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Post subject: rock clubs in the 60's and 70's
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 3:54 pm
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anybody here remember the great small rock clubs in their cities during the late 60's or early 70's?

there were several here in toledo. many big names played in these places early in their career. personally i remember the agora on dorr street. saw many shows in that place including 1972 when i saw cheech and chong there, and joe walsh that summer. there were many more shows there-maybe i'll remember them later. tell us about any experience in your area please.


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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 4:41 pm
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phreddybee wrote:
anybody here remember the great small rock clubs in their cities during the late 60's or early 70's?
tell us about any experience in your area please.


Yes there were, on Friday and Saturday nights in the 1960's:
The Celler, Arlington Heights Il.
The Blue Umbrella, Palatine Il.
The Green Gorilla, Des Plaines Il.
The Hut, Des Plaines Il.
The Deep End, Park Ridge Il.
The Bat Cave, Edison Park Chicago Il.
these were N/W of Chicago. There were dozens more all over the city and suburbs. Every church had a teen dance with live bands on Sundays.
When the 1970's came a great number of night clubs, geared towards all of the new young adults, opened. Big clubs like the Giraffe, Cheetah, Kinetic Playground (Electric Theater), Haymakers, Monopoly, Bump City, Lally's, 5 Stages, Holiday Ballroom, Thirsty Whale, Beginnings, Mothers, Nickel Bag, Lucifer's Den, and many more.
Mostly live music venues future rock stars made their bones in those clubs.

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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 5:18 pm
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Too many have closed and sadly more keep closing.

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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:31 pm
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In Sacramento during the mid '70s there was a place on Fulton Avenue that featured live non-stop disco music night after night. The band was actually more attuned to rock but they had to play what the club manager thought would sell. We knew the guys and we convinced them to let us have the stage one Friday night for a couple of songs. The place was jam-packed with mind-numbed robots clad in polyester leisure suits, double-knit mini-skirts, and 10-inch platform shoes, all mightily shaking their booties to KC & The Sunshine Band and the O'Jays as we dragged in our instruments across the dance floor and set up around the house band's gear when they took a break. At the top of the hour we launched into Wishbone Ash's "Blowin' Free" followed up with "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" by the Allman Brothers. Surprisingly, most of the audience was pretty receptive but the club owner tossed us out into the parking lot, aided by a squad of John Travolta lookalikes serving as his bouncers. Two week's later the place's format changed to hard rock at the insistence of the regular club patrons. I'd like to think that we were the catalyst that provided the inspiration.

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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:59 pm
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Then there were/are those clubs where the bands and vocalists would hang out after a gig just to chill over a bubbly or sometimes to jam. Musicians are fans too.

If these clubs closed before after hour groups had finished their R&R one might find them in a hideaway bar or in a legitimate one that regularly broke the closing time laws till early morning sunrise. Strangers were turned away at the door with a polite "It's closed. You're just hearing a rehearsal.", and only regulars and guests were invited in (usually through a back or side door). Broadcasting crews and the Press were included. There wasn't much enforcement because local politicians (I know of a mayor) and the law (I know of a Police Chief) usually came for the free entertainment. You just never knew who would show up, and it might even include a card game or two. :D
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I omitted club names to protect the guilty; but, I'm guessing some of you may have had this experience too. :wink:

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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:07 am
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there was quite a few in my local area, in the two major towns, there had to be 20/25 bars/clubs.
There seems to be a resurgence, last few years anyway.


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There was a Hullabaloo Club in our town just outside of Cleveland, in the sixties. The James Gang were the house band, this was prior to Joe Walsh joining the band. The Cleveland area was a hotbed of music activity at the time and the Hullabaloo Club and The Armory were the two places everyone played. I was there every weekend for several years. One Sunday afternoon, The Yardbirds came through on a bus tour and did a show at The Hullabaloo Club, and The James Gang opened for them. So I got to see The James Gang with Joe Walsh and The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page in the same afternoon at a small club. I hung out by the tour bus afterwards. Some pretty funny antics went on. Good times.

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DUI's or DWI's have caused major decline in these once crowded clubs. Why does the pendulum always swing too far?

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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:02 pm
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IM4Tone wrote:
DUI's or DWI's have caused major decline in these once crowded clubs.


+1

And then the nicotine nazis and tobacco fascists finished them off.

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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:08 pm
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And then the nicotine nazis and tobacco fascists finished them off.

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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:36 pm
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Hey Drew 365, don't forget the original Cleveland Agora, the Plato Lounge, The Grapes of Wrath, the Euclid Tavern, All these bar clubs were in Cleveland and featured top local bands as well as up and coming national bands back in the 60's and early 70's. Cleveland still has some good spots to hear live music. The Beachland Ballroom is a cool place.


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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 3:48 pm
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IM4Tone wrote:
Retroverbial wrote:
And then the nicotine nazis and tobacco fascists finished them off.

:evil:

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For sure!


Most people have given up or have not taken up smoking so the smoking ban isn’t a real issue.

Except for some of the drunken smokers that go outside to smoke and bother the neighbors trying to sleep which has led to clubs in gentrified neighborhoods being closed…


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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 4:47 pm
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One of the few that I recall (yet, sadly, rarely went to) in Halifax, Nova Scotia was the Arrows Club.
At the time, I just didn't "get" Motown and R&B, but the few times I went there were most entertaining.
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Over the course of it's life the Arrow's Club played host to internationally known acts such as: Teddy Pendergrass, Ben E. King, The Bluenotes, Ike and Tina Turner, Sam and Dave and Crown Heights Affair, to name but a few.

My financial and college commitments kept me from going more often, but at least I got some good exposure to a different genre than what I was used to.

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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 4:52 pm
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There are still some great ones out there like the Green Iguana in Tampa. Great blues playing goes on there. I have visited it many times during my years in the Air Force when I would go down there to inspect aircraft training or Special Ops conferences at USSOCOM.

Great bar food was a plus!

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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:44 pm
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The year was 1965. I and some younger mates were between flights from the West coast to the East coast, finding ourselves spending a day and a night midway at Hamilton Ontario's naval base HMCS Star.

Hamilton was my birthplace, although I had moved away at 5 years of age. With time to spare, we took the afternoon off and walked by King and John streets, passing by a clapboard in front of a club called The Golden Rail. One of the guys noticed that Bill Haley and his Comets were headlining later that night. Of course, we all wanted to go, but I, even at the age of 18, had been given the responsibility of taking care of these new recruits. I went on to explain that was out of the question given the drinking age requirements.

So on we walked with disappointment, until a big Palooka emerged from the club and shouted my name! Aside from family, I knew no one in that part of the country? At least that's what I thought until I found myself standing next to the bouncer of the club. He had been a Nova Scotia school mate of mine and was older than I. I didn't know him very well, but he seemed to have remembered me. Lucky for us, as he told us to show up later, because the club wanted to support the troops. That evening four sailors got the show of their lives with a front row table and a chance to meet Bill Haley. That was my first underage experience, and one I've never regretted. I know the other guys felt the same.

I later discovered The Golden Rail was responsible for Ronnie Hawkins' first gig and career start in 1958, and others followed.

It leaves me sad to know that William John Clifton Haley lived in misery and died tragically on February 9, 1981 / Age 55. Thanks, for the good times and memory Mr. Haley.

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