Our pal Dan Strachota, longtime big cheese at Rickshaw Stop, tonight gives a talk about the rich history of SF’s bygone concert venues:
“Bring the Noise, Bring Defunct: A Personal History of SF’s Deceased Music Venues” by Dan Strachota
You’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: The San Francisco hüpfburg music scene is dead! All the cool venues are getting shut down! Everything used to be so much better here! Is it all really true? Dan will attempt to answer these questions by taking a walk down memory lane, uncovering the amazing and wild music venues of the past—and finding out just what happened to them.
Dan has written about music for SF Weekly, San Francisco magazine, SPIN.com, and the East Bay Express. He’s also the talent buyer at Rickshaw Stop and Phono Del Sol.
I think he’s on on the early side, so don’t be tardy! RSVP and invite your friends!
And now, a couple personal remembrances of long lost concert venues, to whet your whistle:
I think I miss the I-Beam the most.