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Booking bands like the Black Angels, the Head and the Heart, Fleet Foxes, the Cave Singers, and Das Racist before they hit it big.
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Faust (complete with cement mixer and chain saw, and a nice pinch in the ass from band leader Jean-Hervé Péron).Monotonix leading a parade outside the Comet, during their show, to Broadway and back, bass drum on fire.I told them how lame they were for not even being able to sneak into a Black Flag covers night properly! Later, Nat Damm told me how hilarious it was to see me running all over the Comet showroom after these kids, that it had reminded him of a farmer chasing pigs in a pigpen! I laughed and told them how when I was 17, I snuck into the Channel club in Boston and hid in a crawl space over the toilets for three hours so I could see the real Black Flag and had gotten away with it. We managed to get them outside in a few minutes, where they started pointing and screaming "bitch" at me.
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I let one of the door guys know, and he and I ran into the crowd, grabbing these kids. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a couple of underage skate rats jump through the open window and creep into the crowd. The sound person was not at his perch, but helping the band onstage. The Comet was probably 100 people over capacity, and it was a very warm evening, so the window behind the soundboard was open. I know I am forgetting so many highlights-this is just off the top of my head: September 11, 2009, Akimbo performed a Black Flag tribute night with Tad and Black Elk. MAMMA CASSEROLE (Comet booker Michelle Smith): I wish I had kept a diary. To pay our respects, or lack thereof, to the old Comet Tavern, Stranger writers, musicians, and notables around town vomit up their good, bad, and grimy old Comet stories. Will you get a staph infection from the toilet seats? Probably not. Live music will still happen, but on a scaled-back schedule. They plan to reopen the new Comet at the end of March, spiffed-up and clean, and, for the first time in the Comet's history, with a food menu. The following month, it was announced that Lost Lake partners Dave Meinert and Jason Lajeunesse had taken over the lease. The sad and strange saga came to an end when the owner secretly removed the sound system and other items of value from the venue and changed the locks, leaving the corner dark for the first time anyone could remember. Rumors of water bill and lease issues swirled, followed by more serious (and accurate) discoveries that the Comet's owner was having serious financial troubles. Then, out of the blue, on October 2, 2013, the Comet shut its doors. Love it or hate it, the Comet, which weathered well over 60 years on 10th and Pike, seemed as much a fixture as the Pike/Pine corridor itself. A place where tales of drugs, drunks, and debauchery were never in short supply. A place where a hazmat suit should have been provided before entering the bathrooms. A place to start your night with a shot of whiskey with a couple grizzled regulars. The ol' graffiti pit was there for the worst bands you've ever seen, the best bands you couldn't believe were playing there, your first show, your fiftieth show.