Here’s a YouTube video clip that I’m really surprised I didn’t see until recently.<\/p>\n
Back in the mid-late 80’s, there was a pretty vibrant music scene in San Jose, California. There were a lot of great bands in the area that were performing original music, and getting some decent-sized crowds – The Kingpins, Frontier Wives, Dot 3, The Shockwaves, A Western Front, A Cruel Hoax, Grey Matter, Social Club, the Endmen<\/strong>, and a lot of other great bands you’d probably never hear of if you weren’t from the area.<\/p>\n The Laundry Works<\/strong> was one of the earliest clubs to showcase these new bands, as well as bring in a lot of touring bands that were just starting to build up a larger national following- Chris Isaak, Firehouse, Camper Van Beethoven, the Meat Puppets, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper<\/strong>, and Jonathan Richman<\/strong>, to name a few. At the time, I was attending San Jose State, and running a small record label, which included some of the bands I brought to the Laundry Works. This was a place I was quite fond of.<\/p>\n The Laundry Works didn’t last long, but it left a lot of fond memories for the regulars that frequented this club. By mid-February 1987, the club was no more.<\/p>\n A few later, there was a reunion show that featured a handful of Laundry Works regulars over at the Oasis<\/strong> club, about 3 or 4 blocks away. I just found a YouTube clip from that reunion show featuring members of the various local bands that played at the Laundry Works.<\/p>\n Can you guess what song they did?<\/p>\n