Music... I Listened to Some

buggravy said:
What was the name of your coffee bar? I'm a music business refugee, and it all started in a studio around Lankershim and Magnolia in 1998. Wonder if I ever made my way into your spot.
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I don't know if 1998 was a typo, and should be 1988? Anyway, my place was Eagles Coffee Pub. On Lankershim, just a bit north of Magnolia, across the alley from the dojo that was filmed as the Cobra Kai dojo in the original Karate Kid movie. Lots of studios around there. The Weir Brothers had a studio a bit south on Lankershim. One on One Recording was a bit north on Lankershim, and has quite the history. Explains why Angelo (from Fishbone) and Steve Perry (from Journey) among many others were also regulars at my place at certain periods of time. Seems likely this is the studio you might've been involved with. It changed ownership over the years, but has remained active to recent times other than an extended closure during the pandemic period. My coffee bar would've been closed by 1998. See link for some history on the recording studio:

One on One Recording
 
Runs with Scissors said:
Oh come now!!! You missed "...no one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun..."

Pink Floyd. "Time."
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I have never missed that line from my favorite Pink Floyd song of all time. It has been stalking me since I was 12. Like Picard said .. time is a journey, not a stalker. Or some paraphrased quote that I am too lazy to look up. :Roflmao
 
JimN said:
I don't know if 1998 was a typo, and should be 1988? Anyway, my place was Eagles Coffee Pub. On Lankershim, just a bit north of Magnolia, across the alley from the dojo that was filmed as the Cobra Kai dojo in the original Karate Kid movie. Lots of studios around there. The Weir Brothers had a studio a bit south on Lankershim. One on One Recording was a bit north on Lankershim, and has quite the history. Explains why Angelo (from Fishbone) and Steve Perry (from Journey) among many others were also regulars at my place at certain periods of time. Seems likely this is the studio you might've been involved with. It changed ownership over the years, but has remained active to recent times other than an extended closure during the pandemic period. My coffee bar would've been closed by 1998. See link for some history on the recording studio:

One on One Recording
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Nah, 1998 was correct. I'm definitely familiar with One on One, but the studio I was at was called NRG, on Weddington between Lankershim and Vineland. https://www.nrgrecording.com/ Across the street from what I think was Drum Dr and Mates Rehearsal. I think that street has been largely swallowed up by apartment buildings, but NRG still exists. At the time it didn't have the history of a One on One, but became the go to place for the late nineties early 2000s modern rock bands.
 
JimN said:
I don't know if 1998 was a typo, and should be 1988? Anyway, my place was Eagles Coffee Pub. On Lankershim, just a bit north of Magnolia, across the alley from the dojo that was filmed as the Cobra Kai dojo in the original Karate Kid movie. Lots of studios around there. The Weir Brothers had a studio a bit south on Lankershim. One on One Recording was a bit north on Lankershim, and has quite the history. Explains why Angelo (from Fishbone) and Steve Perry (from Journey) among many others were also regulars at my place at certain periods of time. Seems likely this is the studio you might've been involved with. It changed ownership over the years, but has remained active to recent times other than an extended closure during the pandemic period. My coffee bar would've been closed by 1998. See link for some history on the recording studio:

One on One Recording
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The original location for the Smell was on Lankershim. Years later my wife's hair stylist bought the shop and it was used for filming in the American version of Shameless. The Smell was right next to a really busy coffee shop, I wonder if that was you.
They had some pretty good shows before relocating to down town, I want to say, Los Cincos, D+, Murder City Devils, Men's recovery project...
 
Sasquatch9billion said:
The original location for the Smell was on Lankershim. Years later my wife's hair stylist bought the shop and it was used for filming in the American version of Shameless. The Smell was right next to a really busy coffee shop, I wonder if that was you.
They had some pretty good shows before relocating to down town, I want to say, Los Cincos, D+, Murder City Devils, Men's recovery project...
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My place would’ve been closed by the time The Smell opened, but it was in the same area of Lankershim and Magnolia.
 
JimN said:
My place would’ve been closed by the time The Smell opened, but it was in the same area of Lankershim and Magnolia.
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Another cool place in the neighborhood back during my time was The Iguana Cafe. Sort of a bookstore, coffee bar, and performance space. I knew the owners, and we would try to schedule things so as to not step on each other’s toes. Open mics on different nights. If either of us had a big draw performing, we would check to see that the other establishment didn’t also have something big happening. Tom at the Iguana was good friends with the folks from X and The Blasters, so you would often see Exene and company or Dave and Phil there hanging out there. I saw a really cool sorta experimental show there once with DJ Bonebrake (from X) on marimba and John Densmore (from The Doors) on drums. John Doe, Exene, and Dave Alvin were hanging out that night. Good memories.
 
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