S.F. DISCO PRESERVATION SOCIETY


The universe works in mysterious ways! We recently acquired a reel-to-reel tape deck for our studio so that we could start offering reel-to-reel tape conversion to CD services. A week later, while browsing the Craigslist classified ads online, I found a post from a woman looking to have a reel-to-reel tape collection converted to CD. I contacted her and was so excited when she told me what the tapes contained.......Her dad's (MICHAEL LEE) live disco mixes that he recorded while DJing at various clubs in San Francisco from 1976-1979! She dropped the tapes off to me, I loaded a few on the reel-to-reel deck, and was completly blown away by the collection. She was also kind enough to include a stack of Disco and music magazines from the same era, as well as her dad's record pool charts. I will be archiving all of his mixtapes as well as posting his charts and scans of all of the magazines that she brought to me. This is San Francisco Disco history! It needs to be preserved for future generations of Disco fans. We hope you enjoy these pieces of history!
An extra special thanks goes out to Rhani, Michael's daughter, for holding on to this material and handing the collection over to me to preserve.

Jim Hopkins

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Jim Hopkins - 1978

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Jim Hopkins and friends heading to the disco - 1978




and now we present.....
THE MICHAEL LEE DISCO ARCHIVES!

Michael Lee


LIVE DJ SETS
DJ Michael Lee Live @ The Mind Shaft (SF) February 1976 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ The Mind Shaft (SF) February 1976 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ The Mind Shaft (SF) 4/23/76 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ The Mind Shaft (SF) 4/23/76 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) - 10/29/76 - Part 1 - Tape 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) - 10/29/76 - Part 2 - Tape 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) - 10/29/76 - Part 1 - Tape 3
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) - 10/29/76 - Part 2 - Tape 3
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Trocadero Transfer (SF) 12/29/77 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Trocadero Transfer (SF) 12/29/77 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) August 1977 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) August 1977 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) November 12, 1977 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Bones (SF) November 12, 1977 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Buzzby's (SF) September 1978 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Buzzby's (SF) September 1978 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Buzzby's (SF) April 8, 1978 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Buzzby's (SF) April 8, 1978 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Buzzby's (SF) July 23, 1978 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ Buzzby's (SF) July 23, 1978 - Part 2
DJ Michael Lee Live @ My Place Too - 4/7/79 - Part 1
DJ Michael Lee Live @ My Place Too - 4/7/79 - Part 2


DISCO MAGAZINE SCANS (PDF FORMAT)
Discothekin - April 1976
Record World - October 15, 1977 - Disco Charts/Ads
Record World - November 19, 1977 - Disco Charts
Disco News - December 1977
Discozine - September 1979


RECORD POOL CHARTS (PDF FORMAT)
B.A.D.D.A. Chart - June 9, 1978
B.A.D.D.A Chart - July 7, 1978
B.A.D.D.A. Chart 2 - July 9, 1978
B.A.D.D.A. Chart - July 14, 1978
B.A.D.D.A. Chart - July 21, 1978
B.A.D.D.A. Chart - July 28, 1978
B.A.D.D.A. Chart - August 18, 1978


READ ABOUT THE OLD SF DISCO CLUBS
Buzzby's
Dreamland
The Endup
The I-Beam
Oil Can Harry's
Park-Bank Exchange
The City
Trocadero Transfer


FROM DISCO TO HI-NRG - MAGAZINE SCANS (PDF FORMAT)
Hot Tracks Express - 1982