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I got this in the mail. I think it's going to be in a book on "The Eighties" (No Nancy, the ninetine eighties!) It's me and Julian Schnabel at the Palladium, 1985. This is Messy Bonie Raitt's grandmother.

In case you were wondering.

Sounds like fun, Daddy. Too bad I wasn't born yet.

It was fun-- when Emerson, Lake & Palmer played there!

OK the Palladium, before it became a glitz pallace it did have some great rock shows. Like Nick Lowe or The Plasmatics One night Wendy O blasted the hood off a White Caddy and almost took out the people in the first five rows when it landed in "way" the wrong place. It being punk times they loved it and screamed for more. Needless to say Wendy never quite topped that moment. Wendy did come back and do the buzz saw act in the Mike Todd room but it was just not the same. She did shock some of...

She also did that show at Jackie 60. Only at Jackie there was a "pee" element that mixed with hardened raw eggs still smells to this day I'm sure. I tried bleach, everything. I just could not get that pee smell out.

I know I said that I never liked The Palladium but that's not really true. I didn't like the "trying to pretend it's Studio 54" thing that permiated the first year or so. The Steve & Ian "VIP room to nowhere" sort of thing. (If it wasn't for Haoui Montaug running the door it would have been a TOTAL nightmare) but... I DJ'd there for many years and have to say there were some brilliant things about the place too. The tech for instance -lights, video, staging etc. was the best I've ever...

Ah yes, the Lambada! I also remember that puzzling Voice ad, searching for "Lambada Bartenders!" Jayne County was just reminding me the other night about Gabriel Rotello's stint in the Mike Todd Room, Anita Sarko, and the night I did a dance on a table, wearing an orange micro-mini with matching cape, with-- Steve Rubell. The table collapsed, and so did we.

Back in the day (1991-ish) for a while I frequented the Palladium on Tuesday nights for the Love Machine. It was really fun. Lahoma Van Zandt was the hostess and she used to fall down all the time. She was anorexic-thin and sometimes she smelled kinda funky. I also think Lee Chappell was involved somehow also, I don't remember who the DJ was but it was someone famous I think. Girlina was one of the drag regulars and there was some queen who would show up in Queen Elizabeth the First drag.

I remember the Palladium having alot of great art. I can't remember when but they had this big Keith Haring backdrop and some other art on the back wall. One time this guy in silver body paint was sitting against this painting and when he left there were silver hand prints all over it. I also remember the Love Machine tuesday night party, I think this was after the union square place closed. They had a room downstairs right next to the men's bathroom that I remember being in one night, small...

I was pushing my son in his stroller past the Palladium (site) yesterday...and ended up telling him about the club..(poor tyke is only 2 and is probably damaged for life with Mommies tales already).... cos i think it was a great time for me there... 1991, I had JUST arrived in NYC.. my first wk here (sent here by my job) didn't know ONE person here, had never even been here before.. first wk in, i was telephoned by Kelly Cuttrone (remember her! Where is she now) inviting me to a party (i was...

Anyone remember the "right to resist" concert at palladium circa 1988?They had groups like de la soul and that poet singer who sang"you wanna suck my pussy,you wanna suck my dick" Whats her name??It was a three day 24/7 concert ,keith harring did the artwork for the poster.I spent two days backstage where there was open bar and buffet food for the whole time.I know it all sounds like a pipe dream but I was really there.....really!I think it's disgusting what they've done with that space.What...

Against all odds - Palladium was undeniably fun. No one believed it could be hip - it was just too big, but somehow it all pulled together. I saw some great shows there: Gwen Guthrie, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, El Grand Combo, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Joyce Sims, even Vanity 6! Sister Dimemsia DJ-ing in the Michael Todd Room. I used to wonder just how much extra insurance the club had to carry to have banks of televisions on hydraulic lifts spinning over the dancer's heads. The art...

I did TECH there for 2 yrs. That was a spooky space. as tech... we climbed all the time . there were places where nobody had been for 40 yrs. The staff were great... the mangament were royal ASSHOLES. No free drinks, no free friends on the guest list. it was like the nazi's running the whole thing right into the ground. Before it became "a club" i saw susie and the banshies,new yrs eve. with "the dolls" and many other bands. The club though will always get my upmost respect in the TECH...

What a great topic. I just re-read it. I don't know if I agree with you nite porter, I think the best shows ever in Mike Todd were the nights that Tom Cruise used to go in that back tech room with his yuppie boy friends and... Oh, gotta go.

"You wanna suck my pussy...well let me suck your dick...suck your dick bastard bitch...ohhh i wanna put my winner in yer ass." Lyric's by the 1 and only "Karen Fenley" Please don't forget another piece by her.... I went to the art world and nothin happened...i quit drinking and smoking and nothin happened..i went to the Tunnel and palladium and nothin happened..ect ect. Yuppie......bla bla bla i'm not gonna let you GANGRAPE me anymore! (in her loudest shill) I love Karen and i thought she...

Was that the same Harry Kipper that married Bette Midler?

could be and i wouldn't doubt it !i worked "a corp. party" show of hers(bette) at the bank of america on ???? fuck if i remember now ??? but she was " a case in point" and i can see where the 2 may have found some connection. Married...that's scary ! i remember 1 steady dj during that time was "glen fresia" (spelling wrong,dj right) who wasn't a prick. lahoma..... was a peach..c'mon. sitting on that stool at the door with so much make on "mary kay" couldn't keep up the supplies to the east...

Now an NYU dormitory, it was once a fun, creative, lively place full of young people.(I actually never liked it)

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Palladium opening night was a zoo. 1984 or 1985 if i remember Jerry Rubin did his wednesday networing parties there after he stopped them at the Fleishman owned studio 54 . . also remembr a big Grammy pre party there around 1992.. model agencies did some christmas parties there in the VIP area MTV did its corporate christmas party there once or twice, which we crashed. fun days. Always did the Michael Todd room. became a necessity when the place turned bridge and tunel.

Networking parties, Model agency parties, Corporate parties and Yuppies... The Palladium was the beginning of the end of New York Night life. When Chi Chi walked into the club on the opening night she just looked around and said, "This is a temple of shit".

s.c.

Ooooh the little lady!

I had the same thought as Chi Chi.