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re: OT - Auburn and the music scene through the years
Posted on 7/7/22 at 11:26 pm to freemanjiro
Posted on 7/7/22 at 11:26 pm to freemanjiro
Dean Dollar band. I hated country music too but they brought in the ladies. The only fight I think I ever decisively won in my life was at a Dean Dollar show hosted by the Sig Eps at the old Golden Corral location close to Auburn Tire. I think it’s a furniture store now. I also thought Wildman Steve was a stuck up a-hole.
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Posted on 7/8/22 at 1:18 am to Bow to Auburn
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Also, younger folks don’t know about the annual crawfish boil at Touchdowns. Those plastic pitchers of beer were fantastic.
I worked at Touchdowns running the kitchen and bartending once or twice a week for four years until I moved to Japan. We had some hot waitresses and pretty good wings. The wet T shirt contests were nice. I still have many of the Crawfish Fest T shirts. Good times!
ETA 99% sure DMB did play at the Supper Club. Good thread - thanks everyone. WDE Also forgot Living Color at Student Act. IIRC they opened for the Sugarcubes and blew everyone away. The Sugarcubes not so much.
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Posted on 7/8/22 at 1:49 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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How I missed The Cult, I'll never know
They had Lenny Kravitz opening up. The Cult is a good band, but Lenny and his band blew them off the stage that night.
Posted on 7/8/22 at 5:03 pm to freemanjiro
quote:Remember when these were actually a thing? Or should I say, two things?
The wet T shirt contests were nice.
Not to completely sidetrack the thread, but roughly when did these fall out of fashion? They were everywhere in the early-to-mid-80s. Seems like they sort of morphed into bikini contests around the mid 90s, but even those seem to have disappeared around the turn of the century.
Of course I’m not sure a woke, LBGTQ+ friendly wet t-shirt contest would be something I would want to witness
Posted on 7/8/22 at 10:33 pm to freemanjiro
There was a decent country/rock/americana thing going on around 2006-2014. Joe Wright, Tony Brook, Chris Posey Band, Adam Hood band if you circulated the Wire Rd and Supper Club scene.
Posted on 7/8/22 at 11:12 pm to makersmark1
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There was a band named Telluride that played at the Supper Club with regularity.
We had them play at a local festival for us this year. Wife and her buddies loved it.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 7:25 am to wareaglepete
That's amazing. I caught The Cult at Music Midtown years later in ATL. Absolutely awesome.
Didn't Living Colour play at the Rec Center or some such? I have a memory of that for some reason.
(Also saw Dana Carvey there too)
Didn't Living Colour play at the Rec Center or some such? I have a memory of that for some reason.
(Also saw Dana Carvey there too)
Posted on 7/9/22 at 7:33 am to freemanjiro
Bone Dali were awesome... especially as a young drummer getting to watch them.
Man or Astroman were huge and I know it's cliche but they really were big in Japan. They still play every now and again. Their drummer owns a really cool music club in Birmingham called Saturn and their bass player owns a green energy company in Atlanta.
Man or Astroman were huge and I know it's cliche but they really were big in Japan. They still play every now and again. Their drummer owns a really cool music club in Birmingham called Saturn and their bass player owns a green energy company in Atlanta.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 7:43 am to SpotCheckBilly
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Telluride was a Supper Club staple
Telluride had a legal battle several years ago when a record label tried to strong arm them to stop using the name b/c one of their artists went by the same name. In the end the Birmingham based Telluride that had been performing under that name since the 70's won. They are still around though not quiet the same group of musicians from back in the day. Band leader and guitarist Rick Carter lives in Pelham area and is quiet literally one of the busiest musicians around Alabama.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 7:46 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Didn't Living Colour play at the Rec Center or some such
Oct 1988 they played Beard Eaves Memorial though it was just Joel Eaves Memorial then. They played with the Sugarcubes.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 7:52 am to freemanjiro
Oh and one more thing Auburn/music related. In August of 1991 Green Day played a house party at a house on Samford and Gay. There may have been 50 people there....
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:00 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Didn't Living Colour play at the Rec Center or some such?
As other poster said it was 88, so few years before I was there. We actually drove over to Tuscaloosa to see them in 1991. They played a small gym there, not even the basketball arena. One of the best live bands I have ever seen.
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Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:28 am to freemanjiro
Nothing Personal was my favorite band in my AU days. Used to play at Darnell’s a lot. Other faves during my AU days…
$1.07 Band
The Grapes
Allgood
Storm Orphans
Widespread Panic (played at my frat once)
Vova Nova
The Plaid Camels
$1.07 Band
The Grapes
Allgood
Storm Orphans
Widespread Panic (played at my frat once)
Vova Nova
The Plaid Camels
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:38 am to wareaglepete
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We actually drove over to Tuscaloosa to see them in 1991.
I was at that show as well. It was at Foster Auditorium and Kings X opened for them. It was a very good show imo.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 10:45 am to MTurbo
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Bone Dali were awesome... especially as a young drummer getting to watch them.
LOL, I dated the bass/trumpet player for almost a year.
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Posted on 7/9/22 at 11:40 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Jimmy Buffett at the BEMC where I lost my date but didn't care one bit. Guadalcanal Diary, Dash Rip Rock and The Romantics at House band parties. How I missed The Cult, I'll never know. One of our little sisters was in a short-lived band named 'Fetish'. Bone Dali and Gov't Cheese come to mind.
I forgot all about the Romantics, but I was there, wherever it was. Bone Dali's drummer, Brett Jones did his dissertation in botany under my dad and he lived in one of our log cabins for several years. He dated an awesome girl and good friend from AHS for many years. He went on to med school (botany to med school must have been quite a jump) and worked in ERs / trauma units until very recently when he decided he had seen enough and could not take all the gun shot wounds and shite. He is now in...frick...Flagstaff, I think. He always calls my Mom around the time that my father passed in 1997 to say hello, thanks, and to stay in touch. He is a great guy.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 11:46 am to alpinetiger
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Man or Astroman used to do a show at the house across the street from Southside Market on the corner of Gay and Samford. I lived a few houses up on Samford.
I know that house very well but never went inside. Tell me you never snuck into the pool at AJHS late night as it must have been a stone's throw away. I did, lol, many times. 2 1 meter and 2 3 meter high dives. Or maybe you all just pissed in the kids pool like everyone else;-).
Personally interested as to whether I know any of your roomies and exactly which house you lived in. I lived at Courtyard for a while, right next to the BBQ House and across from Funchess.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 11:53 am to TailbackU
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Darnell’s
Insert "now that is a name I have not heard for a very long time" Obi Wan gif.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 3:51 pm to freemanjiro
What was the bar/restaurant near Toomer’s?
Denaro’s?
They had live music.
Denaro’s?
They had live music.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 3:55 pm to makersmark1
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What was the bar/restaurant near Toomer’s? Denaro’s?
Great to see another oldie. As far as I know, Freep is the eldest on this board.
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