Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Proto-House Vol 1


Frankie Knuckles - Live @ The Warehouse 1977

I don't really see the point in posting much old house or disco since you can find that elsewhere, but I'm a huge Chicago history buff. I also love hearing early DJ sets, and this one sits between the time when the dancefloor had to wait between songs and variable pitch control. This gives a good idea of what went down at the Warehouse during the house music boiling pot era, and if you feel like your still missing out put a bunch of streamers up in your apartment and snort some blow. The club was located at 206 S Jefferson St, which was considered the South Side in 1977. Now occupied by office space in Oprah's West Loop, reminding me of a lot of other inner city boundary lines being pushed outward much like Harlem and elsewhere.

4 comments:

SAMO said...

tooo insane! amazing post.

Anonymous said...

yep. incredible stuff... some missing link tones right here

Unknown said...

Yo Dave! We should try that thing you were saying you should do if you felt like you were missing out! Yeah?!

Dave Quam said...

whatcho talking bout willy?