{"id":617,"date":"2008-09-29T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2024-01-30T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:02:17","slug":"scorgies-reopens-in-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Scorgies Reopens in 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy and the drinking age swooped in to finish off the Scorgies music scene in 1985. It came back after a 5 year hiatus. But things were never quite the same as the crowds moved to DJ-controlled dance floors. Remember the club where Dinosauer BBQ is now? Here&#8217;s the article that appeared when Scorgies reopened:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_618\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorgies.comm\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scorgie1990.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[617]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-618\" title=\"donscorgie1990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorgies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scorgie1990-284x450.jpg\" alt=\"Don Scorgie 1990\" width=\"284\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Scorgie says he&#39;s returning to live music because &quot;I just enjoy it.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hip Scorgie&#8217;s is Back in the Live Music Scene<\/strong><br \/>\nBy KAREN KRENIS<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\" align=\"left\"><em>Anyone who cared about live rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll in the early &#8217;80s cared about         Scorgie&#8217;s, Rochester&#8217;s hippest, most daring venue for new music. Long before most listeners had tuned in to the Bangles, 10,000 Maniacs, the         Go-Gos and the Ramones, those bands were storming the stage at Scorgie&#8217;s. And even though slam-dancing was only allowed once, the rowdy club at 150 Andrews St. is always remembered fondly as Rochester&#8217;s post-punk         musical outpost&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Whatever Happened To ... Scorgie's?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/lifestyle\/2013\/12\/27\/whatever-happened-to-scorgies-\/4223787\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated article by scribe Alan Morrell, click here to read<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy and the drinking age swooped in to finish off the Scorgies music scene in 1985. It came back after a 5 year hiatus. But things were never quite the same as the crowds moved to DJ-controlled dance floors. Remember the club where Dinosauer BBQ is now? Here&#8217;s the article that appeared when Scorgies reopened: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}