starscream Posted June 22 Report Share Posted June 22 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, it¹sextremely special to me. I¹m clean now, and I own being sober just asmuch as I own the fact that I¹ve been getting high for the past fiveyears. Before crystal, I never had a problem with any substances. Drugs neverappealed to me‹I don¹t even drink. But I stumbled upon Tina back inthe Palladium days‹someone slipped it to me and said, ³Try some ofthis‹it¹s better than 10 cups of coffee!² It¹s an age-old story. Ididn¹t do crystal because I wanted to have sex and I didn¹t need theeuphoria‹I was already the most popular DJ in New York City. I did itto stay awake and focusedŠat least, that¹s what I told myself at thetime. I didn¹t realize it then, but the real reason I was doing crystal wasbecause I hated my job. Hated. I was over the long sets and‹to bebrutally honest‹I was getting tired of the scene. But for five years Icouldn¹t admit it to myself, so I put myself in a walking coma in anattempt to enjoy it. It didn¹t work. Then, five months ago, I had a seizure. It happened after I played anight in Austin, Texas‹I bit my tongue and everything. It tooksomething that dramatic to put things in perspective. I looked back onthe last five years and saw all the shit that that stuff brought into mylife. My mother died in YEAR and my father passed away shortly afterthat, but because of crystal I don¹t even remember their funerals. Iwant to remember my life. I want to see colors again. I want to hearthings 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 nowthat we¹re seeing just how dangerous and destructive it can be. Tinabrings you down and beats you up; she¹s a nasty bitch, and it took mefive years to remember that there¹s only room in the DJ booth for onebitch‹me. What people do is their business, and I¹m fine with that. For me, theonly way to survive and still be fierce is to be clean. I¹m not tryingto be some evangelist, but maybe by stepping up and admitting thatcrystal was a problem for me, other people will do the same. I feel completely different today. I love the music again‹I love it sofucking much. I love that I¹ll be playing Spirit on Gay Pride. I lovethe fact that Tracy Young will be opening for me and that there will bea gay man and a gay woman up in the DJ booth that night. I love thatVivian Green is going to be performing‹she¹s one of the best voicesin the world of R&B today. I love the way Jason Walker¹s album cameout and I love the fact that I¹m working with Vernessa Mitchell againon 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 specialperformance by Vivian Green this Sunday, June 26, at Spirit (530 W 27thSt, 212-268-9477). Visit ******************.com, djtracyyoung.com,spiritnewyork.com for more info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diva421d Posted June 22 Report Share Posted June 22 Happy for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverbull Posted June 22 Report Share Posted June 22 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkevinj Posted June 22 Report Share Posted June 22 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxelicous Posted June 22 Report Share Posted June 22 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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