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New statue honoring Dave Grohl unveiled outside The Atlantis
Last edited Wed May 31, 2023, 09:33 AM - Edit history (1)
Yes,
@TheAtlantisDC
DOES have the pole and crows nest like the original
@930Club
-- but it's in a less-obtrusive place. And the stage is off-center, like the club on F St.
@TheAtlantisDC
DOES have the pole and crows nest like the original
@930Club
-- but it's in a less-obtrusive place. And the stage is off-center, like the club on F St.
Link to tweet
New statue honoring Dave Grohl unveiled outside
@TheAtlantisDC
. It’ll live at
@TheAnthemDC
.
@TheAtlantisDC
. It’ll live at
@TheAnthemDC
.
Link to tweet
Dave Grohl of
@foofighters
and Seth Hurwitz, owner of
@TheAtlantisDC
@930Club
at opening of new club that evokes original 930 on F St
@foofighters
and Seth Hurwitz, owner of
@TheAtlantisDC
@930Club
at opening of new club that evokes original 930 on F St
Link to tweet
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PHOTOS: The Atlantis opens in DC, evoking memories of DC’s punk past
May 30, 2023
David Andrews | david.andrews@wtop.com
May 30, 2023, 5:06 PM
“What if I say you’re not like the others?” Dave Grohl mused in the Foo Fighters’ Grammy-winning hit “The Pretender” in 2007. ... Grohl was in D.C. on Tuesday morning along with Mayor Muriel Bowser to cut the ribbon — or rather, guitar string — for the official opening for The Atlantis, a new music venue opening tonight in Northwest.
The new concert locale is sure to be unlike the others. For one, it is a nod in appearance and namesake to the original venue that lived at 930 F St. NW, from 1977 until 1979, before the old Atlantic Building there became the first iteration of the 9:30 Club. ... “F Street back then was a little sketchy, that made it an adventure,” said Seth Hurwitz, chairman of IMP, which owns the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis, and operates the Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion. ... Hurwitz was also on hand to cut the ceremonial guitar string with giant golden scissors on Tuesday morning.
“I know for so many people, especially the young, coming to punk shows, it was an actual rite of passage to walk down that long, 106-foot hallway,” said Dodi Disanto, who opened the first 9:30 Club with her husband Jon Bowers on May 31, 1980; exactly 43 years and one day before today’s Atlantis opening.
The “ribbon cutting,” which was actually a guitar string cutting to officially open The Atlantis. The ceremony featured Mayor Muriel Bowser, musician Dave Grohl, Seth Hurwitz, who is chairman of I.M.P. and owner of The Atlantis, the 9:30 Club, and The Anthem, and operator of Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion. (WTOP/Michelle Goldchain)
{snip}
WTOP’s Neal Augenstein and Michelle Goldchain contributed to this reporting.
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May 30, 2023
David Andrews | david.andrews@wtop.com
May 30, 2023, 5:06 PM
“What if I say you’re not like the others?” Dave Grohl mused in the Foo Fighters’ Grammy-winning hit “The Pretender” in 2007. ... Grohl was in D.C. on Tuesday morning along with Mayor Muriel Bowser to cut the ribbon — or rather, guitar string — for the official opening for The Atlantis, a new music venue opening tonight in Northwest.
The new concert locale is sure to be unlike the others. For one, it is a nod in appearance and namesake to the original venue that lived at 930 F St. NW, from 1977 until 1979, before the old Atlantic Building there became the first iteration of the 9:30 Club. ... “F Street back then was a little sketchy, that made it an adventure,” said Seth Hurwitz, chairman of IMP, which owns the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis, and operates the Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion. ... Hurwitz was also on hand to cut the ceremonial guitar string with giant golden scissors on Tuesday morning.
“I know for so many people, especially the young, coming to punk shows, it was an actual rite of passage to walk down that long, 106-foot hallway,” said Dodi Disanto, who opened the first 9:30 Club with her husband Jon Bowers on May 31, 1980; exactly 43 years and one day before today’s Atlantis opening.
The “ribbon cutting,” which was actually a guitar string cutting to officially open The Atlantis. The ceremony featured Mayor Muriel Bowser, musician Dave Grohl, Seth Hurwitz, who is chairman of I.M.P. and owner of The Atlantis, the 9:30 Club, and The Anthem, and operator of Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion. (WTOP/Michelle Goldchain)
{snip}
WTOP’s Neal Augenstein and Michelle Goldchain contributed to this reporting.
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