The "Eve After Dark" documentary chronicles the humble 1979 beginnings of the landmark Los Angeles hot spot to its Super | dG1fdUZLZ1BwZFViNzQ
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00:00 Every time somebody go to talking about the Super Bowl, I say, "Hey, did you see that little sign that said Eve at the Dark?"
00:05 And then I give them a little lightweight little history lesson.
00:08 That was the hottest club right there on Avalon.
00:15 People don't realize how important Eve at the Dark was to Concord.
00:18 How many careers got started there, whether it was Dr. Dre, D.L. Hughley, Robin Harris.
00:23 Eve at the Dark is like a hood version of what Club 54 was in New York.
00:29 The place where young kids could go have fun and be safe.
00:33 Dance contests, singing contests.
00:35 The finest girls in the city from Gardena, from Compton, from L.A., they would come to the Eve at the Dark and they wanted to see us dance.
00:43 We got comedy.
00:44 Brad Sanders, Marshall Warfield, Honest John.
00:47 John Wetherspoon, Chris Tucker, all them cats.
00:50 They'd all come to the club.
00:51 I was taken under the wing of the world-class wrecking crew.
00:55 Grandmaster Lines of the world-class wrecking crew don't get enough credit for what he did to spark this, too.
01:02 He the first one that gave Dre a DJ job.
01:05 I don't know how Dre ended up on my turntables.
01:08 He had people dancing to this weird mix.
01:10 One record was at 100 and some odd BPMs.
01:13 The other one was like 64.
01:15 So people don't know whether to dance fast or slow dance, but the mix sound good.
01:19 It was a lifesaver because, you know, in those days there was a lot of stuff going around in the city.
01:25 We had it really hard.
01:27 So the Eve at the Dark was that safe haven that we could go and just have fun and not remember or know anything that might have been at home.
01:36 [music]