The Ruby Room

4 star rating
1/30/2009

I have to weigh in with a response to the two ladies below who are talking about the music they heard a few Saturdays ago. First of all they are obviously not regulars as they would know that Tim and Alfredo, the owners of The Ruby Room normally play records on Sat nights. I was there that SAT night and the dude they are talking about was subbing in for Alfredo. That dude is pretty weird. He shows up at the Ruby Room or Radio on rare occasion and is always dressed up like an old man or something. Stripy loud jackets and shit. I talked to him one time b/c he was sitting next to me at Radio on his own. Instead of raging he was like drawing or something. Total geeky. I asked if he dug these chick sitting by us. He starts going on about his wife and baby and shit and gets all misty eyed on me. So I notice he is wearing glitter and figure it must have come off a ho or something. I ask him if he is coming from a strip club. He asks why I would ask such a weird question. So I bring up the glitter and he tells me that he wears it to make him look pretty. I tell him that I'm not into faggots but whatever. So the weirdo grabbed me by the neck and threatened to kick my ass. He totally bruised my neck and tore my new shirt from xmas. So all I wanna say about that English guy is that he is a fag and should be allowed in there. He should go to the White Horse or something. Alfredo told me that Sat that he was showing off too much and that people don't like that hip hop shit so I doubt he will be back anyway. Sorry ladies. Had to call out that faggit. Like he has a wife and shit. Glitter wearing fool.
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Pamela B.

Oakland, CA

1/19/2009

I also was at the Ruby Room this last Saturday. I go there pretty regularly. There was a different DJ playing with the regular guy for sure. He was wearing white pants and sounded Scottish. That guy was crazy! He danced like a mad robot. His tunes and mixing were way better than the usual crew. Sometimes he got a bit scratch crazy but overall I was fully impressed too. I remember him mixing The Police into ZZ top and making it sound like techno sort of...Who was that dude? I could not understand a word he said.

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Jackie P.

Oakland, CA

1/19/2009

The Ruby room is always fun. Enough has been said already on this subject below. I went there this last Saturday (17th) with a few friends and saw/danced to one of the best DJ's I have ever experienced. He gave me a CD called ElectroPhonic Funk which I have been listening to non-stop ever since. Unfortunately I did not catch his name. This cat was tearing it up while mixing an amazingly diverse set of tracks. The Cure, Sly Stone, Michael Jackson and Chicks on Speed all mashed up together with some intense hip hop technique. Throughout he was also literally bouncing off the wall to the beat like some sort of de-blackened James Brown. I am going back next Sat to see if he is there again. If anyone knows who this was though please drop me a line. I want to thank him for the CD and a great night out.