hot blooded vs cold blooded

O'Banion's booked Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, and Dead Kennedys. Clancy had hired a man named Everett Rogers as O'Banion's general manager—Fox worked under him, and tried to keep the bar from falling apart.

At first the punk scene coalesced around records and DJs, not shows—at the time, clubs booked mostly cover bands, and hardly any local punk bands existed yet anyway. I tell people it's because I think we wore leather better than their kids." Hopkins ruffled more feathers when he ditched the Greenleaf's name for Oz, shortly after La Mere burned down. Ramel-Hoeksema had been a scenester for a while before she arrived at La Mere—she'd even become friends with Roger Powell, the synth player in Todd Rundgren's band Utopia—but she didn't look the part. In August 1977, the Sex Pistols had already been signed and then dropped by a couple major labels in the UK, but they were yet to close their deal with Warner Brothers, which that November would release the U.S. version of their first and only proper album, "Or I quit. When his band, also called Skafish, opened for Sha Na Na at the Arie Crown Theater on February 4, 1977, they provoked boos and a hail of projectiles from the audience. "It bothered some of the straight people, because sometimes we'd be playing it—it was just a different vibe," says John Molini, another Sounds Good manager. In their short lives, O'Banion's and Oz hosted some of the most important early U.S. punk bands. "When that ended, it wasn't gonna be re-created—that crowd, the misfit crowd, the gay crowd, the transgender crowd, the 'we don't know who we are' crowd, migrated into those other clubs, but that energy became dissipated as the years went on," Skafish says. Before she'd started going to La Mere, she'd already made a habit of spending her free evenings at gay bars—she knew she wouldn't be harassed by straight men at the Bistro. In 1996, Ukrainian Village bar Club Foot began hosting annual O'Banion's reunions. Diagnosed with PTSD, the Chicago rapper wants to normalize therapy for people who’ve suffered like he has—and he’s giving away hundreds of sessions. Though he was surrounded by music at the time—he had a warehouse job with the M.S. Ellis and his friends first stopped into La Mere while club hopping on a night out. Late Bar draws goths, arty types and indie music fans with a playlist of punk, goth, rockabilly, soul, reggae and new independent releases.

Their trips usually included stops at La Mere at night. "Of course, we upset some—there was a divide in the community, because the majority of the bars and the majority of the queer community were in love with disco. "I don't think that there was ever gonna be any re-creating what happened at La Mere in terms of its club level," he says. Word that a gay bar was hosting a punk night reached Mary Alice Ramel-Hoeksema through a coworker at the downtown location of Rolling Stones Records. Rapchak had taken a liking to a divey gay bar called The club was so important to the emerging punk community that it was name-checked by Chicago's first punk fanzine, the Before it became Oz, the Greenleaf was the target of homophobic harassment frequently enough that Hopkins had to hire security. The Snake Pit drew an irreverent crowd of gay and straight people, including many artists and actors. Lynch had previously worked at the Bistro as the club's first female go-go dancer.

O'Banion's began regularly hosting live music in 1979. Ramel-Hoeksema had published the final

By 1976, Rivers had become an assistant manager at the shop, and as punk began to break out in the UK, Sounds Good started selling the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and other punk releases from both sides of the pond.

Exit was close enough to O'Banion's to draw away a lot of its customers, and it wasn't falling apart. The bar could hold around 250 people, and a New Year's Eve show with Naked Raygun, Strike Under, and the Effigies drew a bigger crowd than could fit inside. In his role as scene figurehead, Boudreau not only wrote for the "I put about 50 people in a one-bedroom with a galley kitchen—we were there for like four hours," Fox says.

"I don't know that I would have described myself that way, but in that setting that was very true. (She eventually worked her way up to president, managing the likes of Queen Latifah and De La Soul.)