from the LP No Parking on the Dancefloor, Solar Records, 1983Roller skating rinks were still the jam back in the ‘80s, and the DJ at the establishment out in Golden Gate which my friends and I used to frequent had a grip of tracks that you could rest assured would get spun every single week, including Madonna’s “Lucky Star”, Kool & the Gang’s “Celebrate”, Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” and others, but my favorite was this electro-boogie transmission from disco funk mainstays Midnight Star. Looking back now, that rink was pretty skeezy & full of shady characters, but that was part of the appeal I suppose: good tunes, good skates, Galaga & Joust in the arcade, the quasi-mythic “suicide drink” from the snack bar (essentially a mixture of all the sodas on offer), and the opportunity to find drugs or be inappropriately touched in the bathroom.
