Junior Vasquez Gives U Realness....

[starscream]

BIG PROPS TO JUNIOR FOR JUST LETTING IT ALL OUT AND COMMING TO TERMS!!!MORE PEOPLE SHOULD FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE!!

this was taken from the JVM board.Apparently the interview was in a recent next Magazine issue.

Junior Vasquez (Edited by Gregory T. Angelo)/Next 12.51/Utopia Feature

Hed: Reasons for Living

This will be my first sober Gay Pride in five years.

Playing Gay Pride in New York is always special to me. This year, it¹s

extremely special to me. I¹m clean now, and I own being sober just as

much as I own the fact that I¹ve been getting high for the past five

years.

Before crystal, I never had a problem with any substances. Drugs never

appealed to me‹I don¹t even drink. But I stumbled upon Tina back in

the Palladium days‹someone slipped it to me and said, ³Try some of

this‹it¹s better than 10 cups of coffee!² It¹s an age-old story. I

didn¹t do crystal because I wanted to have sex and I didn¹t need the

euphoria‹I was already the most popular DJ in New York City. I did it

to stay awake and focusedŠat least, that¹s what I told myself at the

time.

I didn¹t realize it then, but the real reason I was doing crystal was

because I hated my job. Hated. I was over the long sets and‹to be

brutally honest‹I was getting tired of the scene. But for five years I

couldn¹t admit it to myself, so I put myself in a walking coma in an

attempt to enjoy it. It didn¹t work.

Then, five months ago, I had a seizure. It happened after I played a

night in Austin, Texas‹I bit my tongue and everything. It took

something that dramatic to put things in perspective. I looked back on

the last five years and saw all the shit that that stuff brought into my

life. My mother died in YEAR and my father passed away shortly after

that, but because of crystal I don¹t even remember their funerals. I

want to remember my life. I want to see colors again. I want to hear

things again. I needed to love music again. Now that I¹m clean, I can.

Crystal has been around since the year of the flood‹it¹s only now

that we¹re seeing just how dangerous and destructive it can be. Tina

brings you down and beats you up; she¹s a nasty bitch, and it took me

five years to remember that there¹s only room in the DJ booth for one

bitch‹me.

What people do is their business, and I¹m fine with that. For me, the

only way to survive and still be fierce is to be clean. I¹m not trying

to be some evangelist, but maybe by stepping up and admitting that

crystal was a problem for me, other people will do the same.

I feel completely different today. I love the music again‹I love it so

fucking much. I love that I¹ll be playing Spirit on Gay Pride. I love

the fact that Tracy Young will be opening for me and that there will be

a gay man and a gay woman up in the DJ booth that night. I love that

Vivian Green is going to be performing‹she¹s one of the best voices

in the world of R&B today. I love the way Jason Walker¹s album came

out and I love the fact that I¹m working with Vernessa Mitchell again

on her full-length album.

I should love it‹this is my life, after all. This is my Utopia.

Junior Vasquez spins Utopia with opening DJ Tracy Young and a special

performance by Vivian Green this Sunday, June 26, at Spirit (530 W 27th

St, 212-268-9477). Visit ******************.com, djtracyyoung.com,

spiritnewyork.com for more info.

[diva421d]

Happy for him.

[silverbull]

wurd just read it like 3 hrs ago myself on another board, wish him luck and now hopefully things can get back to FUN for him and his parties n followers.

[djkevinj]

Now its time to give nyc some goddam good beatz and show he's fully into the music. I'll def be checkin him out sometime soon

[maxelicous]

good for him , TINA is killing the scene cuz its controling ppls lives , and fuckin up their mind. hopefully , the old JUNIOR will come back and throw us some FIERCE trax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!