Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ransom financial corporation Winnipeg free press Canadian Pacific i annual of tar Rales subject o change Cam Ingle 9448660 entertainment Section Morley Walker 6977307 b1 As it approaches its 40th Rock n Roll has proven time and again that it truly is Here to but a Quick glance at the tapes and cd in the average fans collection shows like the people who listen to music has changed drastically since Bill Hailey first decided to Rock around the in win As in most major the club scene has changed with the reason should come As no because it has driven Many of society thrills and ills for the past 25 years the baby Boomers grew the kids who lived to Early Rock records now have teenagers of their but the grungy basement bars they flocked to years ago Are just like the ones they wish their kids would stay out of Hole in the ground when music exploded into the mainstream 30 years it seemed that almost any Hole in the ground could be a successful today parents be caught dead in such but there still into Rock n Roll just who do you think is listening to All those classic Rock radio stations and As shown by successful shows Here in 1992 by such aging stars As Jethro Tull and the Moody baby Boomers will pay top Dollar to go out when they think its Worth people didst Stop liking Rock music just because they got says Ralph a booking agent with Vancouver Feldman and associates and for Mer bassist with Winnipeg Rock ers but things Are changing out you cant put acts that attract an older crowd into Raun Chier bars and expect peo ple to come the Winnipeg bar scene proves his clubs Span the big three coun Rock and dance but the trend clearly is toward upscale clubs aimed at an Mussier the Royal Albert and the alternative club remain Youthful at least nine clubs have opened within the past 12 five of them catering to Mellower the Bank on main the Market Avenue tequila Joes classic bar owners do Chameleon act to attract aging lounge lizards in the clubs Stephen Ostick Mcphillips Wise Guys rorie Street and the Rollin Stone Mcdermot Avenue put plenty of planning and renova Tion dollars into their hop ing to tap the older baby Boomers today demand much More from a club than a Dingy some Flat Black paint and Basic sound and customer comforts Are says Keith danger co owner of Georgies Rock which recently underwent a massive six figure renovation but still Aims at an 18to 22year old the marketplace is sophist he some people still like grungy but oth ers want comforts to justify cover charges and drink the emergence of country music has helped turn Winnipeg bar scene upside Down during the past the Rock music Diamond club switched to country and became night its sister club in the Windsor Park also is expected to reopen with a coun try format after shutting Down next live Rock bands Arent experiencing a High the spec a Rock Leader downtown for several is for while the alternative club in Osborne Village lost inhouse band Booker Dave Mckeigan and seems to be slipping after barely a i dont think there Are that Many people 30 and older who go to see bands in bars any says Chris Leader of Winnipeg Rock quartet the Deadbeat honeymooners and a club Veteran of 15 people our age will go out to see a sting or a Jeff Healey if there that into but if they want a social go where they can talk and Rock n Roll clubs Arent really suitable for that sort of tequila Joes wont even have live while the Market Avenue and the Bank have predictable b the Rollin Stone usually has a House the Bank even Bills itself As Winnipeg first 21 Over night the whole idea is to keep up with the says Sylvano whose family owns the Continental hotel on Mcphillips the palettes recently opened tequila Joes top 40 dance club where Muddy blues bar and the Pink Panther male strip club used to Muddy lasted less than a everybody Paletta the life Cycle for a club is about four look at How Many times the Palomino the successful coun try bar on Portage Avenue used to be Blue jeans Rock you change until you find the right format and stick with it for a but some clubs somehow defy the Odds and outlast the trend that spawned Toronto heavy Rock Gasworks mentioned in the Waynes world movie is one Winnipeg hard Rock zoo in the Osborne Village inn is both Are no frills Rock rooms that have remained virtually unchanged for yet each has consistently attracted Young grassroots no place can live on a steady Stream of big stuff expensive says Chuck one of four Brothers whole owned the zoo for 15 you need grassroots i think they want a place where they feel in based on the zoos 15 year track the greens including Coleman and Rick have decided to Model their new junkyard bar in the Portage Village inn after staying the course is the main reason were established in that Chuck you can spend a Quarter of a million on but after a year is it any differ ent to any other place the fact people just want a watering Hole where they can spit and in the its All the new bars betting on Exchange hot spot by Stephen Ostick pop music writer if the experts Are right when they say that location makes or Breaks a new then the Exchange District East of main Street must be the Luckiest spot in at least that what several business newcomers to the area Are four of the cites newest music clubs have opened within spitting distance of one another in the running North from Portage and East from main to the red the newcomers Are tipping it to be the cites latest development Thill be one of the strongest areas of redevelopment in the City within five to 10 says commercial real estate Developer Lloyd co owner of the eight Montgold Market Avenue its 10 minutes from almost anywhere in theres lots of parking and its two minutes from Portage and within the past eight the Market Avenue the Bank and the Rollin Stone cabaret opened with in two blocks of one As Wise Guys took Over the old Marble club facility a year and Norma jeans Rock bar continues to both within sight of the Rollin about 10 years the area consisted largely of the Marble club and Des two of the cites trendiest almost every building has activity in it Feigelman such concentrated development almost All of it aimed at trend con scions baby Boomers guarantees a Battle Royal for bar hoppers new places usually thrive at the expense of one that already says Wayne promotions director for the Rollin Stone and the they better be ready to bars Arent the Only diversion in the trendy restaurants Manitoba theatre pantages play House and Centennial concert Hall form the Northern Edge of the with the theatres and All the old the whole District is attract says Harold one of four co owners of pockets bar Grill on Mcdermot the three floor pockets formerly Home to Desoto disco and the Moon cabaret features 12 Pool its opening 16 months ago signalled the arrival of the upscale Pool Hall which some Are pegging As the next Val Ramanand Bruce Rathbone of the 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