User talk:John.Hall.NYC

Greetings to those interested in any article I've edited and contributed over the years. My name is John Hall and I was the second resident DJ at Save The Robots. I'm also one of the many "protégés" of the late David Mancuso, founder and "spiritual godfather", if you will, of the most historically important and enduring model for throwing private dance-parties free of government interference and regulation. The list of people who have played records for, alongside, or "with the blessings" of David is short and distinguished: Douglas Sherman, Victor Rosado, François Kevorkian, Larry Levan, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, Edowa Shimizu, and there are a few others who shall eventually be added to a verified and updated list. I met David Mancuso during the time he was building out the East 4nth street location, but never got to attend a party until I had actually started working full time at Save The Robots AFTER their total upgrade to a valid and appropriate Certificate of Occupancy and an NYFD approved "second means of egress", which made the space "legal". Save the Robots is probably my most notable residency. Danny Gallagher and Chuck Crook were the first resident DJs, dating back to when the parties were informally happening in a "vintage items" store. Soon thereafter, the permanent location included a "fire-trap" basement dance-floor with NO second means of egress. I started working at Robots during the last two weekends before the first "big raid" in 1984. I was intimately involved with the club until I stopped working there around 1992. I'll be working on improving this article as time permits... and there's plenty to work on. Last week I did a major re-write of the article. Somebody subsequently did a nice job of editing and simplifying what I wrote, thank you very much. There's plenty more to do of course: for one thing, the wikipedia article for After_hours_club leaves much to be desired, IMO. At least in NYC (and possibly other American cites), "after-hours" has historically meant a club where liquor was served "after hours", either in a licensed bar that is discretely and illegal serving liquor past the licensing allowance, or, more frequently, serving liquor without any license at all. Drugs are a given of course... in my experience, most NYC after-hours clubs and spaces made both liquor and drugs easily available. The wikipedia article ignores this angle completely, as of the last time I looked at it a week ago. Ironically, the wikipedia speakeasy article is a bit more relevant, though that article really limits the definition to prohibition era premises as it's currently written. I would be more than happy to work with other writers on this and related articles, so those of you who are NOT, as we say in the business, "anonymous cowards", can reach my via www.discogs.com/user/SaveTheRobots.83-93. Thanks! John.Hall.NYC (talk) 01:51, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Loft (Kent)


The article The Loft (Kent) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Defunct nightclub which fails WP:GNG. No sources located on Google, GBooks, GNews, Highbeam, or Newspapers.com. Notability is not inherited from people who have played at a venue."

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Nomination of The Loft (Kent) for deletion
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