Ron Hardy - Live at the Muzic Box ,Chicago 6/19/1984 Part 2

PART 2 Ron Hardy, the real originator and game changer of DJ’ing, live at the Muzic Box. Muzic Box formerly resided at 326 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago from 1983-1988. Hardy changed the game by mixing disco with his own edits and tracks that later defined ’house music’ (the stuff they played down the house - as in the Warehouse) for a dominantly black gay audience, white gays we’re going to different clubs on the North Side of Chicago in the beginning, around 1983. Disco was almost banned from the media since the anti-disco demonstration in 1980 and was only played in the Warehouse and later in the Muzic Box. In later years, when house music became more popular by the white crowds it gave a swing to the genre and by 1985/1986 there was an explosion of artists and producers imitating the sound Hardy, Knuckles and Farley Keith played at those clubs. Hardly never got to great success as his counterparts Farley Keith and Frankie Knuckles did, because he battled with heroin addiction and died to