This is the second in a series of photographs of walls from late 1980 or early 1981, right after I'd bought my first SLR camera and before my first child was born. This was somewhere in the Village/SoHo area of NYC, where I was quite taken with the overlapping and shredded posters and graffiti.
The Mudd Club was around from 1978 to 1983, and Hurrah lasted from 1976 to 1980. There's also CBGB, which began in 1973 and lasted a lot longer.
(Feel free to talk about anything in the comments, including which long-ago rock clubs you frequented.)
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I am really enjoying this photo series. Look forward to more.
I am Laslo.
Another of our brilliant foreign policy successes ......
Anyone care what Putin may be up to? Just looking for some attention?
Per Gorby:
The U.S. and Russia, he said, are already in a new Cold War. “Unfortunately I cannot say for sure that a cold war won't lead to a ‘hot’ one,” Mr. Gorbachev was quoted as saying. “I fear they could take the risk.”
I remember back when I was into seal clubbing, the baby harp seal I was with one night got me thrown out of CBGB when it puked all over Fee Waybill...
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around
This ain't no Mudd Club, or CBGB
I ain't got time for that now
If the song is going to be stuck in my head all day, then it is going to be stuck in everyone's head all day.
It was already swirlin around my brain. Thanks for the lyrics, MF.
I loved the old restaurant pics in the State Journal.
When I drived by the Cuba Club in Madison I thought how fab. But I never entered because I was po.
I'm a huge fan of the group Television, which was active in that late 70s NYC scene.
The group is still together, but Richard Lloyd is no longer with them, and they play shows only sporadically.
My parents' Engagement Party was at the Cuba Club back in 1948 or 1949. I think I went there once before it closed back in the 1980s (Glad the oak tree is still there) and was replaced by the building that holds Panera now. My only recollection is a sloping entrance way, for wheelchairs I guess. They knew their clientele by that point.
My fave has always been the 9:30 Club in DC. I started going there around 1984, and I'm still going there, because it's still going strong. I've seen so much there. Styles ranging from Bob Dylan to Nick Cave, and everything in between. The best shows I've ever been to have been at the 9:30 Club and The Bayou down by the river on K St in Georgetown. I was heartbroken when they closed in '99.
I always thought Cuba Club was a hopelessly outdated name by 1980. Maybe it was exotic in the 1940s, when Cuba was the place to escape for rum and gambling; they should have changed the name after Fidel took over though. Maybe the owners didn't think the Revolution would last.
I wonder if Paul Soglin went to the Cuba Club before or after going to Cuba.
In case you missed it, Chris Christy got a big bounce.
Althouse,
I love this photo. The previous post hinted at your talent, but this is brilliant. Could it be blown up poster size without losing its sharpness?
@CWJ
Thanks.
It's a scan of a print that isn't much bigger than what you are looking at, so I don't know.
I should have the negative somewhere, but I don't know if I'll ever find it.
I love old Wisconsin and Madison Supper Clubs but I do not like the "renaissance" supper clubs in Wisconsin.
Althouse is not a supper club goer because she is elite and northeast. I am elite too, because of my education and where I live and work. Boston-fab, biotech, health care and hi-tech and really expensive.
But I still love Wisconsin-but would never ever live there because you don't have enough exotic swarmy brown cock. White cock is boring and predictable. And your fat.
tits.
I should have the negative somewhere, but I don't know if I'll ever find it.
You chucked them when you were tidying up, didn't you?
It's patriotic and very American.
I went to the MUDD CLUB once, before I had even moved to NYC, but when I was just visiting, in 1980, and I went to CBGB quite a number of times over the years. HURRAH was closed by the time I moved here in 1981.
I also went to THE RITZ often, (now Webster Hall), THE PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, in both its locations, (just off Times Square, then later, lower Fifth Avenue), MAXWELL'S in Hoboken, and other miscellaneous clubs and bars where bands played.
"(TELEVISION) is still together, but Richard Lloyd is no longer with them, and they play shows only sporadically."
I saw them several times in their first series of reunions in 1992, and they were quite excellent. However, and regrettably, Tom Verlaine did far less of his legendary long-form soloing, and even gave much of the solo space onstage to Richard Lloyd. Perhaps his ego was no longer in it as it had been in their earlier years, (to the point Richard Hell left the band due to Verlaine's domination and refusal to allow Hell to perform his own songs any longer).
Yeah, I saw a couple of their shows that year, and had a similar impression.
Television was the best band to come out of that late 70s NYC scene, and I include the Talking Heads among the bands they were better than.
Here in Denver back in the 90s Wax Trax had a poster hanging on the wall that said "The World's Greatest Rock Band, THE ROLLING STONES." Some disgruntled employee or sullen customer had x'd out "THE ROLLING STONES" with a black marker and boldly scrawled, "TELEVISION."
Do you guys who mentioned Television have "Live at the Old Waldorf"? Wowser.
I have LIVE AT THE WALDORF. Better than that is THE BLOW UP on Roir Records. "Little Johnny Jewel" is mind-blowing!
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