It was bulldozed maybe ten years ago, some kind of office building was built where it stood.
But in its heyday, I saw performers like Dr. John, BB King, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Buddy Guy, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, and...
...a double bill of Merle and George.
They each performed for only 30 minutes or so. There was some drunken doofus in the audience who yelled "OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! OKEE FUMMA SKOGEE! " at the end of EVERY SONG. Naturally, Merle performed it last.
So at the end, this guy yelled "THANK YA, MERLE!"
The theater, as the name implied, had a small, round, revolving stage. Emmylou hated it and told the audience "YOU should be revolving, not me."
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