The Fillmore East (NYC, 1968 – 1971)
Second Avenue near East 6th Street
Steinway Hall (NYC, 1866 – 1926)
East 14th Street, between Fifth Avenue and University Place
Tonic (NYC, 1998 – 2007)
107 Norfolk Street
Roseland (NYC, 1919 – 2014)
West 52nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
Death By Audio (Williamsburg, 2002 – 2014)
Body Actualized Center (Brooklyn, 2011 – 2014)
The Channel (Boston, 1980 – 1991)
25 Necco St.
The Winterland Ballroom (San Francisco, 1971 – 1978)
Miami Arena (Miami, 1988 – 2000)
Le Golf-Drouot (Paris, 1961 – 1981)
Le Sept (Paris, 1968 – 1980)
7 rue Sainte-Anne
Bar 25 (Berlin, 2004 – 2010)
The Astoria Theater (London, 1976 – 2009)
157 Charing Cross Road
The Marquee Club (London, 1958 – 1996)
165 Oxford Street
The Sir George Robey (London, late 80s – mid-90s)
The Cavern Club (Liverpool, 1957 – 1973)
Warzone Centre (Belfast, 1997 – 2003)
ARMA17 (Moscow, 2009 – 2014)
D-22 (Beijing, 2006 – 2012)
Dirty Monster Club (Beijing, 2011 – 2015)
Golden Pudel (Hamburg, 1999 – 2018)
City Gardens (Trenton, NJ, 1979 – 2001)
Satellite Lounge (Cookstown, NJ, 1965 – 1994)
79 Wrightstown-Cookstown Road
Jabberjaw (Los Angeles, 1989 – 1997)
3711 Pico Blvd
House of Blues (West Hollywood, 1994 – 2015)
The Starwood (Los Angeles, mid-1970s – 1981)
Raji’s (Hollywood, 1985 – 1995)
beneath the Hastings Hotel
Universal Amphitheater (Los Angeles, 1972 – 2013)
Good Life Café (South Los Angeles, 1989 – 1999)
Cheetah (Venice, CA, 1967 – 1970)
Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (Irvine, 1987 – 2016)
Kitty Castle (San Jose, 2012 – 2017)
Palace Pier (Toronto, 1941 – 1963)
The Guvernment (Toronto, 1996 – 2015)
132 Queens Quay East
Point Counterpoint II (Louis Kahn designed mobile boat/venue, 1967 – 2017)
Love Street Light Circus and Feel Good Machine (Houston, 1967 – 1970)
Reunion Arena (Dallas, 1980 – 2008)
The Masquerade (Atlanta, 1988 – 2018)
75 Martin Luther King Jr DR SW
X-Ray Cafe (Portland, 1990-1994)
214 W Burnside St.
The Artistery (Portland, 2003-11)
4315 SE Division St.
Satyricon (Portland, 1984 – 2010)
125 N.W. Sixth Avenue
Market Square Arena (Indianapolis, 1974 – 1999)
300 E. Market St.
Korn Krib (Milwaukee, 1964 – 1968)
3314 W. North Ave
Bookie’s (Detroit, 1978 – 1986)
West McNichols St in Highland Park
Rhinoceropolis (Denver, 2005 – 2016)
3553 Brighton Blvd.
1.21 Jigga Watts (Denver, 2010 – 2014)
Lost Lake (Denver, 2000 – 2004)
Near 29th and Walnut
The Safari Club (Washington, D.C., 1989 – 1997)
Cleveland Agora (Cleveland, 1966 – 1984)
1730 East 24th St.
OK Hotel (Seattle, 1985 – 2001)
The Brewery (Raleigh, NC, 1983 – 2011)
3009 Hillsborough Street
Lounge Ax (Chicago, 1986 – 2000)
2438 N. Lincoln Ave.
Swerp Mansion (Chicago, 2013 – 2015)
Crobar (Chicago, 1992 – 2010)
1543 N Kingsbury St
Poplar Creek Music Theater (Chicago, 1980 – 1994)
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Really? I love seeing Brakhage films in a theater. I find that thinking about what kind of films are normally projected in a theater while watching his adds power to them or something. As always, thank you a lot for your wisdom about him. I think Ferrara’s ‘Pasolini’ had its theater time here years back, and I missed the chance, but I’ll try to find an opportunity. Obviously, what you say greatly draws me to the film. Thanks you! ** alex, Alex, maestro, buddy boy, hero, and all that! Shit, I hope you can do a prison break back into your blog, ugh. You good? Stuff good? What’s the haps? Big love, me. ** Derek McCormack, Mr. McCormack! Hi, Derek! Aw, thanks and my total and obvious pleasure on the Don Knotts outlay. What happened to that truncated screenplay? You must know I’m the equivalent of drooling over here. Tons of love to you! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I found Eurovision really disappointing. I miss the days when performers would do those insanely overly/badly IRL theatricalized renditions of songs that made you think their home countries existed in a time machine set to ten or twenty years prior. It’s too much like an over the top version of The Voice or American Idol, etc. for me. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but almost everyone just does their version of what’s popular now as seemingly conceived by people whose normal job is turning the trending style du jour in pop and hiphop and etc. into jingles for commercials. I miss having my jaw drop. Iceland’s SNL-like parody of ‘industrial’ was the obvious highlight. I don’t know. Sorry to be grumpy. I mean I did watch most of it. ** Bill, Me too on the ‘life changing’. I do still like them silent, but I think they work with backgrounding too. My weekend was all right. Quiet, which I needed. Lots of rain here too. Yes, so happy that Kevin is so up and around! That guy’s invincible, thank goodness. ** Steve Erickson, Extra added must-see status added to ‘Pasolini’ then, thank you! It just wasn’t one of those years where the Eurovision audience felt like doing a ‘fuck you’ to the contest sadly. The winning song was easily the worst and most drab thing all night. I have heard that about the chemicals’ likely effects on Brakhage’s health, yes. Ugh. ** Corey Heiferman, Hi, Corey. Ah, don’t wring your hands. You sound like you’ve got a swell angle. So pleased you were mesmerised by ’11 x 14′. As you probably know, that film is in the very, very upper echelon of my all-time favorite films. Huge game changer for me in my thinking when I saw it back when it was new. Great Benning quotes, yes! Words to live — or at least make things — by. Huh, interesting about the coincidence. It would be interesting to see someone adapt Blake’s work well. I can’t think of a single instance where anyone has been able to excitingly so far. (But I might be spacing). Notable coincidence? On Saturday I happened to be opening the front door of my building at the exact moment that a very elderly woman who lives in my building was toppling over on the front streps, and I managed to reach out and grab her, thus preventing her from crashing to the ground and quite possibly breaking her hip, so that was pretty good. ** Right. Today’s post is entirely self-explanatory. See if it’s of interest. See you tomorrow.
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Intensely sad tisee these now-long-gone venues. One not represented here is the new York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow. For several year after the fair was gone it served as a concert stage. I well remember seeing Iggy and the Stooges there — with Iggy throwing himself into the audience. Whenever I see pics like the ones you have here of crowds of shirtless young men jammed together I wonder what they want. Iggy is one answer but there’s a lot more, Why aren’t there women in these crowds?
Hey Dennis, just wanted to tell you that I watched PGL last week and really enjoyed it. Big props to you, Zac, Michael, the rest of the crew, and the cast (obviously). I really need to watch the DVD’s special features at some point soon. Where was it filmed again? I assume somewhere in France? A lot of the buildings and outdoor environs seemed very interesting to me, visually speaking.
Kind of depressed that Game of Thrones is done now (last night was the final episode). But kind of relieved as well. A few of my favorite characters even made it all the way to the end and survived, which I was happy about.
As with the best (meaning so very much) of DC’s, today’s post fascinates and evokes deep emotion in one swipe. It is strange, in the current era of Beyoncé et al endlessly repurposing Leni Refenstahl tropes, to contemplate a long ago moment when music was the primary cultural determinant, with venues like those depicted above serving as clubhouse/church/kiva/you-name-it within that moment. Sadly missing from your gallery is Detroit’s Grande Ballroom, whose current status as a crumbling refuge for area wildlife mirrors not only the gradual defanging of pop music but also Detroit’s own catastrophic decline. A nice touch in Jim Jarmmusch’s ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ had the titular vampires driving past the Grande’s ruins at night. Where once the MC5 kicked out the jams, raccoons and pigeons now live.
Think I went to the Crobar during my brief stay in Chicago back in 2002, although I’m not sure what it was I saw there. I went to a bunch of now-dead venues in Leeds during my 90s adolescence – the Town and Country Club for Blur and the Stone Roses, among others. There was a really tiny and cool pub called the Duchess that hosted early incarnations of groups such as Nirvana but even after the grunge heyday I was always too skinny and young-looking to be allowed in.
I’m attempting to make a start on The Call issue 2 by trying to round up a few art and speculative literature types. I have a few ideas. I’ve also ordered the latest magazine of the emergent Scottish publisher 404 Ink in the hope that might provide a few leads.
Ah, the Fillmore East! When I walk on 2nd Ave, I try to remember exactly where it was. I think I know. I saw Laura Nyro there sitting in the first row (we managed to smoke a joint before and was so stoned and in love!) – and I saw Crosby, Stills, Nash, and the first time Young joined them…heard “Four Dead in Ohio” the very first time they played it. Dates me, I know, I must be getting old, haha.
Dennis! Okay, so the second pic down. Is that who I think it is? You sly devil, you…
Okay, I’ve obviously been out of it lately. CROWD. What’s it all about? A Vienne/Cooper piece, right? Man, I have been out of it. I need to keep up better. Well, anyway, seems it’s going to be in London in October. Somebody you know just may be over there then. 😛 Yes, me. And Kayla and David. Rigby, of course. Maybe Mieze and Joe M. too. We’ll see. Plans are getting together. I was over there last October (sans kids) and we had a great time. I’m thinking the CROWD performance would be a really good thing for us to do. I know the others are up for it. Joe actually alerted me to it. Like I said, I’m so oblivious these days. I’ll correct that soon.
Anyway, so LPS is officially expelled and can’t get back into a public school here. His only option is the GED route if he wants to try that. He said he applied for a job at Taco Bell. Sweet. 😮
I’m picking Kayla up from the airport tomorrow. She went to FL for a week with her friends. I think there was an EDM concert/event down there too. See? I don’t know even know what people in my own house are doing, much less what performances pieces are playing where.
Sleep. I need it. I’ll get it. Tonight. In about 20 minutes. 😀
I remember a very strange Hawkwind show at the Channel in 1990, filled with cops. I assumed they were there because of the band’s stoner reputation but it was about 6 months before the club went out of business, and I later heard rumors about the club owner screwing over the Boston mob and hiring cops as protection. Fun times. That was also the setting of the Slayer gig where someone threw a full garbage can at the band and an all-day Earache Records showcase where Godflesh couldn’t play because their drum machine suddenly lost its memory. I miss so many of these venues in Boston and New York. Since I live near the Fillmore East’s former location, I constantly see “hippie/East Village history” tours holding court outside it.
Hatari remind me a lot of a younger version of Rammstein, with much more self-awareness about how ridiculous they are and a very pointed sense of humor. I don’t like Rammstein’s music, but their recent 9-minute video “Deutschland,” which rolls through German history in a dystopian vein, is pretty impressive.
ARMA 17: Can’t wait to watch the full video!
Satellite Lounge: I hope there are still shows happening in the ruins.
Kitty Castle Schematic: Distills early oughts indie sensibility as only an ephemeral document can.
There were rumors that Tel Aviv’s Rav Hen Cinema, housed in a Bauhaus building, was at risk of closing. Fortunately a buyer was found who says for now that the building will remain a cinema.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%D7%A8%D7%91+%D7%97%D7%9F+%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A2&hl=iw&authuser=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiQq4-L_KviAhXCuFkKHTB2BmEQ_AUIDigB&biw=1440&bih=789#imgrc=EeFruKASJTj-cM:
So as not to be too cheery here are dead Israeli cinemas:
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-cinemas-of-yesteryear-get-repurposed-or-closed/
In 1912, a silent movie theater, the “Cinema International,” opened in Jerusalem on the second floor of Feingold House on Jaffa Road. However, the screenings, consisting mainly of silent feature films and documentaries, were not held at fixed times but instead began based on the number of tickets sold. Shows continued until after midnight, and from accounts told by veteran Jerusalemites to historian Shoshana HaLevy in her book First Issues in the Yishuv’s History, the mostly male audience was raucous.
“In those days, when the films were silent, viewers took a particularly active part in what was happening on the screen. Suggestions flew across the hall. Before every show, Jews and Arabs were armed with sunflower seeds which they cracked. They shouted at any poor actor who did not sense danger lying ahead: “You jackass, kick him in the teeth!”… And pity the couple kissing on-screen; deafening whistles started immediately… A visit to the cinema was truly an experience, until in 1931, when the first talking movie [Al Jolson’s “The Jazz Singer” – RN] silenced an astonished audience.”
I understand your feelings about Eurovision. A lot of meh to sit and sift through and an extremely disappointing finish, but there were a few quite redeeming aspects I’ll get into in the post.
Re-watched 11 x 17. Whole thing feels so connected now to the point of paranoia, yet also weirder: deeply intentional framing and juxtapositions make absolutely everything a potential generator of meaning whether or not Benning consciously decided to put it there. I’m curious what it would be like without the flares between every shot. I guess they have something to do with the eye and memory and paradoxically make everything more connected rather than disjoint?
Your not knowing a good Blake adaptation offhand makes the prospect even more enticing. A cynical voice in my head says “Blake already illustrated Blake, why would you want to mess with that?” These are the only remaining sketches from my friend’s false start:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgH0E5glJ7E/?fbclid=IwAR2BbMxtO3txBLqoaSV6v8F0Or74PNb1ojr06-kROcwiA3Hu595M1O_ExFk
I’ve been trying to make better use of the internet. I haven’t yet written a manifesto on the subject: it’s more intuition about what is and isn’t a waste of time, with often surprising results. I’ve been manic lately but my metabolic functions and behavior at work are both normal so there’s really no downside. So here are three non-Eurovision highlights of my better use of the internet project.
English Renaissance Literature:
http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/ren.htm
Poetry Audio Recordings:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
Yan Yan [scroll down to “The sticks”]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Yan_(snack)