Sitting here on a Sunday afternoon looking at a VERY OLD Mabel’s calendar. Well the first show listed on this calendar is "Rock ‘n Roll never forgets" but neither do those of us that lived through the years of Mabel’s…..
I’ve been bugging Ernie to find all my old Vertebrats posters so he was digging around out in the garage—-in all the boxes that still haven’t been packed since we moved in ten years ago. He did find ONE Vertebrats poster but he also came in with a huge envelope of stuff that Brad Steakley and his then-wife LuAnn gave to us when we left C-U in 1985 to move to Michigan. Many more posts to come with this stuff….everything from an Eddie’s menu to TONS of Screams stuff and Elvis Brothers stuff…..
This Mabels flier really brought back the memories though….
So we were there for Tom Verlaine (I know I’m not supposed to say this but it was damn boring), we may have been there for a Combo Audio show, we were there for 999 and the Alleycats (YES), we were there for the Vertebrats shows and we were there for the Elvis Brothers show….Ernie says we were there for Garrison…don’t remember…who knows how many other shows we were at….maybe Chuck Tripp in PPT…..we spent a lot of time there….
I loved the 999 show…..the Alleycats opened and were amazing….here are a couple of youtube clips to remember it by…..
Coincidentally, I just found a folder in my closet with Mabel’s calendars I thought were long gone. I just added MP3’s of a Mode Zero afternoon madness show to my ftp server – that’s from March ’82 if you have that calendar.
I loved the Mabel’s calendar. I know I was at some of the shows. I remember Tom Verlaine, but I don’t remember if I liked the performance or not. I have an old “Television” t-shirt I got from working at the Service. As for Vertebrat’s memorabilia–I have a perfectly nice extra Vertebrats button. Do you need one?
I remember “Afternoon Madness” really well, because my friends and I would meet at 3-30 there, get pretty tanked, go home, eat, then go out again about 2 hours later. I had totally forgotten about a number of these bands/singers, save the Vertebrats, George Faber, Capt Rat, Thom Bishop (I am gay and my first boyfriend in CU was Thom’s room-mate, but Thom wasn’t gay—nonetheless, while many thought his music was shit, I loved it because I knew him as a real person), Combo Audio (hated them with a passion) and Elvis Brothers. A friend of mine always felt “obligated” to go to Afternoon Madness and called it, “Afternoon Sadness.” I liked the event.
I love the old style “handwritten fliers” that Mabels used to use. Those bring back fond memories. I recall stopping outside every week to see who the lineup was.
Good times.
I remember “Afternoon Madness” really well, because my friends and I would meet at 3-30 there, get pretty tanked, go home, eat, then go out again about 2 hours later. I had totally forgotten about a number of these bands/singers, save the Vertebrats, George Faber, Capt Rat, Thom Bishop (I am gay and my first boyfriend in CU was Thom’s room-mate, but Thom wasn’t gay—nonetheless, while many thought his music was shit, I loved it because I knew him as a real person), Combo Audio (hated them with a passion) and Elvis Brothers. A friend of mine always felt “obligated” to go to Afternoon Madness and called it, “Afternoon Sadness.” I liked the event.
I love the old style “handwritten fliers” that Mabels used to use. Those bring back fond memories. I recall stopping outside every week to see who the lineup was.
Good times.
I remember “Afternoon Madness” really well, because my friends and I would meet at 3-30 there, get pretty tanked, go home, eat, then go out again about 2 hours later. I had totally forgotten about a number of these bands/singers, save the Vertebrats, George Faber, Capt Rat, Thom Bishop (I am gay and my first boyfriend in CU was Thom’s room-mate, but Thom wasn’t gay—nonetheless, while many thought his music was shit, I loved it because I knew him as a real person), Combo Audio (hated them with a passion) and Elvis Brothers. A friend of mine always felt “obligated” to go to Afternoon Madness and called it, “Afternoon Sadness.” I liked the event.
I love the old style “handwritten fliers” that Mabels used to use. Those bring back fond memories. I recall stopping outside every week to see who the lineup was.
Good times.
I remember “Afternoon Madness” really well, because my friends and I would meet at 3-30 there, get pretty tanked, go home, eat, then go out again about 2 hours later. I had totally forgotten about a number of these bands/singers, save the Vertebrats, George Faber, Capt Rat, Thom Bishop (I am gay and my first boyfriend in CU was Thom’s room-mate, but Thom wasn’t gay—nonetheless, while many thought his music was shit, I loved it because I knew him as a real person), Combo Audio (hated them with a passion) and Elvis Brothers. A friend of mine always felt “obligated” to go to Afternoon Madness and called it, “Afternoon Sadness.” I liked the event.
I love the old style “handwritten fliers” that Mabels used to use. Those bring back fond memories. I recall stopping outside every week to see who the lineup was.
Good times.
I remember “Afternoon Madness” really well, because my friends and I would meet at 3-30 there, get pretty tanked, go home, eat, then go out again about 2 hours later. I had totally forgotten about a number of these bands/singers, save the Vertebrats, George Faber, Capt Rat, Thom Bishop (I am gay and my first boyfriend in CU was Thom’s room-mate, but Thom wasn’t gay—nonetheless, while many thought his music was shit, I loved it because I knew him as a real person), Combo Audio (hated them with a passion) and Elvis Brothers. A friend of mine always felt “obligated” to go to Afternoon Madness and called it, “Afternoon Sadness.” I liked the event.
I love the old style “handwritten fliers” that Mabels used to use. Those bring back fond memories. I recall stopping outside every week to see who the lineup was.
Good times.