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Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine

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1960's Texas Music:

Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine
1019 Commerce
Houston

Love Street photo courtesy theHAIF

"Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine opened on June 3rd 1967. The bands included the Red Crayola, the Starvation Army Band and Fever Tree. The audiences sat at tables or in the Zonk-Out, a series of cushions with back rests.

Despite being open barely three years it hosted a who's who of Texas psych: the Red Krayola, Erickson's Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Johnny Winter, Bubble Puppy, Shiva's Headband, Fever Tree, Gibbons's pre-ZZ Top band Moving Sidewalks and American Blues, featuring his future bandmates Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Appropriately enough, it was also the site of ZZ Top's first shows on July 4 and 5, 1969.

David Adickes was the original owner/manager/light show projectionist. Sgt. Cliff Carlin came on board to manage it by late '67. Adickes sold the club outright to Carlin later. By '69 (perhaps earlier) International Artists had a stake in it as well. Love Street tried to branch out into Corpus Christi and San Antonio with little success, and closed down in Houston on June 6, 1970."

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Posted September 23, 2009
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1960's Texas Music:

Jimmie Menutis Lounge and Club
3236 Telephone at Wayside
Houston

Jimmie Menutis Lounge and Club photo courtesy theHAIF.

"It was small, with a stage at one end and red table cloths on the tables; kinda classy. I saw Bo Didley and I think, King Curtis. My favorite memory was of Jimmy Reed of whom I was a giant fan.

Jimmy was to have played one night (I used to have the picture I swiped from the club), but as the night wore on, he continued not to show. Rumors circulated through the club that he was 'sick', then that he'd been to the hospital to have his stomach pumped having been drinking 'wine, screwdrivers, and beer'. He finally came on hours late and it was still great.

The highlight for me, however, and a scene that is branded into my memory, is of him playing along when suddenly his guitar separated from it's strap and plummeted to the floor. The guy next to him, who played the classic 'da Da, da Da, da Da, da Da' rhythm, reached over and grabbed it without missing a beat LIKE IT HAPPENED EVERY NIGHT. It was most interesting!"

Performers included:
Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, and Louis Armstrong.

More information about the club is in the book Telephone Road by Burton Chapman.

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Posted September 22, 2009
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