Paradise Garage

One, two, three, four.

party people we gotta keep this thing going you know like the way we used to do it everybody was freaking people from all over the world you know like the way we used to do it in the paradise garage Keep this thing

going.

You know, like the way we used to do it.

People from all over the world.

You know, like the way we used to do it.

In the Paradise Garage.

She the last one to throw a punch See her by herself, she laid back, ain't actin' tough Get her with her feet, she the main one Gettin' booked, bitches talkin' shit Actin' like they can't be touched When it's time to fight, she the last one to throw a punch See her by herself, she laid back, ain't actin' tough Get her with her feet, she the main one Gettin' booked, bitches talkin' shit Actin' like they can't be touched We'll see you next time.

Freestyle music and hip-hop was really big.

But Manhattan had clubs like Paradise Garage, which I used to go to, The Loft.

So I would go see Larry Levan at Paradise Garage, Dave Mancuso over at The Loft.

There would be Jellybean Benitez and was playing at the, wow, the name just went out of my head.

Not Danceteria.

This last season of the podcast, I interviewed Louis and I also interviewed Danny Tanaglia.

Yeah.

And they were both telling me loads of stories about Paradise Garage and Lifeline.

You know like the way we used to do it.

In the Paradise Garage.

Everybody was freakin' [laughs].

People, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people from all over the world.

You know like the way we used to do it.

People, people, people, people, people, people from all over the world.

Everybody was freakin' in the Paradise Garage.

Everybody was freakin' in the Paradise Garage.

Like an opening montage kind of thing.

And there was a great DJ named Larry Levan who was sort of, who was presided over this great disco in the 70s and 80s called Paradise Garage.

And he would use this song sometimes at the beginning of a set to sort of like tenderize people, get them ready.

Yeah.

Larry, yeah.

Paradise Garage.

He sat sound, didn't he? He hammered it, and presumably in an instrumental.

One of those Escape from Newton or Escape to New Yorks, I could imagine that working as well.

You know, like the way we used to do it.

Yo party people we gotta keep this thing going You know like the way we used to do Everybody was freaking People from all over the world You know like the way we used to do In the paradise garage People from all over the world Yo party people we gotta keep this thing going You know like the way we used to do it Everybody was freaking People from all over the world You know like the way we used to do it In the paradise garage

One night I had a vision of a disco in the sky I saw angels and saints dancing together Like a mystical dream it clouded my mind But I remembered to move, I remembered that groove I remembered the thump of the bass and the pump of the kick Because my heart was almost out my body And I felt free, I felt joy I felt things I never thought I'd feel because they flickered like strobes and everybody loved everybody else.

I must have went to House Helen because nothing's that divine.

Singer Lady Miss Keir, real name Kieran Magenta Kirby, and her partner Dimitri Brill were already well-known faces on the New York club scene.

Keir was herself a sort of spiritual predecessor to Lady Gaga, a larger-than-life character in zipped-up 60s-style catsuits, platform shoes and extravagant beehive hairdos, while Dimitri was an in-demand DJ at clubs such as Dance Eteria, Paradise Garage and Pyramid.

Keir would accompany him to most gigs.

"'We were out at least five nights a week,' she told DJ Magazine." him in the DJ booth and myself on his dance floor.

We had a really big club hit called, we had actually two, Don't Make Me Wait and Life is Something Special.

And those were huge records for the Paradise Garage and just New York City in general.

And I think I had those two things that I had done.

And I think I had also worked on the Material One Down album with Michael Beinhorn and Bill Oswalt.

No way.

Dennis is in the show because Dennis designed the Paradise Garage logo.

Oh my gosh, Dennis Wonderland.

Look at that.

Yes.

Yes, exactly.

And so he was in the show, and the Paradise Garage logo is used everywhere.

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