FM Station is Back!
Besides Ron Kaye's Bastille Day storming of City Hall, Monday is a big day in LA for another reason: Legendary North Hollywood rock joint FM Station returns. The once popular venue hosted numerous local bands as well as major acts spanning the era from "Rock and Roll" to "Grunge."
Then sometime in the 90s, the music stopped playing and the venue became a Latin music dance club.
In an incredible turn of fate a legend has been re-born and starting tonight for at three nights a week Hacienda Corona Salon de Baile on Victory and Lankershim is once again FM Station. Earlier in the year, the band Jones Street rented the venue for an FM Station reunion and the attendance was so overwhelming the current owner asked the band if they would bring back FM Station permanently. It's really interesting to see live rock music make a comeback like this but I also think it's a sign that North Hollywood is undergoing yet another transformation. It would be great to see the live clubs come back.Labels: FM Station, music clubs, north hollywood
Posted by Michael Higby @ 7/14/2008 04:00:00 AM
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How often has a Latino place switched back to an American business? I've never seen this happen.
How funny it is on the marquee it says Viernes 27: Rock En Ingles sort of like a quiet resignation "The gringos are coming."
It's not going to make much of a difference. The place wasn't THAT good in its heyday.
It being back a few days a week will only confuse people.
Plus the neighborhood sucks. (I don't care if any of you live there. The neighborhood DOES suck.) As does the parking.
The neighborhood is definitely wretched.
If this somehow offends you, I'm sorry, but you've not been out of the neighborhood for a long time.
Neighborhood matters because if you are jacked, or your stereo are stolen, while you're in this "mega" of rock and roll, it's not worth going to.
Besides, can anyone name any major bands that were discovered there, like someone we've all heard of? The Flaming Swahilis is not what I'd consider a major band.
And nobody cares if your dad or mom played there.
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Those are Mexicans who are pissed Whitey is claiming back ground. Now the only illegals who will be there will be the ones working in the kitchen.
Hey any news on Ron Kaye's big gathering?
Yes here's update. Walter bailed out, there are 19 balding white guys in lawns chairs with farmer's tans, one scary lady wearing combat boots and Zuma's van is surrounded by a hazmat team.
12:50
That's actually 17 balding guys . . . two of the shorter ones you counted are actually, er, um, "parts" of trhe scary lady in combat boots.
She really shouldn't wear stuff that low-cut at her age, but with SO many "available" Bastille-stormers around, what's a girl to do?
Oh dear lord
Viva la Revolucion
plus 300 mexicans and 15 lesbians counter-protesting them across the other side of the street; all wearing the same t-shirt.
Probably 100-150 present, great speeches by Ron, the KABC guy (name eleudes me at the moment). Laura Chick gave a short speech, Dennis Zine same. LaBonge showed up to gladhand people then split. Joe B from this blog spoke. The Angry LAUSD mom was kewl. Overall a good start to Ron's new Citywide movement...
Any pixs? Was anything substantive? Why did elected show-up?
Okay, so getting half the attendance even the promoters predicted here (300) is a "good start", huh?
Hurry, and the revolution may be well on it's way by the time the U.S. celebrates the TRI-centennial of it's first revolt, in 2076.
By then Villaraigosa's grandchildren will be running for city council - from the "legit" and illegitimate sides of the family. Probably running against each other.
(Hell, I can get 150 transients and drunks to gather around me outside city hall. Give me two cartons of cigarettes, and a hand-painted cardboard sign that says "free smokes").
And Ron Kaye is a "former" newspaperman, huh?
Trained to get people's attention and keep it, right?
(That explains the "former" don't it!)
It was the BEST of hype; it was the WORST of turnouts. (In "honor" of Bastille Day!)
Maybe there was a misunderstanding, and it was supposed to be "Ya Basta!" Day on the south lawn?
(Or maybe worse - the rest of the balding paunchy white guys realized at the last minute the directions really did say "south lawn".
Bad enough you drag them SOUTH of Ventura Blvd, now you want then to go SOUTH of City Hall? On the EAST side of L.A.
Not a chance, Jethro. Not a chance!
Hi Guys!
Princess Doll and I are just getting home. It was a great day and we had a wonderful time. She got to see Uncle Red Spot, Tia Petrafried, Uncle Joe B., and Uncle Zuma.
Saw no one (oh wait, that should be "noone") with any farmer's tans.
Pics coming soon!
xoxo
Hey -- I had to sneak out of work and drive from the north end of the Valley to attend this deal, then attempt to sneak back without getting caught, then try to catch up on the work that I missed (and we are VERY busy right now). Gonna be a late night working, but it was well worth it.
City Hall'ers were already there, so what's their excuse for not showing up? Too long a walk? Too hot outside?
I thought this was an excellent start to a great idea. This "shit storm" might just add up to something significant after all... very exciting!
A really great start for the S.L.A.P. project! Good turnout, good speeches, lots of new friends were made.
Ron was really pleased!
Good turnout
It's just the beginning
Is "Matt the Spinster" still talking to LA Time's David Zahniser? 240+ and all the "Z-Man" does is yap it up with a "Third Floor Spinster". Makes you wonder why "Jounalist Hiller" fell on the sword today. BTW, get the heart paddles out for the "WWG" as the "OLD GRAY LADY ON SPRING STREET...for sale" inplodes.
Valley Doll were you wearing combat boot?
Is there any truth to the rumor that Zuma's van was towed by a hazmat unit?
August 2nd there will be another and since its on a weekend you can bet there'll be a hell of a lot more people. AT least Ron isn't a pussy whiner like most of the guys who post here. You guys act like women and cry babies. You whine yet fail to do a damn thing to make things better.
LOL,
No, my 8-eye Docs were safely tucked away in my closet. No combat boots for this Mama.
xoxo
Well, David Z doesn't do the Mayor any PR favors, the way he describes the scene. "Perennial gadfly zuma dogg in a sombrero" on the scene, the woman in combat boots and low-cut top (ouch!) angrily enticing fat white guys in lawn chairs (ouchier!), like they're at a tailgate party, and one angry Mama in wearing a plastic crown modeled after the Statue of Liberty, "writer- LAUSD activist" Sandra Singh Loh!
Sandra's right on with her battles against LAUSD, which sucks lemons, and is beyond repair as long as it's controlled by a PC-crowd who's using all the bond monies to build newer, smaller schools for the illegals and neglected the middle- class and "rich" on the westside, whose schools have long been overtaken by these bused-in masses while their kids have no schools.
(The rest of Ron's declarations I don't know about -- turning over power to this sort of rabble doesn't inspire me with hope for the better. But they're right, that no city can keep its middle class when the schools are taken over by a socialist-ethnic agenda, and the streets are broken and unsafe.
Lopez says most of the angry bike riders couldn't make it that far, or were too busy being hit by angry westside doctors -- but some showed, enough to offset the rest.
Figures Zine and LaBonge would show to gladhand and pretend they were part of the "revolution" against City Hall. Surprised Zev wasn't there, too.
6:48, You are quoting yourself not David Z. except for the Zuma line.
Angry little man, where were you today?
Bull S it that Zahniser doesn't do the mayor favors. He's done it ever since he arrived at the LA Slimes.
Maybe he's softening things NOW that AV seems as done as toast. But Zahniser is no friend to us regular people in LA.
And who else is surprised that Valley Dull responded to such a moronic inquiry? Does she ever NOT respond?
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Lebonge is the biggest nin-com-poop to ever disgrace city clowncil.
Matt was busy trying to get a male reporter's phone number.
La música no deje de jugar. La música se hace mejor. Viva la salsa!
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