Welcome to the Dome Sound of House, presented to you by DJ Bruce Wayback.
Bruce lived a loving life and lived for this music. He wanted nothing
in life but to share this music with the people. He believed that this
music was a gateway to peace, happiness, fullness of spirit and above
all a strong voice of God.
Bruce
is a godfather of house music himself, one that was so low-key, many have
not yet heard and not had the chance to get to know. Bruce got his start
by learning under the legendary and late Walter Gibbons as Walter stayed
briefly in Seattle during a time in the 1970s. The exact year is unknown.
Bruce then took the underground disco sound that he instantly fell in
love with and became Seattle's (and possibly the west coast's) first underground
disco/house deejay. Although he never worked in the studio on his own
material, his deejaying alone was an artform as he carefully selected
each and every record he played to express the mindset he was in at any
given time. He constructed and built stories with his records and to hear
all of his mixes is like reading a timeless novel...the story of life
itself.
Over the years he would play in various clubs and perform when called.
He showed a few others the ropes but after a while he began to realize
that he was not fully equipped to be part of a scene that he saw as moving
in a different direction. As far as he was concerned, he held the "goods"
and any true house head knows what we're talking about here. Many times
he was asked to make his music more pallatable to the audience of the
area. But Bruce would never sell his soul out or abandon the soul of the
artists that he represented as a deejay. So to him this music represented
a voice of positive change, with the foundations that came from the voice
of the black american gospel, spreading out to people to bring happiness
to souls and mindsets all over the world. And he stood by this love and
passion and lived to shared it with others, all the way up to his death
at age 47.
After
deejaying and house music became trendy at clubs and parties with what
he felt was more often than not, a more watered down and superficial version
of what he knew, he was making mix tapes and CDs in his bedroom to give
to those who needed this music for positive growth and grounding of the
spirit. He also obtainted a radio show on KBCS
91.3, Seattle for a short period of time called "House Call"..again
trying to reach those who were listening for the voice. And in an age
where most dance music oriented radio shows do not represent the true
sound of house music, he was able to keep it real all the way through
thanks to the love and freedom of expression given unto him by KBCS.
We think he has over 40 mix CDs and many more cassettes that represent
the history, the lineage, the soul and passion of the TRUE sound of house
music. We will begin posting them to this site along with some photos
and a posting forum and over the coarse of time we hope to someday get
them ALL up.
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Rest in Peace Brother...we know you are alright and happy. You definately labored, sacraficed and served God and the people with your talents. DJ Bruce Wayback (Bruce Bryce Wayman) July 29, 1959 to March 31, 2007. More
mixes will be posted as time goes on and as you keep coming back
for more!!! Put these on your ipods, play them in your mp3 player
of choice...play them at clubs as the night gets started, in your
bedroom, in your car on your ipod with the ipod transmitter!! It
doesn't matter just sit back and let Bruce work it out for you. |
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For those interested and in the Seattle area: Katy Haller, Bruce's sitster will be performing in Arlington, WA this Saturday, August 11 @ 7:00pm. Tickets are $20.00. She is a professional body builder and will be performing to some of Bruce's favorite songs. The address is: 18821 Crown Ridge Blvd., Arlington WA. You can call her at (253)347-2227 for more information.