What a great bar. I have some great pieces of memories from that place. Not the least of which was somehow getting the number from one of the chicks in Little Red Rocket.

…pantsfucious, I may have taken one of your American Studies classes in the 90s. I definitely like the quote from Repo Man, which I just rewatched a couple of weeks ago.

TOD: Was her name Maria?

SitP: Que es el ‘band’ of which you speak? I was there pre- and post-Ludovic.

NLS. I can’t remember. She was played on stage right (left side from the audience point of view). This was easily 15 years ago now, the number was written on the back of a flier torn from the wall near the bar. Also, i pussed out and never called it.

They sure did rock the house though.

Shall we go even further Off-topic and naming bands we loved while in T-town. I’ll start with Mindseye, I used to love those guys.

Anybody remember JD? I started playing the harmonica because of him and remember great nights throwing chairs in the upstairs of The Varsity— then getting a steamed sandwich thru the window of Solomon’s all the while MagicMan would be balancing 100lb picnic tables on his face scaring all the sorority girls— Ah the memories—- Anybody with me?

Anybody?

and brings back lots of memories! Don’t forget wheelie man!

Its kinda sad now on the strip,by the time i got of age the international deli was Hales and the tusk had closed. I did see son volt at the varsity though.I miss the booth.I played in a band called Chinese Dentist and playing there on a Friday before a game was huge.I still work at egans and we a lot of original bands still some are great and others not so much.We did have Unknown Hinson (voice of Squidbillies) not to long ago.The egg roll lady has morphed into the flower lady. Magic man is banned from most bars now for burning people with his cigarettes. I always wondered what he did when he wasn’t magic man and then a guy at egans told me he worked with him at the Cap’n D’s on Macfarland.I also heard balloon man had nitro balloons.Anybody remember Pain the did the jabber jaws theme for cartoon network.

Two best- Halloween in a Gorilla suit on stage with The Storm Orphans

AND

My first time on the new big stage in the back jamming with Indecision

In a Katrina follow-up that Brian Williams did on NBC, they were handing over the keys to the first recovery house at the Musicians Village. The shot starts placing keys in a black man’s hand that looked like it had lillypads for fingers— I shouted “those are JD’s hands” and sure enough JD got the first House.

Whenever he would flop in Ttown, he often would go buy a whole chicken and then look for a house to cook it in. Many times that was with one of our crew.

He’s playing JazzFest this year on May 3rd I think-hoping to catch him.

“I can sing like a frog”