Member Since: 3/28/2006
Band Website: none
Band Members: Russell Hobbs was the owner and operator. Jeffrey Liles booked the bands and was the house DJ. Jim "Rev. Horton Heat" was the house sound man. Tracy "Beak" Smith was the carpenter and electrician. Ray Watkowski was the light man. Trey was the bartender. Perla Doherty, "Big Steve" Shein, Cyndi Cook, Tracy Smith, Denise Prince and Beth Searcy were the door people. Laurie Watson lived upstairs and made beaded leather belts. "The Buckwheats" - Kris Wheat, Brian and Dave Dude - lived in front, kept the place clean, poured free beer and ran the record store. Tom Mooney and Little A did security. Creighton Curlee was the house soundman after Jim started doing Rev. Horton Heat full time. Leroy Shakespeare lived upstairs above the backstage area, and Russell lived in the loft above the bar.
Influences: Andy Warhol's Factory (NYC), Caravan of Dreams (Fort Worth), Roxy Theatre (LA), Whisky A Go-Go (LA), Club Foot (Austin), The End of Cole (Dallas), Knitting Factory (NYC), the Venice Beach boardwalk (LA), St. Marks Place (NYC), Tango (Dallas), Liberty Lunch (Austin), Scream (LA), Powertools (Houston), Viper Room (LA), Fenix Underground (Seattle), 9:30 Club (DC), Seventh Street Entry (Minn./St.Paul), Iguana's (Tijuana), Maxwell's (Hoboken), Limelight (NYC), Trees (Dallas), Mystic Garage (Pensacola), House of Blues
Sounds Like: Buck Pets, Jane's Addiction, Bad Brains, Scratch Acid, Flaming Lips, Butthole Surfers, Henry Rollins, Meat Puppets, Sandra Bernhard, Husker Du, Karen Finley, The Replacements, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green On Red, Thin White Rope, Dead Milkmen, Del Fuegos, My Sin, Naked Prey, 10,000 Maniacs, Janis 18, T-4-2, Poison 13, 7 Seconds, Three On A Hill, Ten Hands, Decadent Dub Team, End Over End, Rev. Horton Heat, Rigor Mortis, Da Nu Man, Howling Dervishes, Shoulders, Lithium X-Mas, Peyote Cowboys, Loco Gringos, Course of Empire, Rhett Miller, Shitty Beatles, The Trees, Spam, DRI, True Believers, Bodeans, Pontiac Brothers, Buena Vistas, Dino Lee's White Trash Revue, Zeitgeist, Glass Eye, Doctor's Mob, Wild Seeds
Record Label: Deep Ellum Records
Type of Label: None