Disco Daddy's Pride Sunday at The Eagle in San Francisco CA
Events. At SF Eagle , 398 12th Street, San Francisco, CA. United states.
Sunday June 30 2024, 7:00pm
Disco Daddy's Pride Sunday at The Eagle in San Francisco CA
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 7:00PM to 2:00AM PST
Comin' SUN JUNE 30: DISCO DADDY's 11th Annual PRIDE Edition @ The SF Eagle! DJ Bus Station John (The Tubesteak Connection / DISCO DADDY Does L.A.) Spins A Seven-Hour Marathon Set Of Classic & Rare Disco, Hi-NRG, & R&B / 398 12th & Harrison / 7pm-2am / $20 @ The Door / Host: Marc Sanchez / Door: Prince Woof & Miguelito / RSVP/Info: facebook.com/events/1100584387714100
A Friendly Heads-Up: Out Of Respect For The DJ, Yer Fellow Dancers, And Not Least Of All The MUSIC, The DISCO DADDY Dance Floor Is A CELL PHONE-FREE / CAMERA-FREE Experience. Now Is The Time To Unplug From Our Devices & Back Into Each Other---Thanks!
(And while we love our disco classics, we are also a top-40/unnecessary-remix/YMCA/Funkytown/Mcdonna-free zone, where special joy is taken in casting fresh & loving light on deeper/forgotten dance tracks from the Disco/Hi-NRG era---so come thru with open EARS, open MINDS, & open FEETS!)
About Disco Daddy:
DJ Bus Station John's DISCO DADDY!---originally created in NYC in 2009 as a one-off & now poised to celebrate 11 years @ The SF Eagle on Pride Sunday this June---is a festive, post-beer bust tea dance featuring disco both classic & rare, early 80's R&B, & Hi-NRG (what BSJ calls "the music of our people"), bringing together a happy, diverse, attitude-free, intergenerational crowd representing all age-, waist- and hair- lines. Elders relive the sweet soundtrack of their youth, while disco-fledglings are turned on to great vintage tracks they might not have heard before---and together they make beautiful music, both on and off the dance floor. "I think the warmth of the music gives people permission to drop their facades, relax, let their hair down and commune in a special way," says John. "My favorite nights at my parties have been a mix of heavy cruising, sweaty dancing, and twenty-somethings through 80-somethings finding camaraderie under the same roof - not a common sight anywhere, and a dynamic I'm very proud to have created."
Voted "BEST MONTHLY NIGHTLIFE EVENT" three years running in the SF Bay Area Reporter's Readers' Poll BESTIE Awards, DISCO DADDY! now happens post-lockdown on a special-event basis, with parties every three-day holiday weekend plus the annual Pride, Folsom Fair & Dore Alley Editions. (Since 2015, BSJ has also been known to throw DISCO DADDY Does LA @ Akbar in Silver Lake when the mood strikes!)
About DJ Bus Station John:
Since he first started creating mix tapes on cassettes for homosexual house parties back in 1997 — subsequently becoming a full-fledged DJ by 2000 — San Francisco's pioneer underground disco revivalist DJ Bus Station John has been a man on a mission: to rescue from musical oblivion mid-70's-to-early 80's bathhouse-era dance classics & curiosities, the soundtrack to what he calls the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS "Golden Age of Gay."
An incorrigible vinyl addict with a passion for "lost" dance music, BSJ adores taking older gay men on a trip down memory lane while simultaneously inspiring new generations of queer ears. His sets are a trademark blend of rare gems unearthed from such genres as disco, hi-NRG, funk, soul, R&B, "boogie," electrofunk, euro/italo disco, new & no-wave, encompassing sounds from San Francisco's famed cha-cha palace The Trocadero Transfer to Manhattan's legendary Paradise Garage — and well beyond.
BSJ steadfastly avoids spinning Top 40 "wedding reception disco," so new recruits are advised to expect the unexpected. "There are literally hundreds if not thousands of amazing songs — both beautiful and bizarre, born from the creative imaginations of some very talented people---most of which never reached the charts. They're just waiting to be brought back to life."
Bus Station John recently hit the 20-year(!) mark with his Thursday night institution The Tubesteak Connection, which in 2016 became the longest continuously-running LGBTQQIIAXYZ weekly club night in San Francisco history at the Tenderloin's last-gay-bar-standing, Aunt Charlie's Lounge. The club (now happening post-lockdown on a special-event rather than weekly basis) features B&W xeroxed decor & vintage vids incorporating a mixture of antique gay erotica & old Hollywood camp in homage to such retro-homo icons as Divine, Grace Jones, Candy Darling, Amanda Lear, Peter Berlin, & Joan Crawford, as well as a renowned "no cell phone" policy, which liberates the crowd from their devices to enjoy the music, and each other.
A recipient of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's GOLDIE award, Bus Station John was also named "Most Original DJ" by the SF Weekly. He has spun in honor of or appeared on the same bill as Pierre et Gilles, Keith Haring, Joey Arias, Ann Magnuson, Cindy Sherman, Flawless Sabrina (star of 1968's "The Queen"), Miss Thelma Houston, Nikki Starr, Bambi Lake, Mon Cousin Belge, Carletta Sue Kay, Hard French, John Cameron Mitchell, Justin Sayre, Escort, Glass Candy, Icy Lytes, Kalup Linzy, Soft Pink Truth, Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes (featuring young whipper-snapper Brontez Purnell go-go dancing in his tighty-whiteys!), The Presets @ Folsom Fair, and The Hot Boxxx Girls featuring the late, legendary trans pioneer Miss Vicki Marlane, spreading his old-school gospel from the gutters of the Tenderloin to the heights of Grace Cathedral — and back again.
BSJ's Tubesteak Connection was recently featured in the memoir "GAY BAR: Why We Went Out" by Jeremy Atherton Lin (Little, Brown & Co.): "Our enthusiasm threatened to make the records jump and skid...there were lots of vocals — so many sisterly, triumphant, empowered, positive messages. Piano lines rolled through the room like illuminated ships pulling into a city harbor....We went out to be told. We went out to feel it. We went out to experience how it used to be, and Bus Station John was happy to be our gay liberation daddy."
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