[Dynagroove] Another response to a question re: Solid Gold

[Cade O Nelson]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 amy at reelhouse.net wrote:

> Perhaps I did not choose my words carefully enough, in regard to hearing 
> "commercial" music at Solid Gold, or perhaps what I think I'm going to hear 
> isn't what I'm going to hear at all, because what I'm assuming you mean by 
> "commercial" isn't at all what "you" mean...

well the flier says "Nothing but solid gold house hits"  so you will be
listening to house.
 
> Cade said something about "cutting edge tracks".  I'm not really sure what he 
> means by that.  Does this mean that these so-called cutting edge tracks can 
> never enjoy commercial success?  Are "commercial" records necessarily 
> synonymous with "old" or "classic" records?  

No it means that the track is so new that is has yet to reach comercial
success.
 
> I can  tell you exactly what I would happy to pay that DJ for... MAKING ME 
> DANCE!!!  SO WHAT if "anybody" can buy those records... I could go out and buy 
> thse records and play them in my living room every day or listen to them on cd 
> in my car everywhere I go (which I do), but it's not quite the same thing as 
> cutting loose to them on a dancefloor surrounded by thumping bass, now is it?

For me if I hear the same records every time I go out even if they are
hits it still gets redundant and boring.  The idea of doing a nothing but
hits party once/twice a year is to bring the nostalgia back.  But if we
are doing it every week it will just become old.  
 
> I agree with Cade that it would suck to hear someone play the same old "retro" 
> sets all the time, but that kind of set wasn't what I was referring to as 
> "commercial"  in my original post.  I used that word simply to refer to the 
> kinds of records that seem to make everyone dance, which are often called 
> "commercial" in a generally negative sense.  
> 
> Semantics obvioulsy play a large role in anyone's position in this situation.  
> I'm especially curious now about exactly what I'll be hearing this weekend.
> 
> If I can expect a "retro" set, then I am even more excited than I was before!  
> Someone had referred to "dressing up" previously, and if we'll be getting a 
> retro set, then I think we should make it especially nostalgic and bust out the 
> old party gear...i.e. circa 1995...I'm dying to unretire my XXXL Polo shirts...


I have only been buying records from 97 - 98 so my hits will be from then
to the present.  Yes I know the flier portrays 80's but it is the concept
that we were trying to accentuate.  

Cade