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The Shingaling at the Salt Box

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On Monday July 8th, DJ Pete Pop contacted The Salt Box in Kingston and asked if there was an opening for him to come DJ. He hadn’t been there in over a year and everybody felt it was time he returned. The nice people at The Salt Box told him they actually needed a DJ that very Saturday night—the night after Do The 45!

Mr. Pop is not one to turn down an opportunity to play his fine records to an appreciative crowd. He accepted—then he enlisted Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus to spin with him for this very special Shingaling!

DJing two nights in a row! Man, the Phast One hasn’t done that since moving out of Brooklyn about four years ago! But what the heck, let’s swing while the swingin’ is good, right?

The Phast Man was just at The Salt Box a couple of weeks ago—with his dynamic Funky Kingston hustle. He meant to play records that he wouldn’t play at Funky Kingston, but for some reason, he played a LOT that could easily have been played at the Funky Kingston. Ha! Whatever, it was a gas and it is always special when Pete Pop and Phast Phreddie get together to spin records. For most of the night, these two were at the turntables spinning every other record, and did so until management forced them to stop around 3:00 AM!!

Miss Nancy contributed by supplying everyone with her fudge and vegan brownies.

The evening went so well, that Mr. Pop got asked to come back to The Salt Box. If things go according to plan—and what does, these days?—Pete will be there on the first Saturday of the month hosting a shebang he may call The Shim Sham Shimmy! Watch out for that. Very possible that Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus may be riding shotgun on some of these gigs.

Here’s a list of all the records played by Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus at The Salt Box Shingaling:

None of these records are for sale.