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[thiswaythatway]

Ah the LimeLight
Haha and the stories get better

Wasn't that place wild? I remember in 1990 some girl i knew wanted to know if i wanted to see some band called Pearl Jam play the Limelight. We didn't buy tickets in time because it sold out quick. That was right at the time they started getting regular play on the radio stations.

 

[OldSkoolNJ]

The H.R. GIGER VIP room that was in the Limelight had to be one of coolest rooms I have ever seen..

 

[UltraGary]

HOLY CRAP. This brings me back.

Funny story. Mid 90's we went to the Limelight in NYC to see some bands. That was the ultimate club since it was an abandoned church, couple hundred years old or so. Anyway, were in line to get in the place and there's this homeless guy carry on outside acting like a retard, all goofy with people. He looked dirty and smelled like shit. We get in the club and we see the same dirtbag falling over himself in the club. Then some band we never hear of starts playing without a singer and that same homeless bum gets up on stage and starts singing. We almost threw up it was soo funny.

That was his schtick out here in LA too. The funny thing is that I knew that singer back when we both lived in Chicago, his name was Chris Stan and he looked exactly like Slippery When Wet era Bon Jovi. I even have a video somewhere of his old band in Chicago playing on some cable access show. The story was that his family was rich, rich, rich and he had it made in the shade.

When he moved to Hollywood and came up with that persona, he really lived it. I mean he smelled like a homeless dude covered in his own 5 day old urine. It was gross. In one of my bands we rehearsed at this huge place called Downtown Rehearsal Studios. LSD rehearsed there too, during the afternoon because they didn't have to work day jobs. We used to hear them as we were getting there and they really were just great. One night they were there late and our singer and other guitar player didn't know about "Stanley" and they kicked "some homeless weirdo" out of the whole rehearsal studio and threw him out the door. When they came back to tell us about it we started laughing and ran downstairs to let him back in because he didn't have his keys. Everytime I saw him I would always say "hey, what's up Chris?" and he would not even acknowledge in the least that he was the same guy. All of us from Chicago of course knew he was the Bon Jovi guy. LSD's drummer Brian Horak was a KILLER drummer too. He played in a band in Chicago called Damien Thorne that was signed to CBS. One of my best friends and former band mates was in Damien Thorne with him. Man was that band heavy. Heavy and sinister and scary and just evil. Yet they looked like a hairband.

Sounds like we know some of the same people. (I'm a Chicago-to-L.A. transplant too). Yea.....my band used to see & sometimes play with Bottoms Up, which was basically the same band before their L.A. move & image makeover. A few months after they moved, Chris visited Chicago and came to see my band, who was doing pretty well in Chicago at the time. He was looking cooler (losing the BonJovi look) and was wearing a train conductor hat. That was the last time he acknowledged himself as Chris.
The funny thing was.....(to your point about them not working day jobs)....while they were probably in the era you describe at your rehearsal space......my girlfriend (now wife) used to cut Chris' mom's hair, and used to hear about all these expensive dance lessons she was paying for Chris taking out in L.A.. So seeing his whole homeless-bit and knowing his mom was shelling out $$$s for stuff like dance lessons always struck me as funny.

 

[Chubtone]

Sounds like we know some of the same people. (I'm a Chicago-to-L.A. transplant too). Yea.....my band used to see & sometimes play with Bottoms Up, which was basically the same band before their L.A. move & image makeover. A few months after they moved, Chris visited Chicago and came to see my band, who was doing pretty well in Chicago at the time. He was looking cooler (losing the BonJovi look) and was wearing a train conductor hat. That was the last time he acknowledged himself as Chris.
The funny thing was.....(to your point about them not working day jobs)....while they were probably in the era you describe at your rehearsal space......my girlfriend (now wife) used to cut Chris' mom's hair, and used to hear about all these expensive dance lessons she was paying for Chris taking out in L.A.. So seeing his whole homeless-bit and knowing his mom was shelling out $$$s for stuff like dance lessons always struck me as funny.

We probably do know a lot of the same people. I moved to LA in 1985 when I was 18, but I kept in touch with a few people that always kept me up on the Chicago scene. What band were you in? My band used to play with Vengeance, Moon, Rampage (aka Ravage), War Cry and a few others.

 

[UltraGary]

Sounds like we know some of the same people. (I'm a Chicago-to-L.A. transplant too). Yea.....my band used to see & sometimes play with Bottoms Up, which was basically the same band before their L.A. move & image makeover. A few months after they moved, Chris visited Chicago and came to see my band, who was doing pretty well in Chicago at the time. He was looking cooler (losing the BonJovi look) and was wearing a train conductor hat. That was the last time he acknowledged himself as Chris.
The funny thing was.....(to your point about them not working day jobs)....while they were probably in the era you describe at your rehearsal space......my girlfriend (now wife) used to cut Chris' mom's hair, and used to hear about all these expensive dance lessons she was paying for Chris taking out in L.A.. So seeing his whole homeless-bit and knowing his mom was shelling out $$$s for stuff like dance lessons always struck me as funny.

We probably do know a lot of the same people. I moved to LA in 1985 when I was 18, but I kept in touch with a few people that always kept me up on the Chicago scene. What band were you in? My band used to play with Vengeance, Moon, Rampage (aka Ravage), War Cry and a few others.

I was in a band called UZI. We moved here in '91.

 

[Chubtone]

I was in a band called UZI. We moved here in '91.

I heard of you guys but I don't know if it was from people in Chicago or when you were out here. You guys got here a little late though huh? In 1991, I was in a band called Stone Heart that was a headliner on the strip. What's cool is that they did all the hard work and I just joined the band after they were already headlining.

I think my buddy Sean used to talk about a band called Uzi. He was in Shock Box. You probably know him.