My old dive burned down...

[blastoff]

The Riptide in SF burned down a few years ago. it was super sad, because it was such a cool, locals watering hole, and- for one of the bands i was in- it was our main venue!
but then they rebuilt it, and i swear you can't even tell the difference! they got it exactly the same down the the antlers on the wall!

 

[Dougflores]

My first ever gig was a local coffee shop in LA called The House of Brews. It was such an eye opening experience for a gig noob like me. Place went out of business a month later. To this day I tell the story of how we “shut it down”.

 

[Jim Nazium]

It's usually some stupid with a flare gun.

 

[JRA]

none of my 'formative years' haunts exist, of course, but now i'm too old to appreciate what the embryos call "cool places" --- for one thing: they're way to clean!

 

[Spectre1966]

First place I ever played closed down for good a couple years ago (Sir Morgan's Cove, famous for having the Stones play a guerrilla gig there once) - I also played one of the last gigs there about a month before it closed. It's being razed. Just played a local dive that closed the week after, also being razed. And who knows how many will close for good with the pandemic? Bummer time to be a musician...

I played a New Year’s Eve show there in the late 90s....it was a pretty cool place. I remember the only thing it was famous for was the Stones show you mentioned.

 

[skygzr]

There was a college dive bar I played a couple of times. It didn’t burn down, but the college bought it and now it’s a counseling office. Oh the irony.

And then there was this greasy spoon place that used to burn down pretty regularly. I always wondered what was up with that.

 

[SteveCS]

Pretty insignificant in respect to everything else going on, but it’s still one of those events that mark an end of an era on a personal level. Of course it wouldn’t mean anything to you, but think about your favorite dive, dump, hole in the wall, hang. The place where you gigged, saw your friends play, saw some incredible show, had the night of your life, met someone, etc. So, this joint was that for me. I was de facto/default sound guy there for a few years in the late 80’s/1990, which meant that there was no house PA, and if a band didn’t have one of their own, I got called in, which was most of the time. I worked extensively with a band that was a cross between Canned Heat and Motorhead who unfortunately just missed the post-Nirvana brass ring, but in the day they always packed the place to the rafters. In one moment I’m not proud of, I fell asleep briefly doing the sound for No Means No(nothing to do with the band, who were great, just too many late nights). After I moved away, I’d still always drop in to say hello, and had a perpetual free pass to any show. So, hats off to Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, and to whatever place you call home away from home(until closing time)...
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My equivalent was Moles club in Bath, UK. Played there regularly from mid 80s to mid 90s. If not playing then my mates were playing or some great band would be on. Went up in smoke in March 2014...
Bath nightclub searched after fire
...but has since reopened...
History - Moles

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Does anyone remember what the Viper Room was called back in the early 90s?

My first ever gig was a local coffee shop in LA called The House of Brews.

New Orleans?

 

[Michedelic]

Does anyone remember what the Viper Room was called back in the early 90s?




New Orleans?

The Central; I got into town right at the end of that era, when Chuck E. Weiss ruled there.

 

[kentiki]

Does anyone remember what the Viper Room was called back in the early 90s?




New Orleans?

The Central

 

[Killed_by_Death]

That's where I met Lemmy for the first time.
Weird, it's called a Jazz club, but it was definitely not Jazz when I was in there.

 

[JMarkD]

Always sad when this happens. For me it was the Cracker House Saloon between Kissimmee and St. Cloud. Place was a dump but it was reasonably friendly and comfortable. Mel Tillis used to come in now and again to check out the local talent. Played there off and on for decades. They tore it down for a strip mall, 'cause Florida really needs another strip mall. It was an actual cracker house and should have been preserved.
Fond memories sitting out on the porch with a cold one on break watching a thunderstorm on a summer night, bitching about the set list.

 

[Michedelic]

I wouldn’t be too concerned. First even if all bars close new ones will open when this passes. Second, they will be packed with people who have been cooped up for a while so it ought to be a party for quite some time.

No ‘brewpub’ can replace or recreate 70 years of vibe.

 

[JW56789]

A few of those 'Knife & Gun Clubs' I played (that is, for our younger readers, a place where they'd give you one or the other at the door if you didn't bring your own . . . . .), burning down would only be the start: They'd have to tent the dirt, put up a big barbed-wire fence, and apply to the EPA to have them declared a Super Fund Site.

 

[Michedelic]

A few of those 'Knife & Gun Clubs' I played (that is, for our younger readers, a place where they'd give you one or the other at the door if you didn't bring your own . . . . .), burning down would only be the start: They'd have to tent the dirt, put up a big barbed-wire fence, and apply to the EPA to have them declared a Super Fund Site.

No chicken wire for the stage?

 

[40Hz]

“The Rat” (more formally: The Rathskeller) - Kenmore Square in Boston.

R.I.P. Victim of urban gentrification.

 

[Spectrum]

When I was a teenager in my first band back in the 80s we played a few places, only one of which I can even remember the name of: Dick Lee's in Bellmawr, New Jersey. It was one of those hair metal-heavy clubs in the day and it shut down years ago, which I only know because I just now searched on it: South Jersey Memories- Dick Lee’s/ The Pennant East

Thing is I don't remember much about what the place looked like inside or anything. That whole part of my life was something I thought I was done with for years and when I came back to playing in bands I started digging around for these old memories.

 

[slagheap]

Matador Lounge, Mrtnz, CA.

 

[jamro217]

We were in negotiations for a gig at The Station in West Warwick shortly before the horrific fire. That's been bothering me ever since.

 

[Pings Bass]

Clubs come and go, but some of them have special sentimental value. CBGB of course comes to mind. Satyricon in Portland was iconic, but also pretty nasty as a venue to play or see shows. I played the Grand Emporium in KC some time in the 80s, sad to see it also closed. Honestly most of the clubs I've played in have probably closed by now, since most of my club gigging was in the 80s and 90s. Just part of getting older I guess.