Best Underground Music Dive in History

[Taverner]

Oh and feel free to add your own. There are many.

[taterguy]

1. The Cave, Chapel Hill

To qualify the venue should be below street level.

[jonnyblitz]

4. The "Rat" (rathskellar) in Boston was below street level.

well, the music part of it was, the restaurant was upstairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rathskeller

[SecularMotion]

10. No Se No - Rivington St. Lower East Side NYC

Below street level

http://rivingtonschool.com/events.html

No rope line, just a guy at the door with a baseball bat to keep out the bums.

[hobbit709]

2. Where would I start here in Austin.

The One Knite
The Vulcan Gas Company
AWHQ
The Rome Inn
Soap Creek Saloon
The Split Rail
Spellmans

And these are just the first ones off the top of my head.

[charlie and algernon]

3. Bohemian Caverns, Washington, DC

The actual jazz club is below street level and the jazz giants all have played there.

[rug]

5. If you judge it by the toilet, CBGB's hands down.

[Taverner]

7. Aw man, that's CLASSIC

I almost think I should change my sig to that!

[rug]

8. You have to photoshop out that No Smoking sign.

Not that it did any good.

[Taverner]

6. I wonder how many of the "Cavern" voters bought the Beatles Box Set this week?

:rofl:

[Throd]

9. Al's Bar in Los Angeles

[Taverner]

11. Sounds interesting already - details?

[Captain Hilts]

12. I voted 'Cavern' but LOVE that Deborah Harry waited tables at Max's KC. nt

[madrchsod]

13. ash grove.....

[GOPisEvil]

14. I must mention the late, great Liberty Lunch in Austin.

RIP

[Moondog]

15. CBGB's

Not even close. In part because everyone knew it was a dive. Liverpool's The Cavern has the historical chops, but the problem is that in its day it was just a club, a haunt. People going there and playing there didn't know it was a dive until years after the fact.

[Tikki]

16. The Masque.....

http://www.myspace.com/themasque


Tikki

[lazyriver]

17. Either The Wetlands in NYC or The Stanhope House in NW NJ

[TheCoxwain]

18. SMOKE .... on Broadway in NYC

Broadway in NYC is not exactly 'Underground'


But being all the way on 92nd st. in NYC should put you in contention.

Great musicians you can watch for free.