It was blues giant John Lee Hooker on the line, inviting Andreas to come hang out with Hooker and the Rolling Stones' legendary lead guitarist. Richards adored the older bluesman, who died in 2001, and the feeling was mutual, Andreas said.
It was the early 1990s, and Alexander Andreas was a young bartender in San Francisco's Fillmore District when his hands-down, coolest customer called with an irresistible offer:"You wanna meet Keith Richards?"
A few years later, in 1997, Andreas and Hooker partnered to reopen Jack's Bar as"John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room." In the ensuing years, the club entertained -- and was entertained with spontaneous performances by -- Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Buddy Miles and a constellation of American blues and jazz legends.
Facing an existential threat, hundreds of the most iconic independent rock clubs in America have banded together to do the unthinkable in an industry forged on pride, risk, ingenuity and imagination. There's Washington D.C.'s treasured 9:30 Club, where the Foo Fighters played an epic surprise show in 2014, and New York's Bowery Ballroom, home to Patti Smith's fabled early-2000s monthly gigs.
"We're in dark times," acknowledged Michael Swier, owner of New York's Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge."The unknowns are just staggering."In March, Congress passed the CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program, a forgivable loan program for small businesses.
"And we know that they're going to get too big," she continued."They're going to go to arenas. They're going to be out of our reach. We do it because we love it.""She cut her teeth at First Avenue and at the Triple Rock Social Club," said Frank."I knew it the first time I saw her on stage. She was in [a trio] called The Chalice -- and you just saw her and you're like, 'Oh, this is like nothing I've ever seen before.
"We have something in action right now we're putting in legislative form and discussing with Congressional leadership," Kind said in an interview last week.
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