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    10:25 Joe Henry, from California, via Facebook: "My best night in collaboration with the Jayhawks was a night at The Uptown ... freezing cold out, fur hats on stage ... pulled a drunken Dan Murphy on stage to sing happy birthday to him, but we launched into [Soul Asylum's] 'Cartoon' instead." 10:30 Chatter in the back booth turns to bulldozed-but-not-forgotten Twin Cities music landmarks Jay's Longhorn, The Prom Ballroom, Goofy's Upper Deck, Duffy's, etc. 10:31 The Tisdales kick off their set with a blistering kick drum-guitar combo as Hallett tells a friend, "The thing I'll miss most about this place is seeing Tommy Stinson play here every New Year's Eve." Full Article at MinnPost.com
    My best night in collaboration with the Jayhawks was a night at The Uptown ... freezing cold out, fur hats on stage ... pulled a drunken Dan Murphy on stage to sing happy birthday to him, but we launched into [Soul Asylum's] 'Cartoon' instead.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
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One (last) night at the Uptown
  1. It sucks that this will be replaced by another Victoria's Secret or something
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  2. Once this goes away, Hennepin and Lake is gonna look like the strip in St. Cloud, which has been the biggest hole in the world forever.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  3. This is the only bar I've ever been 86-ed from.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  4. We came here looking for guys with feathers in their caps ... We're a little disappointed. There's a distinct lack of hipsters here.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  5. I played on this stage more times than any other band in Minneapolis (with the Urban Guerillas). We were the first band, along with the Wallets, to be booked here as an alternative rock band.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  6. My first Uptown experience? We left the Alice Cooper concert on Halloween, 1987. Said, 'Let's go check out this Uptown thing.' Run Westy Run was playing. Kirk Johnson was swinging his mic around, and I got smashed in the face by it. I got a black eye from it, but at the end of the song he came over and ...
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  7. Balls to you daddy, I ain't never comin' back.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  8. I don't think Victoria's got as many good secrets as the people in this room.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago
  9. When I moved here in 1989, this was the place in town ... You could see the Cows and Freedy Johnston and the Gear Daddies and Babes In Toyland. No cover, great food, shitty sound. It was awesome.
    SOURCE: MinnPost.com 1 month ago

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