[bomp] Q: have we come anywhere since this?

[ItsBoss9@xxxxxxx]

The Cathay de Grande and Raji's were NEVER pay to play at any time,

GREAT clubs... though I was a recluse during the Cathay de Grande/On Klub 
times... I did hear tons of great stuff about those places.  Raji's was pretty 
great.  Man, I just gotta say, though...  like, even there...  I just felt that 
there was a lot of hard rock poision in the L.A. air.  You know, the kind of 
people who showed up, are now the weathered-looking, dyed-black hair down to 
their shoulderblades guys who still look metal-ish, who have zero hearing left 
and are doing the sound board?

The Wondermints, during their early days, would bring this guy Pete with them 
as the fifth member of the band... his instrument was the sound board.  He 
was literally hired by the group in order to ask each club they played to tell 
the sound man to go have a cigarette... outside... while he arranged the 
group's music on stage...  he was specifically hired by the group because L.A. clubs 
did not have sound people with brains or ears for anything but the worst kind 
of metal shit.

All the Wondermints earliest gigs were at an obscure bar way north in the 
Valley called the Irish Mist, where no one played.  They, in town, avoided all 
the usual clubs 100%, to get their music down unhindered by "rock" idiots.  When 
it came time to play actual L.A. venues, Pete probably has a million stories 
of wedging stupid people off the boards.  I mean, sometimes, it got real 
heated.  This is about SERIOUS musical differences.  I mean, these are the guys who 
ended up bringing Smile to the stage.

Wasn't Cathay de Grande, BTW, mostly an early-'80s thing, not late '80s?

Domenic Priore

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