When the Garage opened with the construction parties did it eat into what the Loft was doing?
I wasn’t going out quite as much for a while. I wasn’t all that tuned into what was going on. But there were enough places that siphoned off typical Loft-goers, but David would have this hardcore crowd. He had a crowd that always went there. But he lost some of that to other places, which were newer, crazier. One thing I wanted to mention; I was thinking about some promoter friends. The thing that interested me a lot while I was at Record World and when disco promotion really took off. In ’74, ’75, I guess. It was the first time that a lot of gay people were working in the record business, which had always always been a very very traditional, straight business. I was working at CBS Records in ’69, it was a period of what they called the House Hippie, where there’d be one or two people who would work at a label who could plug them into what kids were really listening to. So there’d be some long-haired guy working at the record label who would be their hippie. When disco came, they knew
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