For more than a decade, she was music director at the old Crobar nightclub on Kingsbury Street, where she co-ran the"Glee Club" LGBTQ+ night alongside Val Scheinpflug – also known as DJ Psycho-B***h.
Teri Bristol and DJ Psycho-B***h perform during the 2013 Wavefront Music Festival at Montrose Beach on July 6, 2013.Bristol also DJ'd at the famous all-ages club Medusa's on Sheffield Avenue in Lakeview, Cairo on Wells Street in River North, and Smartbar on Clark Street in Wrigleyville, among other famous nightspots., Bristol said she was born in Joliet – and spent part of her childhood in Tennessee before moving back with her family to southwest suburban Justice.
Bristol told the project that as she came of age, she was a fan of 70s rock acts such as Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath – but was sold on disco when she listened to radio station WDAI. Bristol said eventually, she made her way to the old Chicago LGBTQ+ dance club Broadway Limited, on Broadway near Belmont Avenue, to experience disco DJs live in person.
Scheinpflug told Columbia College when she and Bristol first met, she was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar – but learned how to operate the sound system on her downtime. When the DJ there got fired, Bristol was pressed into service as a DJ, she told Columbia College. Bristol told Columbia College in the interview that the name"Glee Club" for the Sunday night event at Crobar started out as an acronym of"Gay, Lesbian, Everyone's Equal." It became the longest-running LGBTQ+ night in a bar geared toward a straight clientele.The website
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