumbled upon some K-tel party records that, though some of the girls complained were'nt the latest, saved my butt.

That was saturday night, the following sunday I was to set sail on my first cruise ship as the official disco, disc-jockey, and member of the Bo Crane stable of DJ's. That's just the begining of my incredible journey into the world of Disco, I knew guys like Joe Lender and Billy Swann and often wounder how and where they are, and on a whim I Googled Bo Crane and found this site with a feature on Joe, God really hasn't lost his sense of humour, or wounder...

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