Here's something kind of funny. First Avenue/7th St. Entry
now prints a biweekly magazine/newsletter with articles on
acts coming to the club, interviews, news, reviews etc. It
is called In-House. The new issue (Number 41, dated Friday
04.21.00 - Thursday 5.04.00) has a section called
"flashback" where people share stories about the club.
Here is one from Chris Osgood (former member of local punk
band the Suicide Commandos, now works as Director of artists
services at Minnesota Resources and Counseling for the Arts)



"I was getting ready to produce a Soul Asylum record, While
You Were Out.... I was watching one of their shows in the
7th St. Entry [c. 1986] and standing on those risers in the
back of the room. I jumped off the riser, landed on the
wheelchair access ramp and broke my ankle. I had to be
carried out on the street. [As} I was laying there, a friend
of mine said that she would take me to the hospital as soon
as their show was over. Tears were rolling down my face, and
my ankle was swelling up. And who comes pulling up but
Prince. I'm there and tears are streaming down my face.
Prince walks up with his bodyguards. He's gotten out of his
white T-Bird, walks over to me. I'm huddled crumpled up
there on the ground, and he looks down at me and he says
"Watch my car." And he and his bodyguards went in, and I
was laying there thinking "When can I go to the hospital?"
And I watched his car. I watched the police show up and put
a ticket on it. I watched the tow truck show up--he just
parked right in the left turn lane in front of the club. I
watched them haul it away into the night."