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[MikeyWretch]

there was still and upstairs...anyone remember that?

def saw more upstairs shows than downstairs shows.

Jeremi, He means like upstairs from the upstairs.

I never saw a show up there but well I thought thats where Corey stashed all the money he made off local bands.

[joe.distort]

i saw waaaaay too many shows to list there, but it is where the first two shows i booked/worked with were, ETA and VITAMIN X in 2001. i had already been going for 6 years at that point. my old crew pretty much grew up there and were there almost every weekend for one stretch.

also this asshole kid i went to school with took some ecstasy and then ran over a cop there.

i smoked FYP out in the parking lot

i could literally write pages about stuff that happened there

[jeremx]

Jeremi, He means like upstairs from the upstairs.

I never saw a show up there but well I thought thats where Corey stashed all the money he made off local bands.

ah.. yeah, the loft where corey lived and bands crashed apparently. at least that's what i heard of it. touched my first boobie at a crash worship show there. and developed scrotal swelling at that blink show i mentioned. but that's a story for a different day.

[MikeyWretch]

touched my first boobie at a crash worship show there.

Like just one boob? You didnt get both?

[jeremx]

touched my first boobie at a crash worship show there.

Like just one boob? You didnt get both?

actually.. it was both. and she had dreads.. blech.. i sure didn't seem to care at the time though.. ha ha

[joe.distort]

hahahahaha, i saw (but actually turned down touching) my first single boob at the nile. this trainhopper punk was trying to basically whore his lady out at me and he pulled one side of her shirt down and she licked my mouth. she stank. i was 14. i bailed. then when Propagandhi played i saw my next sets of naked tits, and lots of punk penis as a bunch of people took their clothes off.

ahhhh memories

[MikeyWretch]

All this talk of boobs and penis make me think of EROTICIDE! that got that sucker closed. hahahahah Am I right or making this up?

[unluckycharm]

I was banned from there (well the band was, actually).

However, I did see an early incarnation of Marilyn Manson there. I was thinking, "hey, this guy is stealing Alice Cooper's schtick."

[jeremx]

All this talk of boobs and penis make me think of EROTICIDE! that got that sucker closed. hahahahah Am I right or making this up?

i don't know if they were the final nail or not but they were a few of many.. at that crash worship show, everyone got kicked out and the band was performing in the alley and parking lot. fire trucks and cops swarmed the area and there was a chopper overhead telling everyone to disperse.. good times.. great oldies.

[joe.distort]

that locust show was new years day, with I AM SPOONBENDER too! pearson punched one of those assholes throwing muffins right in the face during their last song. probably the most fun LOCUST show, and somehow the only time i saw LE SHOK?

and i think EROTICIDE caused the eventual loss of the liquor license from the violations, which led to the closure/renovation. at the end it seemed it just kind of petered out. i dont know what killed it for real.

[Coward Crutch]

I was at that Locust/LeShok show. Saw Andrew Wk in that basement, maybe best show ever....

[P xDITIx]

"The Nile Basement will reopen as "The Underground" on February 19, 2010"

"starting on November 19th bands will start to grace the stage of the Nile basement once again."

I am sure the place needs to be fixed up a little but what's the hold up?

[IQ32]

The hold up is a typo.

[capharnaum]

i believe i saw kid dynamite/buried alive/earth crisis downstairs
and a bunch of other shows that i cant remember

the first gig i saw upstairs though was dinosaur jr in '94
way before they remodeled.
i remember murder city devils was very memorable too