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Digging them crazy beat chicks with their out there disco grooving!!
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I grew up near this place, which was then the glitziest and most glamorous nightclub imaginable:

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When Tom Jones was playing (he was a regular in his prime), the marquee out front said only:
HE
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HERE
GAH!

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Those white “go-go” boots where the thing when I was a kid.

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Sue--I'm pretty sure I saw Elvis Costello there (not sure when, but I thought it was a disco fater its heyday before it became a rock club). What is it now?

I don't recall things anywhere near as ornate or glitzy, where I saw a number of big acts in a smallish, eventually crumbling, venue (ones that stand out for me were Meatloaf, the Who, and Jethro Tull). It beat the Garden. It was torn down a number of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_T ... ew_Jersey)

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Joe Guy:

Remember the Circle Star Theater?

With it's revolving stage, it was the IN place back in the day.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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dales wrote:
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Joe Guy:

Remember the Circle Star Theater?

With it's revolving stage, it was the IN place back in the day.
Yes! I went there many times. The last show I ever saw there was Joe Walsh. I saw Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Roger Miller, Tower of Power. Smothers Brothers and many more. I even took my nieces there to see Donny & Marie Osmond. They had boxing matches there too. I saw Butter Bean fight and get knocked out.

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Big RR wrote:
Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:47 pm
Sue--I'm pretty sure I saw Elvis Costello there (not sure when, but I thought it was a disco fater its heyday before it became a rock club). What is it now?

I don't recall things anywhere near as ornate or glitzy, where I saw a number of big acts in a smallish, eventually crumbling, venue (ones that stand out for me were Meatloaf, the Who, and Jethro Tull). It beat the Garden. It was torn down a number of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_T ... ew_Jersey)
Big RR: The Latin Casino was converted into a disco club called Emerald City in the late 70s, which, oddly, then pretty rapidly became a hot venue for punk/New Wave acts. While it was still the Latin I saw Steve Martin and Cliff Richard (don't ask) perform there. As Emerald City, I was there a lot, but the most memorable shows I saw were Buzzcocks, The Cramps (had a backstage pass), The Ramones, The Plasmatics and The B-52s. I remember that I did not go to the Elvis Costello show there because I had already seen him previously at the Hot Club in Philly -- and that's why you and I never met! The club closed in the mid to late 80s I think; it was eventually demolished and the site was rebuilt as the corporate HQ for Subaru of America (which has also since been knocked down).

Although I went to shows all over NJ, most in dumps (e.g., City Gardens in Trenton -- that place was awful), I never got to the Capitol, much to my great dismay. I've heard about a lot of legendary performances on that stage, and I missed every one of them. :evil: :arg :evil: And yeah, the Garden sucks; I quit going to arena shows altogether in the early 80s (except for David Bowie, who I saw for the last time at the Spectrum in the summer of 1990).
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the most memorable shows I saw were Buzzcocks, The Cramps (had a backstage pass), The Ramones, The Plasmatics and The B-52s. I remember that I did not go to the Elvis Costello show there because I had already seen him previously at the Hot Club in Philly
Enviable list there Sue!

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TPFKA@W wrote:
Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:12 pm
Those white “go-go” boots where the thing when I was a kid.
South African white boot chicks

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Gob wrote:
Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:07 am
Enviable list there Sue!
Oh, from the mid 70s to the late 80s it wasn't hard to see bands in the region from Philadelphia to NYC, and most of the time I didn't even have to leave my own neighborhood. I remember turning down tickets to a couple of Ramones shows in Philly because it seemed like they were playing here every other week and there was some other new band playing in a bar down the street. For a while I was pretty hooked into the Philly music scene and could get on the guest list for most of the shows in town. Honestly, I think I've forgotten more shows than I remember (because there were so many -- not necessarily because of the drugs). But there are still quite a few that I recall vividly and which were a blast, especially in the smaller clubs and bars (e.g., Butthole Surfers and The Mekons were both spectacular fun but in very very different ways).
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Nice one!! :ok
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Sue U wrote:
Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:46 pm
I grew up near this place, which was then the glitziest and most glamorous nightclub imaginable:

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When Tom Jones was playing (he was a regular in his prime), the marquee out front said only:
HE
IS
HERE
I have bad news. I think that means you're getting old. :(

The first place I saw a concert is gone in favor of a Lowe's. That might mean I'm getting old. :shrug

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Big RR wrote:
Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:47 pm
Sue--I'm pretty sure I saw Elvis Costello there (not sure when, but I thought it was a disco fater its heyday before it became a rock club). What is it now?

I don't recall things anywhere near as ornate or glitzy, where I saw a number of big acts in a smallish, eventually crumbling, venue (ones that stand out for me were Meatloaf, the Who, and Jethro Tull). It beat the Garden. It was torn down a number of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_T ... ew_Jersey)
Meat Loaf always preferred smaller venues, especially theatres...in his last tour, he played the Harborlights/BankBoston/FleetBoston/Bank America/Rockland Trust/whatever Pavilion in Boston rather than the Garden, and the old Oakdale Theatre in CT.

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