WEBVTT - Daniel Glass 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.000 Danny Glass needs no introductions, Well, will give him no introduction. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.239 So you were a DJ at regimes? How did that 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.680 come together? How do they get the job at regimes? 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.480 Start from the beginning, because some people may not even 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:23.919 know what regimes was. Explain regimes, so regime. It's a 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:31.520 Holocaust survivor who creates the most important discotheque in the 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:39.120 world in Paris. And from this incredibly hard upbringing, she 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.560 creates an atmosphere where the where the world comes together 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:49.519 of royalty wealth, jets set, truly jets set and figured 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.280 everything out of what people how they want to be 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:59.080 uh uh wined and dined. And the more money she charged, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.800 the better they did at this discotheque in in in Paris. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.520 That same set moved to your stad they would move 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.120 to today today you call him Aspen and Hampton's, but 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.760 it's a different jets set in those days. So I'm 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.920 in college at Brooklyn College and working a few jobs 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.160 and luncheonette as a short order cook, soda jerk from 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:30.560 my uncle. But I was deejaying and I was working 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.319 as a publisher also, And the woman who I worked 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.520 for was a very wealthy woman. She owned palisades of 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.640 amusement park and she her husband passed away. She also 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.840 wrote the theme song Palisades. Has wrote she was a 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.200 songwriter because that's what I think of. She wrote that 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.960 song Freddie Cannon and she no, no, that's two. There's 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.600 two Palisades. The commercials she wrote that's this too. She 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.480 also wrote you can trust your car with the Man 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.560 who Wears the Star. She also wrote a standard torch 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.320 song called how did He Look, which was recorded when 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.880 I was there dred and thirty times by the greatest 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:16.440 singers of all time. So she records this disco record 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.520 of a song that we had in our catalog, and 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.519 she says, you have to bring it two Regime's it's 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.520 opening up. And I had read about it and the 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.600 Liz Smith wrote about and a few other people. So 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.800 in between college and different things, I go to the 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:34.560 club and nobody is speaking English. The manager was Italian 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:40.800 pepo Vinini, and her sister Evelyn was there and said, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.160 sit down, sit down. I thought, I'm just there to 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.360 meet the DJ. For some reason, they're confused. They think 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.560 I'm there to audition for the DJ. So I stayed, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.760 I have the twelve inches with me ready, and they 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.440 bring me downstairs and the club is unbelievable. It's opening 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.360 in two days. The club and they give me meal 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.480 voucher tickets for shrafts because I'm not gonna be able 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.240 to eat with the rest of the help. I'm not 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.400 eligible yet. I haven't earned a yet to sit at 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.920 the table. I have no idea what's going on, and 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.040 I just keep going with it. Long story short, I 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.240 become the opening night DJ with Jonathan the opening night 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.280 opening night DJ with Jonah Tuck Garvalia because he has 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.840 spoke no English and I did the American music. He 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.000 did the rest of the world music, which really opened 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.440 up my ears and eyes to international music, which is 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.200 why I think Last Note is such an international label 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.760 because of really what happened at Regime's was at fifty 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.120 nine in Park. UM I never strayed from there. By 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.520 the way, my entire career has been in three blocks 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.440 of that time, whether it was Chrysalis, S P K, 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.680 Glass Note, I think my entire career has been between 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.800 sixty one and fifty ninth Street Park in Madison, and 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.920 sing Time, UM, A and M was there. But going 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.760 back to Regime's, it was a magical time each night 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.920 Grace Kelly would come. Next night, Elizabeth Taylor would come 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.720 and and I became a source of information for the 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.559 for the what in those days, you know the page 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.320 six of today. I legitimately became the source of who 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.800 was there. And I learned so much about music. And 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.200 then they'll get paid for being a source. I got 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.279 paid a lot of money to be a DJ, and 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.599 I'm still in college. I got paid money. One of 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.080 the great scenes that Regime's was she saw somebody giving 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.520 me a tip. They give me ten dollars to play 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.320 a song, and I said, I'll get to it. I'll 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.640 get to it. She took the money, she threw it. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.320 You never ever play anything for less than a hundred hours. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.279 This is this is the late seventies. Then I made 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.359 a cassette for fifty dollars for somebody. She took the 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.599 cassette and she threw the cassette. She said, a hundred 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.159 and fifty dollars for a cassette. I was playing the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.520 music anyway. All it was taping is what was playing. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.800 So I learned a lot about what how people wanted 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.479 to be treated, and then how they want. Bottle service 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.640 started there. The whole concept of bottles owning a bottle 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.479 and some of the bottles were watered down. But that's 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.160 a that's another good story. But that's um so many, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.279 so many lessons in that getting that job. And she 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.360 was thrilled my boss and it said something about showing up. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.120 So I stayed there for about a year, a year 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.080 and a half maybe more, and that led to another 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:38.159 DJ job. So but Regime's was the place. Um, it 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.880 was the suit and HiPE place, answered the studio fifty 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.960 four and very hard to get in, very very expensive. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.400 So we went to a restaurant last fall, one of 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.039 the exclusive lunch places, and we got the best table 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.440 in the joint because you said, the major d you 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:01.080 knew or the owner you knew from Regimes. So the 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:06.000 owner was a bus boy. Really yeah, and now he 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.320 owns the coolest bistro in New York. So we go 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.479 back to those days. Yeah, and the bistro's name for 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.880 the audience, we're I'm there three or four days a 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.120 week and the Philippe created you probably read about it 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.120 because Michael Cohen is there three days a week, and 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.880 if he's not there, the other lawyer, Stormy Daniels, Michael 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.760 whatever with a v Avanati. He's there. So this is 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.479 what's going on around our block. Every single day, the 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.640 two Avanati and Cohen, they go to three restaurants. They 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.680 go to Fred's, they go to Bill Bok, and they 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.720 go to Logo Lou and they have coffee at sant Ambrose, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:44.240 torturing each other every day. Okay, so you grew up 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.760 in Brooklyn. Is there music in the house in Brooklyn? 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.760 There's a lot of theater, There's a lot of films, 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.640 is a lot of soundtracks. There's w traction mean like 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.120 the original Broadway gas. My parents took us to Broadway, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.320 went to the city, um many times a year to 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.640 see you know, West Side Story or King and I 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.480 My Fair Lady. But the West Side Story was the 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.480 first musical I ever saw and changed my life. Um, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:15.840 the violence, the the you know, the Hell's Kitchen, the soundtrack. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.920 I'd never heard a song as as beautiful as Somewhere 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.640 and I was a young boy. And then we saw 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.160 the other ones and they really worked great. And we 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.680 went to the House of Chan afterwards for Chinese food 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.280 on Sunday. Um. But it was extraordinary to go to 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.520 the city and that that was going to the city. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.960 The only time we went to the city was the 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.680 theater um. How about when you were a teenager, would 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.560 you go into the city as we used to see 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.520 in the sixties, duck around? I only I was sixteen. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.240 I got into college very early. Eskipped a couple of times, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.360 and I got into college rather early. So it's sixteen. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.320 I think I'm already a freshman or sophomore. And my 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.680 friend told me about a club on the what what 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.320 they called Lower east Side now we I don't not 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.280 sure what are you we call it in those days. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.520 It was on First Avenue in second Street, and it 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.160 was called Club eight two. And he went and he said, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.960 you have and you said, you have to see this. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.520 You have to hear it. You have to see the 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.600 whole thing. I said, what happened. What happened is I 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.080 can't explain it. So I went. This was a transvesti club. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.160 And you walk down the stairs and you see posters 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:33.439 of David Bowie, the Stones, Uh, David Johansson, all in drag, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.959 and you get greeted by I didn't know it was 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.679 a woman. I thought it was I thought it was 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.920 a man. And they greet you and you had to 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.360 wear they wanted the men to wear tight pants and 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.240 high heels. And um, it wasn't a gay club. It 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.920 was a club just to have a great time. And 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.840 it was the first time I saw a guy playing 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.640 two turntables and and all I did was I just 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.920 stayed with him. I just stayed watching him. His name 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:03.440 was Tony Mansfield and he would come back from Paris 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.440 and from London. We got friendly, bringing these seven inch 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.880 records and playing them and he had a headphone on 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.160 one year and he was doing this back and forth 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.280 and it it made me crazy about music and about 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.080 being and watching the dance floor and those days, people 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.000 didn't care if you sat down, you got up and uh. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.480 But that was the first time I went to the 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.640 city without my parents, and my best friend took me 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.400 to these clubs. And then these clubs gave birth to 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.920 other clubs. It was Dan and and many many clubs 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.320 we went to to hear music and it was great. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.680 And the first time I ever saw of producers coming 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.600 to clubs. I used to go to the DJ booth. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.200 So I became known in a few of these clubs 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.400 just a kid look like to hear music. And I 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.920 used to say that this guy Bobby at Infinity or 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.240 J Dan. I said, who's that? Who's that? This guy 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.120 produced this record? It was like Sandy linds Er, you know, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.959 people like that, or those Bob Gordio got kind of 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.720 guys would come in to the gay clubs and play 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.559 the music. And then I saw what I guess what 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.720 major label people coming in. And then the greatest thrill 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.400 was when this very very overweight black guy came in 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.600 and it was Verry White and he wanted to hear 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.840 the records. He wanted to test the records, which is 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.240 why White. No, I didn't talk to I didn't kind 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.480 of know who he was. His voice was great. It 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.840 was a big man, and it was the it was 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.200 the Love's theme. There was no there was no there 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.240 was no vocal theme song from Love Unlimited, right, And 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.120 he had all these and every time we the D 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.520 two would places, I got more had a whole stable 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.760 because he had I think the three Degrees might have 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.640 been or what was the name of the women that's 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.559 saying I forget Love Unlimited orchestra, But he was in 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.560 Love Unlimited. So he used to go there. And I 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.720 always tell the artist that we signed a glass note 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.320 to play the music for the audience first, which is 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.880 counterintuitive to a lot of my competiti ds. With my peers, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.760 you know, they want to keep the security. I said, 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.640 play include the audience tested, play it early. Mumford and 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.920 Son is a great example of an artist that always 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.000 plays the music early. And I remember they were playing 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.880 with you two last year and they were playing music 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.200 that I'm just hearing now being recorded. So my first 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.800 trip to Minneapolis, I saw this five ft three guy 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.400 go into the booth and you know who that was, 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.520 And he went in and tested his music. And I 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.960 went to Atlanta. The same thing happened in Atlanta. In 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.720 Miami Beach, producers would do that the t K Gang 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.400 l A, which is very late to disco and dance. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.840 In San Francisco, you'd see Sylvester, you'd see Patrick Cowley, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.280 you see people in in l A. The Casablanca Records 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.440 crew would come in. Okay, So when do you decide 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.480 you want to be in the music business. M hmm. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:55.559 That was controversial. So I'm in college and I'm cruising 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.239 towards becoming a pediatrician. That was the Jewish thing. You're 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.200 a doctor, you already knew you're gonna be a specialized 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.400 be a pediatrician. I wanted to be a pediatrician because 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.840 I loved pediatrician. He was very nice and I wanted 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:14.400 to be him. So the djaying thing got to me 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.199 and working at the college radio station similar to Rob, 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.280 he did it earlier than he did it in high school, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.960 and I got hooked. The easiest conversation with with my parents, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.000 who are very supportive. They said, do whatever you want. Um. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.720 The only problem with my parents was to to this 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.840 day my mother still thinks I'm a dj um and 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.560 she always say, are you going out tonight? Are you 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.120 working tonight? She still asked me that are you Are 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.439 you working tonight? Uh? But that was the easy one. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.079 The hard one was going into the dean or student advice. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.880 I've got what the name of the people at Brooklyn 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.080 College were to explain in my junior year that I 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:57.240 want to change. And I finally found a woman who 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.280 was very supportive, and she said, you've got to go 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.560 into a theater class, and you've got to take some 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.400 humanities and you've got to study Marshall McLuhan. I said, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.280 who's that. She said, Oh, he's he's the guru he's 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.480 in charge. He's the whole, He's the whole universe of media, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:17.080 communication and messaging. So I switched. Um, I gave up 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.200 stuff I loved. I love the Bunsen Burner, I love 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.319 the lab techniques, I love the emergency room of the hospital. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.360 And I you know it was for me. It was 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.040 at Einstein or Downstate Medical Center where they was gonna 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.360 go and m but it was easy. Um. Once I 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.320 got into that groove of of doing it, then I 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.360 really I went to I went to college. I checked in. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.840 I just went to class, but I was not there. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.640 I physically checked out, well mentally checked that I should 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.680 say in my second half of junior year. But I 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.720 wanted to finish. I had to finish that. I owed 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.679 my parents, and I wound up. One of the things 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.720 you said to me, in which I repeat all the time. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.400 You have the first SPK Records convention in the desert, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.920 and you see three things you need to work at 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.160 SPK Records, And I'm not going to say them in 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.280 the order you said said, you have to really want 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.280 to work at SPK records, you have to work retail 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.160 because that's where the transaction actually happens, where people pay 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.040 their money. And you say you have to graduate from college. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.280 And I cornered you later in the hotel and I said, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.960 in college, have been the first thing you mentioned. I say, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.720 you know, I went to college, okay, and I graduated. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.320 But you know, this is business where people didn't go 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.040 to college. And you say, I said, why do you 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.440 have to go to college? You say, oh, you don't 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.960 learn anything in college, but it proves that you can 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:40.920 complete something. Yeah, it's some. It really bothers me. How 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.320 many people do not finish a book, a movie, a newspaper, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.880 do not wait till the closing credits. We're in the 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.720 music industry and I'm always asking people. I called this 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.720 guy from Downtown Music recently. His name is Justin Ollifouit's 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.920 to tell him how how great he did in a 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.440 movie because I saw he licensed all these songs he was. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.920 I think he was prize that I stayed till the credits. Um. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.240 I think it's a really bad trade and attribute of 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.440 our business that people do not finish the job. It 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.040 takes a long long time to finish, and it's not 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.280 easy the end. The you know, I've run many many marathons, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.440 and that last mile, that last point too. They're the hardest, 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.920 but they're the most euphoric. You've got to finish um 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.280 and it's it's it really says something to me when 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.960 people because some people say to me, oh, you know, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.520 I didn't, I didn't. I skipped over that. I probably 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.280 wouldn't hire them. I like people that finish. So you're 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.120 in college and you get their first music business jobs 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.040 with the publishing organization. Yeah, this woman Gladys Shelley and 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:50.080 Harry Finn for I played this song on my show 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.080 called Wet Weekend, and I read about it in a 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.760 Record World magazine and it's said, if you need an 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.320 extra copy, called this guy. And I called him, and 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.920 my program director, who actually went on to fame in radio, said, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.320 you should never meet your your listeners. It's a it's 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.080 a it's a mystique. I said, I'm in college, come on. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.320 So I decided to call this guy and he said, 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.000 love to meet you. So I went to the city. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.080 My father took me and then he said, where should 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.120 I pick you up? I just thought of the only 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.160 place I ever heard of was the Empire State Building. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.480 I said, picked me up the Empire State Building, picked 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.000 me up in a Limo. My father said goodbye, and 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.960 I went and my life change. That night. I went 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.480 to a fifth Avenue in sixty ninth Street to a 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.680 dinner at Gladys Shelley's apartment and she offered me a job. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.320 I went in and no one said hide him. I 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.440 just walked in and I sat at the dinner table 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.360 and the butler had given me a spoon for salt 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.960 and a spoon for pepper. I had never seen anything 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.040 like that in my life from benson Hurst, and I 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.440 noticed there were four or five to as walking around 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.760 and literally urinating everywhere on the curtains and the carpet. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.360 What am I? It's like a Fellini movie. And there's 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.400 a guy sitting next to me, fascinating guy, and he said, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.720 what do you do? He says, I own Metro Media. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.640 I said, you own Channel five. Yes, William Klugey, he's 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.960 he's at the table and he loved Gladys. That's the 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.199 kind of table. So it was the salon that she 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.880 had and I started working that night for her. UM 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.560 and I was the go to publisher and all I 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.920 had to do is get artists to sing our songs 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.480 and um that was my first job. Okay, and then 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.160 you're working as a DJ. You say you look leave 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.600 Regimes to go to another club. What was the motivation there? 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.040 This guy, the six ft five, great looking guy comes 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:52.160 up to me and says, Dan, because I'm usually Danny, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.479 never Daniel, Dan, I need to have lunch with you. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.080 Come to my office. Gives me his card and it 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.160 said Revalon. His name is Frank Shields, his Brookshields father. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.359 So I go see Frank the next day and this 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.000 is like super wasp again. Never met a guy like 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.439 him before. And he's the number two or three at Revlon. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.040 I met Charles Revson, who's the number one there, and 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.320 he says, listen, Dan Um, I'm on the board of 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:24.800 a club called Doubles and we'd like to double your salary. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.440 Whatever you want. We want the mystique and we want 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:32.000 the regime's vibe. In the Sherry Netherlands Hotel, I had 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.800 to go one block by the way fifth now going 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.160 out of my comfort zone. Still there by the way, 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.320 still there, and uh it was a no brainer. I 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.520 just got married and I said this would be great. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.600 And I said, but I want to design the DJ 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.399 booth and he said, whatever you want, and I wanted 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.560 Thorne's turntables, which were my favorite, because that's what Larry 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.760 Levine was using at the at the garage, I wanted 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.280 the same as him and David Van Cusa was using. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.159 Those didn't turn out to be super I needed to 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.240 go to techniques after that. But we were using thorns 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:09.600 with rubber bands, um as opposed to direct drive. Yeah, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.119 and it was. It was really ironic. Is the owner 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.919 of the club's husband, Gerard turntable from England. That's like 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.879 a weird thing. But I wouldn't use those because they 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:25.200 were terrible. Um so I worked at doubles. What do 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:29.520 they say regimes when you walked? Well, I can't say 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:34.080 this because it's not politically correct. Um um what can 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:40.359 I say politely now? Because I love the people of 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.359 this country and I don't want to make a statement 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.800 from about people from because of a country. But they 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.800 were they're arrogance, said goodbye basically if you know what 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:53.320 I'm saying, baby steen the lines Okay, not really, but 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.639 French people would would not give you the benefit of 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.119 the dab. That's why we love them so much. And 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:07.600 they said, oh wah, I'll be in to uh And 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.720 I left and I went to Doubles, and I was 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.560 quickly rising up in the music industry. And I had 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.960 a you know, we had a baby. Now we have Sean, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.720 so I need a substitute. I can't work six nights 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.320 a week. So I find this guy named Ted Currier. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.719 Ted becomes my number two. Ted becomes a record producer. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.560 He produces Xavier's worked that Sucker to death. Ted becomes 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.800 really big. I get Ted a job at Kiss to 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.320 do the master the master mixes, and I said, Ted, 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.480 you're getting so busy. We can't handle this. I said, 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.320 we can't run a business when the business says, yes, 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.040 we can. Have a guy you need to meet. I said, 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.439 who's that? He said, this guy is gonna sub for me. 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.760 I said, we're already subbing for me. So this kid 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:58.600 comes in. He's never spun records before. His name is 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:04.000 Junior Vasquez. I said, what are you gonna do? We're 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.000 going to teach him. He learns how to do at 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:11.040 Doubles in a suit and tie club. He becomes, you know, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.600 the go to guy obviously. So now we have the 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:18.320 master mixes for WBLS and Kiss going on at Doubles, 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.879 all the tapes all the Saturday and Friday night shows 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.800 are coming out of Doubles. No one knows this in 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:27.240 the world. The owners don't know it. Junior rises up 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.320 to this huge mixer, Madonna discovers him while he's working 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.240 at Doubles, and they do Vogue and all those records. 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.280 So it was a great time for us. We had 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.400 a ball and I was down to like once every 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:39.480 two weeks at this point, but I had the contract 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:41.639 and I'm stumping it out to these guys and we 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.359 wind up having like six of the greatest DJs of 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:51.720 all time coming out of this little club Doubles. You're 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.760 listening to Daniel Glass on the Bob Left Sets podcast. 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.840 This podcast is brought to you by two new which 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.880 brings together all the live, sports, music, news and podcasts 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.760 you love, original, live and on demand audio, all in 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:12.760 one place. Go to tune in dot com slash left 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.800 Sets to download and listen. Now more of my conversation 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.960 with Daniel Glass, recorded live in Santa Barbara at the 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.760 Music Media Summit. Okay, but you marry your wife and 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.600 your wife's father is in the business. I worked for 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.359 Sam for about three or four years. We had a 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.680 lot of success and This was its simultaneous to DJ. Yes, 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:34.399 a lot of jobs. Who want to you tell the 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.919 audience who Sam was? So Sam Weiss was a was 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:42.360 an R and B pioneer entrepreneur who owned the biggest 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.879 one stop in the world, win records and video. First 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.920