I encourage everyone to go to Bones' website and read his bio
http://www.frankiebones.com/index1.htm
It starts out - "Frankie Bones, quite simply, the most influential artist
in American electronic dance music history." It gets funnier from there.
See how he claims to be "one of NYC's first dance music remixers in the mid
1980s." Which, if you give that statement a bit of thought, doesn't mean
anything. He also claims to be the first travelling international DJ by
the late 1980s.
LOL - he claims to have broken Derrick May (and a few others) to the world
via his Storm raves.
"The roots of post disco dance music and DJ culture can be directly linked
to this man"
yeah riiiiight
MEK
"Tristan Watkins"
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I remember when I moved to Baltimore, and then D.C. around the turn of the
century, I was suddenly surrounded by people who knew and cared about
Frankie Bones, whereas almost no one had done in the midwest when I lived
there, at least that I was aware of. As far as I can tell Frankie Bones was
an insular God pushing insular music. For whatever that's worth it deserves
the respect it has gained, but probably is also partly responsible for
leaving most of the mid-Atlantic in that Buzz-bound quagmire of crap
midling
dance music that it has suffered in larger venues for an eternity. Beyond
that, he hasn't made much of a mark on the rest of the world in the last
10-15 years unless I've missed it. To sing his praises is like yelling
about
how Donald Glaude was one of the most important DJs in Seattle in the
early-mid '90s. No one would bother outside of those relatively small
communities unless there was a larger perception of them. It's useful to
remember the local instigators of change but it's useless to attribute more
than that to what they did. Frankie Bones is a regional hero and certainly
goes out of his way to attribute more than that to himself. For as long as
I
can remember him I've wondered what the big deal is.
Tristan
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