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Wednesday, August 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Live music popular with disco dropouts
Bv GREGG HEJNA
Staff Writer
Long before the current disco craze, there was a form of entertainment known as live rock.
Although the number of places featuring live music is declining in this age of computerized dance floors, there are still places in Lawrence to hear and even dance to live
This dwindling number of clubs was put further toward possible extinction with the summer fire at the Yuk Down, 925 Iowa. The fire, which left the club with more than $125,000 worth of damage, leaves a question mark hanging over the Yuk's future.
The new club is actually an old club with a new face, the Hawk's Nest in the Student
THEER ARE now two clubs in the
country featuring live music with a third scheduled.
The Hawk's Nest was planned originally as a disco, but an already overcrowded market led the SUA to consider other ideas the Hawk's Nest, Mike Miller of SUA said.
When the club opened last spring, it experienced some initial success with a free admission policy. However, later in the season, the club was forced by Hawk's Nest was open on an erratic basis.
MILLER SAID that all of these problems are behind them now and the club will open on a regular basis every Friday and Saturday starting with orientation week.
In an effort to get people acquainted with the Hawk's Nest, there will be free admission to the club Aug. 19, 21 and 29. After that admission will be $1.
While Miller couldn't say who would be performing at the Hawk's Nest, he did say that they would be booking "some very popular local bands."
Miller described the new look of the club as "clean and tight but not sterile."
"We'RE GOING to be avoiding trendy, period things," she says. "We're staying at a stay away from the kind of type of wear of one of your friends."
Natural woods, plants, butcher block tables and special lighting will give the Hawk's Nest a subdued, pleasant effect, as well as adding volume. It will also be plenty of room for dancing.
One of the advantages of the Hawk's Nest
will be its use of the Trail Room in conjunction with the club. The Trail Room will pastell desserts and ice cream and will also serve well as the even present beer and popcorn.
Many of the same groups appearing at
Off The Wall Hall, 757, New Hampshire.
THE CLUB, which has been featuring individual artists as well as bands this summer, will be showcasing some of the top local talent this fall.
There is a cover charge ranging from $1.00 to $1.50. The club plans to bring in big some images in jazz, bluegrass and blues to Off the Wall.
Wednesday nights are jam sessions at the club and admission is free. Many local musicians play some of the best country and bluegrass to be heard in Lawrence.
There is open stage at Off the Wall on Thursday nights and anyone with the courage can participate. Everyone gets in free.
THE CLUB itself is a converted warehouse, and very little has been done to maintain it.
Seating is at long tables or in bleachers across from the stage. Comfort is not a high priority. The bar at the far end of the club serves a variety of bottle and draft beers.
Sound is the most serious problem in the club. Notes bounce around in the rafters and high ceiling of the club creating an echo that is very distressing and a barrier to those who listen.
The dance floor is large enough to be commoditate the dancing crowd and not push it.
PAUL GRAYS' Jazz Place, 926 Massachusetts, is stricty for listening, but who wants to dance to jazz anyway? The club offers some of the best in jazz and blues, and some very hot dixieland. In fact, it is the only club in Lawrence to offer this
The club is small and looks like someone's basement. The walls are covered with sheet music of songs that are more familiar to the older crowd than to students.
The crowd is a mixture of students, musicians or "townies" and represents a diversity of backgrounds.
*Thursday nights are free at Paul Gray's with Fridays and Saturdays costing a $2.00*
*per person.*
Club rules confound the amateur drinker
Stat laws vary, but in most cases, joining a private club requires both time and money. The extent to which the laws control its operations determines its designated by its classification.
According to an official at the Alcoholic Beverage Control in Topeks, if a club meets certain standards set by the Internal Revenue Service qualifying it as a non-profit organization, it can be classified as a class A club.
Class A clubs are allowed to fix their own membership fees, but the state does require annual renewal. No private clubs are issued charter (lifetime) memberships.
CLASS A clubs needn't have a waiting period before a business is put into offer.
In such cases where a waiting period is impractical, special memberships, effective immediately but only for the length of the visitor's stay, can be arranged.
The state requires a 10-day waiting period following application for membership to a class B club before the membership is official. Exceptions to the rule are clubs that are part of a hotel or hotel where most of the business comes from travelers.
Though class A clubs are able to set their own membership fees, class B clubs are required to charge a standard $10 rate for a one-year membership. Again, reduced fees are charged to overnight guests for their temporary memberships.
ACCOUNDING TO THE beverage club official, until a few years ago class B clubs were available.
system. Now, though some clubs still operate on a smaller scale, we become more aware of Kuala Lumpur's cultural identity.
With the money a member places in the liquor pool, the private club makes the liquor purchase through a retailer acting as the member's buyer. The private club doesn't merely provide a setting where the consumption of liquor, not its purchase, is legal.
The money paid to the bartender or waitress pays for the mix and other such considerations such as overhead and labor—but not for the alcohol itself. That comes out of the liquor pool which, when depleted, must be replenished.
Because it would be unwise to expect an over-night guest at a motel bar to down $5 worth of liquor in his stay, the hotel would normally hire a person who is normally reduced in such instances.
MEMBERSHIP FEES, liquor pool systems and waiting periods vary among the states.
The Eldridge Disco at 7th and Massachusetts charges $1 a year for membership. It requires a $3 initial liquor fee and costs out-of-state guests of the Eldridge Hotel.
The Carriage Lamp in the Malls Shopping Center on W. 23rd, is also a class A club. It charges $2 for a year's membership and has a 10 day wait period.
The Sirion Club and Restaurant is divided into two sections. One, for non-members, serves only 4.2 beer; the other, members, serves drinks along with the meal.
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