Historic B.R.Music Clubs

Sports Page was on Old Hammond @ Sherwood. Mid 80's hair band kind of place.

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There was a big one, as I recall, on Stanford, right?

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I think that was Mother Earth back in the 70s?

Jacy's on Florida, Pappas Joe's on Nicholson, the Bengal on Highland, the Art Bar on Highland, and the Rusty Nail off of Lobdell. I loved the Sports Page, quality hard rock and quality poon.

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Hendrix played someplace called Independence Hall in '68.

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yep
Sabbath played there also
The Kingfish was fantastic

Cahoots on Nicholson

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I seem to recall that the Caterie was in a shopping center on Perkins, as well.

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The Caterie was in the shopping center at Perkins and Acadian. That was my college haunt.

Texas Club & The Cajun Hall

The Cajun Hall was originally Cowboys nightclub out in front of Bon Marche. Texas Club used it for acts they knew would most likely attract a larger audience than what they could accommodate at Texas Club. Saw David Allan Coe at The Cajun Hall back in the early 90’s.

And well, Texas Club, I think, is still considered somewhat of a music venue. I’ve seen many shows there including several country acts and Ted Nugent and RATT.

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The Bayou at Northgate -- REM apparently played there around the time their first album came out

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The Pixies played at the Bayou a year or two before I started going to LSU. Think the Police played there back in the day. That was a great bar. They played vinyl albums, one side at a time. I remember shooting pool and drinking pitchers of Turbodog while listening to side one of "Ziggy Stardust" and side one of "Nevermind".

The Sex Pistols played at the Kingfish during their first U.S. tour. They had a lot of good punk and new wave acts play there back in the day. A friend of mine who is a historian looked up in old copies of The Advocate - The Ramones played one night, Elvis Costello played around the same time.