Jay's Longhorn Bar

Jay's Longhorn Bar

The Longhorn is often considered the nexus of the punk scene in Minneapolis 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 legendary punk rock/hardcore punk venue. Bands that have played there include: Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, The Suburbs, the Suicide Commandos, The Hypstrz, Naked Raygun, The Effigies, The Ramones, Lili Tomlin, The Plasmatics, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, and many more. Before it was an established punk rock venue, the Longhorn hosted a thriving jazz scene. It was homebase for the progressive jazz group Natural Life and brought with it many national and international jazz acts.

Chris Osgood, singer/guitarist of the Suicide Commandos, said about the Longhorn in the July/August 2005 issue of Magnet Magazine: "The Longhorn was like CBGB 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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