DJ Tee Scott: Candy Store & Better Days

Let’s go back before our most memorable dee-jays,  Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy.   Before our most memorable clubs, the Garage (NYC),  Warehouse (Orig Chicago) and Music Box (Chicago).  There was another lost but not forgotten jock, a foundation upon which many others have built careers without even knowing it; DJ Tee Scott.  If you are a true dee-jay and not a record spinner like so many today, if you truly know of old-school, you should at once have heard something of DJ Tee Scott.

We begin in 1972 at a little forgotten club to us (unless you are from NYC or Chicago) called The Candy Store on 56th St. between 5th and 6th ave in New York.  Tee Scott had been going to clubs for about three (3) years but was not playing music at the time.  It all started one night at the Store.  One of the jocks wasn’t playing there anymore and Scott didn’t like this new guy much.  So after a couple of 151’s and coca-cola, he got the nerve to say to the manager “I don’t want to say anything bad about this guy personally, but he’s not as good as the last one.”  The manager said, “So why don’t you tell the boss this.”  He did and the reply was, “Do you play?”  Scott says, “yeah”even though he never mixed before in his life.

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