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Reply #60 posted 02/10/05 7:18pm

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Funny, funny guy. He had the B-52s in the studio one night.... I don't know what happened but it caused one of the girls in the group to say "Damn!!" on the air, to which Mojo replied - "Don't say Damn, just say .....WOAH!"
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Reply #61 posted 02/10/05 7:19pm

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"Alright when I say 'Go', I want you to work it..... Work it!.... I, I mean GO!"


LMFAO!
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Reply #62 posted 02/10/05 7:23pm

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Remember that wicked tornado we had in Hamtramck in summer '97?

If you grew up listening to Mojo and thought he'd gotten soft in his old age, he let you know he is still SUPERMAN....


"MY NAME IS MOJO (mojo, mojo...).... AND I DROVE THROUGH THE TORNADO."


Not like he was bragging or anything, hhahahaha.
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Reply #63 posted 02/10/05 7:25pm

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SexyBeautifulOne said:

does he have any of his shows on tape, cd, reel to reel, 8 track, it doesn't matter, I'd pay a Queen's ransom, to hear some Mojo right about now!! A sista is jonesing big time!!!


Hopefully he still has them, but I know for a fact he used to tape his own shows. There were many nights in '95 that he wasn't really in the studio. He was going through things and writing his book. In his absence, he had Wendell play old tapes from WJLB.
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Reply #64 posted 02/10/05 7:39pm

MidnightFunk

smokeverbs said:

MidnightFunk said:


I feel like all you all are my family cause we shared the same thing


Yea. It's like back in the day, when you would roll down to Belle Isle, and see 30 cars there, all with Mojo's show on full blast on their radios. That's the beautiful thing about his shows: how he united Detroit in that way. It didn't matter who you were, who you hung with or what your bag was, Mojo, indeed, provided the soundtrack to our lives.



Well, I am a white kid from the Ann Arbor area, (Hicksville, actually) I was the ONLY guy listening to Mojo.. but I got ALOT of people into it and by the time I was a senior, We had our own Midnight Funk Association...
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Reply #65 posted 02/11/05 7:34am

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smile
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Reply #66 posted 02/11/05 8:54am

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SexyBeautifulOne said:

Check out www.thedetroitcrawl.org for the Motorbaby meet and greets! I won't be at the LoveQuake this weekend, but if I don't go out of town, I'll stop by the Fifth Avenue in Comerica Park (when in the hell did we get a Fifth Avenue?)on the 25th, my birthday's the 26th, so I will be coming to party, ya'll!!


SexyBeautifulOne, have not heard from the organizers of the 'Prince Celebration" that is happening at Comerica Park Fifth Ave Downtown in the past few days. But I do know promotion for the event will be revving up in the next few days.

As for The Detroit Crawl Motor Baby Lovequake, Saturday's party HAS BEEN POSTPONED until FEBRUARY 19. Same place, different date. Mark your calendars. Check your latest motor baby emale update 4 more. Pass it on all u motor babies. Peace ...

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Reply #67 posted 02/11/05 9:02am

applekisses

I LOVE MOJO! I used to listen to him when I was a kid...did anyone ever pick up his book of poetry?
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Reply #68 posted 02/11/05 12:33pm

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Some of you local peeps, read you org notes.
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First I need a picture of your mother, to verify the fact that there's not another one in the universe so supreme!!"
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Reply #69 posted 02/11/05 12:50pm

applekisses

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Some of you local peeps, read you org notes.


I didn't get one, O.T.! hmph!
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Reply #70 posted 02/11/05 12:51pm

applekisses

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Check out www.thedetroitcrawl.org for the Motorbaby meet and greets! I won't be at the LoveQuake this weekend, but if I don't go out of town, I'll stop by the Fifth Avenue in Comerica Park (when in the hell did we get a Fifth Avenue?)on the 25th, my birthday's the 26th, so I will be coming to party, ya'll!!



woot! biggrin
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Reply #71 posted 02/11/05 1:23pm

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Mojo is apart of a grand tradition in Detroit radio. I wish he was on the air now. wink
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Reply #72 posted 02/13/05 6:39pm

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Listening to Mojo was like being in this great musical spaceship. I would put my headphones on as loud as possible, cut out the lights and let him take me on this crazy musical journey. I'm all goose pimpley just thinking about it. Damn he played some great music. A true radio maverick.
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Reply #73 posted 02/13/05 6:45pm

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those MJ vs Prince Wars were AWESOME.....Mojo IS the reason I listen to Prince..

I heard him play "Ronnie talk to Russia" and that WAS IT...

I remember listening to the premiere of Theives in the Temple too..

I hope Mojo knows how much we all love him

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I remember when he played "Irresistable Bitch" - UNCUT...I just thought he was the bomb for doing that.
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Reply #74 posted 02/13/05 8:03pm

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MidnightFunk said:

As you can tell by my name and avatar, I was VERY much influenced by Mojo and his Midnight Funk Association on WJLB in Detroit..

Does ANYONE know what happened to this cat?




He's living here in Detroit going to church. He's no longer in the business. Radio changed and his programming did not fit the policies.




I remember the long Prince jams, the exclusive interviews with him in the limo.....Midnight Funk Association you got your sunglasses on
hold on tight don't let go don't say damn say whoa when you're at the end of your rope tie a knot and don't let go.....
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Reply #75 posted 02/13/05 8:04pm

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Prince used to call into his show evertime he performed in concert.

My fondest memories is hearing , Knee Deep, Controvery, Get It Up, Numbers, Square Biz, Clear and Ghetto Life, all in one sequence. Radio will never be that good again.



Yup that was Detroit radio then!!
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Reply #76 posted 02/13/05 8:06pm

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I was also,,

Probably influenced my music listening more than anyone other than my mom.


First time I heard Prince, Rick James, Kraftwork, Art of Noise, and Cybertron on his show.
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I'm still very much involved in the Detroit Underground Techno Scene.

He's still doing various shows and Festivals but I don't think he d.j.'s on the radio anymore. He made appearances at the last two Detroit Music Festivals.



you know i thought i heard that.
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Reply #77 posted 02/13/05 8:08pm

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SexyBeautifulOne said:

Sorry, it took me so long to see this post, I was over at HQ venting! wink

Where the heck were you the other night, when I was up in here having Mojo flashbacks?

As you can see in my signature, Mojo was and still is my favorite DJ! He turned me out when I was just babe of 8. Most of my pre and adolescent misbehaving stemmed from the fact that I would get caught, still up waaay past my bedtime trying to listen to Mojo!

Mojo is the one who turned me on to Prince. I do hope Prince realized how much Mojo helped his career and did something to show his gratitude besides giving a shout out.

I had the honor of meeting Mojo face to face in '99. I didn't even realize it was him until I heard him speak, then I got all giddy, you'd think Prince himself had just walk in or something. He was real cool though, and I really enjoyed our conversation about the days of the Midnight Funk Association. Radio just hasn't been the same.

I heard he still has www.electrifyingmojo.com registered so maybe he'll do something for us online again. If not, as I said in another post, Mojo, three words...Sirius Satellite Radio!! I've already got mine, and I'm ready when you are!





When Prince played at the Palace of Auburn Hills last June he acknowledged Mojo and most of those subu excuse me NONE OF THOSE SUBURBANITES knew what he was talking about. They were waiting for "Raspberry Beret."
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Reply #78 posted 02/13/05 11:05pm

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SexyBeautifulOne said:

Sorry, it took me so long to see this post, I was over at HQ venting! wink

Where the heck were you the other night, when I was up in here having Mojo flashbacks?

As you can see in my signature, Mojo was and still is my favorite DJ! He turned me out when I was just babe of 8. Most of my pre and adolescent misbehaving stemmed from the fact that I would get caught, still up waaay past my bedtime trying to listen to Mojo!

Mojo is the one who turned me on to Prince. I do hope Prince realized how much Mojo helped his career and did something to show his gratitude besides giving a shout out.

I had the honor of meeting Mojo face to face in '99. I didn't even realize it was him until I heard him speak, then I got all giddy, you'd think Prince himself had just walk in or something. He was real cool though, and I really enjoyed our conversation about the days of the Midnight Funk Association. Radio just hasn't been the same.

I heard he still has www.electrifyingmojo.com registered so maybe he'll do something for us online again. If not, as I said in another post, Mojo, three words...Sirius Satellite Radio!! I've already got mine, and I'm ready when you are!


Sirius & XM are our only hope.

Although I'm from the dirty south & never heard any of Mojo's radio show (beside the Prince interview on mp3), I know by reading about him that he is a living urban legend in electro, techno, & funk communities. Any yes, we need real DJ's like him on the radio even today! cool
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Reply #79 posted 02/13/05 11:08pm

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ButterscotchPimp said:

Mojo was the reason that in the early days of Prince's career, Detroit was his biggest radio market. But it goes a lot deeper than his love and support of Prince's music. Mojo was the LAST free-thinking DJ in the Detroit market. When he was in his heyday on WGPR, he was also the only "urban" dj that regularly spun artists such as the B-52's (who also gave Mojo a lot of credit for their early career, so much that they named one of their album "Whammy Kiss" after one of Mojo's trademark sayings), The Rolling Stones, Bowie, Billy Squier, etc.

After leaving the Detroit area for awhile, it seemed that whenever a new radio station was starting up and they needed ratings, they got Mojo. He jump started WJLB into the powerhouse (piece of crap) that it is today. And what usually happened was after Mojo brought HUGE ratings to the station, they would want to confine him to a format, and that's just not what he does. At his last radio job in Detroit, he got fired for playing classical music, when a young listener had asked whether any black people composed classical music.

Mojo is a legend and an icon, and it's amazing that more people don't know about him. His is the story that movies should be written about.



Trust me, Mojo is a living legend.
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Reply #80 posted 02/14/05 1:58pm

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applekisses said:

I LOVE MOJO! did anyone ever pick up his book of poetry?


Yep, I have it. "The Mental Machine" ... and it's autographed too!
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Reply #81 posted 02/17/05 1:05pm

MidnightFunk

MY BROTHA NEEDS A BUMP
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Reply #82 posted 03/17/05 8:33am

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MidnightFunk said:

As you can tell by my name and avatar, I was VERY much influenced by Mojo and his Midnight Funk Association on WJLB in Detroit..

Does ANYONE know what happened to this cat?


last i hurd mojo was writing books on coleman young and black composers
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Reply #83 posted 03/17/05 8:43am

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MidnightFunk said:

MY BROTHA NEEDS A BUMP


mojo helped me get thru my daze in detroit
pony down ybi made a brotha wnat to cry
a whammy cloth to dry head, an mfa card
music to ease the dread, make the day less hard
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Reply #84 posted 03/17/05 8:46am

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MOJO helped alot of us this way.... smile
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