Describe your scene from back in the day.

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Mine was first in Colorado from 78 - 85. These were great times. Denver had a great club called The Rainbow. It was an old movie theater that was made into a club. Great shows came and went. The Ramones, Talking Heads, Devo, Black Flag etc... The best record store was Wax and Tracks in downtown Denver. It was an old brick building where you could spend hours serching for punk and new wave items not found elsewhere. The "regulars" were really tuned into the Denver area scene.
From 86 - 88 I went to music school in Atlanta and they had a great scene there as well. The B-52's were staples in the area and R.E.M were relatively new. The 2 big bands of the time were the Georgia Satalites and The Swinging Richards who changed thier name to the Black Crowes. I was also friends with the members of Arrested Development. The Metro-plex was a converted train depot that was an underground club. Little 5 Points was the neighborhood where the punks hung out and all along Peachtree there were tons of new wave dance clubs.


"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[KYYX4ever]

The Pacific Northwest had a GREAT scene ! This is around the years '81-'85. There was a very innocent, naive, silly quality to it (IMO). Not at all hardened and serious like I thought other scenes were (again, IMO). My immediate "scene" was in and around Olympia, and we were just babies. The punks acted more like clowns, they were more into street-type theater antics, and they weren't bullies or excessively morbid or angry. (The bullies were the "preps", ha ha). We had one dance club, the Surf Club, which was pretty preppy.

Seattle and its suburbs got a TON of acts; it was awesome. I snuck up to see so many shows in Seattle. Other times, my parents let me go as long as I was with friends b/c they thought the "scene" looked innocent enough and wouldn't worry too much about me being up there.

Seattle had a much more vibrant scene ! How I wished I'd lived there, when I was at that age. There were tons more wavers and punks, and everything in between. Cool record shops like Time Travellers, great clubs like Scootchies, The Eagle's Nest, Vogue, Gorilla Gardens, and Metropolis (that weren't all that strict about IDs), and cute shops and thrift stores/ consignment stores everywhere. Of course there was also the seedy side, like we've talked about before with the Monastery. That place was nuts, and a little sad.

I feel lucky to have experienced the PNW before grunge got a hold of it. I saw a couple of those bands before they got grungy and hit it big. "Big" local acts at that time included the Boibs, the Heats, The Young Fresh Fellows, and Jim Basnight & The Moberlys.

I ought to scan some interesting pages from [i]The Rocket[/i], the cool mag at the time.

[shovelbum]

[quote][i]Originally posted by KYYX4ever[/i]
<br>The Pacific Northwest had a GREAT scene ! This is around the years '81-'85. There was a very innocent, naive, silly quality to it (IMO). Not at all hardened and serious like I thought other scenes were (again, IMO). My immediate "scene" was in and around Olympia, and we were just babies. The punks acted more like clowns, they were more into street-type theater antics, and they weren't bullies or excessively morbid or angry. (The bullies were the "preps", ha ha). We had one dance club, the Surf Club, which was pretty preppy.

Seattle and its suburbs got a TON of acts; it was awesome. I snuck up to see so many shows in Seattle. Other times, my parents let me go as long as I was with friends b/c they thought the "scene" looked innocent enough and wouldn't worry too much about me being up there.

Seattle had a much more vibrant scene ! How I wished I'd lived there, when I was at that age. There were tons more wavers and punks, and everything in between. Cool record shops like Time Travellers, great clubs like Scootchies, The Eagle's Nest, Vogue, Gorilla Gardens, and Metropolis (that weren't all that strict about IDs), and cute shops and thrift stores/ consignment stores everywhere. Of course there was also the seedy side, like we've talked about before with the Monastery. That place was nuts, and a little sad.

I feel lucky to have experienced the PNW before grunge got a hold of it. I saw a couple of those bands before they got grungy and hit it big. "Big" local acts at that time included the Boibs, the Heats, The Young Fresh Fellows, and Jim Basnight & The Moberlys.

I ought to scan some interesting pages from [i]The Rocket[/i], the cool mag at the time.


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You have copies of the Rocket?!?! Share, share, share! [:0]

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.

[empyrean]

In my place, early 80's. Most of us don not comb our hair. We wear lipstick (damn Smith[:D]). And although its hot and humid here we like to wear trench coat just to imitate the cool British bands. We have cool gig places like Mayrics where most of our local bands came from. We wear Creepers boots. Record stores who sell New Wave albums were Eclipze, Khumb Mela, High Adventure. Fashion stores were Arte Linea and Top 40. Mobiles were very in that time. You rent them for your parties and play all New Wave 12"s. Most notable were Social Distortion, Central Distraction...Radio stations of course (you know 'em already) 102 WXB and 105 DZBM.


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[newwavepunkgirl]

I wasn't part of a scene I was too young unless you classify a bunch of female Duranies arguing over which member is hottest and wearing pixie boots like the band wore a 'scene'. You don't get that kind of devotion with 'westlife' do you?! (The boys hated it was fun)I had a cute picture of John Taylor on my ringbinder, he's about the only man who actually looked good in a trilby!Oh yeah and who can forget the teen disco held in Salisbury city hall where they played New Order's 'Blue Monday' and we all danced to it each week! [:D]

Luv Natasha

Devolution is real

[club80]

Life on Long Island. Lots of clubs in the early 80's (Thrush, Legz, Camouflage, Spit, Malibu, Reds, Paris, Spize, Be-Bop, 007 and Subway). Lots of city clubs to go to too (Danceteria, CBGB's, The Ritz, The Palladium, Irving Plaza, Max's Kansas City, The Savoy, The Beacon Theatre, etc). Almost all served double duty (concert and clubs).
All were dark, most had minimal extravagances, if any. They were our places with our people and our music.

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Did you guys have clubs that served 3.2 beer to 18 year olds? Colorado did so that was pretty cool. The beer was watered down, but hell, at 18 that was cool.

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[KYYX4ever]

I was one of those (annoyingly) straight kids who was clueless about that stuff. If WA did that, I have no memory. In retrospect, I have heard of other states who did do that. In the early 80s, that's when the drinking age was being raised from 18 to 21 all over the US. Maybe that was like a phase-out thing they did ? Or what the purpose of a lower alc. content ?

[club80]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WoodlandParkPunk[/i]
<br>Did you guys have clubs that served 3.2 beer to 18 year olds? Colorado did so that was pretty cool. The beer was watered down, but hell, at 18 that was cool.

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious
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In New York, you were legal or you weren't. No watered down beer.

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Hmmm.... in Colorado they had clubs for 18 and older and clubs for 21 and older. They were all history by the mid 80's. Thought it was cool to go clubbing and then to high school class the next day.

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[georgie rockwood]

the new wave scene i grew up in was alive in central florida/space coast (orlando,cocoa beach).
it really started there in late 1975 & kept going all the way thru til probaly 1986,but by '86 it was dyin etc...
florida was very cool back then for really cultivating different music scenes & genre's etc....
during this time in florida,jacksonville/tampa had it's southern rock going.miami/ft.lauderdale had it's miami thing going on with all the disco bands.
so,that left central fla.& the space coast who embraced the punk/glam/new romantic/power pop/new wave scene totally.
now,in all the spots i mentioned like jacksonville/tampa/miami/ft.lauderdale,the radio stations,clubs,record stores really catered to that genre of music that was being created in that market.i'm sure there were new wavers/punks etc....in those cities etc...but,it really was happening in the central fla./space coast area.
from 1975 to '86,most all the big new wave/punk/power pop/glam bands would always stop at the clubs & venues in the area.
some of the clubs & venues i would frequent to see the bands/artists were....SPIT CLUB in orlando,BRASSYS NITE CLUB in cocoa beach,ANCHOR CLUB in cocoa beach,DOWNTOWN CLUB in orlando.....the list goes on.
then we had the big concert venues like,TUPPERWARE AUDITORIUM in orlando,CITRUS BOWL in orlando,COCOA STADIUM in cocoa,WALT DISNEY WORLD...
some of the bands that i saw in concert from 1975 thru '83 at those spots were numerous like.....OUR DAUGHTERS WEDDING,PSYCHEDELIC FURS,THE TREMBLERS,THE TUBES,DAVID BOWIE,BRIAN ENO,ROXY MUSIC (with eno),THE ROMANTICS,MISSING PERSONS,A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS,MINISTRY (with sympathy tour),THE TWINS (in support of their first album),999,REM,THE FEELIES,THE ATLANTICS,THE SHOES,JOHN FOXX,GARY NUMAN,OXO,THE JAM,THE PRODUCERS,THE PROOF,THE POLICE,BERLIN BLONDES,BE BOP DELUXE,AMON DUHL,FASHION,JOE JACKSON,BONGOS,PALEY BROTHERS,UK SQUEEZE,THE SORROWS,KNACK,DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND,DAF.....
what was pretty cool too,is that at walt disney world,starting in 1976 thru 1984,would have concerts every month in every kingdom in the park.
there would always be a concert going on in whatever kingdom you were in at the time. for example,usually the biggest band would always be on the stage in front of cinderellas castle etc....
i remember in 1977,i went to see....THE TUBES,THE POLICE,BE BOP DELUXE,DEAD BOYS,RAMONES,& THE RUBINOOS at walt disney world and the tubes being on stage in front of cinderellas castle,& when they did their song,"don't touch me there",it got very wild.
after disney world stopped doing the concerts there,then the citrus bowl in downtown orlando started doing "rock superbowls" with always 6 new wave/punk bands on the bill.
all the radio stations in the local area would also cater to this music like,,ck101,wrkt,99.3 new rock etc...
some of the cool record stores that had masses of new wave/punk/power pop records/8-tracks/cassettes were::: PEACHES,MUSIC CITY,MOTHERS RECORDS,TAPE DECK RECORDS,OMNI MUSIC,BEACHSIDE RECORDS,RETRO RECORDS,ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN,PLAY IT AGAIN RECORDS....
even the local hard rock station in the area,wdiz,would start playing new wave music more & more.
there were loads of local new wave/power pop bands emerging from the area.i even think maybe a few of them got signed to labels too.
i really had it lucky cause the drinking age was 18 at the time & when it switched to 21 in 1983,i was already 21..
during this time from 1975 thru the 80's,it was very common to see alot of people dressing in the styles etc...
i can remember at the anchor club in cocoa beach & the spit club in orlando that the "new romantics" would always get into fights with the "punks" & the people who were into the new wave and power pop scene would stand by the way side.
you could always tell the power pop people from the new wave crowd cause the power pop crowd would always have those knack haircuts,skinny ties,and or,sweatshirts,drain pipe trousers,chuck taylor all star converse sneakers or beatle boots.
it was an awesome time to be in central florida at that time.
for some reason,new wave/power pop/punk/new romantics really found a scene there....


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[WoodlandParkPunk]

Hey Georgie, I worked at a Peaches in Atlanta. Good free stuff!!!

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[georgie rockwood]

AWESOME WOODLANDPARKPUNK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

percussionlover

[WoodlandParkPunk]

I remember this really hot older woman came into the store one day and asked me if I could help her with her stereo out in the parking lot. My first thought was cool, older lady sex, but what it turned out to be was that her car had a cd player in it and she was actually trying to get the cassette tape in the slot. DUMB... hot but clueless. I was embarressed for her.

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[Wayne]

I can only remember three places to hang out in Northern New Jersey in the very early '80's: Hitsville in Passaic, the local place where you could see bands like Bauhaus and The Psychedelic Furs; Aldo's Hideaway, where you could hear DJ's spin the latest music and maybe meet a nice girl who looked just like Siouxsie Sioux; and Maxwell's in Hoboken, a small room behind a bar where you could catch cool bands like Liquid Liquid and The Bongos. But the best fun we had was simply walking along the streets of Greenwich Village in NYC, where it seemed everyone in our age group liked the same bands we did and sported the leather jackets with nine million buttons to prove it. One of our friends had an apartment there, we'd sit on the stoop commenting on the people who'd walk by and then go for a slice of pizza at Famous Ray's (the real one) or Ben's or John's. We would buy records simply because they were new -- either at Bleecker Bob's or 99, two cool record stores where each of the owners hated each other's guts and would each tell us how bad the other was. We all listened to WPIX on the radio, especially Jane Hamburger, who unfortunately fell on very hard times recently. In the words of Kurt Cobain, "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old."[:(]