I sent this the other day, but I dont think it ever went through. If it did and
youre getting this twice, I apologize. I edited out the swearing.... i
think that was the problem.
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I have a Frankie Bones story. It was like 1997 or 1998. I was working at Record
Time then. He played a rave in Detroit
and I went and it was like every 3rd record was the bomb, and the other 2
were.... not my thing. He came into RT the next
day, and I asked him about some conga loop record he had played. He told me
what it was, but after he left I had
forgotten about it. A year or 2 later, I was booked to open for him at Motor.
So, I emailed Sonic Groove and ordered some
records a couple days before hoping he could bring the records to the gig for
me. When he showed up, he looked at me, and
said "cool. I thought that was you". He handed me the records I ordered, and
another one. It was a bootleg that said
"Happy song and dance", which I was told was an edit someone did years ago of
an old Rare Earth tune..? Anyhow, I asked
what it was, and he said "it's that conga loop record you asked about in the
dance room a few years back. That ones on
the house".
Ive never been so excited by his DJing. And as a producer, Ive never heard him
do anything that wasnt complete recyled or
even just samples of hit techno records (DBX, Hawtin, Advent, etc.) with him
adding... well, nothing. Ive never really
liked much of the NuGroove stuff that Ive heard, anyways, so I cant speak for
that. Aside from "Dangerous on the
Dancefloor", I havent liked any of his productions, or if I would even call
them "productions".
But I thought him bringing that record for me, some kid who he only THOUGHT he
had met a couple years beforehand, and
then not even charging me for it... I thought that was pretty darn cool,
and Ive never had a bad thing to say about
him since. Not to mention, since then, before I moved to NYC he even came out
to see me a couple times when I played.....
And he even danced!
He might be a loudmoth and extremely opinionated, but he's got ALOT of heart
and hes pure class in my book.
My $.02
derek.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds like what you're saying is that it's ok for him to shoot his
mouth and fabricate additional influences that aren't owed to him because
of everything he *has* done.
MEK
"seek"
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From: "Tristan Watkins"
> I mean, how many people outside of the mid-Atlantic would actually go see
> him if he were playing in your city tonight? How many people still follow
> his music? I honestly don't know because he's never mattered to me in
either
> sense, but I'm happy to take an interest if I've been missing out all
this
> time.
The music he's released since his heyday in the 80s isn't on par with that
stuff,
and again, it's dance tracks: for mixing, mostly: not 'home listening'.
The point
here isn't about what he's done lately, but what he has done versus what
some
here claimed he'd not done. It's easy to say, Frankie shoots his mouth off
and fills his own balloon, because he has/does, but he has also done tons
more for electronic dance music culture than those on this list that are
shooting off
their mouths slagging him, combined x1000.
Word.
seek
