Spring '98. The first apartment. I moved in to the Wilmont with Herb just above Luke and Lisa. One day I was walking out, probably to grab a Jarritos from la grocery especial and passing the second floor I paused by Luke's open door. I nodded and he waved me in. He was in the middle of making an instrumental tape and wanted to go over the track listing. We both spun yarns involving "Green Onions" and reveled in the necessary addition of "Mo' Onions". I mentioned a few Wilmont-centric tracks of choice and brought them down. And while "Frankenstein" was essential to the pre-Wilmont Beach prototype being tested that summer, I do wish I could Doc Brown myself into going hands off the "Chilli Hot" track, even though it was the auditory framework for the type of shenanigans a newly independent choad such as myself was to get into at a place like that. Someone flicked on the radio during its dubbing looking for a game causing a weird blurp of static and dial rolling which got put to tape. After the second side clicked off in that heavy chunk that old decks do, he folded the tape into the track listing and stuffed it into a case, handing it to me saying "Here," and followed it up with something like "Enjoy your summer." And yes, I did. This mix played all summer long through the windows of the living room out onto the 3rd floor deck and over Hillsborough street coming down somewhere across the street in the parking lot of Sub Conscious.
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Here"
Thanks Luke!
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