Friday Flashback: Dennis Coffey

Sadly, they didn't have platinum status so many years back. The highest level of record sales was gold for selling one million records (at wholesale price) up until 1976, when they changed it to platinum. Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio" (1971) is a million selling instrumental from his Evolution LP that was sampled by many Hip-Hop and Acid Jazz producers. "Scorpio" features bassist Bob Babbit (November 26, 1937 – July 16, 2012), who along with Coffey are both former members of the legendary Funk Brothers, the studio band who played on numerous Motown recordings.

Vertigo Blue: Holder of the Keys

Recently, I reconnected with Mike Naus a.k.a. Vertigo Blue, a brother who is mean on the synths with his personalized brand of Electro-Pop. By having a good conversation about music, I've learned a lot more about synthesizers than I've know before. As Vertigo Blue (VB), Mike has done hundreds, upon hundreds of shows around the country, and shared stages with the likes of Nitzer Ebb, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, The Georgia Satellites, John Lefler of Dashboard Confessional and Deep Ella, just to name a few.

On Friday, March 2nd at Dean's, 316 Main, in the heart of downtown Houston, VB will be hosting Electro Rocket and celebrating his birthday with a huge bash and performance. DJ WYNNDE, DJ London and DJ Paul James will be on hand to provide tunes to keep the dancefloor moving. The festivities will resume with an after party at The All City Underground 111 Milam, also located downtown. Be sure to show your support by purchasing his Evolution (2011) and Area 51 (2005) albums at the show or on his website.

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