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    hrtshpdboxCamille Dodero
    10/18/13 7:06pm

    Cobain shot up and completely nodded out minutes before playing there in July, '93 and, after being revived, put on a great show. Good times!

    ed,

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      GregSamsahrtshpdbox
      10/18/13 7:12pm

      His art students must've been thrilled for him.

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      Eli Manning stars in: Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!hrtshpdbox
      10/18/13 7:14pm

      That's a reversed image, right? Though I suppose it's possible Kurt was so zonked he strapped on a righty guitar by accident and just rolled with it.

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    misterellingtonCamille Dodero
    10/19/13 3:13am

    Goddamn. Lifelong New Yorker here. Went to high school eight blocks away and during my nascent clubbing years, it was a helluva spot. A HUGE dance floor (rivaled only by the short-lived Bonds' Times Square and The Red Parrot on West 57th) that was more than ample enough for the space-necessary Hustle crowd. Room for spins, turns and lots of flair. Long double bars and cozy balconies overhead for between-dance canoodling. For the last few years I've found myself there for Felix Hernandez's (of WBGO-FM) Rhythm Revue Dance Parties with the old hustle dancers who can still entrance you with their ribbon-smooth moves, or groups of folks doing dead-perfect frugs, twists, bus stops and mashed potatoes. Young and old, mixed together—all looking for and eventually finding at some point during the night—the perfect beat. Where else can you go see a group of fifty or sixty doing “The Madison Time” spot on to Eddie Morrison's dance calls? Nowhere folks...nowhere. :(

    December 7th. I just bought tickets to the Rhythm revue dance that night. I'll put on a dapp-as-fuck suit and tie, buff the shoes so an angel can see its reflection in 'em and get the do' shaped up too. Drop some extra dip in my hip and add some glide to my stride as I roll in. I'll hear Jackie Wilson, Marvin, Jr. Walker, The Funk Brothers, Ike & Tina, The Hardest Working Man In Show Business and maybe three score other Soul and R&B rump shakers and get myself good and sweaty—while desperately maintaining some cool, as I shake a silver-colored tail feather or two.

    It'll be awesome. I'll try to go a couple more times before April comes. And then? New York will suck just a bit more for residents with this loss. :(

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      GrigoritheOctoCamille Dodero
      10/18/13 9:58pm

      I found an incredible bootlegged Portishead show from the Roseland Ballroom just a few weeks ago that I remember running across years ago when downloading from the internet was in its infancy and it took all day to acquire one song. I got the entire show in five minutes. Slightly tangential, but it is sad indeed that the place is closing.

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        DogRidingRodeoMonkeyGrigoritheOcto
        10/19/13 12:34am

        By bootleg, do you mean the live record that they recorded with the NY Philharmonic there and officially released?

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland_…

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        DogRidingRodeoMonkeyDogRidingRodeoMonkey
        10/19/13 7:52am

        Which is not to say, of couse, that the recording doesn't absolutely rule. Its one of the few live records I can listen to.

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      DennyCraneCamille Dodero
      10/19/13 4:57am

      I liked most of the shows I saw there, but I can't say I will miss the place. Between Manhattan and Brooklyn, there are so many really good venues in the city right now to see whatever kind of music you are into. I feel like its a really good time for music in NYC right now.

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        lostwallletCamille Dodero
        10/18/13 7:28pm

        But where, oh where will the audience for the Late Show congregate? Starbucks?

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          stultusmagnusCamille Dodero
          10/18/13 8:20pm

          As long as another bank goes up, I'm good.

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            homomanCamille Dodero
            10/19/13 12:14am

            My favorite opening night party was at Roseland, along with the premiere party for the Birdacage and most of the Broadway Bares that I've worked on or attended. The building is kind of a NY run down blasted relic of years ago. I'll miss the place.

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              David EhrensteinCamille Dodero
              10/18/13 7:39pm

              The Black Party will never be the same.

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                gimmesummerCamille Dodero
                10/18/13 10:54pm

                Let me guess....ummm....condos? Or whatever they call condos in NYC

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