- Jay's Longhorn Bar
The Longhorn is often considered the
nexus of the punk scene inMinneapolis and was located at 14 S. 5th Street in downtown Minneapolis. Originally owned by Jay Berine, it then changed hands to Hartley Frank, who changed the name to Zoogie's. The Longhorn became a legendarypunk rock /hardcore punk venue. Bands that have played there include:Hüsker Dü ,The Replacements ,The Suburbs , theSuicide Commandos ,The Hypstrz ,Naked Raygun ,The Effigies ,The Ramones ,Lili Tomlin ,The Plasmatics ,Talking Heads , Elvis Costello, and many more. Before it was an establishedpunk rock venue, the Longhorn hosted a thrivingjazz scene. It was homebase for the progressive jazz groupNatural Life and brought with it many national and international jazz acts.Chris Osgood , singer/guitarist of theSuicide Commandos , said about the Longhorn in the July/August 2005 issue ofMagnet Magazine : "The Longhorn was likeCBGB in that it was a long bar with a low ceiling and the band was up on a riser at one end of the room. It had been a Nino's Steakhouse before it turned into a bar, so it was not a dump, it didn't smell like piss and vomit like CBGB."External links
* [http://www.tcpunk.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000378.html TCPUNK forum thread on the Longhorn]
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