Some of our best local bands started out in the most sleaziest pubs and clubs in town.With some of these old places ya' can have a really good time in..theres always a good vibe.So whats the most sleaziest and run down pub or club ya' been to where the band played a few Rolling Stone songs and ya' had a good time in.

Most bar bands in south Georgia in the 80's played SMU and HTW, as well as being required to play "Cocaine", "Gimme Three Steps", and "Freebird". Some really sleazy places, I might add. It was GREAT!

None sleazier than Dirty Dora's in Swansea in the '70's where Punks, skinheads, greasers, Angels, Teddy boys, Mods, reggae boys, nutty boys & hippies all used to gather to keep out of the way of the cops & the cheap suits, where Johnny Rotten hid behind his speakers after unwisedly gobbing on my mate Jacko, where the punks poggoed to Respectable and the Stones 19th Nervous breakdown - the 12" disco version of Miss you were part of the staple diet with D.Js & visiting bands alike Esp. The Trembling Knees.............brilliant.................mind you, Jimmy Wilde's had it's moments too.....................



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EddieByword..Some of these bands that went from being almost famous to famous that played in some of these places..love nothing better than when they're back in town to play a few gigs in these smoke filled run-down sleazy places.They say its where the real people hang-out..

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On a good night, any place the boys played became a sleazy bar.

I once played Dance Little Sister on the jukebox in a strip joint.

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None sleazier than Dirty Dora's in Swansea in the '70's where Punks, skinheads, greasers, Angels, Teddy boys, Mods, reggae boys, nutty boys & hippies all used to gather to keep out of the way of the cops & the cheap suits, where Johnny Rotten hid behind his speakers after unwisedly gobbing on my mate Jacko, where the punks poggoed to Respectable and the Stones 19th Nervous breakdown - the 12" disco version of Miss you were part of the staple diet with D.Js & visiting bands alike Esp. The Trembling Knees.............brilliant.................mind you, Jimmy Wilde's had it's moments too.....................

EddieByword..ya'.."Dirty Dora's" sounds a bit like "The Junkyard Dog Bar" on a quiet night.. yea'

Love this one...sleazy bars and Stones songs..all the way down. we used to play lots of them, in the Charlotte area. there's a great one in Black Mountain, NC, called the Town Pump...they loved some Stones in there. 'Brown Sugar'..Little Queenie...Bye Bye Johnnie ( yes Berry songs ) Tumblin Dice..Under My Thumb...Sympathy...

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None sleazier than Dirty Dora's in Swansea in the '70's where Punks, skinheads, greasers, Angels, Teddy boys, Mods, reggae boys, nutty boys & hippies all used to gather to keep out of the way of the cops & the cheap suits, where Johnny Rotten hid behind his speakers after unwisedly gobbing on my mate Jacko, where the punks poggoed to Respectable and the Stones 19th Nervous breakdown - the 12" disco version of Miss you were part of the staple diet with D.Js & visiting bands alike Esp. The Trembling Knees.............brilliant.................mind you, Jimmy Wilde's had it's moments too.....................

EddieByword..ya'.."Dirty Dora's" sounds a bit like "The Junkyard Dog Bar" on a quiet night.. yea'

Yeah...at least 3 quiet nights a week in those days...oh, a couple of lots I forgot....sailors & hookers ....Dora's was on the first street after leaving the docks....."The Junkyard Dog Bar" ..that's a great name...definitely paints a picture



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Hey colonial how's this one ............ Some years back went in club bar Wheat Sheaf Hotel - Terang with a couple of mates... At other end of bar were a gang of 6-8 young guys who were havin' a good time and could overhear them talking about Robert Johnson and Rolling Stones.

They were all pretty well tanked but made myself known and started talkin' and jokin' with them about Johnson and Stones BUT after a short time there's an altercation with barman and he refuses to serve them anymore. Next Manager arrives and tells them no more drinks they have ta vacate the hotel.

Once manager leaves bar the young guys tell me ta get down the other end of bar and stand back because they are gonna wreck the place!!!! Suddenly every table an chair and is landing behind the bar... Smashing mirrors...shelves and all the top-shelf booze...CRASH!!!!SLAM!!....Glass flyin everywhere.....CRAZY

They run from joint leavin bar wrecked and us guys standing there laughin'.....Cops arrive and question
us but tell 'em nothing and couldn't be bothered tellin' 'em about the Johnson Stones thingo....UNREAL DAY



ROCKMAN

The Dungeon on Toulouse Street in New Orleans

Used to be a great rock & roll bar in the 70s & 80s.
I think now it's mostly techno/dance kinda place.

Rockman..yea'.. good one mate.We used to hang out alot in one of Sydney's more notorious pubs in Bondi..The Astra..it was always full of ya' Working class Battlers 24/7..yea' and alot of Surfies that could'nt be bothered working hanging around there as well.Some great Ozzie bands played there the crowd would always get down and dirty when they played alot of The Stones stuff..yea'..



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Most bar bands in south Georgia in the 80's played SMU and HTW, as well as being required to play "Cocaine", "Gimme Three Steps", and "Freebird". Some really sleazy places, I might add. It was GREAT!

Same in Louisiana....also Clarence Carter's "Strokin'"......

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None sleazier than Dirty Dora's in Swansea in the '70's where Punks, skinheads, greasers, Angels, Teddy boys, Mods, reggae boys, nutty boys & hippies all used to gather to keep out of the way of the cops & the cheap suits, where Johnny Rotten hid behind his speakers after unwisedly gobbing on my mate Jacko, where the punks poggoed to Respectable and the Stones 19th Nervous breakdown - the 12" disco version of Miss you were part of the staple diet with D.Js & visiting bands alike Esp. The Trembling Knees.............brilliant.................mind you, Jimmy Wilde's had it's moments too.....................

EddieByword..ya'.."Dirty Dora's" sounds a bit like "The Junkyard Dog Bar" on a quiet night.. yea'

Yeah...at least 3 quiet nights a week in those days...oh, a couple of lots I forgot....sailors & hookers ....Dora's was on the first street after leaving the docks....."The Junkyard Dog Bar" ..that's a great name...definitely paints a picture

EddieByword..yea' mate The Junkyard Dog Bar makes the Jack The Ripper Pub in London's eastend look like a 5*****Hotel



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I don't know about pubs.

I'm in Venice at the moment and yesterday I was walking past a trinket booth in St Paul's Square when I heard an acoustic guitar from inside the booth. "That sounds familiar" says I. This young Italian man with young Mick Taylor hair about 20 years old is playing a very nice verion of the one and only Brown Sugar. I was only posting about Brown Sugar here a couple of days ago.

Anyway I smiled and gave him a thumbs up (but didn't buy any trinkets).



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good one mate.We used to hang out alot in one of Sydney's more notorious pubs in Bondi..

Hey Yeah colonial ...... Bit of boozin' at The Rocks but
spent more time in those outback New South cotton towns ....
Pretty wild segregated bars and when ever I staggered out always
thought that some dude had parked all the cars the wrong way round....



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Same in Louisiana....also Clarence Carter's "Strokin'"......

Hey, Marie! I'm in New Orleans. Where you at ?

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Same in Louisiana....also Clarence Carter's "Strokin'"......

Hey, Marie! I'm in New Orleans. Where you at ?

Yeah, "Strokin" was played a lot too!


That what I be doin', I be strokin'.

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Same in Louisiana....also Clarence Carter's "Strokin'"......

Hey, Marie! I'm in New Orleans. Where you at ?

You lucky thing. Central part of the state...right now (and for the last couple of weeks) uncharacteristically windy for this time of year with 20-30 mph wind all day.



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