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.”