Rolling Totes PWNING Awesome Shows in Twin Cities Thread!

http://blog.thecurrent.org/2013/10/first-avenue-buys-the-turf-club/?refid=0

whoa what's up with this?

yeah i was actually at the turf last night and heard that.

not totally surprised, first avenue has been promoting shows at other venues like the turf, fine line, and cabooze pretty intensively for awhile now.

i think they've coveted a venue in between the entry and the main room. entry is zoned for about 200 i think but they've packed more in but it's miserable. but there's definitley shows where they could maybe sell like 350 tickets but that would be a miserable main room show, too packed for the entry, and good for the turf or fine line.

frankly, i've been getting worried about the turf...sc@l0n is a fucking crazy person and recently came in a threw a fit and canceled a bunch of booked shows and closed the club sunday - tues. my fear was that when light rail started next year some condo developer was gonna come through and offer him a few million to knock it down.

first ave will fix is up w/kitchen and new bathrooms, etc

all this said....it's bittersweet for me. for nearly 20 years it's been as close to a home bar as i've ever had, through the current regime and before that rob and leah rule....it's been a pretty free space to do whatever the fuck you wanted, stay until 3 am after a show if you knew the folks, hang out, do weird DJ nights, whatever....

was definitely an era that was gonna come to an end eventually.

the memory i will take is of my first band playing "shots" by neil young & crazy horse at about 45 minutes past bar time with my friend pretending to fellate me and shooting a fake kid's laser gun in the microphone

don't ever change that bathroom ever

the memory i will take is of my first band playing "shots" by neil young & crazy horse at about 45 minutes past bar time with my friend pretending to fellate me and shooting a fake kid's laser gun in the microphone

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 11, 2013 10:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good times, good times

cool post tho, thx :)

it's one of the great bars-qua-bars we have. now that i think of it, i've only gone there to hang out and drink like once (ie non-show), that's a little weird.

I've never made it in the door. Both times I tried to see a show it was sold out :(

bathroom is changing i heard
i think the ladies will like that news

I am not pleased with this news. If they 86 ry@n after all his years of hard work there (and elsewhere) I will never set foot in that fucking place again.

ry@n is now booking at another comparable venue on the other side of the river that you may be familiar with :) (not the cabooze but you are in the neighborhood if you know what i mean)

the schooner has shows now?

lol

Schooner actually DOES have live music. I play there fairly often!

jesus really? i've been told to never ever go in there (and not by like suburban scaredy cats either)

i mean, it's the bar where cece mcdonald's knife fight happened, too...

i was there once cuz a friend was DJing there and it wasn't as scary as advertised IMO.

huh all right

Yeah, the CeCe McDonald thing was totally messed up, but also an aberration. I've never seen violence there. But I've seen a lot of REALLY drunk people...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOD7a7XE0g

Aw that looks fun

Uh

http://www.thecedar.org/events/2013/10/31/jandek

Also

http://www.thecedar.org/events/2013/12/16/bonnie-prince-billy-bitchin-bajas

well. my friend won tickets to finntroll on thursday. i can't even remember the last time i was at a metal show.

I haven't seen finntroll in a while, where are they playing?

Oh god it's at the brick. Never mind. Worth it for free though.

i've never been there, hope it's good.

huh, mazzy star are there tomorrow

that's Mill City Nights to you!

Anyone else going to this?

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/msaweb.jpg

shiiit i hope to five story garage is the #1 most overlooked classic era mpls rock album imo

Pretty sure I'm going. If you do, find me and I'll buy you a beer. I'm the tall guy playing bass in the Schooner video above.

I'ma be there...*warning name drop story coming up*: Mike Watt & the Missingmen stayed at my place a few yrs ago and it turned into a long night in the kitchen talking about underrated old school Mpls bands and Watt (who was in the bathroom off my kitchen) comes bursting out the door yelling "MAN SIZED ACTION!!" You kind of had to be there but I think you can also probably picture it.

HAHA, yes I can!

I think I missed the last Man Sized show but I saw the Entry gig ten (or more) yrs back during the holidays when Brian Paulson played with them, I seem to recall he had arrived striaght from the airport to get onstage with them (or maybe that's just how I want to remember it) and it was a great show on a perfect, snowy Mpls night.

I cracked a Man Sized Action joke in front a packed First Ave crowd at Replacements "tribute" thing, didn't get very many laughs.

yeah i went to that show in the entry

i hope rifle sport gets together for one more show

I was at that entry show too. 2000, doesn't seem that long ago.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/msal46.jpg

i'm woefully unfamiliar with most of this music (despite billy batson being a dude i ended up spending a whole bunch of time with one summer, before i had even moved to the TCs permanently) (weirdly enough) but i think i might hit this?

The Mighty Mofos are the best live band in Mpls, now and forever, Man Sized are great, the Eagles Club is a fun place to see a show, this will be awesome

Also, it was 2000? Christ...

Unless they did another one since then.

you're right about the eagles, i saw the final skoal kodiak show there and it was a pretty wild vibe.

man i'd love to see the mofos do their Who set one more time

I saw an acoustic Mofos open for a Derogatis book reading once, heh-heh

Lord forgive me as I am about to spam, but tomorrow night (1/04) at the Triple Rock

The Blind Shake
STNNNG
Wild!!Wing

9 Pm 8 bucks 18+

It's going to be warm tomorrow! Like 20 degrees maybe!

Also that Mofos/Man-Sized show was great

i showed up way late to that! just at the end of the mofos set. must have missed everyone i might have known, felt a little... young being there (no knock on anyone)

what was up with the weird holiday karaoke band going on in the other banquet room? my guess was, office party?

Hah, didn't drop over to the other side. Silverteens set was HUGE fun! I wish their cover of The Bongos' "Glow In The Dark" was on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhpMPRQvn4E

Wife's stomach flu hexed me being able to go :(

Wow, this thread hasn't been updated since the last Man Sized Action reunion, and now it's happening again:

https://www.facebook.com/events/392183677612151/?ref=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited

ok gotta go to that

i saw that their album got issued on CD for the first time (five story garage that is)

arcwelder > replacements

who are the silverteens?

any totes pwning MPLS shows next week when I am back visiting