Speaker 1: So whenever I sit down to record an episode of
Speaker 1: this show fifty plus, it's it's not necessarily mapped out.
Speaker 1: There are times when I'll map out episodes and you go, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want some about this, this, this, and this certain subjects.
Speaker 1: At other times, it's just something can happen to me,
Speaker 1: or I had a discussion off camera somewhere and it's
Speaker 1: related to this, or it's completely just I I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna say until I press the record button.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit of all those things because
Speaker 1: I've been looking back over the last three months about
Speaker 1: my life in a fun way, looking back cause I'm
Speaker 1: drawing stories from my past for projects that i'm working on.
Speaker 1: You know, part of what I do is creative. I'm
Speaker 1: a creative, so you know I'm right. I'm released. I'm
Speaker 1: releasing an album called sixty minus five. Sixty minus five,
Speaker 1: it's coming out in November, and it's literally it means
Speaker 1: I'm fifty five. So I'm putting that out and I
Speaker 1: was writing songs for it.
Speaker 2: They're very specific.
Speaker 1: I have songs on the album called Message from a
Speaker 1: latch Key Kid. If you know what that is, obviously,
Speaker 1: then you're gen X like myself. I wrote a song
Speaker 1: called officially a Senior It's is. I mean, they're very
Speaker 1: a auto biographical songs that I wrote for this album,
Speaker 1: and I was just like so, I kept thinking of
Speaker 1: my life and stuff and reminiscing, and I've seen a
Speaker 1: couple of friends where we were laugh monfy, good old days.
Speaker 2: I watched it. I was watching it document I'm finished it.
Speaker 2: I gotta finish it.
Speaker 1: But I was watching it documentary called Studio One Forever,
Speaker 1: and Studio.
Speaker 3: One was a very famous.
Speaker 1: Disco cloud here in Los Angeles in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm partial nineties two. That's gone now, but
Speaker 1: it's it's it's all. It's documentary on it, and I'm
Speaker 1: still one years ago. A couple of times, like in
Speaker 1: the eighties, I did and I I I heard.
Speaker 3: Of course it's it's It was one of several.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: There was there was Jewels.
Speaker 1: Catch one's good documentary on that to you. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: the Odyssey. There's like there's places that the circus and
Speaker 1: plus the the the the the ones that catered to
Speaker 1: the straight or younger crowd. There was Maryland's Florentine Gardens.
Speaker 1: Some reminded me of another one. I'm like, I forgot
Speaker 1: about that one. It was a club.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It then also not very farm had Cloud nine, uh,
Speaker 1: Vineapolis at Disneyland, like we had all our places we
Speaker 1: could go and they were all ages underage over rage
Speaker 1: access places you can.
Speaker 3: Go and and dance and and whatever.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: There was the eighties and I was I was about
Speaker 1: the dance, all of the music to dance, and I
Speaker 1: was just been missing about that, just going wow, like
Speaker 1: I mean you were to say, since everyone Sacramento, I
Speaker 1: was there for some of the opening of some of
Speaker 1: the some of the club is still there. I was
Speaker 1: there for the opening of them. San Francisco, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of places that are gone that were there
Speaker 1: club towns in ten fifteen, folsome. I remember it was
Speaker 1: in SCO. Recently, my friend Laurie, we drove by the
Speaker 1: End Up. If you're from San Francisco, you know you
Speaker 1: usually ended up at the end Up. There was Pleasure
Speaker 1: Dome in Colossus, and I mean he's huge.
Speaker 2: The Box.
Speaker 3: The Box was like my favorite and played house music.
Speaker 2: It was the bomb.
Speaker 1: And I remember the Box of San Francisco started at
Speaker 1: a place called the Independence in the Western edition and it.
Speaker 2: Was a small room.
Speaker 1: It was ten tiny. There was every Thursday page. Hodel
Speaker 1: lad knew her legendary DJ and then she got a
Speaker 1: new space over in the South of Market, which is
Speaker 1: a bigger area, and it was still it was still Thursdays,
Speaker 1: but it was huge.
Speaker 2: Room was huge.
Speaker 1: They had a small room for hip hop. We used
Speaker 1: always called the ghetto room lovingly, and we go back
Speaker 1: and forth. I just I just remember, and they actually
Speaker 1: have boxes you could dance on, and I remember I
Speaker 1: remember once I finally got on a box, and that
Speaker 1: was a big deal that I finally got on a box.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I got on there, and we
Speaker 1: would go out and dance, I mean until I closed.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: We danced for three up to think we got there
Speaker 1: at ten eleven twelve, one to four hours straight dancing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we drink, of course while we're there, but for
Speaker 1: me and my couple of friends that were big dancing people,
Speaker 1: we've sweat it out.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking about this once when I was
Speaker 2: talking to friends Sebashion. We were taught the other day.
Speaker 1: There were times I didn't go home drunk because first
Speaker 1: you were drinking the beginning, because you would get there,
Speaker 1: maybe the dance floor wasn't packed yet, and I to
Speaker 1: take got people on there, and you go on and
Speaker 1: we were just and you would so you'd have your drunks.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have a couple of drinks. I didn't down,
Speaker 1: so I didn't ever. I was there out there trying
Speaker 1: to get drunk. So I just would I just nice
Speaker 1: littleuzz So I would drink maybe one or two. We
Speaker 1: find our spot, wander around, so he was going to
Speaker 1: say hi to friends, you know, the whole thing. And
Speaker 1: then but when the dancing started, that was serious and
Speaker 1: I would always get down, get funking, get loose. I
Speaker 1: was out there and we would just dance for hours,
Speaker 1: and I was like, no wonder I was skinny. I
Speaker 1: was if I was going to have three nights a
Speaker 1: week to dance, four nights weeks to dance sometimes three hours.
Speaker 1: That's a great cardio workout. And then I would eat
Speaker 1: maybe at times simes. We would eat late sometimes but
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. We probably had all the calory burn off.
Speaker 1: I mean I would sometimes either dance floor drenched in sweat,
Speaker 1: like just drenched, drenched, drenched, and it was I'm spiking
Speaker 1: right now that I'm just right now, I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: There were times when I would leave.
Speaker 1: Drens a cigarette and smell drenched drench a cigarette drenched
Speaker 1: in in sweat and smell like cigarettes be in my
Speaker 1: hair and there.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I used to hate that as well, because I would
Speaker 3: go home take a shower right away.
Speaker 2: Of course, when I got home.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, I'm talking to you, guys, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of I'm being transported back to where my friends
Speaker 1: and I would always find a spot on the dance floor,
Speaker 1: an area where we have one because my girl Michelle
Speaker 1: always have a purse, so we have we have a
Speaker 1: spot in the dance floor and by thea where we
Speaker 1: have our drinks as we had table or something, a
Speaker 1: little area that's where we danced because I hate it
Speaker 1: being I hated bumping into people because I was serious.
Speaker 1: I was I was seriously a hard tack up by dancing,
Speaker 1: and I need a room, so I got space.
Speaker 2: So we would always be.
Speaker 1: In corners by walls, but in the middle of it
Speaker 1: things were happening around us.
Speaker 2: We also wanted people's watch.
Speaker 1: Also at the same time, there were several back then,
Speaker 1: there were several clubs and bars that would have videos
Speaker 1: and sometimes the video they have video bars with a
Speaker 1: videos were the music. Maybe they played it it was
Speaker 1: loud enough to speakers were great. So a lot of
Speaker 1: times I want to watch the videos. I got a
Speaker 1: chance to watch videos.
Speaker 3: So we always start say, stand by the videos.
Speaker 1: By by the videos. We're watching the videos. We're dancing,
Speaker 1: having a good time. Oh my god. I mean, I
Speaker 1: as I'm smiling about this because I don't know if
Speaker 1: kids today have this.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they have that anymore.
Speaker 1: I just know for me, as I think back on
Speaker 1: it and I'm smiling, I'm really the feeling of just
Speaker 1: feeling free. I felt free the latest remix came out,
Speaker 1: you know, or an artist I love that song I
Speaker 1: love so much finally comes on. Every time you go
Speaker 1: to the club, you're like, okay, why don't they play
Speaker 1: these three songs?
Speaker 2: I'll be good, all right.
Speaker 1: There are eighty three songs of the moment, and sometimes
Speaker 1: there was a huge hit song. They would always play
Speaker 1: it early in the night, but nobody was there, so
Speaker 1: you would hear it. Then they'd wait till midnight, the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. Because there were a lot of
Speaker 1: times there would start the out they that was like
Speaker 1: that was like everybody's there by now it's packed as fuck.
Speaker 1: That is your moment and they play it and you're
Speaker 1: on a dance floor and you've had a few drinks
Speaker 1: and you're just letting loose and you're getting down, and
Speaker 1: they played it again at the end, sometimes towards the end,
Speaker 1: or just mixed out or whatever. But when your song
Speaker 1: came on, it was everything.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it.
Speaker 1: Was just like And I also looked at when people
Speaker 1: because a lot of times I just stand on the
Speaker 1: dance floor. You go get drinks. I'll pay you whatever,
Speaker 1: I get money whatever they would or we start a
Speaker 1: tab wanted to when some songs were lesser known or
Speaker 1: not as popular the dance floor, and they had to
Speaker 1: because they had to make money making drinks.
Speaker 2: That's that's what they made money.
Speaker 1: Because I'm talking folks would drink like then they would
Speaker 1: go off and it'd.
Speaker 2: Be more rooms.
Speaker 1: I could still get I like every songs. I can
Speaker 1: still get down, have a good time, have conversations. That's
Speaker 1: when you talk and you can catch up and make
Speaker 1: it really get your space together, because they like I
Speaker 1: could yees ago it just I just I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: like totally smiling right now, like this was such, it
Speaker 1: was such a a good time.
Speaker 3: I liked clubs.
Speaker 1: I went to bars out of necessity most of the time,
Speaker 1: but I was always I was very much a club
Speaker 1: person or a lounge person. And my heyday was the eighties, nineties,
Speaker 1: two thousands. I had a mini resurgence when I got
Speaker 1: to after a TV and I was hanging out with
Speaker 1: my guy Cameron, and I feel the people. I was
Speaker 1: a mini resurgence. My brother Max was alive. There's many resurgents.
Speaker 2: Me and him. We would go.
Speaker 1: But see, then we started doing bars, and we were going.
Speaker 1: We were doing where we were. We'd be in West Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and then I had two worlds. I'd be in West
Speaker 1: Hollywood going to Mickey's, the Abbey Rage, all those, but
Speaker 1: also the other part of West Hollywood. We go to
Speaker 1: the Belmont. Oh my god, there's another bar next to
Speaker 1: We knew the owner of Belmont. Actually, I want the
Speaker 1: end of guy. There's another place over there to I'm looking.
Speaker 1: I'm just blinking out right now, and it is.
Speaker 3: And then we actually go up to Hollywood.
Speaker 1: It's like this next street up going up to Holly
Speaker 1: and hit the Vipe Room and all these other places
Speaker 1: and and and uh and go dancing again, dancing usually
Speaker 1: still I'm bloking out some of the hotspots back then
Speaker 1: and then the two thousands, but I had like a
Speaker 1: mini resurgence with that and uh, and then I was
Speaker 1: at and I was like, okay, I'm good. I got
Speaker 1: to think I got to age fifteen. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. And I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: it now as in James today. But I missed the
Speaker 1: old days and has younger James. And I'm sure many
Speaker 1: of you guys can relate to that. Any of you
Speaker 1: guys who party. I mean I partied for like forty
Speaker 1: years off and on my life. And I used to
Speaker 1: go visit other places, going to their bars and their clubs,
Speaker 1: see what they have going on. So I've done in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I've done in New York, done in Chicago, I've done I've.
Speaker 2: Done do Ohio.
Speaker 3: Do you remember we did Ohio?
Speaker 1: I did in uh Richard, Virginia, in Hartford, Connecticut's demor
Speaker 1: in Iowa. And I've done those. Think we just Seattle too.
Speaker 1: I'm actually I can't remember if we did see how Denver.
Speaker 1: Denver's a place we did Denver. Uh love my work
Speaker 1: trips in the two thousands, we go, we always try
Speaker 1: my and my my friend and I would always try
Speaker 1: to have at least a couple of times where we
Speaker 1: see the city. Cause one of the things when people
Speaker 1: some people don't understand is when you travel a lot
Speaker 1: of times you're just traveling, you don't see nothing. You're
Speaker 1: like hotel room, playing, hotel room, the whatever, whatever location,
Speaker 1: doing your stuff at that's I mean, that's it. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: there's more, there's more to that, there's more to there's
Speaker 1: more to life than just that.
Speaker 2: And so we we were always trying. We're always trying
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: These amazing locations that we may not get to see otherwise.
Speaker 1: So that was that was a that was a big
Speaker 1: deal for for us. We're like, no, we're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure we get to see some of these places and experience.
Speaker 2: So, you know, some of these things. So that was
Speaker 2: that was a that was a big a point for us.
Speaker 2: We were like, we're gonna we're gonna make sure we
Speaker 2: do that. Uh. And so we get so I actually
Speaker 2: get to see a lot of the.
Speaker 1: Cities that we used to go and do things with,
Speaker 1: which made different than just travel, travel, travel, I see anything.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good. So I experienced, you know, New York.
Speaker 1: I know that, I said, I'm the ninety nineties New York.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that whole scene, the tunnel and club.
Speaker 1: I would just go two thousand on Wednesday nights and
Speaker 1: and me just just just some oh my, got some
Speaker 1: more stuff. Because I look back on these things, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking specifically because I had several.
Speaker 2: Lives I've done.
Speaker 3: I mean I have, I've had several lives because I've also.
Speaker 1: Done there's that scene. But I've also done the rock
Speaker 1: scene and all that too. I've done both, and I
Speaker 1: have memories of of that too, going on and just
Speaker 1: oh yes, anyway, So just I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys out there, if you guys ever went partied or
Speaker 1: do anything on yourselves either, but if your gen X
Speaker 1: like me her fifty plus, every once while I think back,
Speaker 1: but it was if it was a good experience for you,
Speaker 1: think back and just kind of have a smile, have
Speaker 1: a laugh, kind of silliness the things, the things we wore,
Speaker 1: things we did, it's just it's it's fun.
Speaker 2: James I, Junior, thanks for reminiscing with me.
Speaker 1: And hearing a few of my My, My tame stories
Speaker 1: way back at fifty plus comes out every Tuesday. I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next time.
Speaker 2: Bye.