About Me
I am a Dj who started in 1977 doing weddings parties and playing top 40. Met a friend BT who turned me on to alternative music and soon stopped listening to all that commercial crap. In 1984 local College radio station WCNI 91.1 needed community members to do shows for the summer. I was one of the first community members to broadcast that summer and started the First Blues show called "Ground Zero Blues", and then changed to "The Blues Train". It soon was the best show, six of ten years I hosted. (Based on donations to the show). 1984- 1991 my DJing focused on Blues Festivals, clubs and large biker parties. In 1990 I and a NYC kid Rob attended the Limelite NYC and heard a new music (to me that is) Techno. Unknown that I would later spin in a back room, 1996. The lights lasers and thumpin sound was unbelievable. Not to mention the crazy Club Kids and the blatant sex in the club. Club Roxy had a trapeze swing over the dance floor and two would face each other and F***! This was another Planet for a country kid like me. I bought a couple of minimal tribal records and taught myself how to beatmatch. In 1992 I met Dietrich Schoenemann and Mr. Trash at a club in Hartford for a weekly house night. I was asked to promote for the event and soon became friends with one of NYC's upcoming great Producers, Dietrich. Through Dietrich I had been introduced to the greatest DJ's and Producers in the scene. I attended my first rave in Nashua N.H in 1992 with my friend Spencer, hosted by the NEAW crew the "New England Acid works". I danced, rock N Rolled all night long. This was the greatest scene I have ever been part of. I was hooked on parties. Back at the radio station I wanted to spin Techno and the board of directors said that belongs in the club. In 1994 there were five blues shows so I started "Rave of the Phuture", replacing "The Blues Train". That was the end of the blues for me! I basically learned how to spin live on the air bending a few eardrums with the basketball trainwrecks!
In the same year I realized that there were not many sound companies that would set up and engineer sound for Raves. Parties were up to 24 hours with set up & breakdown. Sound companies were used to club hours 9-2am. I bought four moving lights, a bangin sound system and started a monthly fanzine called Phuture. The fanzine lasted about eight issues before we could not afford the cost of publication. The lights and sound however was in demand. Along the way a few kids asked to be part of Phuture. As we grew in name, the Phuture crew became a little family. Through this Family I made some of my best friends today. Dan G. T-bone, Salad, Natedogg, Spencer, Randy, Tom, Dan S., Mike Kiraly, Jove, and many more through the years. Girls would always ask why I had all the cutest boys in my crew. I told them it was a requirement! Ha Ha. By 1995 we were doing most of parties in New England with partner Keith Troutdale’s, 50,000 watt EV, along with Phuture's 12 moving lights, lasers, strobes, , 10,000 watt Peavey a 2500 watt system and 5 dj's. (Sadly Keith Trousdale passed away in 2004 RIP Big Daddy Keith).We also started a weekly at the EnGee club in New London on Sunday nights called Rave of the Phuture attracting up to 300 Party kids a week. Some of the best DJ's and Producers have graced the stage of Phuture's weekly and parties. Christian Vogel, Nostrum, Prototype 909, Joey Beltram, Doc Martin, Onionz, Heather Heart, Frankie Bones, Soul Slinger, Reade Truth, Vemom, Deepsky, Dietrich Shoenman, Abe Kirlian, Prozak, DJ Hell, Dutch, E.B.S(Musical & visuals artist with U2 Zoo TV tour) just to name a few. I was fortunate to have spun with these great artist at Phuture events. In 1998 Paul Brown joined Phuture with his 100,000+ watt TurboSound system and have gone as far from the Canadian boarder to the WMC in Miami.Well as we all know the Government stepped up the rhetoric about raves and soon most were sent to the clubs. Phuture still has all the equipment and has done a few Festivals and selected events. The Radio show "Rave of the Phuture, 13yrs and counting" continues weekly on Fridays 2-5pm on WHUS 91.7 live streaming at www.whus.org. My selections range from Downtempo to Hard House including NU-JAZZ NU-SOUL, new and Old school breaks and every week I change up genres. You can tune in at www.whus.org Fridays 3-5pm drive time with continuous live mixes and no commercials.All the nice people in my friends list are truly friends, either in the past or present. My friend list are people
who have made a part of my life special in their own way. Shouts to all the old skool peeps, Lets have a PARTY.
