Jersey 92-95 rivalled any range of nights here - distilled magic with Tony Humphries, Jovonn, list could go on, occasional e sources bringing small samples before all the skag not even drinking just pure after-hours sweat boxes with small mixed crowds occasionally straying into NY - Shelter crew! - and e binges in Philly with cousins. An ex from this time had been a prior Zanzibar head, a magical time for invoking Dionysiac drugs/sex binges and a tape exchange line I never digitised due to youthful shortsightedness
worst night out in the US was a club called Red in DC around 97, tragic ropey house with these dicks all trying to outshine the previous selector, wall to wall army brats going 150% chang rumspringa and the odd DC hardcore face which even Mood II Swing records couldn’t salvage
equally, a terrible d&b crew who played around U-St corridor, ie pick all of the tunes posted in the 98/99 thread, similar to a night out run in Richmond but I don’t wanna name names because of illicit activities (ironic as they were never less than honest and operated much better playing rocksteady classics)
U-Street did have jazz and Howard lasses though plus the 9:30 Club isn’t far either away. if any British acts worth checking out rolled past, of course you’d try n attend but getting north wasn’t always easy and work was a sketchy legal tether