I guess if I really have a need to go out, I look at what's going on Boots & Saddle, or The Hangar, sometimes Metropolitan (but there is too much vagina there on almost every single night). I was a regular at Rawhide (Chelsea) and I miss it - no place else comes as close to the perfect alignment of what I like in a hangout, so I really don't hang out anymore here in New York. I still remember some crazy mix of droning industrial music with the live broadcast of the Kennedy assassination way in the background. Buried deep in the mix would be things like train crashes, metal against metal. More like what was then a new breed of punk rockers.Īnd the best music of any bar in L.A. Hard core, lots of tattoos, yes - but not really a leather-bar crowd. You could see people around the room but if you tried to walk straight toward them you were likely to run into a section of chain link fencing. The chain link was on the inside, forming dividers of sorts, and lit in clever ways. I guys at One Way were very hard core, tatted(before it was cool), intense and loved to fuck and get fucked (under the influence of some heavy duty drugs). It was in a really crappy neighborhood, but I loved going there as I was in my early 20s and my pick of all these MEN, not West Hollywood queens. If I remember, part of the bar had a chain link fence behind it. VERY cool music, heavy duty drugs and hot men that would go pretty far in a bar. I remember the ONE WAY bar in Silverlake,Ca in the 80s.
Anyone who's ever been there will tell you it was probably the best club they had ever been to. Tons of places in London too.but my all time favorite was Trade. Same for Houston.is the Brazos River Bottom still there? Go there now, the same 3-5 places are still there: JRs, the Village & the Round Up among them. The Oaklawn section of Dallas was hellatious fun 25 years ago. Used to be quite a few: Talk of the Town in White Plains, The Playroom in Yonkers.Millenium,Cheeks,The Silver Lining,The Bunkhouse in Long Island. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are NO gay clubs anywhere up there now. There were even clubs in Westchester & Nassau Counties back in the 80s. In NYC's outer boroughs: Flavors in Queens & whatever that club was in "Saturday Night Fever", which became a gay club years after the movie. NYC: The Ice Palace, The Saint, Stix, Uncle Charlie's ( I think there were 3 locations, the one in the Village was the best), Waterworks, Alex in Wonderland, The Anvil, Crisco Disco. It helped kill the gay scene that was already suffering from the straight tourist onslaught brought on by global marketing of the "new" South Beach. The gay scene there quickly evaporated after 9-11, since tourists stop visiting for like a year.
South Beach has become Latin fraustrollerland & hip hop clubs full of wanna be gangbangers from the worst parts of Miami. Miami Beach (South Beach): Warsaw, Salvation, Torpedo, Hombre, 836, Liquid, Amnesia. There are tons I can think of, from a number of cities.