Reply #2: A little history--that's about an Albuquerque bar I played many times in the 90's

[abq e streeter]

it was called the Dingo Bar. I actually liked playing there. I was always treated fairly by the owner ( Miguel, not McGill) but of course , he WAS a bar owner, and I've met very few that weren't at least a little shady...He had a lot of different styles of music in there, including The Bellyachers. I was in blues bands at the time and as I said, played there often and it was my favorite place to play in town. The Bellyachers were "indie" rock, and I used to see many good local "indie" and punk bands there too besides blues...
And Miguel brought some great national shows there too, including Mose Allison. I was there for that. Also saw Nils Lofgren there, standing about 8 feet away from him. Good national-level blues guys like Tommy Castro and Anson Funderburgh too... I also remember Rick Derringer's band showing up on jam night and playing a whole set ...

I have no idea what happened that stood out to Greg Brown as being so horrible ( I 've played in infinitely smellier/ divier places ) but obviously he never played the REAL dives of ABQ if he thought the Dingo was a smelly pit.