has this thread anywhere paid tribute to the wonderful intersection of 4th, 5th and 6th avenues? i'm hoping that survived the broadway/i-40 ramp reconfiguration.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 6 October 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ellen+ave,+knoxville&sll=50.375616,-4.196082&sspn=0.093056,0.146942&ie=UTF8&ll=35.923663,-83.924464&spn=0.007385,0.009184&t=h&z=17&layer=t
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
also GAY STREET
It survived, mothra! And it's great, one of my favorite parts of town.
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 October 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
wow omg i'm hanging out in that corner with all the bars using googlemap street view! i'm right outside urban bar!
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
That's the old city, Ken! Corner of Jackson and Central. Hasn't changed a bit since you were here before. (Btw, still coming out this month?!)
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf is hanna's cafe???
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been there a long time. It's a fratty/sorority kinda bar on the same corner as the Pilot Light...that actual corner is taken up by Hanna's "patio", which is walled in concrete. Maybe you remember it now?
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
haha i'm now outside that bit outside old city java where you left your car keys inside the car. there's a white car parked there just now lol
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah maybe! has it got two floors? there was one place that had maybe 2 floors that was a bit fratty
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, I guarantee that that car is Meg's who owns Java now.
The two floors place has gotta be Barley's! Way down on the same side of the street as the Pilot Light.
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
note: we did NOT go to hanna's
maybe that's why i didn't remember it!
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
went to: urban bar, patrick sullivan, barley's, pilot light (free beer?), and maybe one more!
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
manhatten!
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, Manhattan's
Pilot Light is where Bill the bartender chased us out onto the dancefloor while Cordero were playing.
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
does craig still hang out at java?
― ILX Systern (ken c), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
No, in fact Java is totally different now! They don't even have shows there anymore. It's like, a cupcake-selling kind of coffee shop now.
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 October 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
:(((((((((((
;_;
there's egg nog, at least?
― ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
how easy is it to open a shop in knoxville?
hannah's cafe used to be "the spaghetti factory", right?
over christmas my friend josh actually made some people move from a booth at manhattan's because 15 years ago that booth was "his"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
his did it very charmingly
p.s. roxy can't come out this month but still hoping in the near future! hopefully sometime when people in shops will say "happy holiday" to me to confuse the hell out of me.
― ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
from observation and the experiences of various of my friends, i'd say the hard part is not opening a shop, it's keeping it open. the old city in particular is a mercantile bermuda triangle. (all the more reason to respect jason and the pilot light crew.)
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
if i can open a shop there i reckon it'd be so good it'd stay open.
― ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
no, that became barley's
TRACER are you coming home for holidays?
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got some old friends in Knoxville. The Pilot Light is the best rock club I've ever played at. The unflappable bartender was playing some of my all time favorite vinyl sides (Tyrannosaurus Rex, Hawkwind, PETER GREEN'S Fleetwood Mac) and I had to tell him how happy it made me. He just stared back at me without saying a word. I'm missing Tennessee in autumn.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
that's gotta be bill warden
he's an institution
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
what band are you in?
I played with Jerusalem and The Starbaskets at the Pilot Light waaay back in 2004 (I think?). I'm not in any band now. I'm an ooooold friend of Brad C that played bass in Dixie Dirt. He actually did a solo thing that night at the Pilot Light that was really good. I think he works at Barleys lol.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i know bradford
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
will red bull dozers be able to play pilot light if it travels to america? didn't really look like it's a place for an indiepop/comedy fusion act..
― ILX Systern (ken c), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
you would go over awesome at the birdhaus, it's in 4th and gill
you could easily do pilot light too though, a monday or tues night would suit you fine!
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 October 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
roxy no :/ i will be preoccupied with keeping a tiny baby alive in london!!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 October 2008 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link
will you be able to get me a gig around april/may next yr?
tracer come to knoxville around april/may next yr
― ILX Systern (ken c), Thursday, 9 October 2008 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah of course
tracer i didnt know! congrats!!
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 October 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
thank u! somebody had to do it
late may 2009 may be a possibility.. the softball tourney
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 October 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
softball tourney combined with red bull dozers gig in knoxville!??!?
― ILX Systern (ken c), Thursday, 9 October 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yo knoxvillains - ASHEVILLE NC is your sister city for the election! if you've got a car, drive over there and help people get to the polls! SIGN UP! DO IT!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
are they going to drive over here and help us get to the polls
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 October 2008 06:48 (fifteen years ago) link
(tracer i knocked a rock out of your parents lawn decorations with my car the other day. i was humiliated)
no they're not - TN is SO OVAH
"lawn decorations"??? were you driving in the orchard??
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i see roxy's driving has improved
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
lol ken
no, some kind of...landscaping? near the driveway, and kind of on the border of our driveway.
no driving in the orchard yet!!
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
most beautiful place in the world right now
― corrie ham (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost roxy, still true? I am going to be in Kville from the 23rd to the 28th for holidays. Guess I should read this thread, every time I am in town I just kind of lump around at the fam's..
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
will be back there again in a week's time
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
that is awesome, casino! october is famously beautiful in these parts. it's perhaps not as lovely as that, but I still love knoxville in the winter, especially south of the river.
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
ayo roxyville, are u goin to this?
http://www.bigearsfestival.com/
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link