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House History

Legendary NY Nightclub: Better Days

Better Days was a New York dance club which opened in the 1972 and closed in 1988. Re-opened and closed again in 1990 or 1991. It was located on West 49th Street. DJs Bert, Tee Scott, Bruce Forest, Francois Kevorkian, Kenny Carpenter, Larry Patterson, Shep Pettibone, and others played to a loyal, attitudeless black black crowd over a period of more than 15 years. Bruce Forest was the house DJ at Better Days from 1981 to 1988. Bruce Forest helped Shep, Dave […]

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House History

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 […]

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DJ Interviews

Bruce Forest brought Better Days

  Bruce Forest’s long residency at midtown Black gay club Better Days is one of clubland’s more unlikely stories. Forest was the white middle class kid who won over the hearts and feet of a tough New York crowd who didn’t take kindly to an impertinent upstart replacing their beloved Tee Scott. He eventually won them over and stayed until it shut down in 1988. Thanks to his fascination for […]

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