If some of ya'll are hip to these legendary clubs;

Studio 54 (The original in New York. Not that bullshit replica in Vegas) Everybody and their momma who was big were there. Mingling with the "common" folk who were lucky enough to get past the ropes. In the late 70's, there wasn't a place like it. You had folks dying to get into that place. One of Chic's biggest hit's "Le Freak" was literally about how Nile and Bernard were not let into the club. So they went home and wrote a song about it. It was originally called "Fuck Off". Knowing that wouldn't get on the radio, they changes it to "Le Freak". Of couse, the club couldn't play that song enough and Nile and Bernard were asked to come to the club. Revenge is sweet.

Max's Kansas City
This was THE place in New York in the early to mid 70's. Especially if u were into the artsy and flamboyance. Bowie, Warhol and his Factory, The New York Dolls, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Patti Smith, etc were regulars.
English Disco
From the early to mid 70's, in Hollywood, especially if you were a teenage girl, you HAD to be here. EVERYBODY from the glam/glitter to the hard rock world, were regulars at this place. Especially if they were on tour and they had shows in L.A. Bowie, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro and even Led Zepp and The New York Dolls hung out and all probably could have went to jail for taking these 15 and 16 year old gils back to their hotel rooms.
CBGB
Another New York club that was legendary for having bands that performed there before and after they made it big. Blondie, The Talking Heads, The Ramones, just to name a few were all regular bands on the bills.

If u could go back in time and u were of legal age to get into these places in the glorious 70's, which one would u go to and which fits u best? Me myself, I would have went to all of them. But I lean more towards Max's Kansas City and English Disco.
If u could go back in time

Legs is woman of all seasons. So, I would say that Max's Kansas City, CBGB, & Studio 54 would best fit me . Because, all good music is like good sex which also involves rhythm patterns and positions (movement).

Whazzup Brutha B? Being a 70's glam-punk rock fan I would have to pick Max's. That place seemed like the spot to be at during that time. I know Steve Rubell would have never let me in 54.

blackguitaristz said:

I saw a pretty good documentary on this last year called Rodney Bingenheimer: Mayor of the Sunset Strip. Talks a lot about the L.A. rock scene in the late 60s / early 70s.

I've been to CBGBs many times so the desire to go back in time to see the spot in its heyday isn't as strong as for the places I've never seen like Studio 54 and Max's Kansas City. Max's might be #1 since I love the whole Warhol/Velvet Underground thing.--then Studio 54, then CBGBs. After those I'd check out Danceteria although I've been there already too albeit way after it's prime.

Mara said:

Yeah, I have that on dvd. Very cool.

sextonseven said:

I always wanted to go to CBGB's.

"No CBGB's...I ain't got time for that now"
Talking Heads

SPYZFAN1 said:

Oh, u would have gotten into 54. I know I would have.

Studio 54 for me.

sextonseven said:

I'd love to go to Danceteria in the years of 1982-1984.

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.

CBGB's I suppose. Though when I actually had a chance to visit the place, I had to pay a $15 (maybe $20, I can't remember) cover just to walk in, and the drinks were ridiculously overpriced. I love the acts that originated there and all, but the place just totally sold out towards the end...

I was surprised how small CBGB's was.
I remember it as a small irregularly shaped dark room - very smoky.
Have no idea if the drinks were expensive since I couldn't afford
any drinks anyhow at that time.
Only saw about 3 shows there.
I always found it crowded & uncomfortable.
But it was great to see Talking Heads there.
Right before their first album was released.

Tom said:

Well Stated Tom. Its a trip how CBGB's came to its demise.

Man,I would have killed to have gotten into Studio 54 during the disco era

Studio 54?
The see and be seen crowd never appealed to me.
That, and I can listen to records at home.

CBGB?
Not really my style of music.

English Disco?
15/16 year old groupies? Definitely doesn't sound like my scene.

Max's Kansas City?
The closest of the 4 but this kind of b.s. would wear thin quickly...

"I met Iggy Pop at max's kansas city in 1970 or 1971," recalled David Bowie. "Me, Iggy, and Lou Reed at one table with absolutely nothing to say to each other, just looking at each other's eye makeup."

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My spot would be Steve Paul's Scene in NYC. Solid bands and legendary jam sessions.

During the 60s/70s NYC had The Dom, Electric Circus, Ondine, Cheetah, Peppermint Lounge, Generation (became Electric Lady Studios), etc, but The Scene was the joint.

The tenor of the club (as stated by owner):
To use music as a common denominator for the fusion between music, musicians, people who like music, and people who are music in their very being.


Plus they had some of the greatest stories. Whether real...

The classic example of this was 'Voodoo Chile', which was really created as a jam but a very, very calculated jam. I mean, after Chas left [the project], Jimi had wonderful aid and assistance from a quite unlikely source: the Scene club which was, fortunately for him, around the corner from the Record Plant. Having booked the session for seven o'clock, we'd be sitting there, tapping our fingers on the desk and twiddling our thumbs, wondering when he was going to show up. After he'd done this a few times we all knew this was Jimi's way of working. He'd be over at the Scene at 10 and show up at the studio at 12 or one, dragging behind him an entourage that included musicians whom he had sussed out as being the key players to try out that evening.

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By May, Wolf was back on the East Coast, where he played at Manhattan's first discotheque, Steve Paul's Scene. The club's manager, Jim Marron, and doorman, Daniel Blumenau, remember Jimi Hendrix jamming with Wolf there. Blumenau said, "The one that I really remember was seeing Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix on the same stage at the same time. It was like seeing the father, the son, and the grandson."

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UniVibes: Could you explain how Jimi came to play it?
Tommy Shannon: Well, at the time I was playing with Johnny Winter and I was living in New York and there was this club called Steve Paul's Scene. And we'd go there every night and there would be a jam session - there would be all these people there like Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jerry Lee Lewis, just all kinds of people and there would be jamming going on. And I was playing one night and he came up and asked if he could play bass. I went, `Sure'. And he really surprised me `cause he just turned it upside down and just played the shit out of it! He played with a pick and played the bass like a bass player would, not like a guitar player who just picked up a bass. He was a really good bass player, funky and really solid.

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Yes it is true that I had a "Jam Session" with the divine Jim in or about the Spring of 1970 at a club in New York City called "Steve Paul's Scene Club." Jimmy used to go there almost nightly as a matter of course when he was at home in NYC and one night I was sitting having a drink, when he came over and re-introduced himself - we had first met in 1968 in Los Angeles after the Cream/Deep Purple concert in Inglewood - and asked if I would play organ for a bit of a jam. It was with Stephen Stills on bass and Buddy Miles on drums and Dave Mason on sax. Afterwards he asked if I'd be there the next night, and if so would I like to do it again. I did, and it was equally enjoyable - two great and memorable (for me at least) nights. I said goodnight and "see ya" to him after that second night, but sadly I never saw him again.

Regards
Jon

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A three hour live jam session at Steve Paul's Scene Club in New York City, apparently in 1968, included Hendrix, Jon Lord (of Deep Purple), Buddy Miles, Steve Stills (bass), and Dave Mason. According to Modern Keyboard magazine (January 1989), the session went over so well that the "supergroup" played two more nights.

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In the evening, Ten Years After are joined onstage at The Scene Club by Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Larry Coryell for a jam!

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The McCoys played almost nightly at Steve Paul's Scene Club in NYC, where Randy jammed frequently with such stars as Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, and Todd Rundgren.

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In the 1960's, while touring with Vanilla Fudge, I had the privilege of playing thirteen dates in a row with the The Jimi Hendrix Experience and with Soft Machine; it was during this time that I got to know Jimi. One night in New York City, during one of the regular late-night jams held at Steve Paul's "Scene" (a happening club in the 60's), Jimi, who was a mainstay at this club, and I were invited by Eddie Kramer to The Record Plant to record a jam session with other well-known musicians at four a.m. Jimi was such a gentleman, that he let me take the first solo.

Vince Martell

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RNRU: What do you remember about those recording sessions? What was it like playing with Jimi?

Jim McCarty: Jimi loved to play. He was one of those guys who continuously would play. When The Scene would close, everybody'd pile over to The Record Plant and play until 7 or 8 in the morning. He loved to jam. So he was always doing that. He was constantly coming around talking to Buddy Miles, so I was always bumping into him, since he was talking to him about putting a band together, which he eventually did with The Band Of Gypsies. So we were always running into each other. We even shared a few women. (Laughs)

RNRU : Speaking of going to Steve Paul's The Scene and jamming with Jimi, you're sometimes credited as being as part of the jam that was recorded there that reportedly had you, Buddy Miles, and a very drunken Jim Morrison getting on stage and rambling incoherently. What do you recall about that? That was kind of bizarre...

JM : What jam was that? That was at The Scene? Are you sure I was there?
What album was that?

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A very inebriated Jim Morrison sits in with Jimi Hendrix at Steve Paul's Scene in an after hours jam session. After several songs Jimi asks Jim to leave the stage, and does not allow him to sit in on future after-hours jams.

Steve Paul's The Scene, New York was fast becoming one of the hot spots for evolving jazz improvistational jam sessions developing between rock groups. Many artists would head on over to the Scene after playing elsewhere, to be a part of these after hours jams. Jimi Hendrix was a regular at these jams, nearly always recording the sessions. On this night, Hendrix opens with Red House and is soon joined onstage by an extremely intoxicated Jim Morrison, who begins to wail some explicitly obscene lyrics in accompaniment to the progression of blues songs. Over the course of several songs, Jim's condition becomes progressively worse. Paul Caruso recalls watching Jim stumble off the stage and knock a table full of drinks over into Janis Joplin's lap. She retaliates by loudly proclaiming in her Texas drawl “I wouldn't mind...if he could sing!”

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Or the surreal...

Legend has it that members of the Junior Mafia regularly came 'round to collect protection money; a certain Sopranos cast member (rest assured it's NOT Li'l Steven) is said to have been among the shakedowners. But such unsavory aspects didn't seem to stop the celebs and heads from packing the place. Chief among the rock gods in residence was Jimi Hendrix.

http://streetsyoucrossed....scene.html



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

The Whiskey a Go Go

The Rainbow (just to hang out )

Rodney's English Disco

theAudience said:

TA, the spot you mentioned is cool as well. There's nothing like digging on atmosphere where groove session are in progress.

Hey Aud, great pick. The Scene was always linked, in my mind, to Jimi. The folklore that I read about when I was a kid. Like Manny's Music store. I always connected that to Jimi. That's just an example of what I meant. Yeah, Jimi was in his element, bigtime. And it was smart of him to bring back other cats to the session to add to The Experience's sound. Voodoo Child and my favorite between the two "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) definately benifited. Voodoo Child, moreso, cuz of Winwood's organ especially.

SoulAlive said:

I KNOW u would have, Alive. Man, u would have been a regular. No sweat.

minneapolisgenius said:

I never really dug The Whiskey for some reason. Even though I've played there. I mean, it has it's history, u know. I was blowed away to have been on the same stage that Hendrix also played on. U know? I do dig the height of the stage. That's always been important to me. It's just, I don't know. Can't put my finger on what it is that doesn't sit well with me about that place. 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! It blew my mind when I went to see Hansen, cuz I realized the cat was white! He actually did the Al thing by putting on "blackface". Not exactly, but same concept. He put on darker makeup to look "black". I was like "Damn". I went with my girlfriend at that time, Jessica. I was like "Um...that's a white dude." She felt kinda funny cuz she was white! I felt HELLA funny cuz Randy was white and Jimi was black!

minneapolisgenius said:

I've actually been to The Rainbow numereous times. This was during the Guns N"Roses period. Before they blew up. I started to mention The Cat House in my thread, but didn't think anybody outside of L.A. would have known what it was. GNR used to play there shortly after their first album blew up. I used to go there all the time. Anyway, same period when I used to go to The Rainbow. But of course, I KNOW why u would have hung out there, Val/Lori, during the 70's. u and Maddox would have had some serious catfights over Pagey. And he would have loved it too. Trying to take both of you back to the Hyatt (Riot) with his whips and shit. U would have been in Star magazine, at least once. Fucking Lori was everywhere. In ALL the pics.

blackguitaristz 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.

blackguitaristz said:

I've never been to any of the places I mentioned actually. They just seem so legendary in my mind I guess.

blackguitaristz 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.

NDRU said:

I actually like dumpy dive bars. As long as the music is good, I don't care what the place looks like.

minneapolisgenius said:

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.

blackguitaristz said:

Yeah the Roxy always came across as much more professional.

The Whiskey was good for up-and-comers & new bands. I had many friends who played there. It wasn't very hard to get a spot there (on a weeknight, at least!). Still it's a cool club that featured live music, which is becoming more rare nowadays.

I went to all those Sunset clubs when I as a kid. I think they had a 16 year old age requirement! UNlike the dance clubs.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yep. I LOVE Star magazine. I have two copies. I have them in little plastic magazine bags. All protected and shit! They didn't have that many.

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.