HURRAH Video link

Hurrah's nightclub existed from 1977 to 1981. Once its disco era was ended by the opening of Studio 54, the owners refashioned the second-floor club into a showcase for punk and new wave bands. I worked at the door with Howie Montauk and Jack Flood. The DJ was Shaun Cassette. The bands were the Dead Boys, the Damned, the Ramones, ESG, Klaus Nomi, the Police and too many others to mention without hurting my brain cells, however a new website has been dedicated to bringing those shows back to life thanks to the VDO DJ Merrill Alighieri.

I hadn't thought I would ever seen Polyrock again or Gang of Four or the Cure again.

This is a must see for all fans of that epoch and here's the link;

ps We had a good times there; free love and good cocaine.

Before the age of 'just say no'.

The roof had a view of the Statue of Liberty. I made love to many patriotic girls there. I think I even fell in love with several of them; Lisa Johnson, Emily Johnson, the sisters from New Jersey. I thought that I was a star and I was for several years.

This link helps me remember which ones.

Hurrah Hot Foot

Back in the late 70s, I was working at Hurrah as security. A good number of the punk disco's male clientele came from the bridge and tunnel suburbs of New Jersey and Long Island. The gay owner thought that they were cute and these tough boys were easy pickings after they dropped a few 'ludes. The poor things collapsed in the stupor and I ordered the bouncers to arrange the 714 zombies on the banquettes holding hands and linking arms like live sculptures. At the end of the night, I'd wake the sleeping beauties with a hot foot ie sticking wooden matches into their sneakers and then light then. Damn, Nikes burned fast, as anything made out of plastic and the boys' feet stamped the floor, as the flames did their magic. None of them got hurt and we had a good laugh. Times were so simple back then.