I'm surprised I don't see The Garage come up in Google! At it's peak there were 3 or 4 nightclubs operating in this huge warehouse in Denver. 23 Parrish was a pirate themed dance club with lots of areas to lounge, hang out, shoot pool. The Garage was the live music venue. I think my last visit to the Garage was on the night that the first Lollapalooza tour careened into town. Perry Ferrell wa
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I thought I might MOG a bit about venues that stand out in the highlight reel of concerts past. From 1985-1987 I spent a lot of time at "Dean's Parkade Lounge" in downtown Cedar Falls Iowa. We typically came in the back door by the bathrooms and pool table (singular) to the sounds of country music and the company of country leaning compatriots. But then we went through "the magic black curtain"
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Shell, Joel and I drove in to Denver (from Boulder) to interview and hand out with Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (formerly of Throbbing Gristle fame). When we got to the club we found out they were arriving a bit behind schedule, so we skipped down the alley to a little martini bar and ran into the boys from R.E.M. who were playing Denver than night. Shell and I plotted as to how we might s
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If you have to start somewhere, why not your first concert right. It was September of 1977 when Captain and Tennille performed at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa. You'd be surprised at some of the bands that played McElroy in the 70's (Foghat, Steve Martin, Doobie Brothers, Styx, BTO and so on). So, yes, as a 3rd grader it was pretty cool to go see the Captain and his massi...
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There were only 10-20 people hanging out at Penny Lane when Nirvana made an impromptu stop there in 1989. A rough incomplete set list has been compiled by www.nirvanaguide.com Set which includeds songs like: Floyd The Barber, About A Girl, Paper Cuts, Negative Creep, Blew. They had played the Garage in Denver the night before. Van trouble brought them to Boulder. I remember there van. I remember t
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John Lurie was boycotting record labels and standard PR channels. He had flown into Denver with the express purpose of an interview with the music director of KUCB about the then new Lounge Lizards CD "Voice of Chunk". When he arrived at the station there were only two of us there: the DJ on-duty and myself. I was the production director. We decided to make a go of it. We went back to the stu
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This was a big event at the time. There was actually an interesting scene in Cedar Falls, Iowa with bands on SST, Alternative Tentacles, Enigma stopping through between gigs in Chicago and Denver to play a little hole-in-the-wall bar called Dean's Parkade Lounge. The Black Flag show was held across the river in "The Boat House" on the scenic Cedar River. GONE performed early that day at Co-Op r
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