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Topic: Posters fom the Bitter End Club |
Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 3:23 am |
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I've not only been there, but have played there many times.
2 of my favorite records of all-time were recorded there: Curtis Mayfield Live and Donny Hathaway Live. I have many great memories of that place.
Quite a find! You never know what you'll find in a NYC basement. Love the Phi Zappa Krappa poster.
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Skip Edwards
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 6:23 am
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Yeah...played there a few times in '68 & '69.
The Bitter End, The Cheetah and Trude Heller's...that was our circuit back then.
The last time I played there was in '75, and it had changed it's name to The Other End. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 6:32 am
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Mike and Skip,
with whom did you play? I'm very interested! |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 8 Aug 2010 7:16 am
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I was playing B3 in a couple of local bands that nobody's ever heard of...The Chain Gang and the Dream Company...band names are so lame - hey, it was the '60's. We were always the opener...and there's no way I remember who we opened for...
When I played there in '75, I was playing with Johnny Rivers. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 6:25 am
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been there many a times & caught many a great artists
great times & memories
Thanx for the link Joachim  |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 6:47 am
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You are very welcome CrowBear. I like how the interviewer showed her enthusiasm when she saw the posters.
Thanks for replying Skip!
One of the bands who played at this place were Bunky and Jake, not very well known, but one of my all time favourites. Allan 'Jake' Jacobs was also very good on hawaiian guitar.
Thanks! |
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 2:43 pm
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Skip,I played at Trude Heller's Trick one time...we sucked, opened up for Monte Rock III,Got to see Blossom Deary girl who played B-3,Bunky & Jake had some great songs then they became Jake & The family Jewels.One of my older sister's friends hangs out with one of Paul Colby's cronies...he swears he knows me?I think he's still high from the 60's. 
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 2:44 pm
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Unganos?
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 9 Aug 2010 5:32 pm
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Yeah...played there a couple times. Midtown, right?
Also there was Ondines, and the Steve Paul Scene.
Used to work a club called Wheels alot on 2nd Ave in the Upper East Side...'69-70. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 12:14 am
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i played there once and have been there many times, long ago. There were a few good live music venues, and that one always had good entertainment and busy crowds.
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| ...Midtown, right?... |
It's on Bleeker Street, which is in Greenwich Village, below downtown. I always considered the corner of MacDougal and Bleeker as the heart of Greenwich Village.
Clete |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 3:22 am
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kool thread and video.
I grew up in Ct ( 45 min away ) and we came into the City very often, Yes, been to the Bitter End back in the days, never played there but been there and been to just about every other club in the "deep" village from maybe 65 to 70... Amazingly, I was there last summer ! We were in town with our daughter and we specifically went downtown to eat at Johns Pizza on Bleeker. I stopped by the BE for a minute or two, lots of flashbacks for sure. I know we saw the Blues Project and Richie Havens but there were to many other clubs with great artists to remember which clubs we saw them at.
http://www.bitterend.com/
http://www.bitterend.com/played.html
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ps Matt Uminov vintage guitars is still open and is right across the street from Johns Pizza on Bleeker, which is about a block or two down the street from the BE. ( BE, not Buddy Emmons )
http://www.umanovguitars.com/
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 11 Aug 2010 7:01 am
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Wow... It's nice to know that the Bitter End is still rockin'.
Clete, I was referring to Unganos. Still trying to remember where that club was.
I lived on MacDougal between W 3rd & Bleeker in '69.
Crazy times in a crazy place... |
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