Clive Hudson, The Master Blaster,introduced me to original Ska and oldies classics. I am trying to discover hip hop or reggae clubs in Manhattan. The last Friday of every month features a live ethnic band. Admission is $15. The New . In the late 1980s, many of New Yorks megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. We felt like wed been entrusted to look after our kid sister only to find that wed neglectfully let her slip into the hands of Karla Homolka. New York's Fabulous 1980s and '90s Club Scene. Rootsman Earl Chin introduced me to some roots artists that went deeper than Bob Marley, such as Augustus Pablo, Ijahman (Real aesthetical brother, dis one), Sugar Minott, and others. If a challenging environment is indeed what you want, there is still no more action-packed club than Area, 157 Hudson Street, south of Canal (226- 8423). Street Ragz Clothing Summer Collection. (EP5) Never Get Old: David Bowie & Polyphonic Spree, April 2, 2004, 084. (EP14) The Fine Art of Surfacing: The Boomtown Rats, March 19, 1980, 005. The Red Parrot, 617 West 57th Street (247-1530), is still fun to visit on Fridays and Saturdays, when a 16- piece orchestra plays the sounds of the 40's and 50's. And so, after pouring through the Village Voice, it was agreed by committee that wed be heading to SoHo to see L.A. hardcore titans the Circle Jerks at The Reggae Lounge. I wonder what was with those weirdos who couldnt fathom that a fellow might want a Guinness from time to time. Enjoy these photos of NYC from the 1980s, images that depict what New York City was like decades ago. Were you aware of that and if so, what were your thoughts? Keep This Party Going: The B-52s, Renaissance, July 8, 2010, 148. (EP13) Whats In the City: NFG, Regulators, and Sinners, November 2, 1979, 004. Any night life recommendations? As for the photos, while I am still bestus pals with MZ, Ive lost track with several others, so didnt want to use any close up shots just to respect privacy. At Roseland, 239 West 52d Street (247-0200), where admission is $7 on Fridays, $10 on Saturdays and $8 on Sundays, a big band alternates with a Latin band on Thursdays and Sundays from 2:30 P.M. to midnight and on Saturdays until 11 P.M. Disco dancing is on Fridays. Normally this would be a tad long for my interest, but you kept me humming along reading to see what adventures would come. Over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world. Later, as they left the club and got into a taxi, the gunman fired at least 12 shots at the rear of the cab, the police said. Want more historical New York? Lou & the Velvets. (EP15) The Boiler: Police Picnic 81 with The Police, Specials, Iggy Pop, Killing Joke, The Go-Gos, Nash the Slash, John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett, The Payola$, Oingo Boingo, and The David Bendeth Band, August 23, 1981, 008d. Back Against the Wall: Circle Jerks, Reggae Lounge, New York City, New York, November 16, 1983, $ n/a NOTE: While this first part of a two-part entry will touch on the Circle Jerks' show and 024 will cover Psychic TV at the Danceteria these two entries are more about the hijinks, buffoonery and events experienced among my friends and . The disco music here is interrupted at 1 A.M. on weekends for a half-hour rock video- type show by the club's own dancers. Abra: I agree with you, re: the reason behind the brisk pace. He took them because he just loved drag queens and club kids, Glam said. Lookin Out My Back Door: John Fogerty, July 12, 2011, 165. A group pose for a photograph in Brooklyn. I borrowed some of the interstitial banter from Studio One: In Finestyle to use in it. By the way, do you remember how much AIDS consciousness there was? Spousal abuse. Just looked him up online Wow! Photography wasn't his profession. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/05/arts/dancing-up-a-storm-in-the-clubs.html, It will be one of the hottest tickets in town. discreetly tucking stashes of pills and shrubbery into nooks and crannies so as not to have them on-person should anything come to light when it came time to cross the border. The last two tracks are from Studio One: In Finestyle, a mixtape that was given to me as a gift from a brotherly dred. He basically just went out to clubs or whatever types of events we were going to and took photos. VA and The City! However, if you go from 3-8pm, it's 50% off! And instead of these luvin-from-the-oven nibbly baked goods being enriched with thiamin, niacin or riboflavin, they instead had a different kind of secret ingredient: psilocybin. Following some pre-gig prepping, where there was much communal delight when I pulled out the aforementioned shrubbery, we skinned up and got dolled down in our ragged non-finest and off we went. The quartet spent a couple of hours chatting, laughing, and otherwise boarding the trains ride prior to heading out, but before we did, there came a knock on the door. I havent been since the 80s either Cublet and I keep planning a jaunt back but it keeps getting derailed by other plans. I remember the frisson that overcame me on my first trip to NY, just a few years before your own. Now the theme is carnival, and the club features games and an arcade of bizarre side shows. Later, in 1997, I created a remix project called "Nighty . (EP19) Night & Day: Joe Jackson, October 4, 1982, 012. Said former NYC DEA agent Robert Stutman, "Crack literally changed the entire face of the city. He says it was the first time D n B had been broadcast in the U.S., but I cant verify that (check about 2/3 of the way through the track for the banter). This Global Rock Showcase featured Sister Nancy, Aunt Esther, Sister Charmaine and King D'Jango at S.O.B's in New York City Oct. 29, 2002. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Not having a clear idea of the distance wed be traveling in the cab nor how much the ride would cost, each of us had a dollar in hand to contribute. Five months after this trip, I myself began doing a show there and remained a campus DJ on it for a great 8.5 year run. The clientele is a colorful blend of Rastafarians, Africans, Europeans and students, about 25 and older. Can't wait til next month.". (EP10) Dance This Mess Around: The Heatwave Festival (Part 2) with the Pretenders, The B-52s, Rockpile, Teenage Head, and more, August 23, 1980, 008a. Bars (for prepartying) or night. A man passes out on top of and inside a trash can in Times Square. I was car-accident-like fixated upon this seemingly post-apocalyptic, Eventually, Jerseyian gloom gave way to Manhattan splendor as we emerged from the tunnel. The club is particularly alive on Sundays nights. Plus, I was curious to take in an actual gig with a mosh pit, then still something new, so I was game, as were we all. We were chuffed to discover a mini-mart of sorts across the street with basic food and even more importantly for us at that time alcohol. Its good to hear you were involved with that development and that the family tradition lives on. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. "When it first started going off, nobody knew where it was coming from. (EP4) Flower: Lollapalooza 92 w/Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, & Lush, Aug 5, 1992, 056. Bootzilla: Bootsy Collins, The Flaming Lips, and more, July 5 & 8, 2011, 163. He played some RaggaJungle Drum n Bass for the first time which is represented here. I will never forget the first time I heard Jungle Drum n Bass. Id read an article in the Village Voice in September 82 when it was first being discovered. Sludgefeast: Dinosaur Jr., January 22, 2010, 104. Ethel & Fred Mertz (Vivian Vance & William Frawley) in a still from an I Love Lucy postcard that I bought while in NYC. Its the Year Two Thousand & Ten: Broken Social Scene, December 16, 2010, 155. Admission is $6 for diners, $12 for others. An international crowd dances at Nirvana Club One on the 16th and 17th floors of 1 Times Square (486-5700). Hanging Around: Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers featuring Blondies Clem Burke, November 5, 2010, 154. I also love to dance. On Friday nights only, the Ethnic Folk Arts Center, 179 Varick Street, (691-9510), provides an international array of folk dances. 17 Things You Didn't Know About Walt Whitman, Laurent Chehere's Flying Houses Speak To Your Inner Child, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. 024 will cover Psychic TV at the Danceteria, the Flipper gig from a few months previous, post-Throbbing Gristle-offshoot Psychic TV performing at the hottest nightclub in the city at that time, Danceteria, 022b. Day One: Mission Accomplished A Success!! At another club, Visage, mermaids dive into pools and men with green faces skate on ice. Activism & Politics Bars & Nightlife Staten Island 1970s 1980s Lesbian Bars, Clubs & Restaurants. Hardcore was never a big thing for me but it was one of the key underground. Monkey Gone To Heaven: The Pixies perform Doolittle, April 16, 2011, 156. The Beastie Boys remain a pop-culture phenomenon today and influencer to countless musical artists, even after Yauch's death in 2012. #1: December 1986: MY 3 XMAS WEEKENDS FROM HELL! Trees Outside the Academy: 2011 Ottawa Folk Festival with Thurston Moore, Bright Eyes, Tom Morello/The Nightwatchman, & The Little Stevies, August 27-28, 2011, 167. The club also offers a special $6 admission for students. These are some of the latest exhibits at Area, the city's most talked-about dance club. Williamsburg. For tonight, anyway. VA, to answer your question I can tell you the following: I came into the city on a bus from CT since the train line I would normally use was being upgraded with a third rail at that time. I loved the food shops across from the hotels etc.. You could get anything. I recall the Reggae Lounge as being like an old dance hall, holding perhaps 1,000, with a stage at the far end of a big open space, a balcony up top, with seats or ledges where people were sitting lining the walls of the club. (EP20) Gimme Danger: Iggy Pop with Nash the Slash, October 27, 1982, 013. Later, in 1997, I created a remix project called Nighty-Night: Deep Soul in Dub which involved remixing soul and funk tracks in the classic King Tubbys Jamaican Dub style. Oooh-ah! Raising a Guinness to you on St. Pattys, catch. Although disk jockeys say that today's music is embracing more styles - mixing reggae and hard rock and new wave, for example - one can visit club after club and, with few exceptions, hear nothing but what is playing on the FM dial. His day job was as a bookkeeper. If your navy blue trademark is your hair, not your suit, you might prefer the live bands and progressive sounds featured at the Pyramid Club, 101 Avenue A, near Seventh Street (420- 1590). Of course, only our own little Betty Crocker knew how much of the Vitamin P resided in each nougatey product, but within about an hour it became clear to each of us that hed packed plenty into the rich snack. Popular with women's softball teams, it was the first official. For one, he was older than most of the people out at the clubs, and with his salt-and-pepper hair, he looked it. Pictured, undercover cops arrest a drug dealer in Times Square. The Ritz was founded in 1980 by Jerry Brandt in the historic Webster Hall ballroom and concert space on 11th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Nebula. It turned out that TA was, in addition to being a big jazz head, very into a lot of groove-based music as was I, including reggae, and we we wanted to jump in and join the gang. Dear Record Store, I QUIT! The Rain Song: Robert Plant & the Band of Joy, June 23, 2011, 159. There used to be a club called the Reggae Lounge but I think it's closed. Walk Like A Giant: Neil Young and Crazy Horse with Patti Smith, November 24, 2012, 173. The moment the Circle Jerks fled the stage, we headed back down and found the poor thing terrified out of her wits. In their place, smaller clubs like Tunnel opened in Chelsea, and that's when Glam said the club kidsyoung, outlandishly dressed people who partied several times a weekemerged. In 1995, Di Biasio gave Glam four boxes of his photos to store in his closet. Please send me a message if you can direct me to some biographical information. Most Sundays the club is closed, but this Sunday it is open from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., with admission $10 for all. $$$$. NYC radio during the 1970s and '80s was loaded with variety, especially on the left end of the dial and at 105.9 WHBI/WNWK FM. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Its a cold frozen day here, but this lively account warmed me up and gave me a smile. A more flamboyant crowd dances at an odyssey of a club called Paradise Garage, 84 King Street, near Varick Street (989-2975), which is open to the public on Friday nights only. The Mean Fiddler. While the rest of the magnanimous seven decided to grab a brew and snake off to the sidelines, The Artist and I each decided to hit the dance floor. 1-4) Once In A Lifetime: Heatwave Festival at 40 with Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, B-52s, Pretenders, Rockpile, Teenage Head & more, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 23, 1980, EP 9A&B (no.20b) Waiting In Vain: 22 Performances I Missed (1980-2020) including The Clash, Bob Marley, XTC, Sonic Youth, Simon & Garfunkel, U2, & more, EP 8 (no.3) This Years Model: Elvis Costello & The Attractions with The Battered Wives, Alumni Hall (UWO), London, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 6, 1978, EP 7 (no.2) Still the Same: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band with Toby Beau, London Gardens, London, Ontario, Canada, Friday May 19, 1978, EP 6 (no.175) Im Your Man: Leonard Cohen, Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 7, 2012, EP 5 (no.104) Never Get Old: David Bowie with The Polyphonic Spree, Corel Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 2, 2004, EP 4 (no.76) Flower: Lollapalooza 92 w/Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, & Lush, Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, Wed Aug 5, 1992, EP 3 (no.7) Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Ramones with The Demics, Centennial Hall, London, Ontario, Canada, May 20, 1980, EP 2 (no. 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