NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

topic posted Wed, January 18, 2006 - 3:15 PM by  Skip
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NITECLUB NIGHT
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Dance Music from Famous Niteclubs Worldwide

9-10PM - 1940’s STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY
DJ Tomas Diablo (Strangelove)
Get ready to cut a rug to the infectious rhythms of Chick Webb,
Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and more.
Dust off that zoot suit & work that skirt.

10-11PM - 1970’s CBGB’S
DJ John (New Wave City)
The birthplace of punk and bands like The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Richard Hell & the Voidoids and AC/DC (yes, AC/DC once played CBGB’s).
No mo faux mohawks allowed.

11-12AM - 1980’s The I-BEAM
DJ Skip (New Wave City)
At 1748 Haight Street in San Francisco, Tuesday night was the night and
the I-Beam was the place to be. Hear New Wave faves like the cure,
Yazoo, Altered Images, The Suburbs, The Cult and more.

12-1AM - 1990’s THE HACIENDA
DJ Low-Life (New Wave City, 1984)
Go mad for the Madchester scene and the “baggy” sound with Manchester bands like New Order, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, James, The Charlatans and more from Morrissey's favorite city.

1-2AM - 2000’s POPSTARZ
DJ Candy shows off her new indies with a killer dance set of !!!, LCD Soundsystem, She Wants Revenge, Ladytron and Soulwax from London’s cutting edge niteclub.

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Skip
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  • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

    Wed, January 18, 2006 - 4:27 PM
    You never run short of ideas, do you Skip?
    • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

      Thu, January 19, 2006 - 9:40 AM
      Great idea Skip, but no Earl's?!? What gives?
      • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

        Thu, January 19, 2006 - 2:30 PM
        Yeah, we were thinking of having an "All the Clubs P'lito Has Been Thrown Out Of" night, but the list was too long.

        We're saving Earl's for the "All San Francisco Niteclub Night".
        Earl's
        Echo Beach
        Anon
        Mabuhay Gardens
        Trocadero Transfer
        Paladium
        Science Club
        Kabuki
        Noh Club
        Nightbreak
        181 Club

        Others?
        • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

          Thu, January 19, 2006 - 8:39 PM
          Old Waldorf aka the Punchline? On Broadway?

          if ya wanna go East Bay you could also include the Omni and Berkeley Square...
          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

            Sat, January 28, 2006 - 3:40 AM
            The East bay also had Ruthies Inn, I used to see punx shows there that they didn't have in SF for some reason. My buddy, Shon, was the Dj at the Twilight Zone in Alameda also, a 21 and under dance club...

            And then there was 'Stargaze' in Fremont(18+, really 14+ though), where Dj Dangerous Dan played his first records I believe
            • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

              Mon, January 30, 2006 - 8:36 AM
              You da man Skip! I do remember Boy Club and Boomerang down the street. I guess it helps that you lived in the neighborhood for a while. I don't recall the other nightclubs though.

              I'd say the top five SF dance clubs of that era were: Earl's, I-Beam, Trocadero Transfer, Echo Beach, and....(fill in the blank here).

              I'm not including the Stone or the Mabuhay because those wer more like concert venues, not night clubs.


              • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                Mon, January 30, 2006 - 9:57 AM
                Ok Skip, I'll try to stump you now with these thee.

                1. Name the two coatcheck guys at the I-Beam and the cute nickname one of them gave to himself.
                2. Name the DJ's who played on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday AND the person who did the lights for them in the booth. Hint: he too DJ'd from time to time.
                3. Name the up-and-coming rock star (circa 1983) who Brian Raffi claimed was hitting on him on one of his trips back to New York.
              • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                Mon, January 30, 2006 - 3:18 PM
                On the top five, I would say DV8
                • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                  Tue, January 31, 2006 - 7:52 AM
                  Ooh..... gonna have to disagree with you on that one. Besides, that club wasn't around in the early 80's.
                  • This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.

                    Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                    Wed, February 1, 2006 - 1:48 AM
                    DV8? Not an 80's club? Are you kidding me? I used to go there when I was in high school, I even think I might have been once or twice while in middle school (during the 80's btw.)

                    www.inthe80s.com/clubs2.shtml Scroll down and look for DV8
                    • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                      Wed, February 1, 2006 - 7:51 AM
                      Oh NOW I remember Sure! Your 6th grade class had a field trip that day. Yeah, that's the ticket.

                      Hey, that link of yours is pretty impressive until I noticed they didn't include Earl's, I-Beam, Grafittis, Echo Beach, the Trocadero Transfer, or DNA Lounge. According to this link, it would appear that DV8 was the only SF club in the 80's. The blurb looks like it was written by the owner of the club.

                      Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the original DV8 on Market where the Warfield Theater is now? Did it move to Howard Street?
                      • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                        Wed, February 1, 2006 - 4:30 PM
                        Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the original DV8 on Market where the Warfield Theater is now? Did it move to Howard Street?

                        uhhh the Warfield was NEVER DV8! it was the WARFIELD!
                        • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                          Thu, February 2, 2006 - 7:56 AM
                          Well it was somewhere on Market. I thought it was the Warfield. Sheesh, chew my head off, whydontcha.
                          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                            Thu, February 2, 2006 - 1:19 PM
                            Actually, although it pains me to say so, I think P'lito is right. If memory serves, there was a short period between owners of the Warfield (before BGP took over), when they were trying to do dance nights there. It was still the Warfield, but DV8 may have been one of the promoters doing events there before finding that space on Howard Street/Natoma.

                            Anyone know for sure?
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                              Thu, February 2, 2006 - 2:46 PM
                              hmmm well I've never heard of this but it is possible...I can ask one of the old timers tomorrow night when I'm at the Fillmore. I did find this cool website and if you have time read through these postings and click on some of the photo links!

                              cinematreasures.org/theater/1186/

                              As far as I can tell it was a movie theatre up until Bill Graham bought it in the early 80's (and ripped out the seats on the floor) and it's been a concert venue ever since. it's quite possible though that DV8 held club nights there. Funny, I actually WON TIX to see Sisters of Mercy at the Warfield back in 1991!!! awesome!
                            • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                              Fri, February 3, 2006 - 6:16 AM
                              It was called 'Downtown' for a real short while, before i think BGP decided to run it again i suppose, cuz they couldn't get a tennant who would pay big rent to run a club in the space i assume...
                              Don't know who was running it or who they had ties too.
                              Bad club space, no energy, no atmosphere, too high celings, and I LOVE high celings...

                              Tony, weren't you 13 when DV8 opened in 1986?


                              Earls was very cool, my favorite
                              the zig zag parties were very cool, my co favorite
                              nightbreak on mondays was cool
                              Wolfgangs was a laugh

                              we would follow Bernard just about anywhere
                              • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                Fri, February 3, 2006 - 2:06 PM
                                Yeah I couldn't imagine a club going on at the Warfield, except for the occasional one-off. There's been a couple of gay raves there during the last couple of Gay Prides, I think it's a good space for that sort of thing.
        • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

          Fri, January 20, 2006 - 7:41 AM
          Good one Skip. I deserved that. You might add the Alchemy Lab. Early 80's - Tony Chapman ran it, upstairs at the Fillmore before the remodel.

          I also remember Maggie's husband's band play at the Chi Chi Club, and there were more than a few underground clubs around. I remember going to a club in the basement at 989 Valencia. And what about that club in the basement at 7th or 9th and Howard. The Phillips Hotel? Lipps?
          didn't we go dancing there?

          Skip, I'll leave you with this trivia question: Who was the DJ on opening night at Echo Beach?
          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

            Fri, January 20, 2006 - 1:30 PM
            "And what about that club in the basement at 7th or 9th and Howard. The Phillips Hotel? Lipps? "

            the Underground! I used to go there! Underage drinking baby!
            • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

              Fri, January 20, 2006 - 4:01 PM
              But before it was the Underground, it was called something else. The mind fades over time.
              • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                Mon, January 23, 2006 - 5:45 PM
                The Subteranean Club,
                which begat the
                NEXT club(when jim e went to do the DNA with brian)
                and then
                every other bad desperate club at that venue "lipps underground"
                mystery city et al
                • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                  Tue, January 24, 2006 - 8:17 AM
                  That's it! You da man, Damon.
                  • This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.

                    Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                    Tue, January 24, 2006 - 8:19 AM
                    Skip - You still didn't answer my question: Who was the DJ on opening night at Echo Beach?
                    • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                      Tue, January 24, 2006 - 9:55 AM
                      I heard this trivia question on the radio yesterday - (I don't know the answer either)

                      What Bay Area venue hosted the final concerts of both the Sex Pistols and The Band?
                      • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                        Tue, January 24, 2006 - 2:24 PM
                        oh and there's a cool photo of the Sex Pistols at Winterland upstairs by the bar in the Poster Room at the Fillmore....
                        • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                          Tue, January 24, 2006 - 2:34 PM
                          The final concert lineup at Winterland were The Grateful Dead with, if I remember correctly, the Blues Brothers and NRPS, on NYE somewhere around 1980.

                          I was there the night before for a show with the Greg Kihn Band and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. GKB rocked the place and blew away TP.
                          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                            Tue, January 24, 2006 - 2:45 PM
                            "It closed on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1978, with performances by the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Blues Brothers. The show lasted for over 8 hours, with the Grateful Dead's show lasting nearly 6 hours itself."

                            6 hours of the Dead? I'd kill myself! or take a lot of drugs....

                            oh and that Wikipedia entry was slightly off....it says that now there's housing and a Burger King on the site-actually it's an apartment building AND the Winterland Restaurant! BK is on Fillmore...
                            • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                              Tue, January 24, 2006 - 2:56 PM
                              Ok, Skip. I guess you're not going to answer my Echo Beach question. The answer was...NOBODY DJ'd on opening night. The club owner played a huge reel-to-reel tape of New Wave music the entire evening. Is that lame or what? I remember making request after request but the stupid machine just kept ignoring me. HEY! Kinda like NWC!!!
                          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                            Tue, January 24, 2006 - 3:05 PM
                            "Skip - You still didn't answer my question: Who was the DJ on opening night at Echo Beach?"

                            We've had this "discussion" before. We were both there on opening night, but that was before I knew you (what I refer to as "the good old days"). Someone, who probably recognized you as a possible stalker, told you all the music was recorded and there was not a live DJ, and you believed it (and still do).

                            I, on the other hand, know for a fact that there was a live DJ. Echo Beach opened and had a brief stay at the Showplace Design Center at 8th and Townsend before moving to the 3rd and Harrison location. The DJ on opening night, and the resident DJ for the life of the club, was DJ Nona. I talked to her father-in-law who was there to support her. He was an old guy (almost as old as us now) and was dating my mother at the time. There was no reason for him to be there if Nona wasn't DJ'ing.

                            If anyone knows where Nona is now, please let me know. I'd love to have her guest DJ.
                            • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                              Tue, January 24, 2006 - 3:38 PM
                              I never said I went there.... But hhm... Now that I think of it... Was there a Winterland Productions? I think that was what they were working for... This was during the 80's, they used to know Bill Grahm as well. Ohh and for some reason I think they were duplicating video tapes or something. Videos maybe?

                              Ahh "the good old days" must have been very nice.
                              • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                Wed, January 25, 2006 - 8:23 AM
                                Wrong, wrong, wrong, 100% wrong! Nona was there for the next night, NOT opening night. The owner must have gotten too many complaints about not having a DJ.

                                Don't believe me? Ask Patricia.

                                BTW: We met before Echo Beach. Came to Maggie's house with a bowl on my head, remember.
                                • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                  Wed, January 25, 2006 - 8:29 AM
                                  Here's another Echo Beach trivia question: What was the first song they played at Echo Beach on opening night?
                                  • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                    Wed, January 25, 2006 - 10:05 AM
                                    > Here's another Echo Beach trivia question: What was the first song they played at Echo Beach on opening night?

                                    Echo Beach (by Martha and the Muffins)?

                                    Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles)?
                                    • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                      Wed, January 25, 2006 - 1:09 PM
                                      I don't know. I'll ask Nona what she played when I see her.

                                      I guess it's possible they had recorded music for the first hour or so when no one of consequence was there. I was way too cool (or at least I thought I was) to be there when they opened. When I showed up with some friends about 11:30, there was a line down the block. We noticed on the side on the building that they had raised one of the corrugated sliding doors a couple feet to let some air in. We just slid under the door and we were in.
                                      • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                        Wed, January 25, 2006 - 2:47 PM
                                        I remember those industrial corrugated doors on the side. The club was pretty cool, no? Very spaceous with a loft upstairs. But no matter how late you showed up, there was still no DJ on opening night. Take it from a guy who entered the club legally, Nona was hired AFTERWARDS.

                                        Now let's get off the subject before the others in the Tribe start complaining. Oops, too late.

                                        BTW: Tony, I believe it WAS echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins. You get a cookie.
                                        • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                          Wed, January 25, 2006 - 3:18 PM
                                          How about some I-Beam trivia?

                                          Like the I-Beam was briefly known as what name, before reverting back to the I-Beam?
                                          On Wednesday nights (circa 1982) you got in free if you wore what?
                                          After DJ Brian Raffi left to open DNA, what was Tuesday night known as?

                                          Or that nightclub/bar one block down on the same side of the street? I can think of at least 4 different name changes for that space.
                                          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                            Thu, January 26, 2006 - 7:42 AM
                                            Wow. Very tough questions. I don't think I can answer them. The I-Beam at one time was called Red Square way back when but that was after we stopped going. They just played house music - One endless track after another. The same exact beat for 6 hours.

                                            As for the Wednesday question, hmmm....I honestly can't remember. A thin tie? Eyeliner? Patricia and I had a free pass and never paid anyway.

                                            The nightclub down the street but up from Amoeba Records was called Nightbreak. It's where Chris Isaak first got his start. He was their house band - originally called Silvertone.

                                            ..and speaking of the DNA Lounge, I still have the pass that Brian Raffi gave me to get in anytime, for any event. that's how we got to see OMD and Chris Isaak there for free.
                                            • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                              Thu, January 26, 2006 - 7:48 AM
                                              Oh wait.... you said on the SAME side of the street. That was called Rockin Robins for a long while. 50's retro in the 80's. There were two Rockin Robins location. That one and the one on Beale Street. My aunt bought the downtown site and renamed it the Beale Street Bar and Grill. It's still there.

                                              Really nice bar. Great hamburgers!

                                              Ok that's my only plug.
                                              • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                                Thu, January 26, 2006 - 4:59 PM
                                                "My aunt bought the downtown site and renamed it the Beale Street Bar and Grill. It's still there. "

                                                haha they used to have an Industrial club there for a while in the 90's...what was it called??? I used to go all the time!
                                                • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                                  Thu, January 26, 2006 - 5:38 PM
                                                  I remember Rockin Robins... In the Haight that is....

                                                  And I used to work across the street from the Beal Street Bar & Grill... I used to stare at it from my window.... (I was bored to death)
                                                  • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                                    Fri, January 27, 2006 - 2:07 PM
                                                    "the I-Beam was briefly known as what name, before reverting back to the I-Beam? "

                                                    New Wave City's first ever event was on Tuesday, August 25, 1992, at The I-Beam. By the time NWC returned in March, the club had been sold and renamed The Quake. NWC had four events at The Quake including the first Black & Black Ball. On Saturday, July 23rd, 1994, NWC returned to 1748 Haight Street for the final event ever at that venue, that was again known as The I-Beam.

                                                    "On Wednesday nights (circa 1982) you got in free if you wore what? "

                                                    Black leather.

                                                    "After DJ Brian Raffi left to open DNA, what was Tuesday night known as?"

                                                    Boy Club

                                                    "Or that nightclub/bar one block down on the same side of the street? I can think of at least 4 different name changes for that space."

                                                    Les Disques
                                                    Rockin' Robins
                                                    Boomerang
                                                    Milk
                                          • Re: NITECLUB NIGHT - Friday, Feb. 3rd

                                            Fri, January 27, 2006 - 1:40 PM
                                            "After DJ Brian Raffi left to open DNA, what was Tuesday night known as? "

                                            I saw Brian last night and he doesn't even remember. I guess it's like that old saying about the 60's...if you remember, you weren't THERE! HAHAH

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