Post #67891 by Swanky on Tue, Jan 6, 2004 10:00 AM

I'm with you Alice. I was, and am, a scene hopper. There are the "life-stylers" who live it 24/7, but I can't do that either. I like too many things, and I like it when they get messed up together. Nelson Riddle Orchestra playing pop rock music. I recall being the one person who would go from the punk shows to the dance night in the 80's. It's hard to beleive the punk scene existed the way it did here in Knoxville. The shows were at Vic 'n' Bill's Deli. A sandwich shop with a large-ish dinning area. No stage. And who played the Deli? Circle Jerks, COC, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, The Mob, Suicidal Tendencies... Craziness. Then I'd go over to the dance night and they'd play a 15 minute set of "our music" which was everything from Cure to REM to Bauhaus. We were a distinct (and distinctive) minority in the club and you'd be severly harrassed just getting back to "our corner". The Stray Cats didn't play the Deli, they played down the street in 82 at a place that would make a trailer seem large. 80's rockabilly ala Stray Cats invoked Mousse. Whatever the show, Goth to Punk, I was there "in costume." And I called people posers in all of them!