Hot Do The 45 Action on a cold winter night!

The first Do The 45 of the year took place on January 10 at Quinn’s in Beacon, NY. It was a wild one—and it usually is when one of the guest DJs is Vince Vincent (the legendary DJ from WVKR) and the other is Peter Aaron (a current DJ at Radio Kingston).

When we got to the club, host Pete Pop had finished setting up and was already playing cool records. Around 8:30 or so, Phast Phreddie played a bunch of records. About 45 minutes later, Vince Vincent was spinning. He brought about fifteen fantastically rockin’ records and played all of them. Peter Aaron played a set of boss stuff for about a half hour or so.

Toward the end of the night, Phast and Pete Pop took turns playing three records each—their new DJ format that has been quite successful lately. After a while, it was noted that Peter Aaron brought quite a few records to the dance, and so he was added into the mix. And so it went, with each of the three DJs alternating three-disc sets until around 2:00 AM, long after scheduled closing time. Folks were still in the house, dancing, drinking and carrying on so the club stayed open to capitalize on the gear Do The 45 action! It was a very cold January night—well below the point where water freezes—but it was warm inside Quinn’s and the DJ’s played such hot records all night that the place was burning up!