[Or is it “Chords Underground”? I’ve heard it both ways… but I’ve only ever heard about this venue from two different people! And it’s nowhere online. If you have spelling intel, let me know in the comments! – L]
Sid Snow: Coors Underground. Was it in ‘71, ‘2 or ‘3—I forget. I heard KISS play there. It became the empty lot after, where Dat Dog is now.
[Interviewer: Was that a venue?]
SS: Yeah. Music, bands. It caught on fire and burned down in the early ‘70s. The owner was out there on the news saying it was a gas fire—that a gas heater exploded—but come to find out, the place was all electric! He went to jail.
KISS was good. I mean, they didn’t have all that costume and all back then; they were just regular guys trying to make a living, you know? But they were really good, and they fell in love with the New Orleans sound. They started looking up and interviewing all kinds of New Orleans musicians through the Musicians’ Union to try to capture some of their sound. I think Coors Underground was a union house, too.
[Sid has lots of great memories of what different Frenchmen buildings were at different times in the past. Read his full interview HERE.]
