CENTRAL TAVERN 1989

 January 1989

4 - Thin Men, Turncoats
5 - Alien Psychoblast, Ministry Of Love, Empathy
6-7 - Razorbacks
11 - Boomslang, Nation Of Milk
12 - The Hanks, Rabbit Choir
13 - Prudence Dredge, Dharma Bums (PDX), Stumpy Joe
14 - Splinter Party, Power Mowers
18 - Fire, Final Exam
19 - Incredicrew, Chilly Uptown
20 - Variant Cause, Mass Hypnosis, Beltanes
21 - Eagertones, Dogma Cipher
25 - Rebel Rouser, The 99s
26 - Wehrmacht
27 - Blubinos
28 - The Life, Ann DeJarnett, Dharma Bums (PDX)

February 1989

1-2 - Joe Ely (Lubbock, TX), The Rangehoods
3-4 - Razorbacks, Moving Parts
5-6 - Tail Gators, Jackals, Terry Lee Hale
8 - Fantods, Broken Statue
9 - Walkabouts, The Downsiders, Fantods
10 - Mother Love Bone, SGM, Hungry Crocodiles
11 - Mother Love Bone, Alice In Chains, Dead Flowers
14 - Scrawl (Columbus, OH)
15 - Farenheit 104, Dogma Cipher
16 - Broken Statue, Bend Sinister, Puget Sound
17 - Chemistry Set, TAD, Terry Lee Hale
18 - Supernaturals, The Blind
22 - Slang, Paisley Sin
23 - The Accused, Death Sentence
24 - Jackals (PDX), F-Holes, Dead City Rebels
25 - Kinetics
28 - Beatnigs (SF), Coffin Break, Indcredicrew

March 1989

1 - Lethal Dose, Bitter End
2 - Swamp Zombies (Irvine, CA), Delvros
3 - Bonedaddys (LA), Je Ka Jo
4 - Hangmen (LA), Blood Circus, Nights And Days 
8 - Son Of Man, Eastern Star
9 - Alice N' Chains, Swallow
10-11 - Rangehoods
15 - Dehumanizers, Derelicts
16 - Big Tube Squeezer, Love Battery (Seattle PI) / Sons Of Freedom, Skin Yard (Rocket)
17 - Variant Cause, Obituaries (PDX), Splinter Party
18 - Dinosaur Jr (MA), TAD, Pure Joy
22 - The Needy, Hogs Ate My Uncle Ed
23 - Fallouts, Roofdogs, Game For Vultures
24 - Throwing Muses (UK), Penelope Houston (SF)
25 - Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale, Swallow, Beltanes
29 - Hitmen (record release), Shannon's X, Animal Kingdom
30 - Tough Mama
31 - Eagertones, Pop Mechanix

April 1989

1 - Alice 'N Chains, Catbutt, Bitter End
5 - Ministry Of Love, Dogma Cipher
7 - The Life, Red Dress, Runaway Trains
8 - Mass Hypnosis, Prudence Dredge, Stumpy Joe
12 - Washington Squares (NYC), Walkabouts
13 - Thelonius Monster (LA)
14-15 - Razorbacks
19 - Texas Instruments (Austin), Beltanes
20 - Blood Circus, Obituaries (PDX), Derelicts
21 - Jackals (PDX), Hook & The Hitchhikers (LA)
22 - Chemistry Set, Pure Joy
26 - Infamous Menagerie, Alien Psychoblast
27 - The Blind, Lady Killers
28 - Walkabouts, Vomit Launch (Chico, CA), Fantods
29 - Christmas (Boston), Common Language, Infamous Menagerie

May 1989

1 - Beltanes, Animal Kingdom, Sheryl Wiser
2 - Assumptions with Johnny Bravo
3 - Sphincters, The Losers
4 - White Zombie (NYC), Hellcows (PDX), Blood Circus
5 - Jr. Cadillac
6 - Eagertones, Pop Mechanix
9 - Nirvana, No Direction
10 - Willie's Camel, The Selves
11 - Thin Men, Mono Men, Game For Vultures
12 - Girl Trouble, Terry Lee Hale, Zulus
13 - Variant Cause, Surf Trio, Dogma Cipher
15 - The Connells (Raleigh, NC), Love Battery (Tommy Keene was initially on this bill as well)
17 - Royal Court Of China (Nashville)
18 - New Model Army (UK), Pop Defect
19 - Honeymoon Killers (NYC), Catbutt, F-Holes (Lonely Moans was initially on this bill as well)
20 - Kinetics
22 - Pursuit Of Happiness, Legal Reins
24 - Paisley Sin, Big Drill Car
25 -Alice In Chains, Son Of Man (Warrant was initially on this bill as well)
26 - Bobby King and Terry Evans (The Life was originally booked on this date)
27-28 - Tail Gators (Austin), Dead City Rebels
31 - 7th Stranger, Whiskey Fix

June 1989

1 - Mike Pinera, Chris Layton & Friends (UK)
2 - The Life, Supernaturals, Boom Slang
3 - Jackals (PDX), Nervous Fellas
7 - Bang Gang, Bitter End, War Babies
8 - Boom Slang, Runaway Trains, Street Fire
9-10 - Rangehoods
13 - East & The West, Buddah's Favorite Color
14 - Drivin' 'N' Cryin' (Atlanta), Dharma Bums (PDX)
15 - Capping Day, Hobo, Mass Hypnosis
16-17 - Razorbacks
20 - Dogma Cipher, Farenheit 104
21 - Junkyard (LA)
22 - Weather Theater, Common Language, MK Ultra
23 - Red Dress, Splinter Party
24 - Tough Mama
27 - Jak's Skate Benefit w/ C.C. Groove, Boom Chip Willy, 18 Helicopters
28 - Pretty Boy, Missing Children
29 - Crypt Kicker 5, Vertigo Bus, Mad Mad Nomad
30 - Eagertones, Little Stranger

July 1989

1 - Variant Cause, Social Club, Paisley Sin
3 - Storybook Crooks, Special Guests
6 - Ministry Of Love, Crunchbird, Phreddy Vomit
8 - Mass Hypnosis, Boom Slang, DO U I DO
11 - Tigris Euphrates, Ice Blue
12 - War Babies, Dead Flowers
13 - Slang, Renaissance Affair, Surrealistics
14 - Chemistry Set, Elvis Hitler (Detroit), Mono Men
15 - Walkabouts, Trotsky Icepick (LA), Love Battery
18 - Odious Limm, G. Mula
19 - Food Giant, Mono Men, Pretentious Flaming Dogs
20 - Infamous Menagerie, Broken Statue, Shannon's X
21 - Razorbacks
22 - Pussy Galore (NYC), Melvins, Girl Trouble
23 - King Swamp (UK)
25 - Assumptions, The Danged
26 - Amazon Buffalo, Action Buddie
27 - Thin Men, Stumpy Joe
28 - The Posies, Capping Day, Gooch The Drifter
29 - Red Dress, Mad Mad Nomad

August 1989

1 - Faith No More (LA)
2-3 - Variant Cause, Splinter Party
4 - Jr. Cadillac
5 - Eagertones, Farenheit 401
8 - Daddy Hate Box, Helltrout
9 - Bitter End, Myra Mainz
10 - National People's Gang, Dogma Cipher
11-12 - Rangehoods
14 - Showcase
15 - Blue Hearts (Japan), Runaway Trains, Big Beat
16 - Alien Psycho Blast, Black Is Black
17 - Paisley Sin, Mad Mad Nomad, Hanks
18 - Red Dress
19 - The Life, Hit Men, Green Pajamas
22 - Absent Friends, Isabella Dream
23 - Hard Rain, King's X (The Line was initially on this bill as well)
24 - The Accused
25 - "Bat Bash" w/Hippie Big Buckle, Bam Bam, Swamp Pop Sisters, Dean's Hair (Thrown Ups were initially on this bill as well)
26 - Variant Cause (record release), Common Language, Hangmen, Koo Dot Tah
29 - Beat Surrender (Don Gilmore was initially on this bill as well)
30 - Red Platinum, Broken Toyz (Shannon's X was initially on this bill as well)
31 - Treacherous Jaywalkers, Beltanes, (Fantods were initially on this bill as well)

September 1989

1 - Moberlys, Runaway Trains
2 - Crazy 8s (PDX), Completely Grocery
3 - Razorbacks
4 - Tora Tora (Memphis), Alice In Chains
6 - Food Giant, Harm Farm, Boob Chip Willy
7 - Boom Slang, Thin Men, Bughead
8 - Dead City Rebels
9 - TAD, Treepeople (Boise), Puddle Heads
12 - Meat Cigars, Wild Stares
13 - Panic, Assault & Battery, The Condemned
14 - Paisley Sin, First Thought, Almighty Senators (Baltimore)
15 - Jr. Cadillac
16 - Hungry Crocodiles, Red Platinum
19 - Agitated Natives, Lady Killers
20 - Pure Joy, Prudence Dredge, Chemistry Set
21 - Stumpy Joe, Runaway Trains, Fallouts
22 - Alice In Chains, War Babies
23 - Pete Spotts, Weather Theater, The Buckets
26 - Hells Smells, Derelicts
27 - F-Holes, Gorilla
28 - Band Of Susans (NYC), The East And The West, Movie Stars
29 - Mass Hypnosis, DO-U-I-DO
30 - Terry Lee Hale, Pure Joy, Dharma Bums

October 1989

4 - Thin Men
6 - Variant Cause, Medicine Show, Johnny Bravo & The Zero Ego Band
7 - Red Dress, Mad Mad Nomad
10 - Steve Stevens' Atomic Playboys (NYC), Luna Park
11 - War Babies, My Sister's Machine
12 - War Babies, Tragic Mulatto (SF)
13-14 - Razorbacks
17 - Paisley Sin
18 - Dogma Cipher, Slang
19 - Little Women, Raging Maggots
20-21 - Tailgators, Dead City Rebels
22 - Firehose (San Pedro, CA), Girl Trouble
24 - Panic, Ruff Justice
25 - Purdins, Stumpy Joe
26 - Princess Pang (NYC), Bam Bam
27-28 - Tough Mama
31 - Kinetics, Splinter Party

November 1989

2 - Hit Men, Mad Mad Nomad, Slang
3-4 - Rangehoods, Pure Joy
7 - Ocean Blue (Brooklyn), Medicine Show
8 - Black Is Black, Suicide Bride
9 - Gut Flowers, Atavist, Two AM
10 - Variant Cause, Common Language, The Assumptions
11 - Alice In Chains, SGM, Ruff Justice
14 - Morris Tepper (LA), Red Dress
15 - Mono Men, Food Giant, Stumpy Joe
16 - Obituaries (PDX), Thin Men, Game For Vultures
17 - Prudence Dredge, New Squirrels (Pure Joy was initially on this bill as well)
18 - Walkabouts, Beltanes, Electric Love Muffin (Philadelphia
21 - Bent, Ministry Of Love (Blue Fendaryce was initially on this bill as well)
22 - Forced Entry, Bitter End, Mayo Clinic (Rocket listing shows Myramainz instead of Mayo Clinic listed in the PI)
24 - Das Damen (NYC), Crisis Party, SNUF
25 - Red Dress
30 - Gorky Park (Russia)

December 1989

1 - Screaming Trees, King Krab, Dickless
2 - Jackals (PDX)
5 - Native Messiah, Gut Flower
6 - The Needy, Kristen Barry, Big Love Reunion
7 - Thin Men, Stumpy Joe, Gorilla
8 - The Life, Medicine Show, Hit Men
9 - Paisley Sin, Son Of Man
10 - Meat Puppets (Phoenix), Dharma Bums
12 - Dogma Cipher, Two AM
13 - Ministry Of Love, Gasoline
14 - My Sister's Machine, Inspector Luv & The Ride Me Babies
15 - F-Holes, Gorilla
16 - Girl Trouble, Nights And Days, Sugar Sugar
19 - Big F, Atavist
20 - First Thought, Camel Band
21 - War Babies, Suicide Bride
22-23 - Rangehoods
27 - Squirt, My Skull
28 - Group Therapy, Substitutes
29-30 - Jr. Cadillac
31 - Variant Cause, Razorbacks

The VOGUE - 1989

The Vogue - 1989

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 January 1989

3 - "2 Dollars, 4 Bands"
4 - Obituaries (PDX), Skin & Bones
10 - Forced Entry, Death Squad
11 - Catbutt, Derelicts
17 - The Life, The Posies
18 - Crunchbird (Cassette Release), Hester Pryne. Special Guests
24 - Renaissance Affair, Gloria
25 - Skin Yard, TAD, My Name
31 - Blood Circus

February 1989

1 - Mudhoney (canceled), Swallow, Love And Respect
7 - Mind Over 4, The East And The West
8 - URU, HP,  Stone Crew
14 - Alice In Chains, Electric Ballroom, Daddy Hate Box
15 - Shannon's X, Pitbull Babysitter
21 - Coven, Lethal Dose, Bitter End
22 - Weather Theater, Still Falling
28 - "2 Dollars, 4 Bands" - Amazon Buffalo, Animal Kingdom, Eastern Star, Jonestown

March 1989

1 - Mudhoney, The Fluid (Denver)
7 - Catbutt, The Hidden
8 - Sweet Baby (Berkeley). Field Trip (Pleasanton, CA)
14 - ALL (LA), Chemical People (LA)
15 - Common Knowlege, Infamous Menagerie
21 - Surf Trio (Eugene), Hitmen, Dead Moon (PDX)
22 - The Life, Dharma Bums (PDX)
28 - "Moshing Maniacle Mofo Metal Madness"
29 - Chemistry Set, Love Battery

April 1989

4 - Sacrilege BC (Berkeley), Full Fathom 5 (Australia), Talk-Sin
5 - Prudence Dredge, Stumpy Joe
11 - Universal Congress Of (LA), My Name, Pitbull Babysitter
12 - 27 Devils Joking (Santa Fe), Swallow
18 - Capping Day, Slang, Alien Psychoblast
19 - Forced Entry, Armorus, Worthless Pride
25 - Alice 'N Chains, Shannon's X, PD-2
26 - Flaming Lips (Oklahoma City), Nirvana

May 1989

2 - Yeast, Son Of Man, Mad Hatter
3 - Hungry Crocodiles, Daddy Hate Box, Shannon's X
9 - Storybook Crooks, Boomslang
10 - Dharma Bums (PDX), First Thought
16 - Derelicts, Love And Respect, Love Battery
17 - Common Language, Pop Defect
23 - Obituaries (PDX), Tooth and Nail
24 - Plan 9 (RI), Chemistry Set, Pure Joy
30 - Metaphonics, Infamous Menagerie, Wally World
31 - Big Tube Squeezer, World Entertainment War, King Krab

June 1989

6 - Stumpy Joe, 3 Young French Fellows 3
7 - Hullabaloo (MA), Hellcows (PDX) Food Giant
13 - Shotgun Mama, Hobo, Hippie Big Buckle
14 - Les Thugs (France), Blood Circus, Thrown Ups
20 - Viv Akauldren (Detroit), Electric Love Muffin (Philly), Buddah's Favorite Color
21 - Nirvana, Mad Hatter, Gasoline
27 - Capping Day, The Life, The Assumptions
28 - Catbutt, Swallow

July 1989

4 - Alice In Chains, Isabella's Dream
5 - Fags Reunion, Jellybean Halo
11 - Steelpole Bathtub (Bozeman, MT), Stumpy Joe
12 - Urge Overkill (Chicago), L7 (LA)
18 - Girl Trouble, Love And Respect
19 - El Pollo Elastico, Daddy Hate Box, My Name
25 - Common Language, (record release), Weather Theater
26 - Les Thugs (France), Derelicts, More Fiends

August 1989

1 - Toxic Reasons (Dayton, OH), Downsiders, Jot
2 - Coffin Break (record release), Veil Of Tears
8 - Joey Arias & Friends (NYC), Celebrity Skin (LA)
9 - Serial Killers, Yard Trauma, Grind
15 - SGM, War Babies
16 - TAD, Yeast
22 - Hippy Big Buckle, The Garden
23 - Lemonheads (Boston), Obituaries (PDX)
29 - Catbutt (Benefit), Gas Huffer, Treehouse

September 1989

5 - Bitter End, Eastern Star
6 - My Name, Jux Country
12 - Scab Cadillac, Food Giant, Black Super Suckers
13 - The Posies, Almighty Senators (Baltimore)
19 - Infamous Menagerie, Shit Kittens
20 - SGM, Gas Huffer
26 - Nirvana, Dickless, Knife Dance
27 - Common Language, The First Thought

October 1989

3 - Bullet Lavolta (Boston), Chemistry Set
4 - Primus (SF), Hungry Crocodiles, My Name
10 - TBA
11 - Tragic Mulatto (SF), Shit Kittens, Dickless
17 - Adrian's Childhood, Weather Theater, Action Buddie
18 - Crisis Party (record release), Big Satan Inc, 12"
24 - Run Westy Run (St. Louis), Sledge
25 - King Snake Roost (Australia), Babes In Toyland (Minneapolis), Icky Joey
31 - Nice Strong Arm (Austin), Lubricated Goat (Australia), Dwarves (SF), Dickless

November 1989

1 - Bughead, The Jetsetters
7 - Capping Day, Kristen Barry, Jimmy Talks
8 - Scramblers (Vancouver BC), Derelicts
14 - SGM, Bag O' Nasty, Slam Suzanne
15 - Morris Tepper (LA), Common Language, Vertigo Bus
21 - 12", My Name, Son Of Man
22 - Groovy Ghoulies (LA), Pure Joy, King Krab
28 - Bone Club (Minneapolis), Black Supersuckers, Treepeople (Boise)
29 - Lisa Suckdog (LA), Dickless, Sky Cries Mary

December 1989

5 - Crisis Party, Obituaries (PDX), The Gift
6 - SGM, Son Of Man
12 - Bam Bam, 12", Sledge
13 - Hungry Crocodiles, Smokin' Rhythm Prawns
14 - Sky Cries Mary Video Premiere

SQUID ROW - 1989

Squid Row
518 E. Pine St

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January 1989

6 - Dennis Rea
7 - The Life, Animal Kingdom
8 - Color Anxiety, Cryptkicker 5, Yama The Pit
13 - Kings Of Rock, Hell Cows (PDX)
14 - The Hanks, Go Fish
19 - Yama The Pit
20 - Still Falling, Empathy
21 - Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale
26 - Brass Menagerie

February 1989

3 - Soul Brothers
4 - Dharma Bums (PDX), Straight Face
9 - Aaron Alexander & His No Chords Ensemble, Amy Denio
10 - Common Language, Weather Theater
11 - Nice Strong Arm (NYC), Swallow, Derelicts
16 - Infamous Menagerie, Tim Grimm
17 - Big Tube Squeezer, The Beltanes
18 - Daddy Hate Box, My Name
23 - Frank Moore's Outrageous Horror Show
24 - Tone Dogs, Fred
25 - Pure Joy, Undercurrent

March 1989

2 - Concept Pig
3 - Battery Acid, Special Guest
4 - Cryptkicker 5, Love And Respect
9 - Robert Hendrix, John Calcagno
10 - Slack (PDX), Pitbull Babysitter
11 - Skin & Bones, Amazon Buffalo
16 - Bill Allison, R.S. Pearson
17 - Swingin' Swamis, The Delvros
18 - Terry Lee Hale, The Beltanes
23 - Jeff McGraff and the Brass Menagerie
24 - Obituaries (PDX), Runaway Trains
25 - The Posies
30 - John Zucker
31 - Mass Hypnosis, Shannon's X

April 1989

1 - Big Tube Squeezer, Swingin' Swamis, The Danged
6 - Vertigo Bus, Pete Spotts
7 - Common Language, Special Guests
8 - Roof Dogs, Game For Vultures
13 - Wally Shoup & The Pulsation Crew
14 - Black Is Black, Buddha's Favorite Color
15 - Thin Men, The Jones
20 - David Hess, Amy Denio's Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
21 - The Hanks, Go Fish
22 - Paisley Sin, Straight Face
27 - Robert Valenza & Acoustic CC Groove
28 - Skin & Bones, Dharma Bums
29 - Storybook Krooks, Capping Day

May 1989

4 - Fred
12 - Coffin Break, Derelicts
13 - East and West, Son Of Man
18 - Timebone, Allan Reade
19 - Pop Defect, Big Tube Squeezer
20 - Weather Theater
25 - Wally Shoup & The Pulsation Crew
26 - Pitbull Babysitter, My Name
27 - Love Battery, Skin & Bones, CC Groove

June 1989

1 - Infamous Menagerie
2 - Daddy Hatebox, Amazon Buffalo
3 - Pitbull Babysitter, Terry Lee Hale
8 - Pete Spotts, Rick Sarbo
9 - Short Dogs Grow (SF), Blue Fendaryce
10 - Odious Limn, Wierd Feeling No. 3
15 - Shroud Of Shards, Force Neat
16 - Storybook Krooks, The Beltanes
17 - Still Falling, Blue Boy & The Moon
22 - Z to A, Metaphonics
23 - Hungry Crocodiles, Runaway Trains
24 - SGM, Love Battery
29 - The Delvros
30 - Slack (PDX), Soul Brothers

July 1989

1 - Cryptkicker 5, Animal Kingdom
6 - Pop Weasels, Warren Murray
7 - Thin Men, Sniveling Donuts
8 - The Life, Bam Bam
13 - Like Rain
14 - Universal Congress Of...(LA), Food Giant
15 - Common Language, S. Kittens
20 - Candace Weaver
21 - Mono Men, Adrienne's Childhood
22 - Swingin' Swamis, Clevelands
27 - Mellifluous Zephyrs, Pete Leinonen Dixie Band
28 - F-Holes, Dead City Rebels ?
29 - Sandy Duncan's Eye (LA), Love Battery

August 1989

4 - Infamous Menagerie, Meat Cigars
5 - Capping Day, The Danged
10 - Charles White Band
11 - Jonestown, Love Jones
12 - Skin & Bones, Action Buddie
17 - Run/Remain Orchestra, Dayton Allemann
18 - Fantods, Jellybean Halo
19 - Vexed, Camp
24 - Crunchbird, Rick Sabo
25 - Mono Men, Stumpy Joe
26 - Gas Huffer, Guests
31 - Lucy of Onion Street, Holy Cow

September 1989

1 - Cryptkicker 5, rrHehR
2 - Paisley Sin, Isabella's Dream
7 - Jon Strongbow, Warren Murray
8 - F-Holes, Gorilla
9 - Gloam Cookies, Adrian's Childhood
14 - Alan Reade
15 - Almighty Senators (Baltimore)
16 - Terry Lee Hale, Animal Kingdom
21 - New Society Jazz Band, Mellifluous Zephyrs
22 - Obituaries (PDX), Lost Dog
23 - East and West
28 - New Macedonians
29 - Mood Paint, Herd of Turtles
30 - Thin Men, Blue Fendaryce

October 1989

6 - Jonestown, Gorilla
7 - Dharma Bums (PDX), Monkey Business
12 - Metaphonics, Z2A
13 - Black Sea, Special Guests
14 - Mass Hypnosis, Mad Mad Nomad
19 - Like Rain, Pete Spotts
20 - Love Battery, Gas Huffer
21 - Skin and Bones, Deaf Guy
26 - The Neo-Macedonians
27 - Yeast, Bent, Pitbull Babysitter
28 - F-Holes, Beltanes
31 - Terry Lee Hale, Joey Kline

November 1989

3 - Still Falling, Quigzy Stick
4 - Capping Day, The Purdins
10 - Buddah's Favorite Color, My Name
11 - Morris Tepper (NYC), Native Messiah
17 - Runaway Trains, Gorilla
18 - Cryptkicker 5
24 - Paisley Sin, Basic Black
25 - Derelicts, Sugar Sugar

December 1989

1 - Stumpy Joe, 2AM
2 - Lost Dog, Monkey Business
8 - Mono Men, Fallouts
9 - Big Love Reunion, Beltanes
15 - Kristen Barry, Mad Mad Nomad
16 - Tribal Therapy, Herd Of Turtles
22 - Skin and Bones, Deaf Guy
23 - Thin Men, Hit Men
29 - Wally World, Sledge
30 - Isabella Dream, Yeast
31 - The Life, Gorilla, Treepeople

SQUID ROW - 1988

Squid Row
518 E. Pine

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January 1988

2 - Crypt Kicker 5, Capping Day
7 - Terry Lee Hale
8 - Santa Clan (SF), Go Fish
9 - Surf Trio (Eugene), Chemistry Set
15 - Bosch Society, The Purdins
16 - Power Mowers, The Different Ones
21 - Terry Lee Hale
22 - Acoustinauts, Seth Blair
23 - Psychotazia
29 - F-Holes
30 - Kinetics 

 February 1988

4 - Open Mike w/Terry Lee Hale
5 - Secret War, Capping Day
6 - Walkabouts, Undercurrent
11 - Open Mike w/Terry Lee Hale
12 - Heliotroupe
13 - Crypt Kicker 5, Big Tube Squeezer
18 - Open Mike w/Terry Lee Hale
19 - Vexed, Death & Taxes
20 - The Life, Bosch Society
26 - Power Mowers, Dharma Bums, Joey Kline
27 - Psycotazia 

March 1988

4 - Pure Joy
5 - Melting Fish, Urban Rhythm Unit
11 - Chemistry Set, Roof Dogs
12 - F-Holes
18 - Slur Magazine Benefit w/Butt Trouble, Boom Boom GI, Coffin Break
19 - Surf Trio (Eugene, OR), Capping Day
25 - Catbutt (record release), ADRD
26 - Crypt Kicker 5 

 April 1988

1 - Girl Trouble, The Ones
2 - Walkabouts, Bosch Society
7 - Housecoat Project (SF), Nights & Days
8 - Dot-3 (Palo Alto), Vexed
9 - Blood Circus, Ghost Flesh
15 - The Purdins, The Flood
16 - So Are You, Action Buddie
22 - The Life, Mass Hypnosis
23 - Vexed, Coffin Break, Couch Of Sound
29 - Danger Bunny, Capping Day
30 - The Danged, Swinging’ Swamis, Big Tube Squeezer 

May 1988

5 - Timmy Oi
6 - Heliotroupe, Roof Dogs, Terry Lee Hale
7 - Death & Taxes, Misguided Baboons, Storm
12 - Terry Lee Hale (birthday and tape release party)
13 - Chemistry Set (record release party)
14 - Couch Of Sound, Crypt Kicker 5
19 - The Nordstroms, Grace (Richmond, VA)
20 - Pure Joy, Doll Squad
21 - Big Idea, Gary Allen May
25 - Mark Curry’s Electronic Extravaganza
27 - Slack (PDX), Prudence Dredge
28 - Walkabouts, Pink Slips 

 June 1988

2 - Little Fyodor (CO), Brian Fergus (SF)
3 - F-Holes, The Purdins
4 - Vicious Fishes, Animal Kingdom
9 - Amy Denio , Angus & Greinke
10 - Pop Defect (LA), Cactus Love
11 - Capping Day, A Merry Cow (Vancouver BC)
17 - Mass Hypnosis, Hungry Crocodiles
18 - Obituaries (PDX), Broken Statue
24 - Big Tube Squeezer, Crypt Kicker 5, Terry Lee Hale
25 - The Hitmen, Go Fish
30 - Ghost Flesh 

 July 1988  

1 - Melting Fish, Common Language
2 - The Purdins (record release), Bootleg Howdah
7 - John Calcagno, Robert Henrix
8 - Dead City Rebels, The Fallouts
9 - So Are You, Animal Kingdom
15 - Action Buddie, Bosch Society
16 - Vexed, Color Anxiety
21 - Terry Lee Hale, Gary Allen May, Rhonda Pelikan, Vertigo Bus
22 - The Life, Heliotroupe
23 - Chemistry Set, The Flood, Amazon Buffalo
28 - Pete Spots, Alfred Butler, Jaime Caffrey
29 - The Swinging’ Swamis, The Danged
30 - Skin Yard, Nirvana 

August 1988

4 - Quality Genetics
5 - Catbutt (record release), Nights and Days, Kings Of Rock
6 - Squid Row Birthday Party w/F-Holes, Cryptkicker 5
12 - Wandering Gurus (PDX), Couch Of Sound
13 - Coffin Break, The Spades
18 - David Crow
19 - Mudhoney, The Derelicts, TAD
20 - Hungry Crocodiles, Mark Curry
25 - Tim Grimm
26 - Claudia Gehrke Birthday Party w/Snowbud & The Flower People, Girl Trouble, Bundy Creature
27 - Capping Day (record release), Best Kissers In The World 

September 1988

2 - Variant Cause, Undercurrent (record release)
3 - Willie’s Camel, Amazon Buffalo, The Basics
8 - Jeff McGraff
9 - Pop Defect (LA), Skin and Bones
10 - Surf Trio, The Posies, Terry Lee Hale
16 - Big Tube Squeezer, Straight Face
17 - Mass Hypnosis (record release), Animal Kingdom
22 - Jaime Caffrey
23 - Fred, Local Magnetic Disturbance
24 - Capping Day, Best Kissers In The World
29 - Amy Denio
30 - Thinking Fellers, Couch Of Sound 

 October 1988

1 - Fantods, Walkabouts
6 - Angus & Greinke
7 - Roof Dogs, Pure Joy
8 - The East and the West, Eastern Star
13 - Pete Spots, Jim May
14 - Misguided Baboons, Common Language
15 - So Are You, Swinging’ Swamis
20 - Concept Pig
21 - Honeymoon Killers (NY), Skin Yard
22 - Melting Fish, Tone Dogs
27 - John Calagno, Robert Henrix
28 - Horse, Pitbull Babysitter
29 - F-Holes, Cryptkicker 5
31 - Big Tube Squeezer, Hungry Crocodiles, Terry Lee Hale 

November 1988

3 - Metaphonics
4 - Bruce A & It-Yi (Vancouver BC), Chemistry Set, Animal Kingdom
5 - Big Idea, The Life (this was the PI listing; the Rocket lists the Secretions Record Release on this date w/Cryptkicker 5, Vertigo Bus, Amy Denio, Vexed)
10 - Robert Rich, Angus & Greinke
11 - Heliotroupe, Lew Jones Band (PDX)
12 - The Life, Pure Joy, Animal Kingdom
17 - David Hess
18 - Skin & Bones, C.C. Groove
19 - Amazon Buffalo
25 - Fantods, The Beltanes
26 - Girl Trouble, Guests 

 December 1988

1 - Fred, Guests
2 - Big Tube Squeezer, Straight Face
3 - Slack (PDX), The Wrestling Worms (SF)
8 - Vertigo Bus, Gerald Collier
9 - Misguided Baboons, Son Of Man
10 - Willie’s Camel, Daddy Hatebox
15 - Concept Pig
16 - Melting Fish, Common Language (The Rocket lists Sons Of Freedom instead of the PI’s Melting Fish)
17 - Mass Hypnosis, Pitbull Babysitter
22 - Jim Knapp & Brad Scheppach
23 - Amorphus Heads (SF), The East and the West
29 - Amy Denio, Kevin Evans
30 - Splinter Party, The Purdins (Show not listed in Rocket)
31 - F-Holes, Hungry Crocodiles

SOHO - 1985-86

SOHO - 1985-86
2214 Second Ave

Restaurant reviewer Jean Godden, described the brand-new restaurant SoHo in her review for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,  published January 14, 1984: "SoHo is one of a growing number of enterprises that combine business operations. SoHo sells pasta and ponchos, pate and paintings. The place has an arty aura, not unlike its London namesake. The building, built in 1908 to house a garage, accommodates a clothing shop, a mirrored bar, and an airy dining room with a skylight. ... Soho is a joint venture of Lois Pierris and Randall Blue. Blue is the imaginative artist of the kitchen"

Owner Lois Pierris was also co-owner of B&O Espresso on Capitol Hill, Serafina on Eastlake, and Ristorante Pony on Queen Anne. She later went on to run Lulu's (421 Second Ave S., which was in business from 2001 to 2003.

Subsequent occupants of the space were:

La Rive Gauche - 1985-92
Mr. Blues - 1993 - ?
Tula's Jazz Cub - 1995-2019

1985

July 1985

6 - 5 Sides Collide

September 1985

19 - Barry Pollock

21 - Party Of Four
28 - No News

October 1985

19 - Weird Of Mouth

24 - Jim Lyon

25 - Dick Powell Band

26 - Arms Akimbo

31 - All Night Diner Band

November 1985

2 - Party of Four

8 - No News

14 - Jazz Trio

15 - e

16 - Green Pajamas

21 - Alan Goodman & William Dummitt

22 - Marathon Band

23 - Koostic Koo Dot Tah

29 - Perfect Circles

30 - Handful Of Dust

December 1985

5 - Violet Caste, Tor Mibstkog

6 - Party Of Four

7 - Feast

8 - Fashion Show w/King Valco, Living Dolls, Young Fresh Fellows

12 - Shent 

13 - Celestial Pygmies

14 - Space Angels, music by Mark Sargent

20 - Fred

21 - Green Monkey Records Xmas Party w/Prudence Dredge, Green Pajamas

27-28 - Marathon Band

31 - Fred, Danger Bunny, Sean O'Neill, Jim Anderson Experience

1986

January 1986

2 - Melting Fish

3 - Pure Joy

4 - Film At 11

10 - Sound Color

11 - Blackwood-Laird

16 - Monhart, Treistman Band

17 - Kitty Kats

18 - Fred

23 - Gary Heffern

24 - Roland & Bill (Blackouts), Cree & Dave

25 - Party Of Four

30 - Dave Mink improv

31 - First Thought

February 1986

1 - Living Dolls

6 - Gary May & Dayton Allemann

7 - Walkabouts

8 - Cinema 90

14 - Blackwood-Laird, No News

15 - Applied Science

20 - Alan Goodman, William Dummitt

21 - Koostic Koo Dot Tah

22 - Lost Architects

27 - Voices From The Moon

March 1986

7 - Life In General

8 - Moving Parts

9 - Allright!

13 - Rhythm Arts
14 - Usual Suspects

21 - Stanley's Wife, Sympathy Cards

22 - First Thought

23 - The Dilemma

28 - Green Pajamas

29 - Teeth Like Crazy

April 1986

4 - 4 Bad Dudes

5-6 - Prudence Dredge, Slack
10 - Rhythm Arts

11 - Celestial Pygmies (A flyer exists that has Soul Asylum & Soundgarden as playing this date)

12 - Walkabouts

13 - Allright!

17 - Len Kendrick

18 - Feast

19 - Brilliant Orange, Durango Five

20 - Public Domaine
24 - Morgan & Friends, Gary May

25 - All Mighty Dread

26 - Rumors Of The Big Wave

27 - Handful Of Dust

May 1986

3 - Allright!

9 - Alan Goodman, William Dummit

10 - Life In General

15 - Rudy Yuly

16 - Greta Goehle & Friends

17 - Danger Bunny, Crypt Kicker 5

30 - Nora Michaels

31 - Rumors Of The Big Wave

SOHO closed in June 1986

THE GOLDEN CROWN - 1983-85

The Golden Crown was located at 1616 4th Ave. The Crown, located upstairs from a Chinese restaurant, hosted rock shows from 1979 to 1986, when it was demolished to make way for Westlake Center.  

The Golden Crown opened in June of 1972. The Seattle Times noted that the new restaurant “will have entertainment eventually…for the time being, the Chinese food gets top billing. The restaurant is operated by the same triad - George Woo, his wife, Martha, John Loui - responsible for the cuisine at the Gold Coin Restaurant.” The restaurant’s address was 1600 Times Court, the alley off the old Westlake Court. In February of 1973, the owners of the Crown added a dinner theater called the Cabaret Theater, and performances were held in the “Upstairs Club” on the second floor. Patrons were offered a sit-down Chinese dinner in the ground floor restaurant prior to the show and a Cantonese smorgasbord was offered after the performance. 

The theatre had a different address than the restaurant - 1616 Fourth Ave, and it was located across the street from the east entrance of the Bon Marche. Several performers have noted the treacherously steep stairs leading up to the new space. The first mention I've seen of music being performed at the Crown was in May 1973 when it was advertised that Danny Ward & His New Reality would perform after the dinner-theatre package, from 11pm to 4am(!) Thursdays through Saturday. The August 5, 1973 edition of the Seattle Post Intelligencer noted that the One Reel Vaudeville Show planned to open a nightclub in the restaurant, with a stage and dance floor, and a swing band would play between acts of the show. It appears that the ownership ceased operating the dinner theatre in the spring of 1974, and hired a pianist, Bob Dudley, to perform on a regular basis until January of 1975. In March of that year, CTI recording artist Seawind performed at the Crown, and that was the only music show listed in the papers until May 25, 1978, when Les McCann performed.  While published listings for the Crown were scant during this era, Bon Von Wheelie of the legendary Tacoma band Girl Trouble noted, "The Golden Crown Up (that was the upstairs club name) hosted a ton of funk/soul bands in the 70s. When rock went to stadiums I mostly listened to KYAC (which I think was one of those stations that would cut off at sundown) and Robert Nesbitt was the deejay. He was responsible for bringing in those acts and sometimes they were national. I can't find it anywhere but I thought James Brown might have done a show there once."

In 1980, the cabaret shows resumed, this time featuring drag shows instead of plays. These stage shows took place in the “Golden Crown Cabaret Lounge,” while upstairs became the “Golden Crown Upper Level.” Clark Humphrey's book, "Loser," notes that former manager of pioneering Seattle punk clubs The Bird & Gorilla Room, Roger Husbands, took over booking around this time, but he must've lasted only a short time, as the P.I. mentioned that Terry Morgan and Steve Pritchard took over booking the Crown in November of 1981, but apparently this was a very short-lived partnership as Pritchard was soon out of the picture. This was a turning point…shows were being booked—and advertised—every week. At first, the featured bands were mainly the old standbys of the Seattle bar scene - Annie Rose & The Thrillers, the Cowboys, Jr. Cadillac, etc - but by 1982 there was a marked increase in local new wave bands booked at the club, as well as some eclectic and exciting national acts (Snakefinger, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Chris Spedding, to name a few). 

On February 19th, 1983, Golden Crown co-owner John Loui was killed along with 12 others in the infamous Wah Mee Massacre. Loui had sold his interest in the club before his death, but it is unclear if his partners, The Woos, were still part of the ownership at this time. Loui’s death marked yet another turning point for the Crown. After existing March and April bookings were honored in the Upstairs space, the owners shuttered the club except for the occasional odd booking in the cabaret. While the Upstairs club resumed hosting shows on October 7, booking largely little-known bands (to me, at least), they quickly readjusted their focus, with the OFFICIAL re-opening taking place on November 18th. For the rest of 1983, they went back to booking popular new wave/punk bands. Then, in January 1984, the club announced a name change to “The Crown,” but by the next month it reverted back to the Golden Crown. In October 1984, the club was again renamed…this time it was called the Disillusion Lounge. By December it was again the Golden Crown. In 1986 the Golden Crown fell victim to the construction of the new Westlake Mall and the building was demolished. The club moved two blocks west to 1516 Second Ave and continued booking cabaret shows until December 1988.

1983

January

7 - Next Exit, Moving Parts

8 - Next Exit, Pamona Boners

21 - Red Dress, Pack Of Wolves

22 - Red Dress, Rally Go

28 - Moving Parts, Pamona Boners

29 - Shakin’ Pyramids, The Hurricanes

February

4-5 - Beat Pagodas, New Flamingos

8 - Annie Rose & The Thrillers

9 - Big Fun

10 - Visible Targets

11-12 - James Cotton w/Louis X. Erlanger, Slamhound Hunters

13-15 - Lonesome City Kings

19 - 54/40, Rally Go, Supershaft

22 - Bush Tetras

25 - Wipers, Young Pioneers

26 - Moving Parts, Pamona Boners

March

4 - The Scissors, New Flamingos

5 - The Scissors, The Spectators

11-12 - Beat Pagodas, Mad Dash 

18 - Pamona Boners, Fastbacks

19 - Moving Parts, Los Popularos

25 - James White & The Blacks, Beat Pagodas, Mad Dash 

26 - Savage Republic, Jungle Nausea, Supershaft

April

1-2 - Visible Targets, 3 Swimmers, Septimus

8-9 - Bernadette Bascomb

13 - Codona

May

28 - Kenny G

June

3-4 - Emerald Times Band

July - September

“City Magic - Tuesdays-Saturdays”

October

7-8 - The Mosquitos

14-15 - L.J. & The Shades

21-22 - L.J. & The Shades

28-29 - Kings Of The Beat

November

18 - Life In General, UVC

19 - Red Dress, Memory

25 - Septimus, Slidin’ Spades

26 - Moving Parts, Pushbuttons w/Robyrt DeLong

December

2- Bombadiers, Living Dolls

2 - The Frazz

9 - Pudz Reunion, Charisma Boys

10 - Life In General

16 - Harvard Surf Club

17 - Life In General

20 - KYYX-mas Partty w/Mondo Vita

23 - Sundance

30 - The Moberlys

31 - KJET NYE Party w/Allies, Next Exit, Living Dolls

1984

January

“City Magic, Tuesdays-Saturdays”

27 - Allies

28 - Next Exit, Bombadiers, Aisle Five

February (name changed to “The Crown”)

3-4 - The Allies

10-12 - Billy Rancher

17-18 - Red Dress

19 - Strypes, Confidentials

23 - Images In Vogue

24-25 - Cowboys

March 

2-3 - Paul Collins Beat, UC-5

4 - Mondo Vita

6 - Allies, Visible Targets, Boibs, Next Exit

9-10 - Mondo Vita

11 - Moberlys, Moving Parts

16-17 - Billy Rancher

23-24 - Eagertones

25 - Allies

30-31 - Moving Parts

April

6-7 - Moving Parts, Theatre Of Sheep

24 - The Cramps

27 - Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dennis Bovell’s Dub Band

29-30 - Love Tractor, Pell Mell, Red Masque

July

3 - The Rats

13-14 - Storm, 51/50

20 - Bunnydrums, Aftershaft, Ziggarat

August

3-4 - 51-50

September

28-20 - Eek-A-Mouse, Jah Malla

October - Changed name to Disillusion Lounge

5- Ministry Of Love

6 - Green On Red, Red Masque, Life In General

12 - Blood On The Saddle, U-Men

13 - Bombadiers, Fastbacks

20 - Love Tractor, Beat Pagodas

24 - Soul Syndicate

November 

2-3 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown

5 - Fastbacks

9 - Sonny Okosun

10 - Sam Smith

16 - U-Men, Life In General

17 - Bombadiers

23-24 - Ras Kiddus Roots Connection, Pack Of Wolves

29 - Sam Smith, Jam Delight

30-12/1 - Beat Pagodas

December - Changed name back to Golden Crown

1 - Beat Pagodas

7 - Messenjah

14 - Moberlys, Young Fresh Fellows, Queen Annes

15 - Obo Addy

28 - Visible Targets, Beat Pagodas

1985

January

5-6 - Sundance, Sound System

18-19 - Bombadiers, Walkabouts, Itchy Brother

23 - Ministry Of Love, Baba Yaga

February

8-9 - A Western Family, Ministry Of Love, Feast Of Friends

22 - Room Nine, A Western Family, The Dwindles

March

2 - Shanghai Club, The Accused, Wicked Angel, On The Rocks

3 - Hoi Polloi, The Dwindles, Shake & The Diversions

30 - The Moberlys, The Frames

April

27 - Room Nine, Young Pioneers, Noon Moon

June

1 - Baba Olatunji and His Drums Of Passion, Beat Pagodas

August

2-3 - Napalm Beach, The Icons

23 - Room Nine, Feast

24  - Room Nine, Skin Yard

September

20-21 - Mondo Vita (final Seattle shows)

27 - Room Nine, Young Pioneers

October

25 - Room Nine, The Dream Museum, The Dwindles