Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg free press june Page 16 by John Enarson special to the free press with the growing popu Larity of Community clubs and live bands spreading throughout the a few enter prising individuals attempted to capitalize on the excitement in the Early 80s by opening teen night these were no licensed clubs featuring Rock bands not Only on but throughout the week As they were like souped up Coffee one of the first to open was the located off fort the cel Lar was originally a jazz club until the Duguay Brothers took it Over in late 1962 and began booking Rock although the cellar Only remained open until late its importance to the Winnipeg scene was it had a tremendous influence on similar teen clubs that opened in its and on local forbidden place the crescendos played the cel Lar on a regular we were like the House band recalls Glenn we played there for months at a and used to practise wed make maybe a night during the week and on the what the cellar offered that was different was its atmosphere it was the Antithesis of the Community whereas the Community clubs epitomized innocent the cellar was a forbidden place that you dare not Tell your mom you went Glenn Macrae vividly remembers How the cellar affected the Entrance was in a Lane off fort Street Between Portage and just even going Down that Lane was an like you were in new York going to some subterranean it was like something youd see on naked it Felt there was a big red door with the cellar on and you went Down stairs to the it was pitch Black and the Walls were even painted with a mesh Hainlink ceiling with pipes hang ing it was Dingy with no there was no just a Little in the Squires with Neil Young played the and Ken Smyth remembers that a girl was standing up on a table taking her clothes and a fight erupted near the i just caught a glimpse of a Beer bottle that came at me and smashed on the according to people often carried in hidden liquor bottles and soon the place would get quite one night some Guy walked Down the pulled out a and started every one hit the he emptied the gun and then walked there were also numerous stories of Knif teen clubs reflect 60s Early Winnipeg Rock drummer Lenny Fitkalo in the in and Singer Ron Rene playing Bass in the we thought he had a pretty Good so we asked him to we spent a Tot of time teaching him How to hold a Mike and be a front thus the quid was born at the Twilight Ings that guitarist Chris Anderson was stabbed on his Way the stairs one but despite the infamy of the the cellar was an important Many musicians recall that it was at the cellar in 1963 they first heard beatles music played by Chad Allan and the re this was months before the British invasion hit North Jim kale remembers playing the beatles hit i saw her standing there at the cellar in a number of bands got their first exposure outside their neighbourhood from a cellar Raunchy club we used to audition at the cel says that How i first met Bill Wallace and Kurt Winter then in the they came Down to audition and had homemade amps with the transformers and tubes on Toby four Burton Cummings tells of an Early experience at the cellar one night i got a Call from the on a a school i was about 14 or they said they were the band didst show up and they had a pile of people who were getting so i had to beg my Mother to let me go to the cellar for about three i said i know its a school night but just let me it was pretty Good of her to let me it was different when i was with the other Guys in the but i was All by i took the bus it was dark and Winter and i was going into this real Raunchy club where Guys got knifed and All there was was the upright no i sat there and screamed As loud As i could and blew them away for about i did everything i knew great balls of Blueberry what i once in a if you gotta make a fool of some they went they even got up and i made for the shortly before the demise of the cellar in late another teen nightclub opened on marys Road in patterned some what after the the Twilight zone quickly became a popular teen attraction As Well As an important gig for there was something about that place that symbolized the whole sixties says the quids Morley and according to Chad Allan and the reflections upper left at play the and the quid left at Twilight Duncan Wilson the zone had More of an Impact than any other Macrae recalls that the Twilight zone was established by a retired he had sold his farm in some place like Sperling and had a pile of and wanted to open a teen club like the he asked us the help set it the club was located beside the vital you would enter through a recessed door that led to a Cash Register where you were issued a this was punched when you and any food or drinks were recorded throughout the when you you paid your accumulated the club itself was with red and White Check ered cloths on the the tiny stage was to the Between the two and framed by a pillar and a which left a minimum of space for we always used to hang out at the zone and see other bands when we we rent Colin Palmer it was at the zone that of the quid was it featured bands throughout the the Twilight zone provided an Opportunity for or less established bands to after Palmer and Billy Pavlik disbanded the discounts in Early they would frequent the marys Road night checking out younger bands for there they found Bass player Morley Nickles from the the orfans dutch Schultz re members that it didst great Many people to fill the everyone who wanted to see you was and you could look out and recognize All those familiar in Early the saints made their first Twilight zone appear we played the zone doing buddy Holly stuff and says Richard Rock video Neil Young would hang out at the Twilight zone on off the Squires also played at the zone for one week in december 1964 for per night was Good Money for the Jim Petrin of the renegades re Calls seeing Young there play ing acoustic guitar and with Al Johnson on Drums and a Bass player called stretch six foot five Inch Ken there were Many strange and wonderful things that happened at the Lenny Fitkalo brought his motorcycle right into the club one laughs and the quid May have pioneered Rock videos Brian a photographer and quid had filmed the band in an Early 1966 recording at Krc and used to show the movie during Breaks at the More teen clubs soon sprang up throughout the the old pros a Hall on Pritchard Avenue and Arlington Street became the pro teen club on sunday the chancellors Ron Adams recalls his first visit to the club there were about five of us and we went to see the it was a really Tough we just stood in the Middle of the afraid to we wanted to but walk then jumbo Martin came by and recognized one of the Guys with when he asked us outside for a Beer we were so relieved to be Able to get out of another wild place was Pater sons ranch House at Logan ave nue and Keewatin Neil Young recalls when the Squires played we had to really work at it to get there was a band that used to play there at night called Bluegrass Bob and the but they let us do our thing saturday or sunday the Cinema Hall opened in 1964 at Colony Street and memorial it got its name because the film distribution companies had their offices along the Colony but it tended to draw a rough end of series an excerpt trom John Einarson Book Shawn All italians Praise Sinatra for soggy concert from the news services Italy italian news Media yesterday Sang the praises of Frank Sinatra for crooning in the rain at a concert at Veronas roman apparently touched by the fans who braved rain to hear him saturday occasion ally left the shelter or the covered stage to sing in the he was soaked by the end of the on hour his fourth appearance of a seven leg italian concert fans really loved Sinatra for standing the rain and Sinatra certainly loved his Job for under a partial wrote Milans corriere Delta show bits Prince Rainier to wed London Prince Rainier of Monaco will marry Princess Ira von Furstenberg before the end of the the mail on sunday quoted her son As Christoff was quoted As saying his 47yearold Ger Man born Mother would marry the 64yearold Prince at Rainier Home in the principality of they Are in love and will marry very Hohenlohe was quoted As telling the no Date has been fixed but it will be before the end of the Rainier late the former actress Grace died in a car crash nearly five years late show ratings up los Angeles ratings for the late show jumped 10 per cent Fol lowing the departure of comedian Joan Rivers As permanent Fox broadcasting the show had a National rating for the week of june 8 through june compared to a rating for each of the previous three the company said Friday after the re lease of Nielsen Rivers was replaced last month by a series of nightly guest hosts after the show continually lost in the rat Ings to rival the tonight show with Johnny Carson on asked for ticket Tokyo scalpers were asking As much As the equivalent of about can a ticket before japans most popular foreign Rock a took to the stage in her first Tokyo concert last fans whistled from the first note to the final encore by the 28yearold about police and Security guards were hired to control the crowd of who paid official prices of the equivalent of about to can or up to 20 times that amount to faddle wheel river30ats the fun dining fully licensed Winnipeg quest floating restaurant evening entertainment by Caraballo cruise schedule i sightseeing cruise 710 dinner dance cruise 1o1 Moonlight dance cruise a a m return is paddle Tieuel Doublede Oer City bus daily from convention Dock location at 2285 main 3391696 variety club of Manitoba presents event of 1 987 the red River sex after the laughs join Tern to we Lorne Elliot june 2227 Showtime 9 it Showtime 8 Gallagher bar Grill rumours comedy club Gorton Ive 4534216 reservations i tickets Patti Page with the Ron Paley orchestra performing at 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