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Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 01, 2015 at 03:16 PM UTC #
Jaxx

The closure leaves a gaping hole in the area?s heavy metal community
ggw
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 01, 2015 at 03:35 PM UTC #
Not surprising.  Jaxx went straight downhill after the Road Ducks drummer sold it in 2011.  Before that, it was cheesey but occasionally booked some really good acts.  Eric Burdon & The Animals, Helmet, Burning Brides, the Dead Kennedys (albeit without Jello), Fishbone.  Not to mention all those '80s metal bands.

Unsanity
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 02, 2015 at 05:46 PM UTC #
ggw wrote:
Not surprising.  Jaxx went straight downhill after the Road Ducks drummer sold it in 2011.  Before that, it was cheesey but occasionally booked some really good acts.  Eric Burdon & The Animals, Helmet, Burning Brides, the Dead Kennedys (albeit without Jello), Fishbone.  Not to mention all those '80s metal bands.




yeah….R.I.P. Jaxx/Empire. The place was mostly bad juju, but did get some good tours or stand alone gigs. I saw Death Row reunited in there. Saw Pentagram too. I also saw Mudvayne at the peak of their popularity in there. I was also at that Helmet/Burning Brides show. Melanie even dedicated a song to me because the venue weirded her out and I reassured her that "This is just how Jaxx is"
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 02, 2015 at 06:47 PM UTC #
Jaxx was a definite addition to the area's music scene.. Empire was crumbling so its not a huge loss.. I think Jaxx was a big loss…if Jaxx had been around Ace Frehley might have played there instead of the ridiculous Ramshead Annapolis…that says it all.


without Jaxx the area will simply get bypassed /is getting bypassed for many shows in that genre….they had the connections /longstanding relationships with the bands ….
kmdobrz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 04, 2015 at 02:05 AM UTC #
Slicing Up Eyeballs
i am gay and i like cats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 04, 2015 at 02:56 PM UTC #
i enjoy eras, dying.
betao
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 05, 2015 at 01:55 AM UTC #
I liked Slicing up Eyeballs. The guy that runs the page does a classic darkwave DJ set on FirstWave on Sirius XM every Sunday that's pretty cool.
bunnyman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 05, 2015 at 06:01 PM UTC #
Nuke wrote:
Slicing Up Eyeballs


Argh…I really loved this site. That's too bad.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 05, 2015 at 06:02 PM UTC #
bearman wrote:
Nuke wrote:
Slicing Up Eyeballs


Argh…I really loved this site. That's too bad.


me too…

I am surprised..
ggw
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 06, 2015 at 07:39 PM UTC #
Errol Brown
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 07, 2015 at 06:53 PM UTC #
James Garner
:'(
grateful
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 08, 2015 at 12:05 AM UTC #
Sidehatch wrote:
James Garner
:'(


Yeah, you know who else died a long time ago? Robert Freakin' Palmer.
i am gay and i like cats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 08, 2015 at 12:10 AM UTC #
media,controlled.  I saw this yesterday as well somewhere online, and was tricked into thinking he just died.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 08, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC #
grateful wrote:
Sidehatch wrote:
James Garner
:'(


Yeah, you know who else died a long time ago? Robert Freakin' Palmer.

Damn, I did it again!!!
F'n facebook friends…can't trust em (guess I should read the date on the obit too)
chaz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 11, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC #
Ex-930 staffer Jim Dailey.
RatBastard
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 15, 2015 at 06:07 AM UTC #
BB King


Kim and BB…
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM UTC #
man BB toured til he dropped…

I guess BB was the last from that Memphis group..that included Johnny Ace and Bobby Blue Bland…

For whatever reason his music doesn't really hit me……Live at Cook County Jail is probably the closest thing….
Yada
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 15, 2015 at 12:39 PM UTC #
RatBastard wrote:
BB King


Kim and BB…


who is this kim?
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 15, 2015 at 12:56 PM UTC #
Yada wrote:
who is this kim?
If I'm not mistaken, from other times he's mentioned her, it's his significant other.
Yada
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 15, 2015 at 01:14 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
Yada wrote:
who is this kim?
If I'm not mistaken, from other times he's mentioned her, it's his significant other.


That was my assumption, however, I hadn't logged Ratbastard's partner's name in my files.
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