John Davidson 23

I was in college starting in the mid 80's to late 80's at UT but grew up in Houston going to clubs such as Power Tools, NRG, Red Square, Numbers, Xcess, 6400, etc. I used to always go into Record Rack every weekend to see friends and say hello to Bruce and buy and listen to the newest club music on the scene at the time. I would literally spend hours in there. I especially loved the rare Razormaid albums and hard to get industrial and electronic items that dj Michael DeGrace played at the clubs that only Record Rack seemed to carry. I will never forget when I came home one time while I was in Houston on a weekend break going into Record Rack and buying a very rare 12' record by the group Call it Heaven called "Feeling Like a Stranger" which cost me $200 for one record. My mother freaked out bigtime! lol. When cd's first started to get really popular in the late 80's and were replacing the 12' records they were selling there, I knew it was only a matter of time before not only the scene would change but that the music itself would change. And then it happened with the early 90's and the grunge scene with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice N Chains, Soundgarden, etc becoming so popular and the club music I grew up on and loved so much just seemed to die. I went back a couple of times into the store after I graduated college and moved back to Houston and though I loved seeing Bruce still there, it just didn't have the same excitement or ambience as it did when I was in late high school to my college years. I loved Record Rack but it was never the same after the late 1980's. Not the same feel, not the same crowd in there and of course all the music I grew up loving replaced by rock and grunge. Hated seeing it close after being an institution for all those years. I'm 53 years old now but I will always cherish my memories of the great times I had in that store, the friends I made, the crazy and very late nights out on the club scene during those years and of course the legend himself Bruce Godwin. Thanks for making those years the best years of my life.