SFDPS

From the Alan Harris/12 West nightclub archives. Special thanks to Alan Harris for another awesome reel to digitize, remaster, and preserve!

ALAN HARRIS WROTE:

Recorded live New Years Eve Sunday, December 31, 1978 'till Monday, January 1, 1979. Tape 1 of 2. The midnight production was exceptional, and I know you will appreciate it. Listen carefully, it took many hours of rehearsing and planning for the 1800 people who attended.

From the Alan Harris/12 West tape archives. Another GREAT mix from Disco DJ Jim Burgess! A 6 hour and 20 minute mix of the entire night! Extra Special thanks, once again, to Alan Harris for access to these awesome, rare recordings!

Alan Harris wrote:

Recorded live Saturday night August 20, 1977. Jim decided to do a specail evening and call the night "Let's Turn On". I believe you will enjoy as did the 1500 who attended.

Further info about Jim Burgess available here....

https://www.discogs.com/artist/88963-Jim-Burgess

Recorded live at the Trocadero Transfer in San Francisco. I posted this in the past, but it was a direct transfer from the reel-to-reel tape. This version has new EQ, and all levels have been leveled out between songs. From the Rod Roderick tape archives.

From the Alan Harris / 12 West tape archives.

Alan wrote: Recorded live Saturday night, May 5, 1979. This evening was extra special and was the "Rhinestone Cowboy" party that was attended by over 2200 people. Most members and guests wore something cowboy or Indian. There is a very specail moment where Alan overlays Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy over Gino Soccio's "Dancer", a brilliant execution.

From, the Jimmy DePre tape archives. This was recorded live at the closing night of The Ice Palace in Cherry Grove, Fire Island.

From the Alan Harris / 12 West tape archives. Recorded live at 12 West nightclub, in New York. Special thanks to Robbie Leslie for permission to post this mix!

From the Alan Harris / 12 West tape archives.

Jim was a classical trained tenor and opera lover who turned into one of the hottest DJ's and Remixers of the Disco era, ruling the dance floors of New York City clubs such as Infinity, 12 West, the Saint, Underground, Studio 54 and many others, but choose to retire in 1981 at the age of 28.

More Jim Burgess info available here: http://www.disco-disco.com/djs/jim.shtml

DJ Jimmy Stuard was was a rising star in New York City. He had made the move to NY under the recommendation of Billboard Magazine's Barry Lederer in 1976.

Stuard was originally from Oklahoma, and moved to Boston to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Like many others (Arthur Baker, Tom Moulton, Maurice Starr, Michael Jonzun, John Luongo, etc.), he emerged from the fertile Boston scene before relocating to NY. Boston disco fans will remember him as an early DJ at the club 1270, and in both cities his influence and technique as a DJ is still famed. His only record work was mixing the US version of "Sessomatto," the first release on West End Records.

From the Michael Lee tape archives. This tape was recorded live at The Mind Shaft in San Francisco. I was able to salvage most of the recording, minus the last 42 minutes of Side B. The recording was on Scotch brand reel-to-reel tape. This brand of tape is notorious for sticky shed syndrome. This is where the tape becomes sticky and binding starts to fall apart and clog the tape machine heads. "Baking" the tape is a process of drying the tape out in a food dehydrator, to try and restore the binding to it's original state, to be able to to try and digitize it. Usually this process only takes 2 hours in the dehydrator. This tape took 6 hours in the dehydrator, and it was still clogging the heads on the tape machine.

From the Alan Harris mixtape archives. Extra special thanks to Alan for access to his tape archives. Alan was 1 of 3 owners of 12 West. This tape was recorded live at 12 West nightclub in New York, on a Saturday night. This was the sound of NY nightlife in 1979.