In a feeble attempt to combat my constant homesickness, I compile tales of New York City rock & roll landmarks, most of 'em long gone. Moronic musings on various other enthusiasms are also thrown in for good measure.
Selected 1967 Voice ads for Trude Heller's Trik. This was a larger Times Square-area outpost of her original Greenwich Village club--which I assume was still in operation during this time, although I found no ads for it in the '67 archive.
Before proceeding, lookee here. This marvelous site on the Albert Hotel's history seems to have been up and running since April of this year, but I only got hip to it yesterday. The entire site is manna from heaven for Village/NYC history buffs, but you music types might wanna make a beeline for the "Rock and Roll Years" page first. Thanks and much lust to Harold Black for the link. (Christopher Gray also did a "Streetscapes" article about the Albert and the website in the NY Times back in April--jeez, do I feel dense for missing both the site and the article until now.)
8/1/77 issue:
8/8/77 issue:
8/15/77 issue:
8/22/77 issue
"Centerfold" section excerpt.
8/29/77 issue:
9/5/77 issue:
9/12/77 issue:
9/19/77 issue:
From a Robert Christgau diary on a week in live music--see link below.
9/26/77 issue:
10/3/77 issue:
This week's "Scenes" column had a report on opening night, as mentioned another swinger's club in the financial district called Midnight Interlude--see link below.
8/8/77 issue: K.C. and the Sunshine Band at Westchester Premiere Theatre, and (I simply cannot wait for the separate CB's post to link to this one) Lester Bangs on Peter Tork at CBGB.
8/29/77 issue: Lester Bangs on Elvis; "Arlo Guthrie and the Communist Mystical Tradition"; review of the Jam's "In the City."
9/5/77 issue: "Scenes" on Latin Fever, an all-female Latin orchestra; Mark Jacobson on comedian and Sheepshead Bay club owner George Schultz; "Farewell to Atlantic City (links to nearby ad)"; "A Goodbye to Groucho."
9/26/77 issue: Arthur Bell on the murder of Addison Verrill; "The Subject Is 'Roseland,'" by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (on both the film and the dance hall itself). [Around this time you also start seeing a lot of Koch puns in the news headlines...things like "Koch as Koch Can," "Quid Pro Koch," "Koch Descending a Staircase" (a reference to some kind of arts funding vote).]
