tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post788097677176285848..comments2024-02-23T18:09:21.909-05:00Comments on Disco Delivery: Funkytown, MontrealTommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01631387187116034184noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-82090330516626274862011-01-27T22:42:16.114-05:002011-01-27T22:42:16.114-05:00Premier tomorrow. Can't wait! I've been wr...Premier tomorrow. Can't wait! I've been writing about it in my blog, and I linked to yours. Thanks Tommy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-41070828466399360522011-01-25T23:33:24.684-05:002011-01-25T23:33:24.684-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-85628486247974160312011-01-06T18:39:53.331-05:002011-01-06T18:39:53.331-05:00this is really great stuff. thanks for posting. gl...this is really great stuff. thanks for posting. glad i found your blog.Spencer Lordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10495527578127990636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-25685020326130521762011-01-02T02:57:49.151-05:002011-01-02T02:57:49.151-05:00Nice website but I think it should be noted that K...Nice website but I think it should be noted that Kim has her facts all wrong about the October crisis of 1970. There were 2 kidnappings not one as she states. Pierre Laporte was murdered by his FLQ captors while in their custody. He did not die in a hospital of injuries gotten while trying to escape. Kim should get the facts right before writing them on a website.<br /><br />As far as the era, it truly was a special time which i was fortunate to have been a part of working as a DJ in clubs such as The Hariquin, Altitheque 727, Don Jauns, Harlows, Septembers and Studio 55. <br /><br /> The truly special people of the era were the DJ's of including Robert Ouimet, Michel Simard, Louis Georges Cazabon, George C, Grant Magregor, Norman Neuschild...the list goes on and on. Montreal was the birthpace of using studio mixing boards in clubs and were known to the recording industry as a power to break new artist and records and make them hits. It truly was a special time in what was then a very special city.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03337961977230760987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-25065072933292055952010-09-15T00:49:37.071-04:002010-09-15T00:49:37.071-04:00Hey Tommy, you have a very interesting website and...Hey Tommy, you have a very interesting website and I have to agree with you that very little has been documented about the disco scene here in Montreal in the late 70's; I would go further and say that a film involving the 70`s disco scene anywhere in the world has yet to be created (and I am including Saturday Night Fever which was a good movie but, in my mind, only peripherally about the true disco scene). Perhaps I am deluding myself but having been there (in fact, I am the first voice you hear after Patti Schmidt on the CBC documentary and later during the program I describe the Limelight - although they cut they interview in such a way that it sounds like I am describing Le Jardin instead), and having been a constant habitue of almost all of Montreal`s gay and straight disco`s from 1976 onwards (Maxwell`s, Limelight (SuperLime as the third floor was called), Le Jardin, Oz, Regine`s (it lasted about three nights), Le Tube, Harlequin, Reflexions, PJ`s, Hollywood, Kathryn333, Studio 1 (later The Beat), Glass, Garage, Jilly`s, Baccarat, 1234, Harlow, Camouflage, Business, and so on - the list of clubs was truly endless and the epicenter in 1977 was Stanley Street)I believe that disco music and the disco scene were about happiness, freedom, individualism and the abandoning of self to the beat; and, of course, a lot about humour and the enjoyment of life. I certainly hope that Funkytown the film captures at least a little of that.Disco77https://www.blogger.com/profile/07422385583297314907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-75222637548218458162009-11-08T22:53:02.910-05:002009-11-08T22:53:02.910-05:00Hey Tommy, a little off topic, but...
You may rem...Hey Tommy, a little off topic, but...<br /><br />You may remember a couple years ago I dropped you a note in my ongoing quest to find the disco song in the gay porn flick "LA Tool & Die." I'm thrilled to report I finally found it, even though writing to Joe Gage himself got me a wrong answer. The song in question turns out to be "Baby I Love You" from Easy Going, an italo-disco act ca. 1978. So if you ever get another errant inquiry you now have the answer.<br /><br />Anyway, I continue to enjoy your blog. Keep up the great work.ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-75415484343907532992009-10-26T13:53:31.811-04:002009-10-26T13:53:31.811-04:00Tommy...You should write that book! I can't im...Tommy...You should write that book! I can't imagine how anyone else could do a better job than you.<br /><br />About that Funkytown movie...From what I've read, I'm preparing for another parodic version of that era, with the same mainstream songs we hear all the time. Hope I'm proven wrong, though!Charlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-50875454228522362242009-10-22T09:37:31.902-04:002009-10-22T09:37:31.902-04:00Hey Kris,
I always have you in mind when I think...Hey Kris, <br /><br />I always have you in mind when I think of Montreal disco, I oughta click to you more often.. I had no idea about the upcoming movie though! That's interesting news. Perhaps the name of this doc was a tie-in to that.. Will be interesting to see how or if the movie brings some newfound interest. I'd personally like to see someone write a book about it one of these days. Thanks for the comment, as always :) <br /><br />Kim Vincent,<br />Apologies for posting that error. I cut and pasted the portion of blockquoted text from the Radio 2 blog. Should have caught that earlier - perhaps if I read a little more carefully and brushed up a bit on my own history first. Most of the FLQ's activities had occurred pre-1970, so I'll edit that out.Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01631387187116034184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-65263180619327332292009-10-22T08:58:29.562-04:002009-10-22T08:58:29.562-04:00Yes it was a fabulous time and well worth a movie....Yes it was a fabulous time and well worth a movie. I must catch you on the historical error that is often cited in this flippant manner that ''Early 1970’s Montreal was chaotic: bombs went off, people were kidnapped and killed, the War Measures Act was put into effect and the English-French conflict had escalated to what many felt was the precipice of a full on revolution.''<br />There was only one kidnapping in October 1970 and that same person died in hospital after his release from injuries trying to escape. It is not right to casually claim otherwise. <br /><br />The Limelight was a blast I concur but it was not a bomb. A couple of cherry bombs in mailboxes are hardly bombs going off.<br /><br />Let's keep it real, shall we ?Kim Vincentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-50075511568313958772009-10-21T11:42:00.910-04:002009-10-21T11:42:00.910-04:00Interesting indeed. And you know my friend - that ...Interesting indeed. And you know my friend - that if you need additional info on any of these artists - I'm only a click away !!!<br /><br />I've been meaning to gather all the information I have on the shooting of the new FUNKYTOWN movie in Montreal.Tidbits of info have been leaking out - from the soundtrack collaborators (new local artists trying to recreate "the" disco sound of the 70's) to the actual shooting locations.<br /><br />I can't wait to see this movie...Kristofer Davidnoreply@blogger.com