Electric Phonecall

I recieved a call yesteday from one excited Calvin MacLean. He had found "the holy grail" as he put it - a copy of an Eddy Grant album with Electric Avenue on it. Now I'm sure this album itself isn't all that rare but for whatever reason the search for this album has become a bit of a joke between myself and Calvin. Flashback three years, I'm DJing at the Cat's Eye and he requests the song, I tell him that I don't have it. A few months later I'm DJing there again and he asks for it again and I tell him the same thing. We get into a heated but good natured argument and I tell him that if he ever finds a copy of it that I'll glady play it for him. So then it begins, every time either of us are out shopping or digging thats an album thats on the wish list. To our suprise the song proved quite difficult to find. Who knew that Eddy Grant had so many albums; we discovered that he was infact quite a prolific recording artist desipite the fact that we knew him just for that one hit. So everytime I was at Around Again or Monster or Vintage Sound or Sonic Boom there would be 5 or so of his records, none with Electric Avenue on them. But all that has come to an end. Calvin got the album, he's going to give it to me and I will play it for him. I guess the best venue to play it out will be the next Santa Cruz. Its got a good, but short, drum break intro that will make for a nice, quick mix. I just hope Calvin can make it out for the next SC cause I expect to see him right in the middle of the dance floor.

theme song - Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (obviously) or John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over