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STUDIO 158

About Me

Studio 158 was a non-profit, all ages, independant music club in North Windham, CT from 1993 until 1995. During this time we hosted hundreds and hundreds of local, national & international punk, hardcore, metal, ska and rock bands. This was a special time and a very special place that would be hard for anyone to imagine if they didn't go there at least once. This place was about giving musicians good and some BAD a chance to play in front of people with no strings attached, you didn't have to be cool, smart, funny, or cute to be here, you didn't have to sell tickets and give us your money, christ, you didn't even have to know how to pickup a guitar in some cases. This was by the people, for the people and for the sake of supporting artists that we thought needed a platform and for the people who NEEDED to see them. This page is for YOU. Enjoy ! - Vic Szalaj, 9/2/05ToolsForMySpace.com

My Blog

Who's Coming On January 20th ??

Ok, so Ryan posed the question and I figured this might be a good place to post responses. There will be a hell of a good bill on 1/20/06 @ Cheney Hall on Hartford Rd in wonderful Manchester, CT with:...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:53:00 GMT

METAL NIGHT !!!

Charlie had some really great ideas on how to make the club better and appealt o more people than your standard blue haired punk or hardcore kid, METAL NIGHT was not one of them&No offense to the ba...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:00:00 GMT

Memories of 158 and beyond....

When I hooked up with Jon Christopher in the 8th grade, bringing my kit over to his house to 'jam', I really had no idea that this would be the start of the something that would become the everything ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:33:00 GMT

Wooden Nickels

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by Jay AdelbergYoure always the last one, too afraid to talk about it Garden VarietyCharlie approached me over two months ago about writing something for the Studi...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:30:00 GMT

Don't romanticize it. - Tom Breen

Don¹t romanticize it.That was the advice a friend gave me when he heard I was writing somethingabout Studio 158. ³It wasn¹t New York in 1976,² my friend said. ³It was aclub in Willimantic where people...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:02:00 GMT

Shows @ CHARLIE's BASEMENT !!

Ill never forget the first time I went to a show at Charlies house. It was January of 1991, the bands that I remember were Big Mistake & Big Gulp, the others slip my mind, but it might have been...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:28:00 GMT

Nearly complete show list (1993-1995)

7/10/93  BUMBLESCRUMP (CA), GARDEN VARIETY (NY), Mi6, FORKLIFT 7/11/03 - 1.6 BAND (NY), HELL NO (NJ), SORRY EXCUSE 7/16/93  SHOTMAKER (Canada), HELLBENDER (NC), STEADFAST 7/17/93  THE INSIGNIFICAN...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:33:00 GMT

History Of Studio 158- (Charles Krich)-PART 2

With the demise of Populous Pudding, punk rock in Windham suffered a devastating blow.  It was not devastating enough, however, to knock out punk rock entirely.  Originally scheduled for Pop...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:26:00 GMT

History Of Studio 158- (Charles Krich)-PART 1

For a period of time, Windham, CT--its Willimantic and North Windham sections to be precise--was a hotbed of punk rock activity.  Poor and down on its luck--a kind of "Appalachia of New England" ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:22:00 GMT