Garage Videos

   This section contains videos from the Paradise Garage closing weekend. A high speed connection is prefered but not nessasary.

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Touch ~Love Fixation
Touch ~ Love Fixation
The closing night of the Garage saw the best and the hottest performers in House music making their magic on our stage . . . and Touch was in the thick of it.
I had the good fortune to be working that weekend during the shows so I didn't miss a thing, I was operating the followspot on the same side as the video camera.
Touch ~Love Hangover
Touch ~ Love Hangover
Touch doing a remake/Cover of Diana Ross's Love Hangover
Touch ~Without You
Touch ~ Without You
Doing there smash hit "Without You" . . . Check out the energy of the crown . . truely awesome!!! The entire dancefloor was shaking under the relentless foot pounding and jumping of the audience!
Breed of Motion ~Dance His Cares Away
Breed Of Motion ~ Dance His Cares Away
Their first time on stage at the Garage and they rocked it . . Hoigh energy and excellent stylings.
Master C&J Face It
Liz Torres & Master C & J ~ Face It
Face It has got to be one of my personal favorites . . . I use to love doing the dancefloor lights to this song when David would play. Still to this day it flashes me back and puts me right into a groove.
Liz Torrez & Quest ~In the City
Liz Torres & Master C & J ~ Living in The City
Arguably the Queen of House, Liz Torres was born in Puerto Rico in the early '60s and moved with her family to Chicago just three years later. She sang in her church while growing up but converted to house music in 1985 after hearing it on the street.
      After several singles in the late '80s, "Touch of Love" appeared on Britain's Black Market label in 1988 . . . . read more
Liz Torrez & Quest ~ Mama's Boy
Liz Torres & Master C & J ~ Mama's Boy
Very well done song . . too bad it came out at the end of the Garage, I missed the oportunity to do the dancefloor lights to it. . . such is life

Liz Torrez & Quest ~ I Can't Get Enough
Liz Torres & Master C & J ~ I Can't Get Enough
I just loved the way Liz was playing the part on stage . . . she was totally hot. At one point she walks upstage and bends over butt to the crowd, so I thought I would have some fun as well, I narrowed the followspot down around her bumm . . nice shot . . good show!
A Garage Moment with Jimie and Larry
Jamie and Larry ~ A Garage Moment
Jamie Delacruz took a moment to say farewell to the Garage Family, it was a heartfeld speech and well recieved by the crowd, then Larry broke into mixing Colonel Abrams'  "How Soon we Forget"
Gwen Guthrie ~7th Heaven
Gwen Guthrie ~ 7th Heaven
A Garage Classic
Gwen Guthrie ~ Closer To You
Gwen Guthrie ~ Closer to You
Gwendolyn Guthrie was born in Newark, New Jersey. In school, she studied classical music, and her father began teaching her piano when she was eight years old. By the early 1970s, she had joined vocal groups such as the Ebonettes and the Matchmakers, meanwhile working as an elementary school teacher . . . . . read more
Gwen Guthrie ~ JOB
Gwen Guthrie ~ J.O.B.
Gwen Guthrie (July 14 (some sources say July 9) 1950 ­ February 3, 1999) was an American singer/songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, and Madonna among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, Gary Glitter and Roberta Flack.
Gwen Guthrie ~ Padlock
Gwen Guthrie ~ Padlock
This song was one of my Favs by Gwen . . . . Larry worked the hell out of this song . .
Touch ~Love Fixation
Mikey Smolar ~ Come As You Are Contest
This was done during the run up of the last weekend of the Garage. The Host of the contest was the manager of the Paradise Garage Micheal Smolar, Video was taken by Micheal Sampson, who also filmed the closing of the Paradise Garage Video.