{"id":3547,"date":"2022-07-16T20:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:38:53","slug":"sid-snow-kiss-coors-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Sid Snow: KISS &#038; Coors Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[Or is it &#8220;Chords Underground&#8221;? I&#8217;ve heard it both ways&#8230; but I&#8217;ve only ever heard about this venue from two different people! And it&#8217;s nowhere online. If you have spelling intel, let me know in the comments! &#8211; L]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sid Snow:\u00a0<\/strong>Coors Underground. Was it in \u201871, \u20182 or \u20183\u2014I forget. I heard KISS play there. It became the empty lot after, where Dat Dog is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[<\/em><strong><em>Int<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>erviewer<\/strong>: Was that a venue?]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SS:&nbsp;<\/strong>Yeah. Music, bands. It caught on fire and burned down in the early \u201870s. The owner was out there on the news saying it was a gas fire\u2014that a gas heater exploded\u2014but come to find out, the place was all electric! He went to jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KISS was good. I mean, they didn\u2019t 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\u2019 Union to try to capture some of their sound. I think Coors Underground was a union house, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>[Sid has lots of great memories of what different Frenchmen buildings were at different times in the past. Read his full interview <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Or is it &#8220;Chords Underground&#8221;? I&#8217;ve heard it both ways&#8230; but I&#8217;ve only ever heard about this venue from two different people! And it&#8217;s nowhere online. If you have spelling intel, let me know in the comments! &#8211; L] Sid Snow:\u00a0Coors Underground. Was it in \u201871, \u20182 or \u20183\u2014I forget. I heard KISS play there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-interviews","category-quick-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}