SQUID ROW
518 E. Pine St
Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle PI
Intro from "Loser" by Clark Humphrey
"Squid Row, a tiny ex-dive bar on Capitol Hill, opened in late 1986 with music by a jazz-fusion house band; six months later, as booked by Terry Lee Hale, it invited punk/noise bands (which were now being referred to by the "grunge rock" moniker. Tiny (patrons tripped over bands' monitors just inside the door), dark, and smoky, it was a perfect place to sway with a sardine-pack of bodies while sharing in the big-beat MDA trance music of the U-Men, Soundgarden, and Catbutt; alternating with the softer sounds of theWalkabouts, ex-San Franciscan folkster Jimmy Silva...Gus Mustard and Sylvan Smith's Paisley Sin...and John Massoni's understated and melancholy Weather Theater."
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1986
September-October 1986
Astral Traveler, Fridays-Saturdays
November 1986
20 - Eagle Park Slim, Harpo B. Howard
December 1986
5-6 - Astral Traveler
7 - Terry Lee Hale, Chris Eckman, Carla Torgerson
11 - Jim Lyon
19-20 - Astral Traveler
31 Psycotasia
1987
January 1987
4 - Klaus Lendizan, Hillary Fields
9-10 - Astral Traveler
11 - Sam Weis
18 - Acoustic Walkabouts
24 - Psychotazia
25 - Terry Lee Hale, Kevin Evans
29 - Terry Lee Hale, Kevin Evans
February 1987
5 - Laurette Langille
7 - Pure Joy
12 - Sam Weis, Seth Blair
13-14 - Astral Traveler
19 - Terry Lee Hale
21 - F-Holes
28 - Walkabouts
March 1987
5 - Daryl Redeker
7 - Splinter Party
12 - Terry Lee Hale
14 - Gary Heffern & The Cunninghams
19 - Laurette Langille
21 - Life In General
28 - Psycotasia
April 1987
2 - Sam Weis
3 - Kinetics
4 - Walkabouts
10 - F-Holes
11 - Green Pajamas
17 - Clay Alien
18 - Girl Trouble & Guest
24 - Prudence Dredge
25 - Pure Joy
May 1987 - (Missing May 1987 Rocket)
1 - Renegades, Rebel Rousers
2 - Life In General
8 - Chemistry Set & Guests
9 - Walkabouts
12 - Terry Lee Hale Birthday Party, Carnival Season, The Ones
15 - Vexed, H-Hour
16 - Art On Fire
22 - The Ones, Crypt Kicker 5
23 - The Cunninghams
24 - Terry Lee Hale, Sam Weis
29 - F-Holes
30 - Bootleg Howdah, Big Tube Squeezer
June 1987
5 - Kinetics
6 - Yo, Terry Lee Hale, Walkabouts
12 - Room 9
13 - Pure Joy
18 - Walkabouts (record release)
19 - Chemistry Set
20 - Renegades
26 - F-Holes and/or Life In General
27 - Jim Page, Terry Lee Hale, Dave Mortenson
July 1987
3 - Prudence Dredge
4 - Secret War
10 - Tall Tales
11 - Holly Gram, Sam Weis
17 - Vexed
18 - The Life
24 - Feast
25 - H-Hour, Secret War
31 - Kinetics
August 1987
1 - The Renegades
7 - Disappearing, Secret War
8 - F- Holes
14 - The Ones, Big Tube Squeezer
15 - Pure Joy, Bosch Society
21 - Surf Trio, Krypt Kicker 5
22 - Chemistry Set
28 - Green Pajamas, Go Fish
29 - Sam Weis, Seth Blair
September 1987
4 - Terry Lee Hale
11 - Pop Defect, Swallow
12 - Room Nine
18 - The Renegades
19 - Chemistry Set
25 - H-Hour, Crisis Party
26 - Danger Bunny, Capping Day
October 1987
2 - Shattered Machine, Special Guests
3 - Vexed, Coffin Break
8 - The Furies (SF)
9 - Bosch Society, Cunninghams
10 - Heliotroupe, Gary Allen May
16 - Acoustinauts, Guests
17 - Big Tube Squeezer, Power Mowers
22 - Terry Lee Hale
23 - Weather Theater, Vertigo Bus
24 - Girl Trouble, Swallow (Rocket) OR Tall Tales without Girl Trouble (Times & PI)
30 - Heliotroupe
31 - F-Holes, Renegades
November 1987
5 - Terry Lee Hale
6 - Charm School, Big Tube Squeezer, Cryptkicker 5, Goodmanoise
7 - Go Fish, Undercurrent
13 - The Jackals
14 - Splinter Party
19 - Open Stage w/Terry Lee Hale
20 - The Life
21 - Danger Bunny, Capping Day
27 - Power Mowers
28 - Couch Of Sound, Big Tube Squeezer
December 1987
4 - Kinetics
5 - Bundle Of Hiss, Vexed
10 - Acoustic Catbutt
11 - Heliotroupe, Terry Lee Hale
12 - Weather Theater, Green Pajamas
18 - Pure Joy, Distant War
26 - The Ones, Go Fish OR Caribbean Super Stars (Seattle PI)
31 - Danger Bunny, Terry Lee Hale, Jim Anderson