{"id":24703,"date":"2019-06-22T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24703"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:07:20","slug":"the-various-clubs-i-have-attended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/22\/the-various-clubs-i-have-attended\/","title":{"rendered":"The Various Clubs I Have Attended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m watching the video for Herb Alpert&#8217;s 1987 hit, &#8220;Diamonds&#8221;, from his album <em>Keep Your Eye On Me<\/em> which is the only Herb Alpert album I own on cassette (which is okay, because I have a cassette player in my new-to-me truck and get to listen to the album all the time).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the track not only features Janet Jackson, but the story of it is set at a dance club of the 1980s:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SqXT3FVPgLU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I got to thinking, &#8220;How prevalent was the dance club culture, actually?&#8221;  I mean, if you watch the movies and whatnot, a lot of scenes take place at clubs, but I didn&#8217;t go to clubs a whole lot when I was young.  I am pretty sure I can count them on one hand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/local\/by-george-bar-closes-after-losing-its-lease\/article_dc32e672-bb12-571f-bdaf-9493d84421f3.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By George<\/a> in Columbia, Missouri, when I was dating this hot chick in the area who loved to go there and dance.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e2e.com\/dir\/84037\/bars\/il\/collinsville\/excalibur-night-club\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Excalibur<\/a> in Collinsville, Illinois, where I took said hot chick because it was the only dance club I really knew because they advertised heavily on the radio.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlouislgbthistory.com\/topics\/bars.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fallout<\/a>, a gay dance club that a friend (not <em>that<\/em> kind of friend) took me to in college, perhaps to make me uncomfortable.  But I didn&#8217;t get hit on; everyone could see by my lack of dancing prowess that I was straight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was always more of a music festival kind of guy, being a native son of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>So I really cannot judge based on my experience how prevalent clubs were.  In my coffee house days, whenever I hung out late at the Grind coffee shop in the fashionable Central West End, a lot of the people there would decide to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubplanet.com\/Venues\/83739\/Saint-Louis\/Velvet\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Velvet<\/a>, a club down on Washington.  I never did though, as it had a dress code, and I attired myself pretty much in dark jeans and sneakers in my pre-<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/going-grant\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">going Grant<\/a> days.  But the people hanging around at the Grind included a lot of college students, many of foreign birth, and au pairs.  So I don&#8217;t know how that segment of the population counts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just as well; I&#8217;m not very good at dancing.  Most likely because I&#8217;m very self-conscious.<\/p>\n<p>I have, however, been to <em>music<\/em> clubs, with seating to enjoy music.  <\/p>\n<p>Heavy metal clubs include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thirstywhale.com\/article.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Thirsty Whale<\/a> in Chicago to see Lillian Axe.<\/li>\n<li>The Haven in Milwaukee, where I saw Ript.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been to a couple jazz clubs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/finale-music-and-dining-tickets-clayton\/venue\/50112\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finale<\/a> in St. Louis to see Erin Bode.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/music\/article\/Yoshi-s-San-Francisco-jazz-club-sold-5526507.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoshi&#8217;s San Francisco<\/a> which I went to because it was Yoshi&#8217;s, and we saw the Gospel Gators, a local college&#8217;s gospel choir.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thebluenote.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Blue Note<\/a> in Columbia, MO, to see one or more folk acts favored by that hot chick who became my beautiful wife even though I cannot dance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are probably a couple more if I really plumb the depths of my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Of all of the ones I listed, only the Blue Note and, apparently, Excalibur are still around.  Coupled with yesterday&#8217;s post about <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/21\/its-been-a-while\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poetry slam in St. Louis<\/a>, and suddenly I realize how old I&#8217;m getting.<\/p>\n<p>It also doesn&#8217;t answer a question I often have about how different the depictions of life and youth in culture, even that of the time or the new retro nostalgia costume dramas, vary simply from <em>my<\/em> life or do they vary from the experience of the majority of my generation?  I suppose I could ask someone my age if I get to talking to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m watching the video for Herb Alpert&#8217;s 1987 hit, &#8220;Diamonds&#8221;, from his album Keep Your Eye On Me which is the only Herb Alpert album I own on cassette (which is okay, because I have a cassette player in my new-to-me truck and get to listen to the album all the time). At any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24707,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions\/24707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}