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From: TubeRadi~ol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:32:21 EDT
Subject: Re: Ash Grove (NHC)

Hello all,
The Ash Grove! I grew up there. 8162 Melrose Avenue. Albert King got me in
when he saw me and my buddy hanging around the back door listening to the
walls shake and decided we were cool. Since the statute of limitations has
run out, I'll relate that we had an agreement with the management. If we
didn't try to order beer or wine, or get out of hand (no mean feat at the Ash
Grove!), they'd let us in, even if we were only 16! Artists would come to
town and play a few days running at the club and we'd be there every night;
the ticket taker would laugh as we showed up, night after night, to see Bee
Houston, Brownie and Sonny, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Clifton Chenier, Dave Van
Ronk, Wavy Gravy, John Lee Hooker, Gabor Szabo, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Mance
Lipscomb, Piano Red, George Smith, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Turner AND Big
Joe Williams, Mama Thornton, T-Bone, oh my goodness, we saw them all. Pure
Food and Drug Act with Don "Sugarcane" Harris. Albert Collins. Geronimo
Black with Jimmy Carl Black and Bunk Gardner. Buddy and Junior.

I never got over it.

Sorry about the NHC, but for us Angelinos at that time, it was a little bit of
heaven on earth in a less contentious world.

And that was where I met the Canned Heat.

- --Dan