THE BAHAMAS 1978-80

THE BAHAMAS
601 1st Ave (at Yesler St)

Restaurant/bar opened November 1978; live music began in June 1979
Closed September 1980

The Bahamas had three distinct performance spaces. The Underground, the Lounge, and the Deli. All shows listed below took place in the Underground, unless otherwise noted. Clark Humphrey notes in his book, “Loser,” that Jean Baptise booked the Underground, and “many of the former Bird* bands and their friends got their first 21-and-over gigs at the Bahamas, before it was closed over liquor-law violations [in 1980].”

* Located at 107 Spring Street,  The Bird was Seattle’s first punk club, opening in March of 1978.

1979

June 1979
29 - Vizzion (first rock show at the Bahamas)

August 1979
24 - “Under New Management”

September 1979
29 - Seattle Times reports that The Enemy has replaced Chinas Comidas at the Bahamas Monday & Tuesday night.

October 1979
8-11 - The Girls and the Frazz
12 - The Enemy
        Lounge: The Persuasions
13 - China Comidas
        Lounge: Sukay
19 - The Enemy, Special Guests
        Lounge: Gary Peacock 
20 - The Jitters
        Lounge: Gary Peacock
26 - The Urge (“new wave all-woman band from S.F.”), The Enemy
       Lounge: Clannad
27 - The Enemy, special guests
28 - The Urge, Citizen Sane
31 - Dynamic Logs

November 1979
1-2 - Jitters, Magnetics
3 - Lounge - Martin Carthy
4-6 - Hands
11 - The Refuzors
       Lounge: Tom Paxton
15-16 - Jitters
            Lounge: The Skyboys
17-18 - Lounge: The Persuasions
23-24 - Magnetics
            Lounge: Sundance Rhythm
30-31 - Kidd Afrika
             Lounge: Jr. Cadillac

December 1979
3-4 - Etta James
5-8 - Scargill
6-7 - Lounge: Koko Taylor
9 -    Lounge: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
14 -  Citizen Sane, Jim Basnight
        Lounge: Airhead
21-22 - Cowboys, Citizen Sane
             Lounge: Heaters
31 - Cowboys, Citizen Sane
       Lounge: Charlie Musselwhite
            
1980

January 1980
4-5 - Girls, Jitters (The PI lists Footlucy on these dates)
         Lounge: Robert Cray
6 - Jim Page
9 - Lounge: Kidd Afrika
11-12 -  Vizzion
             Lounge: Mithrandier 
18-19 - Hands, Accidents
             Lounge: Kidd Afrika
20 - Dogwater
       Lounge: Jim Kweskin
23-26 - Citizen Sane, New Vitations
25 - Lounge: Heaters, The Girls
26 - Lounge: Blackouts, Chinas Comidas, Beakers

February 1980
1-2 - Citizen Sane
         Lounge: Kidd Afrika
3- Happytones, The News
6-8 - Girls, Frazz
9 - Magnetics, Frazz
10 - The News, New Americans
11-14 - Wreckless

11 - Lounge: John Fahey
15-16 - Black Flag, China Comidas, Exquisite Corpse
19 - Cowboys, Jitters, Wreckless
20 - Enemy, Girls
22-23 - Jitters, New Vibrations

22 - Lounge: Jr. Cadillac
23 - Lounge: Pulsations
24 - John Lee Hooker
25-26 - Owl
28-29 - The Jitters, The Locomotives
             Lounge: Skyboys

March 1980
5 - "Music For Life" Benefit for Cambodia w/Julian Priester, Seattle Jazz Quintet, Total Experience Gospel Choir

5-8 -  Hands, Wreckless
6-8 - Lounge: Robert Cray
9-11 - The Nads
12 - Magnetics (The Rocket has Vizzion & Red Dress listed for this date)
14-16 - Magnetics, New Variations
            Lounge: Airhead
17-18 - Student Nurse, The Beakers
             Lounge: Moberlys (record release), Magnetics 
19-22 - The News, Larry & The Mondellos
19 - Lounge: Son Seals
19 - Lounge: Elizabeth Cotten
21 - Lounge: The Heats, The Woolies
22 - Lounge: Cowboys, Denny Regrade
23 - Lounge: Elizabeth Cotten
23-25 - The Lemmings, Connections
24 - Lounge: The Heats
26-28 - Denny Regrade
26 - Lounge: Dirty Legs

28 - "Bahamas Under New Management" (Seattle PI)
29 - Roadhouse
29-30 - Lounge: Mandingo Griot Society

April 1980
4-5 - The Frazz, Baby Knockors
4-5 - Lounge: Queen Ida & The Bon Tons
6 - Lounge: Kinky Friedman
9-12 - The News, The Girls
9-10 - Lounge: The Pulsations
14 - Lounge: Linda Waterfalk
16-19 - Citizen Sane, Connections
16 - Lounge: Kidd Afrika
18 - The Skyboys
20 - Dr. Timothy Leary
21-22 - The Blame 
Note: “The Lounge” apparently closed around this time.
25 - Black Flag

May 1980
2-3 - The Frazz
4 - “The liquor board ordered a seven-day license suspension for making a change in management without prior written consent of the board.” - Seattle Times
18 - Citizen Sane
23-24 - The Pulsations
26-27 - Pro Jr.
30-31 - The Pins

June 1980
6-7 - Robert Cray Band
10 - “The Bahamas…has paid a penalty of $189.35 after being accused by the State Liquor Board of making alterations to the restaurant without the board’s permission” Seattle Times
20-21 - Baby Knockors
22-25 - Spectre
26-28 - The Cowboys
29 - The Adults, Steven James Band
30 - The Adults, The Accident

July 1980
1 - The Adults, The Accident

2-5 - Pins, No Cheese Please
6 - Pink Section, Blackouts
11-12 - Lips
18-19 - The Frazz
20-21 - Larry & The Mondellos, Customer Service
25-26 - Baby Knockors

August 1980
1-2 - The Pulsations
8-9 - The Pins
15-16 - Impacts, Urban Sprawl (L.A.)
22- The Frazz
23 - New Vitations
29-30 - No Cheese Please

September 1980
4 - The Bahamas received a seven-day liquor license suspension for “making a misrepresentation on a report and for failing to keep records which would reflect the financial condition of the premises.” The club closed shortly thereafter.

ATHENS CAFE 1982-83

Athens Cafe
2200 2nd Ave

"The Athens, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Blanchard Street, is the most recent addition to the rock scene. A lighted sign outside the club boasts of the food ('Fantastic Greek Cuisine') and soft pedals the music ('Live Music'). Inside, Wednesday through Sunday nights, the reverse is true. The club books new wave, or what promoter Steve Pritchard likes to call 'creative, danceable new music,' which must be frustrating to patrons since the dance floor is so small. ... The interior of the Athens looks like an overly decorated school lunch room, with cheap tables, and colored paper streamers dangling from the ceiling next to plastic pineapple-shaped lamp coverings. For a new room, the club already has a good following. Some punks, new wavers, and members of the tweedy-looking intelligentsia of rock frequent the club." - Regina Hackett, Seattle P.I., January 31, 1982

The Athens officially opened January 2, 1982 (although I did find a November 1981 show listing).  Promoter Steve Pritchard left WREX and started booking late-night shows at this restaurant, which was located at 2nd & Blanchard.

1981

November 1981

29 - Robert DeLong & The Pushbuttons

1982

January 1982

2 - Blackouts, Pronoia

5 - Tuxedomoon, Pronoia

8 - Student Nurse, The Deans

9 - The Rats, Fastbacks

15 - Visible Targets, Red Dress

16 - Visible Targets, Moving Parts

21 - New Flamingos

22 - 3 Swimmers, e

23 - Blackouts, Napalm Beach 

28 - The Enemy

29 - The Enemy, Dynette Set

30 - X-15, The Rats 

February 1982

3 - The Features

4 - Napalm Beach, Larch

5 - Napalm Beach, Robyrt DeLong & The Pushbuttons

6 - Red Dress, Little Bears From Bangkok

9 - The Enemy, The Cowboys, Fly

10 - The Minkler Brothers

11 - No Cheese Please

12-13 - Robyrt DeLong & The Pushbuttons, Beat Pagodas

17 - Dementia Praecox

18 - The Deans, Queen Annes

19 - New Flamingos, Moving Parts (Seattle Times lists Child playing the 19-27)

20 - Sleeping Movement, Colored Twigs, The Huns

24 - Instant Karma 

26 - Child

(Athens ad in Seattle Times lists Child as playing from Feb 19-20 and Feb 23-27.)

March 1982

2-4 - Section 8

5-6 - The Enemy, Section 8

9-11 - The Denny Regrade

12-13 - Minkler Brothers

16-18 - Crosstown Rivals

18-19 - Brando Bogart, The Features

20 - Moving Parts, The Features

23 - “Following repeated complaints from area residents about noise, the Athens restaurant is phasing out rock & roll, according to owner Nick Athan. Last February, promoter Steve Pritchard quit booking the room because he ‘didn’t want to go to jail for rock & roll.’ . [Athan said] ‘Starting next month I’m going to have musicians that don’t make noise. They’ll be comedy musicians. No new wave or punk rockers.” - Seattle P.I.

25- Beat Pagodas

26 - Beat Pagodas, Red Mask

27 - Robyrt DeLong & The Pushbuttons, Section 8

28 - Robyrt DeLong & The Pushbuttons

On April 2, sportscaster Wayne Cody opened his Komedy Store at the Athens, featuring several comics and a dixieland band. The comedy format stayed until August 1982, when the club resumed hosting live music shows.

August 1982

20-21 - Young Executives, Next Exit, Life In General

December 1982

10-12 - From Seattle Times: “Reopens this weekend with rock by the Kinetics and Section 8”

15 - Grand Opening w. Shyanne

16 - Big Fun

17-18 - The Original Kingsmen

25-26 - The Want

31 - Scott Roseburg Band, Ronnie Lee & The Zippers

1983

January 1983

7-8 - Big Fun, Harvard Surf Club

14-15 - The Convertibles

19-23 - Baby Knockors, Beat Pagodas

28-29 - Shyanne

February 1983 

2 - Big Fun (live broadcast on KYYX)

3-5 - Strypes

9 - Student Nurse

10 - Wet Picnic

11-12 - Young Executives

16-19 - Big Fun

24-26 - Those Guys

March 1983

4 - The Shreds

5 - The Snap

In April of 1983, the Athens was renamed Acropolis and hosted live Greek music in addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

In September of 1983, it became Nick’s Restaurant, which hosted live blues music as well as burlesque and bellydancing.

In December of 1983 it was renamed once again, this time to Zorba’s Room, “featuring the best of New York’s musicians, such as Famous, Mikros Tsiganos Dimitriu, and Gregory Geordiadis with Buzuki.” The ‘famous belly dancing’ stayed on, but it was all over by 1984. 

According to the “Vanishing Seattle” Facebook page, “In 1985 a permit was filed by a company called Uniview for a ‘live adult entertainment’ center w/video booths, which was opposed by Denny Regrade Association & the nuns at St. Paul Catholic Book & Film Center down the block, who wanted ‘porno houses’ to stay on 1st Ave. The building stayed empty until The Crocodile Cafe opened on April 30, 1991 w/Love Battery & The Posies.”

BABY O's - 1980-82

Baby-O’s
122 Cherry
1980-83

Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Baby O's is a dive, a perfect little rock 'n' roll hangout. Even though the room is small, most of the area top mainline rock acts play there. It attracts a varied crowd: There are women in sultry, low-cut dresses and high-heeled shoes slumming with men who wear tight pants and never remove their leather jackets. There is also a good assortment of clean-cut, happily mindless fun-seekers." - Regina Hackett, Seattle P.I., January 31, 1982

Note: The official grand opening of Baby-O’s was advertised in The Rocket as taking place on February 6-7, 1981. However, there are photos online of a poster advertising a pair of shows in March 1980 featuring San Francisco’s The Units with openers the Blackouts. 

1980

March 1980
31 - Units (SF), Blackouts

April 1980

1 - Units (SF), Blackouts

1981

February 1981
20-21 - The Impacts
26-28 - The Mob

March 1981
6-7 - The Bones, The Impacts (Official Grand Opening)
13-14 - Cowboys

27-28 - Skeezix

April 1981
3-4 - No Cheese Please

10-11 - Avalon Boulevarde
17-18 - The Numatics
24-25 - Rockefellers, Moving Parts
29 - The Cowboys, Annie Rose & The Thrillers

May 1981
8-9 - The Pins

15-16 - The Bones
21-23 - No Cheese Please
24 - The Cowboys
28-30 - The Impacts

June 1981
5-6 - Albro Swift

11-13 - Annie Rose & The Thrillers (The P.I. has Dynamic Logs playing this weekend)

19-20 - The Pins
25-27 - The Cowboys

July 1981
10-11 - The Impacts 
17-18 - The Enemy
31-Aug 1 - Strypes

August 1981
7-8 - The Untouchables
14-15 - No Cheese Please

21-22 - No Cheese Please
26-29 - The Enemy

September 1981
2-5 - The Untouchables
9-12 - Citizen Sane
18-19 - No Cheese Please
23-26 - Sundance

October 1981
2-3 - Gregg Tripp, Meredith Brooks & The Suspects
4 - Sex Therapy

10 - Rail
16-17 - The Pins
23 - No Cheese Please
31 - No Cheese Please

November 1981
6-7 - The Enemy (The Rocket lists Jim Basnight as playing 11/4-7)
13-14 - Billy Rancher & The Unreal Gods
15 - Section 8
18-19 - Billy Rancher & The Unreal Gods
20 - Shatterbox, Strypes
21 - ESX, The Presidents (The Rocket has Rail playing on this date)
25 - The Heats
27-28 - The Enemy, Robert DeLong & The Pushbuttons

December 1981
2-5 - The Impacts
6 - The Rats, Joe Despair & The Future
11-12 - No Cheese Please, Los Microwaves
13 - The Impacts, The Elbows
14 - The Jet
16-17 - The Plugs
18-19 - The Plugs, Lonesome City Kings
20 - Toys For Tots Benefit w/eight bands
21 - The Stealers
23 - Food Band Benefit
25-26 - Baby Knockors
27 - Iris Hill, Grand Emotion, The Kinetics
31 - No Cheese Please

1982

"Astor Park rock club promoter John Baptiste has left the club he has booked for over two years, after a controversy in which he was criticized fo threatening to blackball local rock bands. ...According to Baptiste, he left Astor Park because he got a better offer from another rock club, Baby-O's. 'It's my first opportunity to do a club entirely,' he said. - Regina Hackett, Seattle P.I., January 7, 1982

January 1982
13 - New Flamingos, Kneekaps
23 - Hi-Fi
27-28 - The B-Sides
29-31 - No Cheese Please, The B-Sides

February 1982
4-7 - The Kinetics, Bobcats
16-21 - David Raven & The Escorts (Vancouver BC)
22 - David Raven & The Escorts (Vancouver BC), Lonesome City Kings
26 - David Raven & The Escorts (Vancouver BC)
27 - Hi-Fi, Dynette Set 

March 1982
3-6 - Dynette Set
10-15 - Hi-Fi
17-20 - No Cheese Please, Lonesome City Kings
24-27 - The Allies, Lonesome City Kings, The Jet
28 - The Heats

April 1982
2 - The Villains
3 - The Villians, Dynette Set, The Frazz
7 - Dynette Set, Hurricane
8-9 - Dynette Set, Beat Pagodas
10 - Dynette Set
16-17 - Visible Targets
20 - The Heats, The Zippers
21 - Life In General
22 - Blackouts, The Heats
23-24 - The Heats
30 - Dynette Set

May 1982
1 - Dynette Set
2 - Minimal Man, Memory
5-7 - Lonesome City Kings, The Frazz
8 - Dynette Set, Lonesome City Kings 
14-15 - No Cheese Please, Napalm Beach
21-22 - Hi-Fi, The Frazz
28 - The Enemy, The Hurricanes
29-30 - No Cheese Please, The Crocodiles

June 1982
2-4 - Lonesome City Kings
5 - The Waitresses, Visible Targets
11 - Dynette Set 
12 - The Bongos, 3 Swimmers
13 - The Bongos, The Blackouts
18-19 - Hi-Fi, Napalm Beach
24- Visible Targets, Dynette Set
25-26 - Visible Targets

July 1982
2-3 - The Impacts
13 - KCMU Benefit w/Beat Pagodas, Dynette Set, Blackouts
15-17 - Dynette Set
21-22 - The Heats
23 - Three Swimmers
24 - Nico, Next Exit 
27-28 - Paul Collins Beat, No Cheese Please 

29-31 - Dynette Set, The Frazz 

August 1982
6 - Citizen Sane
7- The Heats, Citizen Sane
13 - 3 Swimmers, Beat Pagodas, Hi-Fi
14 - Hi-Fi
17 - Dynette Set, Red Dress
18 - Gun Club (LA) 
19 - King Bees
20 - Dynette Set (The P.I. has The Frazz on this date)
21 - Vice Squad (UK) 
24 - Kitty Kats, Hurricanes, Alley Gators
26 - Translator, Rally Go, Next Exit
27 - Dynette Set, The Confidentials
28 - Visible Targets, The Confidentials
29 - Dynette Set, Red Dress, The Edge

September 1982
3 - Annie Rose & The Thrillers
9-10 - Dynette Set
22-23 - The Presence

24-25 - Big Fun

29 - Del Psychics

October 1982
1-2 - Alley Gators, Young Executives, Pamona Boners

5 - Alley Gators, Hurricanes, The Hiccups
6 - Young Executives
9 - Those Guys
12 -  Alley Gators, Hurricanes, The Hiccups
15 - Those Guys
19 -  Alley Gators, Hurricanes, The Hiccups
30 - Dynette Set

November 1982

6 - Dynette Set

Baby-O’s stopped booking live music in October 1982

The Rocket - October 1982: “Baby-O’s is going belly-up. The new owners aren’t planning on any live music for a while:”

 The Rocket - November 1982:  “Baby-O’s isn’t belly-up; it’s just changing hands…and you can still catch rockabilly there every Tuesday, for a while anyway.”

The Rocket - December 1982: “OK! This is absolutely it! Baby-O’s has finally been sold! It’s changing into a haut chez French restaurant and the rockabilly has been supplanted by croissants and escargot.”

GORILLA ROOM 1980-81

 

Gorilla Room 

610 2nd Ave  

Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Clark Humphrey's book, "Loser."

From Clark Humphrey's book Loser:

"Tony Chu, son of an affluent Taiwanese family, created a band space in the back room of his Chinese restaurant on Second Avenue near Pioneer Square, north of the Smith Tower. Chu's first booker took a haphazard approach, with original bands some night, biker-blues and cover bands other nights. Then Roger Husbands booked the place for a couple of shows with the Enemy and X-15.... The full houses led Chu to make it a full-time new wave outlet by March 15, 1980. Husbands christened it the Gorilla Room (after the Chinese monkey-face Christmas tree lights decorating the room). Like almost all the places where punk, post-punk and grunge bands would play, it was small (liquor laws and a lack of investment capital discouraged big showcase clubs). It was a homey, raunchy, delicious place, in various degrees of being trashed. It was adorned with plastic plants and mismatched office-furniture chairs."

1980 

 March 1980

14 - Grand opening w/Psycho Pop, Refuzors, The Missing Link 
15 - Psycho Pop, Refuzors

25-26 - Hostage, Skinny Ties, David Best 

28-29 - The Magnetics, Robert DeLong, Dr. Albert 

April  1980

11-12 - The Shivers, The Fret 

18-19 - Skinny Ties, Laura & The Lions, Dave Best 

25-26 - Skinny Ties, The Hostages, Dave Best 

May 1980

9-10 - Jitters, Larry & The Mondellos 

11-13 - New Flamingos 

16-17 - The Girls, The Bones 

30-31 - New Flamingos, The Fred 

June 1980

6-7 - Denny Regrade, The Connections 

8-10 - The Innocents 

13-14 - Happy Tones, Survivors (first 21+ show) 

20-21 - The Connections, The Debbies 

27-28 - Kiki Babo & Blacky Joe James, Ernie Callett 

30 - X-15, Student Nurse 

July 1980

1-2 - X-15, Student Nurse 

4 - X-15, Student Nurse 

5 - The Blame, Larry & The Mondellos, The Features 

6-8 - The Features 

11-12 - The Blame, Happy Tones 

18-19 - The Adults 

23-24 - Baby Knockors 

August 1980

1-2 - Imaginary Band 

3 - Skinny Ties 

6-8 - Casey Nova & The Horn 

15-16 - The Debbies 

22-23 - Urban Sprawl, Section Eight 

29-30 - Crisis 

September 1980

5-6 - Wise Guys

12 - Baby Knockors, Secret V’s 

13 - Baby Knockors 

15-17 - Vis-a-Vis 

19-20 - Baby Knockors 

22-23 - The Impacts 

24-27 - Baby Knockors 

October 1980

3-4 - The Larks 

10-11 - The Debbies, Empress 

17-18 - The Rats, The Spaztics 

23-25 - Sex Therapy 

31 - The Debbies 

November 1980

1 - The Debbies 

7-8 - The Features 

14-15 - The Jetsons 

21-22 - Visible Targets, X-15, West Side Lockers 

24-25 - The Vacations, The Protectors, Vizzion 

28-29 - The Enemy 

December  1980

5-6 - The Enemy, Fastbacks 

10 - Student Nurse, X-15 

11 - The Excuses 

12-13 - Untouchables, Casey Nova 

14-16 - Face To Face 

17 - Student Nurse, Spectators 

18 - The Excuses, Cool Lover 

19-20 - The Excuses, Moving Parts, The Accident 

26-27 - The Macs, Beakers, and Blackouts All-Stars 

31 - The Enemy, Spectators, L’Orange, special guests 

1981 

January 1981

1 - The Features 

2-3 - Skinny Ties 

9 - The Shivers, The Spectators 

10 - The Shivers, The Spectators, Joe Despair & The Futures 

11-12 - L’Orange, Smoldering Remains 

13 - Section 8, The Features 

14 - Fastbacks, Zipdads 

15 - Spectators, Shatterbox 

16- L’Orange, Red Dress 

17 - Red Dress, special guest 

18 - The Frazz 

19 - The Rockefellers, The Crisis 

20 - Section 8, The Features 

21 - Zipdads, Fastbacks, Joe Despair & The Future 

29 - Joe Despair & The Future 

February 1981

5-7 The Shivers, Student Nurse 

12 - The Shivers, Student Nurse 

13 - The Enemy, Smoldering Remains, Toxic Shock Syndrome, Richard Peterson 

14 - The Enemy, Spectators, X-15, Richard Peterson 

15 - Gad Zooks 

19 - Student Nurse, The Shivers 

20 - X-15, Joe Despair & The Future, Fastbacks 

21 - Los Microwaves, X-15 

22 - “Jam Session” 

23 - Zipdads, RPA, The Problem 

24 - Audio Leter, Fred 

25 - X-15, Visible Targets, Spectators 

26 - Student Nurse, The Shivers 

27 - Red Dress, The Untouchables 

28 - The Enemy, The Untouchables 

March 1981

6-7 - The Shivers 

17 - Joe Despair & The Future 

21 - Random Bacteria, 3 Swimmers, X-15 

24 - Joe Despair & The Future 

April 1981

10 - Joe Despair & The Future, X-15 

24 - Los Popularos, Connections 

25 - Los Popularos, Fastbacks 

26 - The 88’s, Stubborn Puppet 

27 - Stubborn Puppet, Brian Today 

28 - Cowboys, Untouchables 

29 - Untouchables 

30 - Untouchables, Skinny Ties 

May 1981

1-2 - The Rats, The Enemy 

8 - Pell Mell, X-15, Visible Targets

10 - The Lewd, The Fartz OR The Lewd, Joe Despair & The Future, RPA, Zipdads

16 - Student Nurse, Vertical Hold

22-23 - Three Swimmers 

26 - The Cowboys, Untouchables 

June 1981

19 - The Rats, Sado Nation, Neo Boys 

20 - The Rats, Sado Nation, Domino Theory 

21-22 - Roxsof & The Rubber Sheets 

24 - The Lifters Color Plates 

25 - The Knaves, Rapid-I 

26 - Blackouts, Rapid-I 

July 1981  

10 - Husker Du, Mike Refuzor Band, Zipdads 

18 - Untouchables 

23 - Fastbacks, Lifters

24 - Fastbacks, Sado Nation, Joe Despair & The Future

On July 23rd, 1981, the PI noted that the Washington State Liquor Board ordered a month-long closure of the Gorilla Room due to numerous minor violations. This was followed by a 14-day suspension handed down on August 29th. 

On August 30th, the Showbox hosted a “Save The Gorilla Room” benefit with The Enemy, Napalm Beach, Student Nurse, Spectators, Rapid-I, The Executives, DT’z, The Deans, Scissors, Shatterbox, Fastbacks, The Rats, and Joe Despair & The Future. 

On November 5, the Liquor Board ordered the cancellation of the club’s liquor license on December 1st unless the club met certain conditions (10- day suspension, employee training classes, and no violations for a year. 

The Gorilla Room closed in November 1981.

Sources: The Rocket, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Clark Humphrey's Loser