Hogan wasn’t the only person to recall Woodward in his younger days. “It was this den of iniquity and more debauchery than you could ever handle. It was wild times,” she said with a clear fondness. “We would work until five o’clock in the morning at this crazy disco. Hogan worked with Woodward as a bartender at Carousel, and later at another disco in Manchester - Alfie’s - through the early ’80s. “His penmanship was something that most people have never even seen the likes of before,” said Michele Hogan, another dear friend he leaves behind. That handwriting was so impeccable that another friend commented on it, unprompted, among his many other talents outside of music. He always had the beats per minute on it, what the ‘hit’ was, what the ‘flip’ was, where he might want to do a mix on the dub side … there was just a world of information. A friend had called Flynn down to take a look at some records, and Flynn recognized the thorough notes on each, in Woodward’s handwriting. Based on his talent and grasp of the right song for the right time, and his meticulousness and pride in his work, disc maestro seems more appropriate.įlynn laughed as he recounted a time that attention to detail actually helped Woodward get a piece of his stolen record collection back. To call Woodward a disc “jockey” doesn’t seem to do him justice based on anecdotes from those close to him. “Jimmy was very knowledgeable about all this stuff. You had to pick up magazines and read about it,” Flynn recalled. “Jimmy was always interested in coming in and seeing what was big in the charts - he wanted to have his thumb on the pulse.
It was there that Flynn started his lifelong friendship with Woodward, and was blown away by Woodward’s passion for - and encyclopedic knowledge - of music. Steve Flynn worked at Record Town (which later became Record Rack) on Main Street in Bennington. I just needed the music… he’s always been in my corner since.”īennett is not the only person to feel like Woodward was a de facto older brother. My parents were divorced a year before,” she explained.
It was something Bennett desperately needed at the time. While it wasn’t exactly the place for a kid, Bennett said Woodward was like “the greatest older brother in the world” to her, keeping her safe and letting her hang around in the booth with him. Woodward was working as a DJ at Carousel at that time, a disco club on the North Bennington-Hoosick line.
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