Let's pretend you're going on a music-themed road trip...

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Let's pretend you're taking some time this summer to go exploring the US and wanted to stop at really sweet music-related points of interest (which I am doing). Places like interesting record stores, shrines, museums, historic sites, bizarre curiosities... Where would you stop?

― kidsonholiday, Monday, 4 April 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

Resist temptation to succumb to cliché and AVOID GOING TO MEMPHIS, TN. Drive right by Graceland. Don't even turn your head at Sun Studios. That is all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

in the last 3 months ive somehow managed to go to graceland, graceland too (holly springs, ms) and mini-graceland (roanoke, va). and, i'm not really even into elvis particularly

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

actually, graceland too was pretty fun, the guy had painted the house...pink, in honour of...peter sellers. the lions had green eyes

the guy will give you a tour any time of day or night, but, be warned, he talks about jay leno, el vez, nicholas cage, jenna bush, midgets and hot tubs more than he does about elvis

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Why the US?

Would rather visit Abbey Road, Waterloo Sunset, Primrose Hill, and then go a bit North to explore the Mersey, Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Anything that hasn't been turned into a CVS or Starbucks has been turned into a tourist-destination. Visit Wal-Mart.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I visited Abbey Road completely by accident when I was in London in February. The earth did not move. It doesn't look a thing like it used to, either.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

The Topanga Canyon house where Capt Beefheart trout mask'ed his way into the history books!

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

In NYC, there's....

1. The Physical Graffitti tenement building on St.Mark's between 1st Avenue and Avenue A. It still looks pretty much the same (also the site of the video for the Stones' "Waiting on a Friend").

2. CBGB's (before they tear it down)

3. The Chelsea Hotel (where Sid stabbed Nancy in rm #100)

4. 77 White Street (former site of the Mudd Club)

5. Former site of Max's Kansas City (now a Korean Deli)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

The number "6." seems to have disappeared before the final (and most important) punk rock attraction on that list.

Also missing: 53rd and 3rd; Mercier Street Arts Centre (or whatever retail outlet now occupies the equivalent space);

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

While you were in London Alex, did any of the other Gathering fiends take you to the legendary ATM in Ladbroke Grove, where (according to legend) Youth once withdrew all the money the machine would allow him to have, and promptly squatted on the floor and burned the lot?

"Money Is Not Our God" indeed!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

The Mercer Art Center fell down. I believe its former space is occupied by the Scholastic building.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

When the Lucinda Williams album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road came out I wanted to take a driving tour with stops in all the towns namechecked on the record. Still would be fun.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

.. So like, get your kicks on a road-trip tour of route 66, eh ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Fwiw, just because Ron Sexsmith sings about how wonderful Lebanon, TN is on his first record doesn't make it true. When I was living in Nashville, my job was on the outskirts of Lebanon and that place is a shithole.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I have a vage recollection of seeing a frantically gurning young Billy Bragg on TV many years ago, singing what was obviously a badly and hastily rewritten version of "Route 66" and pointing out various highlights on a supposed road-journey through the East End....

Did this actually happen or do I need to get them to alter the doseage again?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Other NYC spots....

1. Southwest corner of 23rd Street & 8th Avenue. `Twas on this corner whereupon photographer Bob Gruen shot the album cover of Dressed to Kill by Kiss. There's a Haggen Danz there now.

2. 30 West 21st Street - Former site of Danceteria

3. 254 West 54th Street - Former site of Studio 54 (later the New Ritz in the 90's). Now a theatre showing tourist-aimed "Broadway" plays.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

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