{"id":1335,"date":"2008-11-12T23:47:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:48:47","slug":"celebrity-hangout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Hangout"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Elvis<\/a>

Elvis Costello Ticket<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the numerous fun aspects of the early Scorgie’s days, and the music scene in Rochester at that time, was that the whole new music trend really had not caught on yet.\u00a0 There was a small dedicated group that went to the club to listen to the custom stocked juke box and drink Bass Ale on tap.\u00a0 It was like a hidden secret clubhouse for a short while.\u00a0 So it was not uncommon to run into celebrities there, or invite them to drop by.<\/p>\n

One night worth mentioning was after seeing Elvis Costello perform at the Auditorium Theatre in early 1979.\u00a0 A few of us knew where he was staying and stopped by the hotel lounge after the show (thanks to John Pusateri, a man in the know!).\u00a0 We told him we’d love for him to stop by Scorgie’s where he would probably not even be recognized and have a drink, listen to the tunes and hang out.\u00a0 So, well, he did just walk over to Scorgie’s with a small entourage, came in the door and went quickly downstairs.\u00a0 They ordered drinks, sitting at a table conversing amongst themselves.\u00a0 Elvis was quickly recognized and people started commenting and asking for his autograph.\u00a0 He was not thrilled about this (actually somewhat annoyed by the attention) and pushed people off with a simple “f*** you.”\u00a0\u00a0 The people near me complained that he was being rude.\u00a0 I said, “I bet you $10 I can get his autograph.”\u00a0 I was dared to do it.\u00a0 So I walked up to him and told him I bet someone ten bucks that I could get his autograph.\u00a0 He calmly responded, “f*** them” and graciously signed my ticket stub from the show.\u00a0 Then he went back to his conversation and hung out for a while longer.\u00a0 I went back to my table with the autograph, got my $10 and enjoyed another drink or two.<\/p>\n

Later that year I walked into Scorgie’s with some of the members of Devo under similar circumstances.\u00a0 Of course no one recognzed them without the yellow paper suits . . .<\/p>\n

\"Ticket<\/a>

Ticket Back with Elvis' Autograph<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the numerous fun aspects of the early Scorgie’s days, and the music scene in Rochester at that time, was that the whole new music trend really had not caught on yet.\u00a0 There was a small dedicated group that went to the club to listen to the custom stocked juke box and drink Bass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}