Yo it's eiree to here someone from across the water talk about dudes that I thought only cats from Florida or Atlanta would know about. Mike was one of my homeboys. I met him through one of my homeboys named Clay-D. If you're familiar with Miami Bass you know Clay as a producer. When I moved down to Miami, Clay introduced me to everybody from Luke Skyywalker, Disco Rick, 2 Live Crew, Doc Fresh, Mike Fresh (Banned In The U.S.A. album), DJ Toomp (you Don't Know Me - T.I.), Shy-D, Magic Mike and many others. One evening I was at Vision recording studios/records shooting pool with Mike and Clay and Doc Fresh was practicing his routine (Clay had 2 djs Mike and Doc) for a show and Clay started talkin' shit tellin' Doc Fresh he thought that I could get him in a battle. Let me be the first to say, when it came to cuttin' and scratchin' Doc was as good as Mike. Doc was a humble dude but he wanted to see what I could do and there was no way I was backin' down. Needless to say, I lost the battle (dude was a pro) but I won Mike & Doc's respect. Me and Mike got really cool after that and we started hangin' whenever he was down in Miami. He came to me one day with this (what I thought was an insane) idea to make an instrumental "bass music album with scratching." Coming from New York (and being closed-minded) I thought Miami bass was some straight primitive ass music and didn't want to be associated with it in anyway. He invited me to come stay at his crib (he was livin' with his mom and brother) in Tampa for a week so that we could vibe, he could show me 'round Tampa (clubs, nightlife) and he could kick the idea around (bass music and scratchin') some more. I declined one last time and Mike went on to release 5 bass albums through Cheetah Records. And check this out, Mike is the only person in the history of the Billboard charts to have 4 gold or platinum albums in the Top 200 album charts at the same time. He called early one morning from Canada to tell me that.
One of my closest friends is the "World Famous Disco Dave." If you have Jam Pony tapes, I know you got some Disco Dave layin' around.