pleasure being there as DJs. Here is a little review of that weekend. I arrieved in Munich Friday morning coming in from Arkansas. Right after I got to my apartment I called Benji, who was just on is way back from
the airport to Munich - with Jo in his girlfriendīs Mini (very tiny!!! - Jo). So, they came over to my place, we had a little chat and went to go to the car-rental place to get our Audi for the weekend. A quick
stop at the biergarten followed to have a late lunch. Unfortunately, it was really only a quick stop for me. Lufthansa had decided not to put my luggage on the same flight that I was on from Frankfurt to Munich.
It seemed to be much more convinient for them to send it on a later plane and deliver it directly to my place in the afternoon.
Jo left again in the afternoon to go to Nürnberg for a reggae night
(WOT A NIGHT - more Rocksteady and Ska than you can shake a stick at....Jo). She came back Saturday afternoon and we had a little cheese and wine party at my place that night (more wine than cheese.....Jo)
We (Jo, Karin - Benjiīs girlfriend who was Djīing this weekend as well,
Benji, Toni - a friend of ours- and I) left at about 1pm for Frankfurt. We got to Gerhardīs (the organizer of that allnighter and one
of my oldest and best friends) place after a four hour drive. We could have got there much faster but these bloody smokers were whining all the time: "Can we have a cigarette stop?" (Oi - I don't smoke but the
lollies are VERY nice and Joerg has the biggest bladder in the world....am I sharing too much???.Jo)
We got to the club at about 10:30, the doors opened officially at 11:00. It was a really nice venue with
two main rooms-one 60īs and one modern. About 20 or 30 people were already waiting to get in at 10:45. It didnīt even take much more than an hour and the place was already quite full. Iīd say all together there
were about 800 people that night (that's throughout the night and not all in one go.....but it was SO HOT........and very sweaty....Jo)
Andreas from Frankurt was the first DJ in the 60īs room. It
just took about 20-30 minutes the first people started dancing. When he finished his set at midnight, the dancefloor was already quite full with 30-40 people. Gerhard was next and really packed the dancefloor with lots
of Motown hits and uptempo soul. He threw in some great soul classics like Seven Souls or Anne Heywood, so it was just the right mix that he played for that crowd. When I took over from Gerhard at 00:45, the dancefloor
was packed and you couldnīt find an empty spot anymore. The 60īs room had already turned into a sauna at that time. I tried to continue playing mostly uptempo to keep the people on the dancefloor. In my first set
I played stuff like:
Winstons - Need a replacement
Sandra Phillips - You succeeded
Flirtations - Keep on searching
Jeanie King - Youīve got a good thing going
Paula Durante - You are not my kind
Dottie Cmbridge - Cry your eyes out
Major Lance - Without a doubt
Christine Cooper - Heartaches away my boy
Wade Flemons - Jeanette
Trade Martin - Work song
Michael & Raymond - A man without a woman
Don Ray - Born a loser
Leslie Uggams - Love is a good foundation
Wooden Nickels - Nobody but you
An attempt to play some midtempo tracks failed fully when I put Imaginations "Strange
Neighboorhood" on. Half the people stopped dancing but continued when I put Jerry Naylor "City Lights" on right after it. A girl approached me right when I played the Imaginations and asked me if I could
play some soul music for a change! She thought itīs all easy listening that I was playing. That happened twice to me that night (people are SO fickle......Jo)
Lars from Hamburg was next. I cannot recall any
specific song he played. I just remember that it was good and I really enjoyed his set. It was hard finding some space on the dancefloor. I managed it somehow to save me a little spot. Florian from Frankfurt played a
big variety of soul, instrumentals and some latin. I went over to the modern room at that time and checked out what was going on over there. The air conditioning in that room seemed to work much better, the air
was actually breathable. I even started dancing to seome of the modern tunes that Jo was playing!
Jo was also next in the 60īs room after Florian at 02.15hrs. She played a really good set (aw
shucks......Jo) and people enjoyed it a lot. I was always moving between the bar and the dancefloor (no you weren't - you were staggering....Jo). It was so hot and humid in the 60īs room that I almost spend as much time
getting my beer from the bar as I was dancing. Andreas followed with a very short set. He wanted to talk to his buddies who came to see him that night, so he gave me half the time of his second set.
Gerhard would have been after that I would have closed the night with the last set. Instead, Gerhard and I decided to DJ together. We were at the decks from 4-6 am and it was just fantastic! Well, at least I think it
was fantastic. There were still at least 20 people on the dancefloor when we had to finish by 6. Some of the stuff I played:
Major Lance - You donīt love me no more
Ambassadors - Too much of a good thing
Sam Fletcher - Iīd think it over
Accents - You better think again
Ernest Mosley - Stubborn heart
Peopleīs Coice - Savinī my lovin
Willie Kendrick - You canīt bypass love
Rose Batiste - Come back in a hurry
Frank Beverly - If thatīs what you wanted
Tony Galla - In love
Jimmy Gilford - Nobody loves me like my baby
Johnny Watson - Itīs better to cry
Johnnie Mae Matthews - Here comes my baby
Liz Lands - Midnight Johnny
I closed the night with The Dells "Make Sure". I am sure that the people who were still dancing at that time could have
continued for another hour or so.
Gerhard, Benji, Toni and I had a little breakfast at Gerhardīs place before we went to bed at 8am. We had a few hours of sleep before we headed back to Munich.
So much from my
side about our little trip to Frankfurt. It is now Joīs time to write a few lines before we send her back to England. (and good riddance I hear them mutter.......Jo).
My night consisted of two sets in the modern
room at 0.45hrs - 01.30hrs and 04.30 - 06.00hrs. For the most part, the room was packed with a lull round about 05.00hrs. The abridged playlist for both sets looked vaguely like this (but you have to take
into consideration that the crowd were really a rare groove/acid jazz crowd ......)
Lyn Collins - Think
Fred Wesley - Doin' it to death
Reuben Wilson - Got to get your own
Blackbyrds - Doin' it fluid
Use it before you lose it - (can't remember artist - brain dead....)
Harlow Orch - Grazing in the grass
Ramsey Lewis - Jade East
Latin version of "Another Star" on Mo' Jazz
Impressions - I'll always be there
Voices of East Harlem - Cashin' In
Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe
Moments - Nine times
Jean Carn - Was that all it was
Terry Callier - Look at me now
Motown Spinners - It's a shame
Erma Franklin - Light my fire
Female version of "It's my thing" - (can't remember artist)
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody's elses guy
Drizabone - Pressure
Jocelyn Brown - Believe/ Have some fun
and a couple of modern 12"s including Barbara Tucker "Stop messing with my mind"......
and then the Northern set.......(just a flavour)
Chuck Jackson - Hand it over
Ruby Winters - Better
Ted Taylor - Somebody's always trying to.......
Mack Rice - Baby I'm coming home
Jimmy Robins - I can't please you
Bud Harper - Wherever you are
Yum Yums - Gonna be a big thing
Billy Butler - Right Track (that was for Len)
Doug Banks - Just kept on dancing
Majestics - I love her so much
Spinners - She's gonna love me at sundown
Fantastic Four - Can't stop looking.......
Kim Weston - I'm still loving you
O'Jays - I'll never forget you
Dottie and Millie - Nothing in this world
it was a long night but well worth the
journey. On the way back to Munich, there was a storm to end all storms with lightening and rain that flooded the motorway (eeekkkk.......) but we paddled our way back or rather Joerg steered us through the
elements. The reggae night in Nurnberg was BRILLIANT but this isn't a reggae list but just to say that "Hypocrites"and "Wages of Sin" plus a host of Coxsone, Studio One and Treasure Isle didthe
business.........right, back to Blighty for some sleep.......zzzzzzzz.
Jo+Jörg
