"the stevie wonder track that people do the hustle to"
That would be "My Eyes Don't Cry." Again, I am indebted to Will Web
for demonstrating this. I went with him one night to that club next
to St. Andrew's on a Friday night in 1997 (what was it called then,
Legends?). I think Will would rather have been playing booty/bass
but the club had stopped doing that a few weeks before due to unruliness.
Anyway, the place was only half full, but right after midnight Will
dropped this and the whole place started moving, I mean, old and young,
every color. I learned something important about Detroit, seeing that.
Something happened in the 1980s, bad as they were, to bond people
together or at least those willing to open the doors a bit.
Didn't see much of that feeling at the DEMF, which was its own other
quite wonderful thing. But one leads to the other, in a way.
phred
PS Picked up the book "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" which some here
already have, and I was thoroughly amused by this quote from my local
daily:
"Opium? No! Cocaine? No! The Great American Brain Killer Is Dance Music!"
-- The Oregonian, 1932
