Wow- the good ole days - Cheap booze & EASY Women! - BUFFALO/Niagara #1!!! Mark J I'd be remiss if i didn't recognize McVans, Shutter's & Boards, The Stardust, The Ailibi Lounge, The Sand Bar, Kelly's Korner, Nightmoves, hanging with the young Goo Goo Dolls at the Continental, bouncing in & out of No-Names, Caseys, Cole's & Mr GoodBar (free drinks 8-9 on Friday's), September's, Stage 1, Uncle Sams & the classic After Dark in Lockport. My fondest memory was the 2001 Club near UB, as 97-Rock announced a surprise lunch-time concert featuring the Joe Perry Project, for FREE!.Imagine standng a few feet away from one of the greatest guitarist (Aerosmith) of all time!.Amazing!. Wow! Talk about a blast from the past!.I was from the Falls, so yeah, we had some cheap classics like DADDY's, JP Morgans, The Library, The Tree House, Club Miami, UNC's, BRAGGS, Rockwell's.but.I went to college Medaille.There the fun really began with Park Meadow, Gabels, Hotel California, Rude Boys and of course the immortal Cassidy's on Main. If you were there, you were there.and you can think back, and smile.(but don't try to hip anybody born after the mid 50's to it, because it's just too far beyond the realm of possabilty for them.bless their well trained consumerist souls) Smile at the times you and your buddies used to laugh your ass off gettn BUFFALOED IN BUFFALO! Here's to the loving memory of several million missing brain cells.you did not die in vain.
Seems the underlying thread in all these postings is the huge amount of great LIVE music in and around Buffalo. Later, I worked for Bobby as DJ/bartender at The Outside Inn in Angola. I was DJ there for a few years back in 70's. In summer, they were up in your hood (Crystal Beach), in winter, you were in theirs.Allentown! There were always Buffalo friends to hang out with. Plus, there were never any hassles because you knew so many people. That is how we cut our teeth and learned to hang.
If ya sorta looked 18 and had the price of a beer, and you didn't clown like a goofball, you were cool.ya had a Rolling Rock in your hand no problem. We already were quite familiar with Buffalo,(spending childhood goin back and forth across river all the time with our folks) so it was no big deal. Oh man, seeing these posts is really bringing back a flood of great memories! Being from Fort Erie (Canada drinking age 21), we would side step that little hurdle by mearly drivin over a bridge.