Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

• S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell▶Play from 00:00:29 · 20 mentions in this episode

  The guests: Chi Chi Valenti - poet, journalist, Mudd Club door person and nightlife producer - and DJ, record producer and promoter Johnny Dynell, together since they met at the Mudd Club; creators of Jackie 60, Click + Drag and Night of a Thousand Stevies. Links to their Night Fever episode

  FashionChi Chi's dominatrix-meets-Victorian-meets-Stevie Nicks look (see Mood); Johnny's floral shirt and tinted glasses on camera

• S5E4 · Nick Egan▶Play from 00:27:00 · 10 mentions in this episode

  Johnny Dynell, a good friend of Nick's: Nick credits him with starting Jackie 60 and bringing New York's separate scenes together, calling him the Malcolm of New York. Links to Chi Chi and Johnny's Night Fever episode

On the scene timeline

1. 1990 · New York

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell: Launch Jackie 60

   Creators of the club night Jackie 60. (Night Fever guest, Season 6, Episode 3.)

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

2. 1980s · New York

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell: Johnny DJs and records "Jam Hot"

   Creators of the club night Jackie 60. (Night Fever guest, Season 6, Episode 3.)

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

3. 1975 · New York

   New York

   Johnny arrived in summer 1975; dangerous then, they say, and below 14th Street was the centre of the universe

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

4. 1976 · Chicago

   Chicago

   Chi Chi lived there briefly around 1976 and felt something starting in New York; she found her Balenciaga coat in a thrift shop there

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

5. 1996 ·

   Killing of Angel Melendez (1996)

   Johnny says Angel used to come to Jackie 60, and that Michael denied it to him at the time

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

6. 1975 · The Loft

   The Loft

   One of the clubs Johnny went to after arriving in 1975 (not Chi Chi's own 14th Street loft)

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

7. 1992 ·

   Silence of the Lunch Pails

   Jackie 60's 1992 night mocking the Club Kids (have the It Twins stopped screaming yet?), its invitation with Michael Alig's head on the Silence of the Lambs poster. Chi Chi says it was shown in a Stonewall 50 exhibit and they never topped it

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

8. 1986 · The Tunnel

   The Tunnel

   Johnny played its main floor around 1986-87, where the voguers danced outside his booth and he first saw the Club Kids

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

In the same rooms (aka the gang)