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Originally Posted by Robbie
You're talking about "The Button South" My band used to play there all the time too! That place held around 3,000 people.
2 metal bands per night. HUGE house lightshow and PA system. Big load in dock backstage where we would back our 24 foot truck up and our roadies would unload the stage gear. 2 big ass dressing rooms also backstage: one for each band and each equipped with a refrigerator and showers. The first band started at 11 p.m. played 3 sets and then the second band would start and play 3 sets. Between the two bands you played until 6 a.m.
That was a fucking GREAT nightclub! Before it was The Button South it was formerly an "Agora Ball Room" rock club. Then "Crazy Greg" who owned the original "Button On The Beach" on the strip in Lauderdale bought the building and turned it into The Button South.
Holy fuck I had some crazy times playing that gig.
Here's another quick rock "god" gay story. One night I'm playing at The Button South and the security guys came running up while I'm on break yelling at me to follow them...so we all go out the back, and Yngwie Malmsteen is sucking a guys cock in the bushes behind the club! LOL!
He had played in concert at The Button South earlier in the night. I couldn't believe it! Security made him stop and took him in the club to the manager Gary Downs and he got chewed out. 
I could tell you guys a million stories from that club...including some very wild Greg Allman heroin stories...but I don't want to completely hijack the Ted Nugent thread. lol |
That's it.
That was a great club. Awesome space for live bands to perform. My favorite part was all the ramps they had instead of stairs so you wouldn't be trippin.
As you pointed out they were one of the few clubs that stayed open past 2:30 or so and the crowd would peak around 1:30 and fade a bit until everyone came in from all the other closed clubs and it would get a second wind.
I would come over from the Gulf Coast just to party there and one night I got a motel room just down the street and went on a beer run and almost drove into that overtown riot
I don't want to derail the thread either but did you ever play Art Stocks Playpen in Ft. Lauderdale? it was half rock and half disco connected by two short hallways. I pulled more wang dang sweet potang outta there than any place else and never once got cat scratch fever.