We recorded on a cassette tape, and we were thinking, “Wow, man! Who do we give this to?” Spanky’s like, “Yo, Ron Hardy. I think that’s the only person I can imagine playing this.” Because Ron Hardy, he was so open. He would drop Slick Rick, he would play crazy tracks from Larry Heard and different things. So, we just knew that it kind of fit. So, we gave it to him, and he didn’t say a word. He just listened to it very straight-faced. He didn’t do much of anything. Me and Spanky were looking at each other, saying, “OK, he probably don’t like it, then.” And the track was literally 15 minutes long. And he listened to the whole 15 minutes. He didn’t stop after a couple of minutes. ‘Cause we were recording when we were tweaking it, so it was like we never knew when to stop [laughs]. Spanky was dropping beats in and out, I’m twisting knobs. So, it was like a jam session and we recorded the whole thing. So, after it finished, he just looked up and said, “When can I get a copy?” We was like, “Alright! [laughs] We’ll come back Friday and bring you a copy.”

We came back later that night to see if he would play it, and then it sounded so good. It was kind of early, so it wasn’t packed yet. So, people were just like, “What is this he’s playing?” Early on, people tend to think, “Aw, he’s testing out some new music or something.” So, we thought that was it, that was the end of it. He played it and we’d have to come back another day to see if he plays it again. So, we stayed there for the rest of the party, and an hour later, it’s starting to fill up. And he drops it again. These people were like, kinda stopped dancing, it was just like, “Alright, we don’t like this one. We’ll just sit this one out til the next track.” We thought, “That’s it, he’s not gonna play this track because the people aren’t getting into it.” So, an hour later, he dropped it again. And then the people go like, “What the heck is this track?” So, they didn’t stop dancing, they danced through it, and was still like unsure of what’s going on – what to do on it, what to think.

Ron Hardy would go for like 12 hours, so [laughs] people would stay there the whole time. Sometimes, you’d sit down in the corner on the floor, doze off, or do whatever. So, that happened, and all I know is I heard the bells, the whistles in the track going again. Just the beat part, I didn’t hear the acid. I had my eyes closed, and I was thinking, “That sound like “Acid Tracks” coming in.” And then I popped my eyes open, I said, “Spanky, that’s our track playing, that’s our track!” So, we jump up and run to the dance area, and we’re just really excited because this guy’s already played it three times, so he’s playing it a fourth time. And when it came in, people just went crazy in that place. They didn’t even know what to do, they didn’t know what they were doing, they were jumping up and down. I will never forget this guy, he was laying on his back, and kicking his legs up in the air [laughs], and I was like, “What’s he doing?” I’ve never seen anyone react to a song like that. And I’m not even saying it just because it was our track. I just think that people had no idea how to behave on it [laughs], so they just went totally crazy, in a way.

We didn’t think anymore of it. We didn’t think of what we were going to do with the track. We weren’t thinking, “Oh, we’re going to make a record, we’re going to press it.” An associate came to me when I was out and about, and he said, “Yo man, have you heard Ron Hardy got this new track called “Acid Track”?” And I was like, “Wow, that sounds exciting!” He’s like, “Yeah, they call it “Ron Hardy’s Acid Track”. People go crazy for it, I can’t even describe what it sounds like, it’s just something you never heard and it’s just incredible.” And we was like, “Man, I wish I could hear it,” and he was like, “You want to hear it? I got it on tape. I recorded it on my microcassette recorder.” So, it was like a live recording.