Reese with Michael T at Troublemaker. Autumn 1991.
Truly an awful bit of news.
Reese was such an awesome person, and I'm sure many of you felt the same way. He was always up to help one of us out, and was always encouraging everyone to go out and do their own thing.
He hooked me up with internships, writing gigs, and always introduced me to music I never heard before.
I will always remember all the crazy nights at Troublemaker, Stigmata, and Censored, all places he DJ'ed and had us dancing well into the early morning. But a great memory I will always have of Reese in particular was a night in the Chapel of Limelight, when the crowd hadn't shown up yet, and he threw on Section 25's "New Horizon" for me, and we just sat back and listened to that awesome track blasting through those speakers, enjoying every second of that super-slow, LONG classic. It was a track he'd never play at a club, but knew I was having a real rough time in "life" and just wanted to surprise me and make me feel a little better. That's the kind of person he was.
A really great person I really feel lucky to have known...
Really hard to hear this news. Hope everyone closes their eyes for a second and thinks of a moment Reese made them smile back then, whether it was from DJ'ing, cracking a joke, or just being the laid back nice guy he was...
Rest in Peace brother...
