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Larry Tee - Interview

Sworn To Fun, Loyal To None.

The Andy Warhol of Dance Music speaks exclusively to DMC...

Hey Larry. So the album Club Badd has gone spiraling through the roof and you have two new releases about to hit the dancefloor...but we'll come them later.

You were born in Seattle, Washington where you lived with your two Canadian born parents before moving to Marietta in the heart of Cobb County, Georgia. What sounds were you into back then, you were hanging out with REM back then?

"Yes at the time as Michael Stipe from REM was a fan of The FANS which was a band I was in. The Fans were very dark and into the Velvet Undeground and John Cale but I tried to turn them onto DISCO...and I remember Michael Stipe NOT liking Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel...um? Who couldn't like that? it was almost a friendship buster. I used to get all the Disco 12" for 25 cents each so I had every current 12" at the time and would dance around the house all day to them, and then I went on and bought every rap record too..."

I can't imagine you were hanging around The Big Chicken diner every night in Marietta, did you cut your disco shoes over in Atlanta to kick off this unbelievable music career? What sort of artists were you listening to in the club's?

"Well, when I first started going to the disco called BIG DADDYS, it was pre-disco and they played things like funky dance music like 'Hot Stuff' by the Rolling Stones, lots of CAMEO, Mother's FInest and southern rock dance tracks like 'Hair of the Dog' by Nazareth. But when KC and the Sunshine Band rolled in, that's all anyone would dance to at the time...it was so radically different than anything that had come before...and then GAY disco and CHIC arrived and the whole world wanted to dance..."

2010/04/23

BLOW INTERVIEW IN NOTION MAGAZINE

2010/04/12

LARRY TEE (BLOW RESIDENT DJ)

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