Commodore Ballroom

Uh, the show got canceled partway through after the No Means No set because someone broke into an office, and so we got kicked out of the Legion before we got to hear Shovelhead.

Uh, after that I went to UBC and saw No Means No several times at the Commodore Ballroom.

Some of the things that, uh, stand out from my experiences at the Commodore with No Means No, other than they were the greatest nights of my life, um, I remember getting up to the front of the stage.

I was gonna do a stage dive, and, um, as you get to the front, and I'm just crawling onto the stage, and just as I'm standing up to turn around to jump into the crowd, the song ends.

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I'm wearing, like, Peace, Love and Dixie or something like that, and it's at the Commodore Ballroom, I wanna say, Vancouver.

And he looks over, and he just popped her right in the face.

And I was just like, "Woo." I mean, I hadn't seen...

And so you go in and you'd have your own bottle of whiskey or gin under your sleeve and everyone turned a blind eye and you would buy 7-Up or Ice.

The Commodore Ballroom was like this on Granville Street.

No liquor license.

I think it opened in 1930.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, great place.

Yeah, and by the late 60s, the Commodore Ballroom had a liquor license, the penthouse got a liquor license around then, so places, they were starting to chill out.

But certainly through the late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and almost all the 60s, if you wanted a drink in public, you had to go to a beer parlor.

Yeah, for sure.

And we, um, we also played at the Commodore Ballroom lots of times.

Cool.

And so it was a, it was a f- uh, it was a fun time, and it was, uh, uh...

You can find official ticket links right now on differentstagesradio.com. Don't miss Stickman.

And then a week later at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, Live Nation presents Sleep.

And if you're not aware, we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Sleep.

So don't snooze on Sleep.

How about that? The Invisible Orange presents Elder, September the 21st at the Rickshaw Theater.

And then a few days later, five days later, the Invisible Orange present Ensephirum with Firewind featuring Gus G at the Wise Hall in Vancouver.

Once again, official ticket links can be found on differentstagesradio.com. And then exactly a month later, on October the 26th, the Dillinger Escape Plan, doing some calculating infinity action at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, presented by Live Nation.

And if you haven't heard, we just announced today, the day that this show has been released, that we're going to be giving away a pair of tickets to see the Dillinger Escape Plan.

Uh, well, the very first band, I'll tell you, I mean, this is really interesting, uh, that, because we seen on TV the very first band that got there were The Ramones.

Okay? And they played the Commodore Ballroom, and the ads for the first album were really weird.

It was like, "The most unusual record in six years," and we're going like, "Huh, what does that mean?" And we got the record, like, D- my old buddy Jim White, rest his soul, got the record and we went, "Wow, this is incredible," 'cause the music was so different and the lyrics were so different.

Like, it wasn't anything, you know, 'cause, like, at that time rock and roll had become kind of corporate.

Disco was massive.

So then when R- Ramones came.

Now, the thing is they hadn't caught on yet, so interesting thing, they played this Commodore Ballroom, hold about 1,000 people in Vancouver, and I guess only a few tickets had sold, so Drew, who owned the place, made the show free.

You know, 'cause at, at least he, he could pay the band and get the money from selling, selling us beer, right? You know, we went...