Scooby Doo

On the Ciudad Bolívar scene

Scooby Doo belonged to the Ciudad Bolívar scene, where it became an established rival of Hot Way and Roseland. The magazine places it at the gatherings held in the early eighties at the Club de Comercio of Ciudad Bolívar, one of the settings where the region's minitecas measured their sound and their crowd.

The rig, from the inside

The period photographs kept by the Archive show the machinery behind the name. In the amplifier rack four Peavey CS-800 amplifiers can be made out, split across two flight cases, with the graphic equalizer and the processors mounted on top: the kit with which a wall of sound was held up in a packed hall.

Another shot places Marco Indriago in the booth, headphones on and hands over the turntables, between the acrylic panels that carried the miniteca's name —on the left-hand one the letters “…DOO” can still be read. And the parties remain too: the boxes of colored lights hanging from the ceiling, the packed hall and the kids posing in front of the equipment.

The name, still out on the street

Scooby Doo did not stay in the eighties: the name is still active as Scooby Doo Discplay, its lettering now on LED screens and aluminum truss rigs, and the booth wrapped in the cartoon character. That recent stage is always identified as such —the Archive covers the years 1967 to 1999 and does not pass off as period what is not— and it takes in the rigs at the Laja Real Club of Ciudad Bolívar and in halls with the banner of DJ Román Guillermo of the LR Club, and a night on which it once again shared a stage with Betelgeuse.

That its booth still lights up four decades later says something about the roots of that miniteca from the south. If you keep more photographs of Scooby Doo at the Club de Comercio or at any of the gatherings of the period, those are the ones that would finish completing this entry.

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Credits and sources

• · Story based on “La Revista de las Minitecas” (DJ Vladimir Medina edition), p. 37; context on Ciudad Bolívar and the Club de Comercio (pp. 46-47).
• · Founding in February 1980, the Roseland inspiration and Lino Bosio's involvement: interview with Marco Indriago reprinted in “Informe Político” (Ciudad Bolívar), issue No. 128, week of 18 to 24 September 2023, p. 10 — text by Lcdo. Hernán Martínez (CNP 17.517); originally published in the newspaper El Progreso.
• · Photographs from the eighties (the rig being set up, Marco Indriago in the booth, the Peavey CS-800 amplifier rack and parties) and present-day ones of the outfit (Scooby Doo Discplay): primary source of the CMTK Archive.