My Father's Place ?
I saw some of my most memorable shows there. I only found the same info as you did about Bellmore. Eppy announced the opening of only the Roslyn location. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/li-venue-my-fathers-place-which-hosted-ramones-springsteen-more-to-reop... https://m.facebook.com/mfproslynhotel/ |
took a closer look at MFP at Roslyn Hotel......a nice line-up of shows . Buster Pondexter .Livingston Taylor ( sold out ) .Roomful of Blues .Robert Gordon .John Hammond .Garland Jeffreys .Zebra .Spyro Gyra .NRBQ .McCoy Tyner .The Blasters .Brewer and Shipley .Marshall Crenshaw .Richie Furay .Stanton Anderson Band .Kerry Kearney .Peter Yarrow a few blasts from the past.......some bands I saw at the old MFP... Roomful of Blues,Robert Gordon,Brewer and Shipley.. and Stanton Anderson a few times at Speaks in Island Park,and Zebra with metal head friend and stood way to close to speakers. News to me ....googled Speaks and found out it was previously called for a short time The Rock Pile, but more intriguing, before the Rock Pile,was called the Action House....from mid 60s to early 70s. omg you have to see some of the bills........Freak Out w/ Timothy Leary,Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground,The Mothers of Invention,The Fugs,The Exploding Plastic Inevitable,The Ronettes,the Shangri-Las and much more A Psychadelic Experience ( their spelling )........Dec.4th 1966 . Then a bunch more shows The Young Rascals and Mitch Ryder together on same bill 1966...... The Blues Project,followed two weeks later with the Doors, a long list ..... I'm 62 so this was just ahead of me......I never heard of Action House until now.......kind of like San Francisco. I don't get too enamored of the past but let's face it..... you can't beat the multiple bands on one bill,nor the next to nothing prices .......The Dead played there in 1970 with NRPS...for $3 bucks 2.50 with the ad. Come on....... |
It's sad that, unlike the Fillmores's, a comprehensive list of all the acts and dates that appeared there apparently doesn't exist. Its great fun (if you were a regular, I was!) to go to the Fillmore website and see the shows I went to with the corresponding dates as so much from back than is truly a blur!;) I'd love to be able to do the same with MFP! MFP truly rated among the best venues in the NY area at the time. I saw SO many great, important, acts there back in the day! It's great that they're trying to generate some brand recognition and get it going again but much like the Fillmore's and the other great venues from that era, it'll NEVER happen again. |
The Fillmore East didn’t last very long, but is an important part of NYC music history. The Palladium theater on 14th St. was one of my favorite venues. Some very historic shows happened there including Bruce Springsteen appearing for a week in 1976. Such a shame that this historic building was converted into a tacky trendy disco. It blows my mind that My Father’s Place was booking many legendary acts out on LI. |
It was an extraordinary time, amazing, historic music could be regularly experienced for less than 10 bucks! Here's an example. I caught a group; Winters Consort (the band that fathered Oregon!), who played 2nd to Procol Harum at the the Fillmore East. Instantly became a fan so when they headlined at My Fathers Place I was there! It was the middle of the week and a not-famous band so the joint was maybe 1/4-1/3 full! I'm sittin' there (by myself as none of my friends were interested) with my feet up on the chair in front of me, about 10-15 feet from the stage and the opening act struts out. Some skinny guy with a goatee from Jersey that nobody ever heard of proceeds to blow the roof off the club! One of the most dynamic shows I've EVER seen! Literally within months Bruce Springsteen & E St. would be on the covers of all the major mags of the day! Good times!!!;) |
2 clubs from that era come to mind that, for me, were equally as prolific at booking the amazing bands of the day. So many of these bands went on to play stadiums so seeing them in such close quarters was special. One notch level down class-wise was the Rockpile in Island Park, L.I. the place was basically a warehouse painted black inside, a real dump. Saw many great name bands there, and had tons of fun! A notch above MFP class-wise was The Bottom Line. Lots of times, bands like Tower Of Power that did bus-tours would play the Bottom Line AND My Fathers Place. There's a reason why I saw TOP over a dozen times!;) |
