Cozmikdebris Member Username: Cozmikdebris
Post Number: 102 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 2:13 pm: | |
I have a tape from a March 1991 show at a place called "Key West Club." Does anyone know where exactly this place was located? I've never seen or heard of any other show at this venue. Thanks in advance for any help. |
Bongman Member Username: Bongman
Post Number: 1459 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 2:54 pm: | |
If this is supposed to be a Detroit area club...never heard of it. The show might be mislabeled...but I'm sure you've thought of that. Who is the artist ? |
Cozmikdebris Member Username: Cozmikdebris
Post Number: 103 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:07 pm: | |
Rory Gallagher. Every listing I've ever seen for this show (3-25-91) lists Key West or Key West Club. I figured it might be a case where a venue simply changed its name for a short period of time, like State Theater was Clubland in the 80s. Maybe it was Traxx. Where was Traxx? On 6 Mile? |
Bongman Member Username: Bongman
Post Number: 1460 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:18 pm: | |
6 & Gratiot |
Pffft Member Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1251 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:19 pm: | |
Yes it existed, in Detroit... |
Cozmikdebris Member Username: Cozmikdebris
Post Number: 104 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:24 pm: | |
I figured it existed. I'm looking to find out where in Detroit it was located. |
Pffft Member Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1252 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 3:26 pm: | |
I was offsetting Bongman's statement that it must be mislabeled. It definitely was here. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1187 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 5:39 pm: | |
There was a club on Greenfield, about Greenfield and Joy area, and I remember a tropical theme on the sign, maybe it was the Key West club--this memory goes back to the 80's though |
Detourdetroit Member Username: Detourdetroit
Post Number: 285 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 5:51 pm: | |
wasn't there a place south of EG Boulevard on like the NW corner of Milwaukee and Brush or something like that??? |
6nois Member Username: 6nois
Post Number: 139 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 10:57 pm: | |
Okay I know this isn't much help but I was driving the other day and I saw a sign for the Key West Club. I don't remember where it was I wanna say it was around six mile and Southfield. But I don't remember. |
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44
Post Number: 100 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 2:19 pm: | |
There was a club on Milwaukee and it was something like the Tropic Lounge or Tropicana Lounge. Traxx was on the corner of Linnhurst and Gratiot also known as J. C.'s in the 80's. There was a Baha Beach Club on the river downtown that was an old boat of some sort. It had 2 floors to it. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3912 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 5:36 pm: | |
The club on MIlwaukee was the Latin Quarter... |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 3238 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 5:46 pm: | |
I thought Bongman had it right, although I'd treat Bongman's recollections with a high level of suspicion. Isn't it on the west side of Gratiot south of McNichols? Painted black and powder blue? |
Cozmikdebris Member Username: Cozmikdebris
Post Number: 105 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 8:39 pm: | |
I asked Jim at Record Graveyard and he is pretty certain Traxx was never called Key West Club. Wherever this place was, they must not have been able to make a go of it for long. Rory Gallagher was a fairly well known artist in the '70s. I saw him play the Royal Oak Theater in Nov '76, and he opened for Rush at Joe Louis in '82. From the mid-'80s onward he was playing smaller venues, at least here. He appeared at Harpo's in 1985, and the '91 date at Key West was his final Detroit appearance; he died in '94 or '95 of liver failure. |
Gtat44 Member Username: Gtat44
Post Number: 103 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 3:13 pm: | |
The Latin Quarter was on E. Grand Blvd, south side of the street a few doors down from the Firestone store. It was an old theater. |
Leob Member Username: Leob
Post Number: 87 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 3:46 pm: | |
There was, I believe, a place called The Key West on w. 6 mile, 1 blk. west of Telegraph, next 2 what used to be the West Side Six and later the Silverbird lounge. The time frame is right, late 80's early 90's. The Six and Silverbird (www.motorcityrock.com) offered rock cover bands until the mid-80's. The Key West as I recall was kind of a "danceable" top-40 joint. The building had a lighthouse tower attached. It was a church last I looked. LeoB |