Perhaps I could visit you and you could show me the finer points of making and enjoying AGA toast. We could listen to Joe Strummer and laugh at Tory trousers.
Cumbria would be a good place to have an AGA. Perhaps even two of them.
Do none of your black homosexual mates have AGAs?
Unfortunately, I no longer have any black homosexual mates. Most of them died and where I live now doesn’t go in much for that sort of liveliness. Although it’s getting a bit better. Unlike San Francisco in the ‘70s and ‘80s, the scenes here are much more segregated.
Plus I’m not sure you can even get an AGA around here whether you’re black, homosexual, both or neither. I don’t think Americans would be able to deal with the complexities of running an AGA. I recall my mother had to spend a lot if time fussing with it and dealing with the coal, or coke or whatever it was. And you can’t buy coal here either.
On the other hand, lots of wood stoves. And people do cook on them.
Plus they put gas-fitters out of work?
Did you go to the Trocadero Transfer?
I have asked myself that question recently - and I don’t really remember. Perhaps once. It was sort part of the woodwork when I arrived in town I think - and, you know, you get to town fresh and you check out everything. The Stud and the I-Beam were definitely places I went to more often.
Do you know the BAD song ‘Stone Thames’?
No. I didn’t like BAD much. May have the first album or a 12” around but never got familiar. By the time BAD came around I was deep down the African rabbit hole and didn’t come up for air for some time.
Fair play.
But there’s a line, “Trocadero Transfer, I-Beam silver scene…”
It’s a song about AIDS.
I checked. I got to SF a little before the Troc opened and reading about it doubt that I ever went there. I was pretty punk (and I mean pretty!) through the late ‘70s. It was a lively town those years. You couldn’t possibly go everywhere and do everything.
I’ll check that song just for nostalgia. I knew a lot of DJs ‘cos I worked at the WARD record pool. Probably half of them died in the mid ‘80s.
Jeez, @Plum, you sure delete a lot of posts. I don’t think it’s very DJ. Sometimes we crash the beat, fuck the mix, lose the groove, miss the cue, antagonize the floor, spin out of control. We’ve all done it (I suspect). It’s part of life; we have to live with our mistakes.
Of course, I know that strictly speaking we are not DJing at this time, but aesthetics are aesthetics. Please let us enjoy your remarks at greater length.
I am not a DJ. I am an AGA enthusiast.
Besides, DJs love edits.
Glad we got that cleared up. I don’t think I’ve ever met an AGA enthusiast before. Do you collect them? Must be a hell of a job to shelve them.
Some DJs love edits. I love long, long remixes ‘cos I am a lazy sod and have to pee a lot. Takes all sorts.
But a total deletion is a beast of a different colour from an edit.
I only ever seen one in real life. I hope to see more.
I have piqued Heidi Lawden and Luke Una’s interest. They are both DJs. This could be the beginnings of a DJ/AGA crossover scene?
May you live a long and fulfilling life in your quest for more AGA sightings.
I was thinking AGA might be a good name for a night, even a whole venue. Would be hot especially with DJs who had experience with AGA toast. Plus you could serve all sorts of AGA prepared items. Special on toast at breakfast and tea times.