The Bottom Line show calendar March 1980

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Been on a deep dive into Jack Bruce's music and picked up a retro-live set from the Bottom Line that had a neat club calendar featured in the artwork.

It was a pretty impressively eclectic mix of musicians featured for one month and I got to wondering which show ILM followers might have liked to check out, if they got one time travel ticket.

Heck, I figured in the spirit of ILM, there is a shot that someone in the audience went to one of these shows.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Sunday-Monday March 23-24: John Cale and The The	13
Friday-Sunday March 7-9: An Evening with McCoy Tyner	3
Friday- Saturday March 14-15: An Evening with Garland Jeffreys	1
Sunday-Wednesday March 16-19: An Evening with Jack Bruce and Friends	1
Sunday March 30: John Hammond and Albert Collins	1
Thursday-Saturday March 27-29: The Uncle Floyd Show	1
Thursday April 3: An Evening with The Chieftains	0
Tuesday-Wednesday March 25-26: Richie Havens and Gary Yudman	0
Thursday March 13: An Evening with Hiroshima	0
Monday- Tuesday April 7-8: Michael Bloomfield, Woody Harris & David Mallett	0

― earlnash, Sunday, 31 January 2021 17:38 (four years ago)

Will give good odds on John Cale and The The being the winner.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 31 January 2021 17:47 (four years ago)

I kinda figure that too, but ILM does sometimes does go contrarian.

No idea what the Uncle Floyd Show might have been, I'm guessing maybe it was a club show version of this?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147793/

― earlnash, Sunday, 31 January 2021 17:58 (four years ago)

xp uh yeah

― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:01 (four years ago)

I assume this means (imagining) seeing the acts in their 1980 incarnations?

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:02 (four years ago)

Mike Bloomfield playing a year before his death, looked it up and he died in Feb. of '81.

FYI, Jack Bruce's band at these shows was Billy Cobham, David Sancious & Clem Clempson. Pretty good group and more than a bit of jazz stretch out in the gig. Worth hearing if you are inclined to this type of music.

Oh yeah, vote you go to NYC Bottom Line circa March 1980- which would be a fine time traveling experience I figure in itself.

― earlnash, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:04 (four years ago)

I forgot to mention how much I love that Montreaux 82 Gathering of Minds thing when everybody was talking about Alan Holdsworth a few weeks ago

― brimstead, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:05 (four years ago)

(Also feat sanctions and Bruce and Cobham)

― brimstead, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:06 (four years ago)

sancious!

― brimstead, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:06 (four years ago)

FEB 15 - 16, 1980
PRINCE
KEENAN IVORY WAYANS
All Seats 7.00

http://bottomlinearchive.com/chronology_1980

― earlnash, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:09 (four years ago)

Oh yeah, vote you go to NYC Bottom Line circa March 1980- which would be a fine time traveling experience I figure in itself.

absolutely. would love a

― stirmonster, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:17 (four years ago)

Bottom Line time travel experience!

― stirmonster, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:17 (four years ago)

i got to see mccoy tyner numerous times in the 2000s but he woulda been a lot more enjoyable in the 80's i'm sure

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 January 2021 19:51 (four years ago)

i was actually seeing shows there back then, but didn't see any of the above. voted for the one i would have most likely opted for then, garland jeffreys.

i had no idea prince played at the bottom line. that's nuts. that show was pre-dirty mind, so i doubt i would even have been cognizant of him then. i def saw one of those "evening with lou reed" shows later that year...

― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 31 January 2021 21:46 (four years ago)

I kinda figure that too, but ILM does sometimes does go contrarian.

No idea what the Uncle Floyd Show might have been, I'm guessing maybe it was a club show version of this?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147793🕸/

Yes, that Uncle Floyd Show. Morbius and I were big fans, iirc. Believe Bowie mentions him in a song. His brothers Jerry and Jimmy Vivino are both pretty successful musicians.

― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 January 2021 21:50 (four years ago)

Think I have a relative who may have gone to that Prince show

― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 January 2021 21:50 (four years ago)

Anyway, here is my answer to a similar question from a while back: Poll: Which concert would you attend from the listings in the 8-29-77 Village Voice I found at my mom's house?

― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 January 2021 22:10 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:01 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 7 February 2021 00:01 (four years ago)

Heh, I’m the one who voted for Jack Bruce.

― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 February 2021 00:14 (four years ago)

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