March, 2021
BT: Frenchmen was the best in the late ’90s. I was too young to enjoy it fully. [Reconsiders.] I mean, there was some enjoyment there. Too young to buy drinks, let’s put it that way.
I started playing in… ‘97? I was so underage. I was sixteen when I started playing. I played at Checkpoint Charlie’s when I was sixteen! Not old enough to get into the bar.
[See here for one of the strangest Checkpoint tales…]
The Dat Dog used to be a fucking parking lot, and there was lots of…you know…. illegal shit going on in that parking lot. Every Halloween and Jazz Fest and Mardi Gras, the nitrous balloon guy would make an appearance, you know? Get set up in that parking lot. And there’d be people with balloons just walking around….
’90s were great, early 2000s … let’s just call it “before Katrina.” It was an arts incubator, to use your term; a lot of creative music. It was “the scene.” Locals patronized it. You know, if you wanna hear some awesome original music, that’s where you went. It wasn’t really like a tourist fucking shitshow like it is now, pardon my French. That can be on the record.
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