STAY THE COURSE……..

So it was June 1988 and I was finally done with Rich East High School and I was glad. Not that I  did not like Rich East but it was just most of my friends went to other schools including the only women I ever dated while I was in High School Colette Taylor, she went to Bloom. With that said I was a C student and with me giving up sports for music I basically gave up all the scholarships I had been offered and I could not get into school for radio because of my test scores. I was in Lincoln Mall in Matteson Illinois one afternoon and saw there was new record store opening up and they were looking for help. I filled out a application and about two days later a man by the name of John Swanson called me for a interview and I was hired the same day. I thought if I want to be a DJ it only makes since I work around music because working at Red Lobster or Pizza Hut was not going to get me closer to my goal. Record Town opened up and music was at a all time high. Bobby Brown was king and MC Hammer was the man and every kid wanted to see New Kids On The Block. John Swanson was my manager and he was a crazy Guns and Roses, Metallica metal head while I was a Chicago House dj who had a ear for hot rap ( NWA,PETE ROCK,EPMD,ECT). We had such a good relationship cause he taught me heavy metal and I taught him rap and to this day I have so many heavy metal groups in my music selection you would not believe it. After about a year John was transferred and I became manager at age 20 and that’s when I started playing and selling my own mixtapes out of my store. Tuesday was new release day and a young Def Jam representative named Chilly Q (whpk) was putting up posters for a new Slick Rick Cd when I gave him a copy of my latest mixtape. That weekend he called me and told me about a new club opening up called THE ULTIMATE located in Harvey and told me to come check it out and meet the owner who was looking for a hot DJ. I was introduced to the four African Armenian owners and it was Belige Falkner who gave me a chance to try out on Friday night. I showed up in my cross colors (haha) and about 4 creates of records that Friday and met the DJ who was spinning before I was to go on. His name was Jay Allen and I just remember him telling me he just played the song I was playing and nobody would dance and NOW the floor was packed and how did I do that. I did not know what to say I just said I just do my thing. At the end of the night I was hired and I would be playing Thursday through Saturday. So now I was running a record store and I was the top DJ in one of the hottest clubs in Chicago. I still have over 3000 picture’s from my days there. Now that I was in the club I knew it was time to make moves I found myself acting a fool. I was buying breakfast for 20 to 25 people after the club closed at Denny’s I was getting four to five hotel rooms across the street where I would take the after party. Drugs and Liquor was basically free and available whenever I wanted it, but good thing for me was my high was my music and sexy women so I did not fall victim to any substance abuse. I then became the host of exotic Tuesday where I would bring out on the stage there or four exotic dancers and when I say Tuesday was crazy I mean it was NUTS. I was in heaven. Ball players and artist like Arron Hall, SWV, R Kelly were always in the house. I was 21/22 and things were really starting to happen for me and I soon killed my Break-dance DJ name Vicious V and became DJ “V”. It was simple but everybody called me “V” anyway. As things snowballed I got a call one day about a radio job and you will never guess who it was…………TO BE CONTINUED

FRIDAY 2/27/09  1030 DISCO MIX   http://www.sendspace.com/file/gq2yy9

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