Friday, May 13, 2016

KLEM FM

Overheard at Lem's:
AprilApple said...
Bryan Ferry - yum.

In the 1980's a group of us used to Cruz Colfax on Friday night. The fun was blaring the radio or current mix-tape and laughing with friends. (and checking out the dudes)
We would fight a bit over the choice in music. It was Chaka kahn, Prince, The Motels, or whatever 80's or 70's band we were into. Avalon was not cruzzer music.
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My souvenir from seeing The Motels:

36 comments:

chickelit said...

"Hot chicks" refers to Martha Davis. I have no idea what anyone here looks like.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Excellent! In Madison to boot.

My most prized ticket stub is "Siouxsie and the Banshees" circa 198_(?) Rainbow Music hall. The Tinderbox tour.

Rainbow Music hall is now a Walgreens.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Martha was hot back then.

chickelit said...

I passed on seeing U2 at that same small venue a year or so earlier. What a dope. I knew them only from MTV.

Trooper York said...

You used to Cruz?

Come on you have to explain that one. Seriously.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I missed U2, too. At Red Rocks. That famous show!

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

What is it about the 80's and horizontal blinds?

chickelit said...

What is it about the 80's and horizontal blinds?

I don't recall seeing vertical blinds until moving to San Diego in 1998.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Playboy magazine once called Colfax "the longest, wickedest street in America".

chickelit said...

"Headliners" now looks like a club called "The Double U" link. It was brand new when I saw The Motels. That gray older building has always been there. It was once funeral parlor. It was called "The Church Key" when I was in HS/college. They had a backdoor that was easy to sneak into if you were under age (18 then).

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

121 W Main Street. Every been there? It's called "The Frequency."

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Every = ever. **

chickelit said...

AprilApple said...121 W Main Street. Every been there? It's called "The Frequency."

Can't say as I have. What did it used to be called?

chickelit said...

I knew some bars/clubs on S. Broadway in Denver back in the 80's - 90's.

Colfax was rough then. I do remember seeing some band in a converted old theater on Colfax.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

No idea.

I was with my nephew a few years ago, wondering the streets of downtown Madison, and we walked by and he stopped me and said "Can we go in, I know the band."

Jet Edison. Turns out he knew the band. I needed ear-plugs.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Troop - oh yeah. Cruz. I was one of the 7.

chickelit said...

There was a cool club in LoDo in the 1990's where I saw the original Foo Fighters. Pretty sure I came to see Mike Watt and Grohl's band opened.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Jet Edison - Undercover Lover

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Rock Island?

chickelit said...

Jet Edison. Turns out he knew the band. I needed ear-plugs.

The loudest band I ever saw was Hüsker Dü. My ears are still ringing.

Trooper York said...

Oh that's cool. I thought it meant the you were visiting prostitutes and beating your wife. And hanging out with Lee Harvey Oswald. Wait. He was dead. Maybe you were hanging with Hinckley?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Colfax is Loooooong. I cruzzed westish colfax. East Colfax is scary.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Chickl - Herman's hideaway? or something?

chickelit said...

@April: I found my ticket. It was place called The Mercury. Here's a review of the show I found in Westword.

The review mentions the Ogden Theater which I think was on Colfax or Broadway?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

The Mercury. - huh - rings a tiny bell. ??

The Ogden is on Colfax.
A small band/small venue turned big band/big venue. Always exciting to see bands like that in their infancy.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I get The Ogden and The Fillmore confused. Both on East Colfax. I cannot find my "Creatures" ticket stub. Dang it. Went to The Cocteau Twins and The Creatures - Ogden or Fillmore.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

We're back to Colfax. The nexus of the Universe.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

You can end your trip high on donuts.
Voodoo

chickelit said...

The Mercury. - huh - rings a tiny bell. ??

The Mercury Cafe. It abutted a freeway on-ramp or some such which you walked under to get to the front door. A couple years later, they tore out the road. The old buildings were transformed -- kind of like how the old buildings along the San Francisco Embarcadero came alive after they tore out the freeway.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

ah yes. The Mercury must have been in LoDo (as you said). (why don't I remember it?) I think I do, I don't recall ever going there. Is it still around?
All the old creepy viaducts were removed and now LoDo is, as you say, transformed and revitalized. (and it is!)
In the early 1990's I used to work on Wynkoop street near an old creepy viaduct. It was a day job *whew*.

A fun thing to do in Denver before you're dead is begin your walk in Highlands, walk across the bridge over I-25, (by the statue of condoms) meander up and over the newly built Denver boat-like revitalizations, thru Union Station (under) and over to the Baseball Stadium for a game. Then back for trendy "Little Man" Ice Cream near the old Mortuary that is now a place for eats. Used to be Olinger Mortuary, now it's called "Linger." How hipsterdoofus is that?

chickelit said...

I remember The Wynkoop Pub. Back when Hickenlooper owned it. Is it still there?

chickelit said...

And Confluence Park. Is it still there? (Where Cherry Creek and The Platte merge).

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Confluence Park is there, and improved. Yes - The Wynkoop is still there.

Methadras said...

The Motels were awesome. Great song.

chickelit said...

Trooper York said...
Maybe you were hanging with Hinckley?
In 1978, after graduating HS, a friend and I drove to Denver for fun and adventure. We ended up staying at my friends's relative's house--somewhere near Golden. I remember we could see an old hunting lodge allegedly frequented by Clark Gable back when it was the middle of nowhere. Anyways, a couple years later after Reagan was shot, my friend told me: "remember where we stayed? Hinckley was living just down the street with his parents then."

chickelit said...

I just remembered that I bought a skinny silk black tie to wear with my white shirt to that Motels show. I was dressing for Martha.