{"id":1507,"date":"2008-11-15T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2008-11-15T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T17:09:18","slug":"scorgies-one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Scorgie&#039;s: One of a kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh-\u00a0when Rochester\u00a0supported local\u00a0music.\u00a0 The yuppies had yet to\u00a0neuter the scene with\u00a0political-correctness.\u00a0 The government hadn&#8217;t excluded 18 &#8211; 20 year olds from alcohol consumption.\u00a0\u00a0Scorgie&#8217;s\u00a0sponsored a vibrant melange of hip local (New Math, Chesterfield Kings, Personal Effects, Cappy and the Frenchman) and national acts, Scorgie&#8217;s club\u00a0anchored the &#8220;new wave.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0I recall the\u00a0moths that basked in the glow emanating up the stairs to Andrews Street.\u00a0 The\u00a0epicenter for\u00a0Monroe County Bohemian chic; every night was Le Bal Masqu\u00e9, and<strong> <\/strong>Mardi Gras was perennial.<\/p>\n<p>One night as the Pesonal Effects\u00a0played, their guitar player lost footing and landed among the opening act&#8217;s drum hardware-off stage.\u00a0 He was mid-solo and never missed a note.<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion (Note: Don had no tolerance for the Pogo as it began its evolution to mosh pit) Don was personally evicting an over-zealous patron.\u00a0 The patron turned on Don and the two were locked up beneath an up-ended table.\u00a0 I offered a hand, and Don rewarded me with carte-blanche at the bar.<\/p>\n<p>It was in the upstairs dressing room that I discovered the Ramones secret energy booster: Jolt Cola hopped up with additional sugar.<\/p>\n<p>What a great era!\u00a0 Thanks Don.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh-\u00a0when Rochester\u00a0supported local\u00a0music.\u00a0 The yuppies had yet to\u00a0neuter the scene with\u00a0political-correctness.\u00a0 The government hadn&#8217;t excluded 18 &#8211; 20 year olds from alcohol consumption.\u00a0\u00a0Scorgie&#8217;s\u00a0sponsored a vibrant melange of hip local (New Math, Chesterfield Kings, Personal Effects, Cappy and the Frenchman) and national acts, Scorgie&#8217;s club\u00a0anchored the &#8220;new wave.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0I recall the\u00a0moths that basked in the glow emanating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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\/1507"}],"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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}