East Side Cafe

One of our next performances after Greenstreets was at the East Side Cafe on Greenville Ave north of Park Lane. It was a small place with concrete floors and a lot of glass. This was definitely a "live" venue. Bill Millet set this up and used his connections to get Time/Warner Cable for the cit of Dallas to tape the performance. Time Warner had a new remote truck and they needed to try it out. So, just a few months after starting out the Bomblets were being professionally taped. In addition to this Bill knew Mark OConnor the virtuoso violinist who also performed on with Spatz, Bill's band. 

We learned something at this performance. The audiences for bands and for comedy are completely different. Comedy audiences need to listen to get the jokes, band audiences can't hear anything during the show because the music is so loud, and they can't hear anything during the breaks because everyone is yelling after the loud music. 

We performed one set during the first break, and I think the twelve or thirteen people who could still hear enjoyed it, the other twoo hundred people all seemed to be ordering blender drinks at the same time. 

We bailed and went home after the first set. 

Thanks to Diana Galloway-OConnor (no relation to Mark) who jogged my memory.