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Printableblackguitaristz said: minneapolisgenius said:  Yeah, you know why I would have loved that place. 
Isn't that how Jimmy first saw Lori anyway?  He saw her in some magazine photo I think. 
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blackguitaristz said: minneapolisgenius said: I actually like dumpy dive bars. As long as the music is good, I don't care what the place looks like. I LOVE The Roxy. Always have. I'll get to play there one day. I've NEVER seen a bad show there. Didn't matter who was playing. They always tore it up. Very cool club.  Ah..How can we forget the Roxy. This is another quenissential Rock spot. | |
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blackguitaristz said: SoulAlive said: Man,I would have killed to have gotten into Studio 54 during the disco era
I KNOW u would have, Alive. Man, u would have been a regular. No sweat. Can you imagine how cool it would have been,hanging out there in the summer of '78?! | |
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vainandy said: Definately Studio 54 because it was disco, it was wild and outrageous, and best of all, only the wildest people could get in.
Another club that would have been right up my alley would have been The Paradise Garage. I wish Iaintheone would come to this thread.He has hung out at both of these clubs in the late 70s. | |
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SoulAlive said: vainandy said: Definately Studio 54 because it was disco, it was wild and outrageous, and best of all, only the wildest people could get in.
Another club that would have been right up my alley would have been The Paradise Garage. I wish Iaintheone would come to this thread.He has hung out at both of these clubs in the late 70s. Whaaaat?! He hung out at the o.g. 54?! In the late 70's? SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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blackguitaristz said: SoulAlive said: I wish Iaintheone would come to this thread.He has hung out at both of these clubs in the late 70s. Whaaaat?! He hung out at the o.g. 54?! In the late 70's? I'm sure he has some wild stories about it,lol
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Mara said: Sorry to deviate from the selections, but, if I was 19, 21 or 25 or something to that effect in the early '80s and could time travel for one night only...I'd most likely hit up:
DANCETERIA (knowing my style, something like this would naturally draw me, video shows, live acts like Sade -- when they were unknown and doing their first-ever U.S. gigs, Run DMC album release parties, hip hop was still new and exciting and it was converging with the new wave scene, the electro and dance scene, rock-type club music. fashion kids, dancer kids, etc. NO COVER on most nights. because i'd most likely be broke.) And, also, maybe, Xenon, Night Moves, Paradise Garage and FunHouse.     I always wanted to go to Danceteria! | |
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blackguitaristz said: SoulAlive said: I wish Iaintheone would come to this thread.He has hung out at both of these clubs in the late 70s. Whaaaat?! He hung out at the o.g. 54?! In the late 70's? yup...  crazy shit i seen Larry Levan, Ted Courrier,Frankie and Tony,Sergio Munzabai these Dj's made me what i am in the dance music Genre of Dj'ing | |
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IAintTheOne said: blackguitaristz said: Whaaaat?! He hung out at the o.g. 54?! In the late 70's? yup... crazy shit i seen Larry Levan, Ted Courrier,Frankie and Tony,Sergio Munzabai these Dj's made me what i am in the dance music Genre of Dj'ingbut what about the crazy stuff? You know....in "the basement" | |
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SoulAlive said: IAintTheOne said: yup... crazy shit i seen Larry Levan, Ted Courrier,Frankie and Tony,Sergio Munzabai these Dj's made me what i am in the dance music Genre of Dj'ingbut what about the crazy stuff? You know....in "the basement" i wont talk about that | |
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IAintTheOne said: SoulAlive said: but what about the crazy stuff? You know....in "the basement" i wont talk about that 
You ever hang out at Danceteria? | |
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SoulAlive said: IAintTheOne said: i wont talk about that
You ever hang out at Danceteria? Once...i was usually at the Funhouse or Devil's nest | |
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IAintTheOne said: SoulAlive said:
You ever hang out at Danceteria? Once...i was usually at the Funhouse or Devil's nest and Plato's Retreat 
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NDRU said: blackguitaristz said: I remember when I was 17, going to see Hendrix tribute performer, Randy Hansen there. He was the first act, I do believe, (Aud would know) that actually promoted copying Hendrix. Not counting Frank from Mahogany Rush! I saw Randy Hansen at the Whiskey! I was about 17, too.
Yeah, it's really just a club, nothing special, except for the people who played there. It's actually pretty dumpy (at least the last times I was there in the 90's) The Roxy is a much nicer place to hang out. Randy Hansen was probably the de facto Hendrix impersonator back in the day. I saw his act from backstage in the late 70s when he was in full makeup and wig. An interesting thing, outside of him being relatively short, was the opening of his show. With curtains closed they'd filled the stage with 2-3 feet of fog. He'd come out, get on his knees and lean backwards underneath the fog layer. Curtains would open, he'd start wailing and rise up out of the fog like some Night of the Living Dead zombie. At some point, he tried to drop the impersonation act and make it on his own. Presently, it looks like he's back doing the Hendrix Tribute sans the makeup and wig. Part of the oddness of The Whisky could be attributed to its general layout. You could always leave your name on the dressing room wall though. 
One step up was The Troubadour, another rather historic dive. And i'd agree that The Roxy would represent the high-end of the 3. The shameful part about those joints is that sometime during the 80s they instituted the dreaded "pay-to-play" policy. This meant you didn't have to be good to play there, anybody could get a gig there if they could come up with the number of dollars the "promoter" required. Luckily, I got to play at all 3 locations (w/Marcus) before they adopted that policy. tA  Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: NDRU said: I saw Randy Hansen at the Whiskey! I was about 17, too.
Yeah, it's really just a club, nothing special, except for the people who played there. It's actually pretty dumpy (at least the last times I was there in the 90's) The Roxy is a much nicer place to hang out. Randy Hansen was probably the de facto Hendrix impersonator back in the day. I saw his act from backstage in the late 70s when he was in full makeup and wig. An interesting thing, outside of him being relatively short, was the opening of his show. With curtains closed they'd filled the stage with 2-3 feet of fog. He'd come out, get on his knees and lean backwards underneath the fog layer. Curtains would open, he'd start wailing and rise up out of the fog like some Night of the Living Dead zombie. At some point, he tried to drop the impersonation act and make it on his own. Presently, it looks like he's back doing the Hendrix Tribute sans the makeup and wig. Part of the oddness of The Whisky could be attributed to its general layout. You could always leave your name on the dressing room wall though.
One step up was The Troubadour, another rather historic dive. And i'd agree that The Roxy would represent the high-end of the 3. The shameful part about those joints is that sometime during the 80s they instituted the dreaded "pay-to-play" policy. This meant you didn't have to be good to play there, anybody could get a gig there if they could come up with the number of dollars the "promoter" required. Luckily, I got to play at all 3 locations (w/Marcus) before they adopted that policy. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 Oh yes the Troubadour! I forgot that one. That takes me back. Those were the first clubs I ever went to. Yeah the pay to play thing is pretty unfortunate. They knew they had a good thing going, and decided to capitalize on it, rather than simply promote music. Who knew the entertainment business could be sleazy? But I can imagine fifty thousand hair bands trying to play my club. I might do the same thing, unfortunately.My Legacy
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theAudience said: NDRU said: I saw Randy Hansen at the Whiskey! I was about 17, too.
Yeah, it's really just a club, nothing special, except for the people who played there. It's actually pretty dumpy (at least the last times I was there in the 90's) The Roxy is a much nicer place to hang out. Randy Hansen was probably the de facto Hendrix impersonator back in the day. I saw his act from backstage in the late 70s when he was in full makeup and wig. An interesting thing, outside of him being relatively short, was the opening of his show. With curtains closed they'd filled the stage with 2-3 feet of fog. He'd come out, get on his knees and lean backwards underneath the fog layer. Curtains would open, he'd start wailing and rise up out of the fog like some Night of the Living Dead zombie. At some point, he tried to drop the impersonation act and make it on his own. Presently, it looks like he's back doing the Hendrix Tribute sans the makeup and wig. Part of the oddness of The Whisky could be attributed to its general layout. You could always leave your name on the dressing room wall though.
One step up was The Troubadour, another rather historic dive. And i'd agree that The Roxy would represent the high-end of the 3. The shameful part about those joints is that sometime during the 80s they instituted the dreaded "pay-to-play" policy. This meant you didn't have to be good to play there, anybody could get a gig there if they could come up with the number of dollars the "promoter" required. Luckily, I got to play at all 3 locations (w/Marcus) before they adopted that policy. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 DAMN, that's HELLA cool that u played with Marcus. If he was a little more mainstream, then my little kid ass would have been hip to him THEN. And I would have been able to have gotten in at The Whiskey. Unless of course, they enforced an age limit rule then. But yeah, I spoke on the pay to play policy on here before. I had to go through that shit when I was first starting out. My band at that time, Chris Christian and the Flower Reverence, (side note) I was 17 and getting ready to hit the stages in clubs and I needed a band name. I wanted to use "Christian" as my last name then, for some reason. Later changing it to "Lords" before settling on CoShea, which is my real middle name. Anyway, my mom comes up with the name "reverence". She knew I was knee deep at this time into Jimi and Prince. So, she took the front end of Prince's band name, the Revolution and the back end of Jimi's band, the Experience and combined the two and u got "reverence". Anyway, a fave pay to play situation was my band The Reverence was in this Battle of the Bands thing that another famous club, Gazzarri's, had every Sunday night. 10 bands was in this thing. U all went up and played a 20 minute set and then folks voted for u. The 3 bands that got the most votes then got to headline on a coveted Saturday night at the club. That was the prize. Saturday night, on The Strip in Hollywood, in the 80's, was a HUGE deal back then. And at Gazzarri's? Yeah, most definately. Anyway, that Sunday at the Battle of the Bands, I met Jennifer Batten, who went on to play for Michael. She was in one of the bands that tried out and didn't get picked. Anyway, my band was one of the 3 that got chosen. I found out later that week when my mom told me I had a phone call. It was Bill Gazzarai himself. This guy was a legend in the rock scene in L.A. He told me that my band was picked to headline. Anyway, I go down to the club later to pick up all these tickets to sell but I had to put down some bread for the deposit. Meaning I was buying the tickets from the club, which guaranteed they were going to make money. It was up to us to sell all of the tickets at which ever price we chose to either break even or to make a profit. We sold all of the tickets, except for the ones I gave away to some girls, and made a little profit. But it was a cool experience. SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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blackguitaristz said: theAudience said: Randy Hansen was probably the de facto Hendrix impersonator back in the day. I saw his act from backstage in the late 70s when he was in full makeup and wig. An interesting thing, outside of him being relatively short, was the opening of his show. With curtains closed they'd filled the stage with 2-3 feet of fog. He'd come out, get on his knees and lean backwards underneath the fog layer. Curtains would open, he'd start wailing and rise up out of the fog like some Night of the Living Dead zombie. At some point, he tried to drop the impersonation act and make it on his own. Presently, it looks like he's back doing the Hendrix Tribute sans the makeup and wig. Part of the oddness of The Whisky could be attributed to its general layout. You could always leave your name on the dressing room wall though.
One step up was The Troubadour, another rather historic dive. And i'd agree that The Roxy would represent the high-end of the 3. The shameful part about those joints is that sometime during the 80s they instituted the dreaded "pay-to-play" policy. This meant you didn't have to be good to play there, anybody could get a gig there if they could come up with the number of dollars the "promoter" required. Luckily, I got to play at all 3 locations (w/Marcus) before they adopted that policy. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 DAMN, that's HELLA cool that u played with Marcus. If he was a little more mainstream, then my little kid ass would have been hip to him THEN. And I would have been able to have gotten in at The Whiskey. Unless of course, they enforced an age limit rule then. But yeah, I spoke on the pay to play policy on here before. I had to go through that shit when I was first starting out. My band at that time, Chris Christian and the Flower Reverence, (side note) I was 17 and getting ready to hit the stages in clubs and I needed a band name. I wanted to use "Christian" as my last name then, for some reason. Later changing it to "Lords" before settling on CoShea, which is my real middle name. Anyway, my mom comes up with the name "reverence". She knew I was knee deep at this time into Jimi and Prince. So, she took the front end of Prince's band name, the Revolution and the back end of Jimi's band, the Experience and combined the two and u got "reverence". Anyway, a fave pay to play situation was my band The Reverence was in this Battle of the Bands thing that another famous club, Gazzarri's, had every Sunday night. 10 bands was in this thing. U all went up and played a 20 minute set and then folks voted for u. The 3 bands that got the most votes then got to headline on a coveted Saturday night at the club. That was the prize. Saturday night, on The Strip in Hollywood, in the 80's, was a HUGE deal back then. And at Gazzarri's? Yeah, most definately. Anyway, that Sunday at the Battle of the Bands, I met Jennifer Batten, who went on to play for Michael. She was in one of the bands that tried out and didn't get picked. Anyway, my band was one of the 3 that got chosen. I found out later that week when my mom told me I had a phone call. It was Bill Gazzarai himself. This guy was a legend in the rock scene in L.A. He told me that my band was picked to headline. Anyway, I go down to the club later to pick up all these tickets to sell but I had to put down some bread for the deposit. Meaning I was buying the tickets from the club, which guaranteed they were going to make money. It was up to us to sell all of the tickets at which ever price we chose to either break even or to make a profit. We sold all of the tickets, except for the ones I gave away to some girls, and made a little profit. But it was a cool experience. Reverence, that's a cool name, and cooler considering the subtle references to your idols. Gazzarri was like an old time gangster, wasn't he? Not saying he actually was, but he looked like one. That's a cool story, but, damn! You win the battle, and you still pay to play? My Legacy
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NDRU said: blackguitaristz said: DAMN, that's HELLA cool that u played with Marcus. If he was a little more mainstream, then my little kid ass would have been hip to him THEN. And I would have been able to have gotten in at The Whiskey. Unless of course, they enforced an age limit rule then. But yeah, I spoke on the pay to play policy on here before. I had to go through that shit when I was first starting out. My band at that time, Chris Christian and the Flower Reverence, (side note) I was 17 and getting ready to hit the stages in clubs and I needed a band name. I wanted to use "Christian" as my last name then, for some reason. Later changing it to "Lords" before settling on CoShea, which is my real middle name. Anyway, my mom comes up with the name "reverence". She knew I was knee deep at this time into Jimi and Prince. So, she took the front end of Prince's band name, the Revolution and the back end of Jimi's band, the Experience and combined the two and u got "reverence". Anyway, a fave pay to play situation was my band The Reverence was in this Battle of the Bands thing that another famous club, Gazzarri's, had every Sunday night. 10 bands was in this thing. U all went up and played a 20 minute set and then folks voted for u. The 3 bands that got the most votes then got to headline on a coveted Saturday night at the club. That was the prize. Saturday night, on The Strip in Hollywood, in the 80's, was a HUGE deal back then. And at Gazzarri's? Yeah, most definately. Anyway, that Sunday at the Battle of the Bands, I met Jennifer Batten, who went on to play for Michael. She was in one of the bands that tried out and didn't get picked. Anyway, my band was one of the 3 that got chosen. I found out later that week when my mom told me I had a phone call. It was Bill Gazzarai himself. This guy was a legend in the rock scene in L.A. He told me that my band was picked to headline. Anyway, I go down to the club later to pick up all these tickets to sell but I had to put down some bread for the deposit. Meaning I was buying the tickets from the club, which guaranteed they were going to make money. It was up to us to sell all of the tickets at which ever price we chose to either break even or to make a profit. We sold all of the tickets, except for the ones I gave away to some girls, and made a little profit. But it was a cool experience. Reverence, that's a cool name, and cooler considering the subtle references to your idols. Gazzarri was like an old time gangster, wasn't he? Not saying he actually was, but he looked like one. That's a cool story, but, damn! You win the battle, and you still pay to play? Yep. Like I said, THAT was the prize! That's showbiz in the big city. SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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blackguitaristz said: NDRU said: Reverence, that's a cool name, and cooler considering the subtle references to your idols. Gazzarri was like an old time gangster, wasn't he? Not saying he actually was, but he looked like one. That's a cool story, but, damn! You win the battle, and you still pay to play? Yep. Like I said, THAT was the prize! That's showbiz in the big city. It's funny that old-school club owners did the hard work necessary to build their own clientele. There's no way they'd let a group in that couldn't play and would possibly run their crowd away. They built their reputations on having solid entertainment and over time this guaranteed them packed houses. Here, the "four-wallers" just wanted the artist to supply the clientele and pay for the "privilege" of doing it. Talk about some pretzel logic. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: blackguitaristz said: Yep. Like I said, THAT was the prize! That's showbiz in the big city. It's funny that old-school club owners did the hard work necessary to build their own clientele. There's no way they'd let a group in that couldn't play and would possibly run their crowd away. They built their reputations on having solid entertainment and over time this guaranteed them packed houses. Here, the "four-wallers" just wanted the artist to supply the clientele and pay for the "privilege" of doing it. Talk about some pretzel logic. tA Tribal Disorder
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blackguitaristz said: theAudience said: It's funny that old-school club owners did the hard work necessary to build their own clientele. There's no way they'd let a group in that couldn't play and would possibly run their crowd away. They built their reputations on having solid entertainment and over time this guaranteed them packed houses. Here, the "four-wallers" just wanted the artist to supply the clientele and pay for the "privilege" of doing it. Talk about some pretzel logic. tA Tribal Disorder
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vainandy said: Another club that would have been right up my alley would have been The Paradise Garage. I would go there just to listen to Larry Levan spin, I got a cd of him mixing at the Garage back in 1979. | |
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Abdul said: vainandy said: Another club that would have been right up my alley would have been The Paradise Garage. I would go there just to listen to Larry Levan spin, I got a cd of him mixing at the Garage back in 1979. | |
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