When disco collapsed and dance departments closed, did that affect clubs like the Saint?
The records must’ve stopped or slowed down. There definitely was a change, but the clubs I worked at, because they were the premium in the nation, weren’t affected as much. But definitely there was a change, and the biggest change was acquiring good hi-NRG dance music. There was a dry spell before England and Europe picked up the slack. That was when we started hunting through our collections and looking for things that had been passed over the first time around. You had to do a bit of digging. I found a lot of stuff that way. But also I was one of the first people to buy imports. I can’t tell you the name of it but there was a store out on Long Island. That was when I got the first copy of If You Could Read My Mind by Viola Wills and the first copy of the Canadian pressing of Hot Leather by the Passengers and the first copy of Hills Of Katmandu by Tantra. Then it started to become clear that there was a market and a demand, albeit limited, to a certain segment of the community. And of
