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Jay-Bone said:
This got me going down memory lane. As I used to listen to Dresden's Electro Circus in the late 90's,
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Dave the Wave, I did a few guest DJ slots with him on his show. Along with being a Sat night resident on Radio 104 at System, during the Hartford peak nightlife years .
 
Blades said:
Dave the Wave, I did a few guest DJ slots with him on his show. Along with being a Sat night resident on Radio 104 at System, during the Hartford peak nightlife years .
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Those were some rockin times. As an '80 baby, I feel like only caught a taste. Economy was rockin, electronic music was rockin. Progression was on an upswing. Since the last 10 years intolerance and anger have been prevalent instead. Oh well.
 
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Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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Bezzz said:
Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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The chick yard. I avoided the dance floor and just got hammered on the top floor
 
Flipside said:
Dagny's DJ here ... best nights were Thursday Happy Hour w/ Cool Runnings on the patio - 800 people through the door ... ... fun fact, Dagny's lease was $300/month (not a typo)

In some cases, decades later, the past is the present ... e.g.

Charles Christie - is the President of the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz
John McMann - Atlantic Records Ups John McMann and Jon Lewis to Executive VPs of Promotion


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For a DJ, your handle is fantastic!!

And when I see Cool Runnings, I think of the West Indian Social Club.
 
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Bezzz said:
Anybody remember The Brickyard? I designed it. Drawing from 1995 before we re-named it. Jazz bar first floor, dance club up the ramp, sports bar top floor.

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Oh, God, yes. But what was it before The Brickyard?

In the mid-80s, I worked the dining room at the Frank Davis resort in Moodus. Lunch and Dinner. When our dinner shift was over and we got out by 9pm, we changed and zipped up to a multi-floor party spot!!!
 
Dove said:
But what was it before The Brickyard?
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At one point before the Grants had it , it was LaJarden (spelling ?) and it's sister club down the street was Lorien's (later Coaches) with a couple of owners named Arthur and Boyd.
 
Jay-Bone said:
Those were some rockin times. Economy was rockin, electronic music was rockin. Progression was on an upswing.
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Yep recent tweet(X), I'm still trying to keep it on the positive....

 
Blades said:
At one point before the Grants had it , it was LaJarden (spelling ?) and it's sister club down the street was Lorien's (later Coaches) with a couple of owners named Arthur and Boyd.
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"Starting with the Kono Brothers Restaurant in Hartford in 1962, he proceeded to the Koffee House Restaurant in West Hartford, the Italian Delight Restaurant in South Windsor, Lorien and LeJardin nightclubs in Hartford, and Club 107 in Bristol."

... may Lee & his daughter DJ Kris Kono (Comet, Club Lucy et al) RIP

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Konocopia celebrates Hub clubs’ ‘First Lady’

Underground deejays in New England’s house scene will spin together under one roof tonight at Konocopia — a tribute to Boston’s “First Lady of House,” DJ Kris Kono. Kono was a standout in Boston’s house music scene for a decade, mixing and…
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Blades said:
Yep recent tweet(X), I'm still trying to keep it on the positive....

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If I remember correctly, you were mostly breakbeat? And one of my favorites, Icey, came through Room 960 once. But I could be way off.
 
Jay-Bone said:
If I remember correctly, you were mostly breakbeat? And one of my favorites, Icey, came through Room 960 once. But I could be way off.
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Sometimes, it was one of my top 2 or 3 genres. Having one of the few vinyl dance record specific stores in New England, it gave me a hook-up to top domestic (Icey from FLA was a leader in breaks ) and import producers, who wanted me to promo their tracks. While also booking a bunch of them for CT or being billed with them at other events . So I never stuck to a specific genre with my DJ mixes. I usually played more for the crowd, event/ dance floor and venue. Which was kind of an outlier with most festival DJ's.....

Good times, but as one wise promoter said to me "you only have so many all-nighters in ya".. LOL!
 
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Blades said:
Good call DR , couldn't remember the 3rd owner involved.....my sister who was a manager at TGIF and later my food & beverage manager started out in the "biz" at Lorien's as coat check girl at just 16 years old, yikes !
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to be fair, the drinking age was likely 18 then, no? ... my first visit to those places was at 16 too, ha
 
Blades said:
Sometimes, it was one of my top 2 or 3 genres. Having one of the few vinyl dance record specific stores in New England, it gave me a hook-up to top domestic (Icey from FLA was a leader in breaks ) and import producers, who wanted me to promo their tracks. While also booking a bunch of them for CT or being billed with them at other events . So I never stuck to a specific genre with my DJ mixes. I usually played more for the crowd, event/ dance floor and venue. Which was kind of an outlier with most festival DJ's.....

Good times, but as one wise promoter said to me "you only have so many all-nighters in ya".. LOL!
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So I've got this Hooj Choon somewhere in storage.

 
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Blades said:
Sometimes, it was one of my top 2 or 3 genres. Having one of the few vinyl dance record specific stores in New England, it gave me a hook-up to top domestic (Icey from FLA was a leader in breaks ) and import producers, who wanted me to promo their tracks. While also booking a bunch of them for CT or being billed with them at other events . So I never stuck to a specific genre with my DJ mixes. I usually played more for the crowd, event/ dance floor and venue. Which was kind of an outlier with most festival DJ's.....

Good times, but as one wise promoter said to me "you only have so many all-nighters in ya".. LOL!
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Another fave

 
Blades said:
Sometimes, it was one of my top 2 or 3 genres. Having one of the few vinyl dance record specific stores in New England, it gave me a hook-up to top domestic (Icey from FLA was a leader in breaks ) and import producers, who wanted me to promo their tracks. While also booking a bunch of them for CT or being billed with them at other events . So I never stuck to a specific genre with my DJ mixes. I usually played more for the crowd, event/ dance floor and venue. Which was kind of an outlier with most festival DJ's.....

Good times, but as one wise promoter said to me "you only have so many all-nighters in ya".. LOL!
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Un mas. But you know this already

 
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