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| Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:34:16 -0400 |
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I mentioned his bar in a previous post, and it's well worth your time.
Great bar, cool pics, cheap beer, hip neighborhood (Alphabet City).
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>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:25:03
>
>One of the greatest shows I ever went to was a
>Manitoba's Wild
>Kingdom gig at a place called Bonnie's Roxx in
>Atco, NJ. It was an
>all ages kind of place with a stage and floor, and
>a big caged-off
>bar in the middle of the room which made getting a
>beer like being in
>RED DAWN or a steel cage match. I went down with a
>bunch of pals from
>my college radio station and we were all huge
>Dictators fans and
>loved the Manitoba LP. We even found out the
>Manitoba LP was out
>because some friends caught the Fleshtones in
>Philly and Andy
>Shernoff was filling in on bass and told them it
>was finally out.
>
>Anwyay, we go to the show and the place is PACKED.
>After suffering
>through two or three South Jersey hair-metal
>Cinderella wanna-bes we
>made our way to the front of the crowd for Manitoba
>(who was top-
>billed). When Maniotba hits the stage I turn around
>to look at one of
>my friends and see that the *entire bar* has
>cleared out... except
>for people I know. Seriously, there's 15 people in
>the crowd and I
>know the other 14.
>
>The band is tight despite the small crowd and they
>love the fact that
>we're singing along with every song and shouting
>out Dictators and
>Manitoba stuff to play. By the end of the show it's
>basically a
>request gig and Handsome Dick and Co. play
>everything you'd ever want
>to hear at a Dictators show. After the show, the
>band hauls their
>backstage beer out to the stage and we all sit
>around till closing
>time chatting about music and bands. Somewhere I
>still have a
>backstage pass signed by the whole band that the
>Handsome One signed
>and wrote DFFD under, explaining to me at the time
>that they had to
>get special permission from the Hell's Angels to
>appropriate their
>slogan to use on the album cover.
>
>Manitoba's show on Sirius is fantastic. Anybody
>ever been to his
>place in NYC? I have to get up there one of these
>days.
>
>DT
>
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>Dan Taylor / editor@hungovergourmet.com
>THE HUNGOVER GOURMET
>2007 Independent Press Award Nominee
>http://www.hungovergourmet.com
>http://hungovergourmet.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
>On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Joseph Savitz wrote:
>
>> DFFD!!! Also check out the fabulous 'Tators
>compilation, "Every
>> Day Is
>> Saturday", on Norton. They may be my favorite
>band ever. Saw them
>> open for
>> Uriah Heep in the mid-'70s at the glorious Fox
>Theater in Atlanta.
>>
>> On 4/10/08, Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> The Dictators...
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0stst8aFSM
>>>
>>>
>>
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