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re: Chimes Street Documentary
Posted on 8/14/15 at 8:37 am to Zappas Stache
Posted on 8/14/15 at 8:37 am to Zappas Stache
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It is not legendary. It was sometimes fun when I was there in the 80's.
We sure had a blast in the 80s, especially if you were a part of the local music scene, playing in a band(s) and making a shite ton of friends. Some were assholes, just looking to get attn./ for a fight, but as a whole, the Chimes St. people were great. More Hippie than militant. Once you were established as part of "the scene", God help the prep who called you a freak within earshot.
It was legendary to a HS guy that suddenly had weed, beer, music and plenty of chicks in one place...and the rare treat of seeing tough guy frat boys get their drunk heads kicked in every once in a while.
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Posted on 8/14/15 at 8:48 am to snoggerT
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3BM
Embarrassed to say I introduced one of the founding members (should I say tools?) to the scene.
ppffftttt.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 8:50 am to 19
They have that commercial on the radio advertising the new Irish pub opening up on Chimes (Mahoney's, I think) and they say it's "...in the old Bayou location". I find that kind of funny cuz there is nobody who is young enough to hang at the new place (or at least of the target demographic) that will have any idea about the "old Bayou location". Maybe "old Reginelli's location". Those kids aren't old enough to remember the Bayou. WTF?
Also, one of the ways of telling the old guard from the n000bs is if you bring up the "Death Valley Shell" and they know what you're talking about.
Also, one of the ways of telling the old guard from the n000bs is if you bring up the "Death Valley Shell" and they know what you're talking about.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 9:12 am to RockAndRollDetective
Not Chimes Street, but back in the 80's didn't they have concerts at what is now the Spectrum on Perkins?
I seem to remember seeing vintage pictures of a few big names playing there.
ETA:
Sex Pistols at the Kingfish
I seem to remember seeing vintage pictures of a few big names playing there.
ETA:
Sex Pistols at the Kingfish
This post was edited on 8/14/15 at 9:18 am
Posted on 8/14/15 at 9:44 am to 19
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and the rare treat of seeing tough guy frat boys get their drunk heads kicked in every once in a while
Lol. I was a frat regular at The Bayou and I never had any issues. I'd wear duckheads and polo shirts and bang top-end "No blood for oil"-Undertaker-For-The-Art-World Bayou-type chicks. Not sure why you guys made an exception for me except for the fact that I would have beaten your asses . And maybe because I was wired into the music scene for a decade there. And maybe because you weren't as tough as your old-guy memories recall.
I always broke Chimes Street down into two categories. Those who walked around and went into bars. And those who sat with their boys against the wall of The Bayou. Those guys should have bought lawn chairs. Always sitting on the ground or the curb like they were training for The Panhandler Olympics, looking like heroin addicts, all dressed up like The Cure. frick people, get up and walk around, get the blood flowing, you'll be less depressed and kill yourself later...
True story---my buddy Smith and I were enamored of the punk scene in the early 80s and went to hang out at some dudes punk apartment when we were like in 10th grade. Smith idolized this punk no-talent hack, whose name I forget. I have no idea what happened to that guy but Smith is currently one of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and played with Sheryl Crow for a decade. You never knew what you'd find on Chimes Street. I mean , Steven Soderberg used to hang out there.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:00 am to Lsupimp
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True story---my buddy Smith and I were enamored of the punk scene in the early 80s and went to hang out at some dudes punk apartment when we were like in 10th grade. Smith idolized this punk no-talent hack, whose name I forget. I have no idea what happened to that guy but Smith is currently one of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and played with Sheryl Crow for a decade.
Cool.
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Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:05 am to Lsupimp
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Lol. I was a frat regular at The Bayou and I never had any issues. I'd wear duckheads and polo shirts and bang top-end "No blood for oil"-Undertaker-For-The-Art-World Bayou-type chicks.
I kinda enjoyed the scene for a period of time, the music and laid back aspects, and always had a bit of freak streak, but got old after a while.
There seemed to be a definite uptick in shitbird aggression in the mid-90s than just a few years prior; nothing toward me personally, just the overall vibe.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:29 am to USMCTiger03
I was/am the same way. I kind of inhabit both worlds. I'm a skeptical, art-loving, music-obsessing, non-conforming Constitutional Conservative. I'm happiest in the mountains with an old ipod on.
Smith was my boy. We grew up together, went through puberty together, learned about beer and chicks together. I fell out of touch with him but we rekindled our friendship on FB until I vividly reminded him again of how much he hates me because of my politics and general assholery and douche-baggery. I've always enjoyed seeing him live his professional dream. He worked hard and earned it, that's for sure.
Smith was my boy. We grew up together, went through puberty together, learned about beer and chicks together. I fell out of touch with him but we rekindled our friendship on FB until I vividly reminded him again of how much he hates me because of my politics and general assholery and douche-baggery.
I've always enjoyed seeing him live his professional dream. He worked hard and earned it, that's for sure.Posted on 8/14/15 at 10:49 am to Lsupimp
It's cool to see a hometown person hit that level of achievement, and long term too.
Same here, kinda. Have always lived suburbia but enjoyed the swamps and the streets as well, almost equally. The latter less so now of course...okay, practically zero on the latter - enjoy the thought of but don't venture out.
I have a few of those failed reconnections.
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kind of inhabit both worlds.
Same here, kinda. Have always lived suburbia but enjoyed the swamps and the streets as well, almost equally. The latter less so now of course...okay, practically zero on the latter - enjoy the thought of but don't venture out.
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I fell out of touch with him but we rekindled our friendship on FB until I vividly reminded him again of how much he hates me because of my politics and general assholery and douche-baggery.
I have a few of those failed reconnections.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:31 am to Lsupimp
frick, dude, you even quoted me and STILL don't comprehend.
How exactly does being a HS kid watching a drunk frat frickhead who couldn't resist calling out "Freaks!" as he stumbles down State St. get a proper arse whipping make me a tough guy?
So glad you were a super stud in all the worlds you existed in.
How exactly does being a HS kid watching a drunk frat frickhead who couldn't resist calling out "Freaks!" as he stumbles down State St. get a proper arse whipping make me a tough guy?
So glad you were a super stud in all the worlds you existed in.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:43 am to RockAndRollDetective
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I've said it before; the most vibrant music scene in Baton Rouge in the mid 80s was actually not even in LSU. It was at Jacy's on Florida Blvd. That was where you would get the serious cutting edge bands that would later become the elder statesmen of the alt-rock boom in the 90s.
I would mostly agree with you, because of the bands that stopped there - to be fair though it was kind of a happy accident. If Hank Whitney isn't running the place then none of that ever happens. And once Hank was gone that was pretty much it.
Chimes Street was the center of "the scene", if you will. Jacy's was like a very, very important tentacle in an unlikely place.
This post was edited on 8/14/15 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:45 am to mack the knife
Remember the Red Hot Chili Peppers doing a show at the Bayou when absolutely NO ONE knew who the hell they were?
Yeah, I missed that one too
Yeah, I missed that one too
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:47 am to 19
You totally misinterpreted the good-natured, light-hearted quality of my post. I'm just funning you bro. I'm not the violent type. No need to go all Chimes Street on me.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:48 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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I was a regular on Chimes from the late 70's to mid-80's. The Shitdogs were the shite!
To be honest Chimes Street was largely - not totally, but largely - tied up with Leakism. As went Leake, so went Chimes Street.
It was already well in decline by the time I graduated and left town in '86.
ETA: I wonder if we know each other. I knew a fellow from back then who lived in Tchefuncte (well his folks did) but I will honestly shite a gold brick if you're him.
This post was edited on 8/14/15 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:50 am to RockAndRollDetective
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Also, one of the ways of telling the old guard from the n000bs is if you bring up the "Death Valley Shell" and they know what you're talking about.
Baaaahahahaha. Chuck vs. Rocky Radical. Hadn't thought of that in ages.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:54 am to Mountainhead
The Death Valley Shell used to sell Foster's Oil Cans and we'd drink them as we walked around campus. I forgot that place even existed.
Posted on 8/14/15 at 11:54 am to Lsupimp
I was in pretty much the same situation as you but TBH I really don't remember any antagonism at all between the fratstars on Chimes and the "regulars". Some guys would wander down once to 'check things out' and never return, while ppl like you and I who appreciated it all were probably recognized and seen as regulars because we were there all the time.
I always had the feeling that it was a very inclusive scene no matter how you looked, as long as you were sincere.
I always had the feeling that it was a very inclusive scene no matter how you looked, as long as you were sincere.
This post was edited on 8/14/15 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 8/17/15 at 9:32 am to Mountainhead
If you were in the Bayou from '79 to '84, I can assure you that you and I have crossed paths. That bar had the most awesome grafitti on the bathroom walls. There was also a nice looking blonde bartender who never wore a bra. 
Posted on 8/17/15 at 10:28 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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If you were in the Bayou from '79 to '84, I can assure you that you and I have crossed paths. That bar had the most awesome grafitti on the bathroom walls. There was also a nice looking blonde bartender who never wore a bra
Hmmmm yeah. She wasn't in there that often as I recall though, usually when I was there Robin was working the bar (and shovelling Black Russians at Yag, lol).
Your initials can't be RDW. No way.
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 10:30 am
Posted on 8/17/15 at 10:47 am to Mountainhead
Negative. Not my initials.
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