Of course we've always known that the D in Detroit stands for Drama :) It's a revealing series of comments. I get the impression there is still something of a mini-generation gap. There are those who built the party scene in the early 1980s when DD was the undisputed flagship, and high level of DJ skills and all the party trappings are rightfully points of pride. And there are those who came in later who were starting to focus more on making tracks as well as DJing.
But there was a disappointing series of hits on Juan, which at least got a corrective from Mike Clark's precise recounting of the battle-that-couldn't-have-happened. I look through the list of commenters and see so many people who contrbuted to the music that we have all been able to appreciate. There is nothing unusual about competition in a musical context, and all the resentments that build up in a local music scene, well, that's always going to happen. It's just too bad that respect was so hard to earn then, and still is today. fh ----------------- >Wow... what a series of comments!!! My entire understanding of the >history timeline has shifted... > >and my favorite part is that Juan says he and Derrick were working >together first before Eddie joined the crew... Eddie is so full of >it, he's always saying he came before Derrick and that he should get >more credit than Derrick, but Juan says right in the interview that >Derrick was first... classic!!!! > >~Jodie > >On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hoo boy! >> >> http://www.bleep43.com/bleep43/2009/10/4/juan-atkins-interview-part-one.html >> >> Comments from Todd Johnson of Direct Drive, Delano Smith, Theresa >> Hill, Al Ester, and Mike Clark. >> >> Apparently they took some exception to some of the stuff Juan said... >
