His name is Jay to see him play will make you say:
“Goddamn, that DJ made my day!”
- Peter Piper, Run-DMC
another of my junior high heroes is gone. jammaster jay, the one-man rhythm section for run-dmc. one of the elder statesmen of a genre that seems to have forgotten it’s groundbreaking roots. i must’ve listened to that first cassette every single day for months in 1984. an extracurricular education for a white kid growing up in northeast georgia that was much appreciated then and still appreciated now. funny thing is… i’m not sure how i ended up with that tape. i know i didn’t buy it, i just had it somehow, so somebody must’ve handed it to me, told me to borrow it. whoever it was, thanks. and thanks, jay.
