Article Response: First Avenue

As far as the article goes, it's fascinating stuff -- though I was a bit irked by the gratutious disco-hate (disclaimer: I was not around back then) and depressed by the general "you know, this may not be around much longer and we were lucky it was around this long anyways" tone.

I'm sort of glad I wasn't asked to contribute because the only insight I'd have would be about the first time I went (to see Meat Beat Manifesto ca. '98) and was harangued by a large somewhat unnerving gentleman who tried to convince me about the benefits of Sc**nt*l*gy.

Disc one:
1. Klymaxx: "Wild Girls" (1982)
2. The S.O.S. Band: "Just Be Good to Me" (1983)
3. The S.O.S. Band: "Tell Me If You Still Care" (1983)
4. Change: "Change of Heart" (1984)
5. Cheryl Lynn: "Encore" (1984)
6. Cherelle: "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (1984)
7. Change: "Say You Love Me Again" (1984)
8. The S.O.S. Band: "Just the Way You Like It" (1984)
9. The S.O.S. Band: "No One's Gonna Love You" (1984)
10. The S.O.S. Band: "Weekend Girl" (1984)
11. Thelma Houston: "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (1984)
12. Alexander O'Neal: "If You Were Here Tonight" (1985)
13. Alexander O'Neal: "A Broken Heart Can Mend" (1985)
14. Patti Austin: "The Heat of Heat" (1986)
15. Alexander O'Neal: "What's Missing" (1985)
16. Force MD's: "Tender Love" (1986)
17. Cherelle/Alexander O'Neal: "Saturday Love" (1986)
18. Janet Jackson: "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" (1986)
19. Patti Austin: "Summer Is the Coldest Time of the Year" (1986)

Disc two:
1. Janet Jackson: "Nasty" (1986)
2. The Human League: "Human" (1986)
3. Janet Jackson: "When I Think of You" (1986)
4. Herb Alpert: "Keep Your Eye on Me" (1987)
5. The S.O.S. Band: "The Finest" (1986)
6. Robert Palmer: "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (1986)
7. Janet Jackson: "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)" (1986)
8. Alexander O'Neal: "Fake" (1987)
9. Herb Alpert (vocalist: Lisa Keith): "Making Love in the Rain" (1987)
10. Alexander O'Neal: "Sunshine" (1987)
11. New Edition: "If It Isn't Love" (1988)
12. Morris Day: "Fishnet" (1988)
13. Herb Alpert (vocalist: Janet Jackson): "Diamonds"
14. Alexander O'Neal: "Never Knew Love Like This" (1988)
15. New Edition: "You're Not My Kind of Girl" (1988)
16. Cherrelle: "Everything I Miss at Home" (1988)
17. New Edition: "Can You Stand the Rain" (1989)
18. Janet Jackson: "Miss You Much" (1990)
19. New Edition: "Boys to Men" (1990)
20. Janet Jackson: "Rhythm Nation" (1990)

Disc three:
1. Janet Jackson: "Escapade" (1990)
2. Ralph Tresvant: "Sensitivity" (1990)
3. Janet Jackson: "Alright" (1990)
4. Johnny Gill: "Rub You the Right Way" (1990)
5. Janet Jackson: "Come Back to Me" (1990)
6. The Time: "Jerk Out" (1990)
7. Janet Jackson: "Come Back to Me" (1989)
8. Johnny Gill: "Wrap My Body Tight" (1991)
9. Janet Jackson: "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" (1989)
10. Ralph Tresvant: "Do What I Gotta Do" (1991)
11. Karyn White: "Romantic" (1991)
12. Alexander O'Neal: "All True Man" (1991)
13. Janet Jackson: "Livin' in a World (They Didn't Make)" (1989)
14. Sounds of Blackness: "Optimistic" (1991)
15. Karyn White: "One Heart" (1991)
16. Alexander O'Neal: "Sentimental" (1991)
17. Sounds of Blackness: "The Pressure Pt. 1" (1991)
18. Mint Condition: "BReakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)" (1992)
19. Lo-Key?: "I Got a Thang 4 Ya!" (1992)
20. Janet Jackson/Luther Vandross: "The Best Things in Life are Free" (1992)

Disc four:
1. Mo' Money Soundtrack: "Money Can't Buy You Love" (1992)
2. Shabba Ranks feat. Johnny Gill: "Slow and Sexy" (1992)
3. Mo' Money Soundtrack: "I Adore You" (1992)
4. Janet Jackson: "That's the Way Love Goes" (1993)
5. Janet Jackson: "Again" (1993)
6. Johnny Gill: "Quiet Time to Play" (1994)
7. Sounds of Blackness: "I Believe" (1994)
8. Janet Jackson: "Any Time, Any Place" (1993)
9. Patti LaBelle: "The Right Kinda Lover" (1994)
10. Mint Condition: "U Send Me Swingin'" (1994)
11. Janet Jackson: "You Want This" (1994)
12. Sounds of Blackness: "The Lord Will Make a Way" (1994)
13. Barry White: "Come On" (1994)
14. Gladys Knight: "Home Alone" (1994)
15. Janet Jackson: "The Body That Loves You" (1993)
16. Boyz II Men: "On Bended Knee" (1994)
17. Michael Jackson: "Scream" (1995)
18. Solo: "Heaven" (1995)
19. Janet Jackson: "Runaway" (1995)

Matos, any chance I could trade you some Dylan bootlegs or something for a burn of that monster .... ?

I gotta get a CD burner...

My favorite part was about Conrad, or at least seeing his picture again. I'd forgotten about that dude.I remember the first time I saw him in there; I was pretty loaded on booze and he struck up a conversation with me. I thought he was homeless or something. The picture in the article makes him look a lot less frightening than I remember.

I first went there in 1986 with a fake ID and it was totally a pilgrimage of sorts to Prince. Hah, me and everyone else did that. But while I went in looking for Prince, I came out with the Replacements and the main room never seemed like a place that Prince could call his home anyway. I guess that explains Glam Slam.

By Matos: http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9832-everybody-is-a-star-how-the-rock-club-first-avenue-made-minneapolis-the-center-of-music-in-the-80s/

great article Matos, even though you don't come round here no more.

But what I really want to know is did this ever get made and released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGpDlJYQTE&index=208&list=FLAgf5iJsS7dbph_2rxJjPiQ