Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mad_Jack]

He used to play a little local club, called Spanky's, that was below an FM radio station (CFNY, which was the only Alternative radio station in the area at the time) about 5 miles from my house. Later, in the '80s, it changed its name to Stars. I was too young to get in and this particular Toronto suburb had about 600,000 fewer residents then. We had some wild bands play those two clubs. As in you wouldn't believe the names involved, that showed up in this little bump in the road back then.

There used to be a tiny little club in New London, CT called the L'n'G Club. Now, this is a tiny city, only 10 sq. miles and currently 27,000 people, and the club itself was only about 60 feet wide and 150 feet long, two-thirds of that length a bar and the rest the stage area (which was only waist-high).

And yet, back in the mid-late '90's I regularly saw huge bands like Type O Negative, Henry Rollins, and a triple bill of Prong, Clutch and Drowned performing there... The club was a decades-long landmark in the New England music scene and a common stop on most tours of this area, especially for punk and metal bands.

 

[Ryujin]

The sense I have is that there are still some smaller venues, but I live in the East Coast Megalopolis, so my sense of things might be skewed (and I haven't been following the music biz much for a while).

You're not wrong, but most of the old standards have long since gone. In Toronto we lost maybe 3/4 of them, over the years. Lee's Palace, where Clash at Demonhead played in "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" still exists, but they lost the front entrance to a restaurant.

 

[trappedslider]

You're not wrong, but most of the old standards have long since gone. In Toronto we lost maybe 3/4 of them, over the years. Lee's Palace, where Clash at Demonhead played in "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" still exists, but they lost the front entrance to a restaurant.

 

[Ryujin]

There used to be a tiny little club in New London, CT called the L'n'G Club. Now, this is a tiny city, only 10 sq. miles and currently 27,000 people, and the club itself was only about 60 feet wide and 150 feet long, two-thirds of that length a bar and the rest the stage area (which was only waist-high).

And yet, back in the mid-late '90's I regularly saw huge bands like Type O Negative, Henry Rollins, and a triple bill of Prong, Clutch and Drowned performing there... The club was a decades-long landmark in the New England music scene and a common stop on most tours of this area, especially for punk and metal bands.

The building itself hasn't changed, but the occupants have. CFNY occupied the space now housing T&T Restaurant, Nail Madness, and Dosa Corner. Spanky's had the three spaces right below that.

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[Ryujin]

The whole song's performance exists on Youtube, not just the shortened version from the movie.

 

[trappedslider]

The whole song's performance exists on Youtube, not just the shortened version from the movie.

with Brie's singing...