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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: The decline of NW Civilization (Seattle club closes)
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:26:16 -0800 (PST)

Seattle's the next Philadelphia. :(

--- eleni binge <elenibinge AT gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I'm not in Seattle anymore. But I loved this
> club. I saw the Yoko
> show referenced, and discovered many a new band over
> a soy White
> Russian or two in the 90's...Babe the Blue Ox,
> Ovarian Trolley,
> Citizens Utilities, 7 year bitch...even Archers of
> Loaf, see, so this
> post relates directly.
>
> It was a great club, though snobby at times (the
> Seattle Freeze
>
[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html]
> was
> sometimes well in effect here). Somehow it managed
> to stay open
> during the gawd-awful gentrification of Belltown
> (pricey condos,
> remaking dive bars into 'wait-to-be-seated' sterile
> upscale eateries,
> valet parking). The obvious comparison here to make
> is with
> Durham...and I truly do hope we avoid taking the
> Belltown path here.
> How? No idea. But someone needs to open a down-
> home-cooking-cheap
> restaurant with my favorite foods (seitan gyros,
> biscuits & gravy,
> vegan cake, etc) and mismatched chairs with tables
> that are a little
> sticky with unknown substances. Oh, and a dive bar
> with soy white
> russians and floors your shoes will stick to.
>
> In any case, I think we're fairly lucky here in the
> Triangle, and the
> SE in general, music-venue wise. There are so many
> places to play
> here that one has to be disciplined about not
> playing shows rather
> than booking gigs. For such a large city (Seattle)
> there weren't that
> many good places to play/see shows, at least when we
> left...and now,
> it's just gotten a little worse.
>
>
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/343960_crocodile18.html
>
> --eleni
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
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>




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