>Funny that you should mention this because Derrick May had some serious >affection for Chicago and its sound before he embarked upon techno. Derrick >frequently went to Chicago, both for records and clubbing. Who has heard of >a club called The Bismarck? Apparently Lil' Louis played there a lot and >Derrick was influenced by him (or so I have been told). It think it is hard >to deny that Detroit techno learnt a lesson or two from the brotha's in the >Windy City.
The Bismarck was a theater on Randolph Street in the loop. It's not the Cadillac Palace, so Detroit got back. Lil' Louis' parties came later - the Detroit scene was first budding by then. The early stuff was at the warehouse, and the crazy stuff was at the Music Box (*not* to be confused with the theater of the same name). Back in the eighties it was *all* house - Detroit just had its own electro influenced take that was dubbed "Techno House." A lot of us used to make the trip to Chicago on the weekends to check out the scene. Detroit and Chicago are close geographically and the exchange of ideas has always been healthy. Anyway Marshall and Lil' Louis were really different camps. Marshall and Larry Heard were more on the gay scene whereas Lil' Louis' parties were mostly str8. I heard Marshall spin an outdoor rave a few years back - it made me think of the old Metra picnics :-) mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
