You Got Your Membership Card ?

                                                             Was just having a great conversation with a very sweet man on Friday night at my sons 40th birthday party . The man in question was none other than the famous/infamous Aiden Kelly entrepreneur , D.J and all  round nice person . We were talking about music , more to the point funky music . You see I have always been a follower of anything funky , old funk new funk don't matter as long as its good funk , has always been my motto . And in Aiden I found a funk friend . We spoke about a lot of things , and then I started opening up about life in Dublin , especially Dublin's club life in the sixties and seventies and a whole plethera of nostalgia came out of my memory like some sort of exorcism .
                                                           Now as anyone who knows about these things will tell you , Dublin had a hive of club activity from the early sixties onwards . And to say it was a very tight scene would be  a gross understatement of fact . All of the clubs had their own little labels attached , which made for great competition to get patrons in the door . But it never really mattered , as most of the clubs had huge followings and a definite constant clientele .
Original Line up  With Phil Lynnot .
                                                          Most people wont remember it , but the first Apartment night club was in Middle Abbey Street beside the Oval Bar . Across the road there was the Boot In who catered for skinheads . If you ventured up and across O'Connell Street into Lower Abbey Street you would come upon a very famous club that will always have a very special place in my heart . It was simply called The Go Go , and it was there in 1966 I met my wonderful and beautiful wife Catherine .
                                                         The Go Go was a very serious club , at the time it was home to many serious D.J's , and even more importantly some very serious groups .Skid Row played there , with Brush Shiels , Noel Bridgeman , and Bernie Cheevers , later to be replaced on lead guitar by a very young 16 year old Gary Moore in 1969 . Oh I forgot to mention the vocalist , Phil Lynnot . How could I have forgotten him ? Alas later that year Phil was replaced as vocalist by Gary Moore . By way of a payback , Brush Shiels taught Phil how to play bass guitar . And as we all know Phil went on to form Thin Lizzy and the rest is history .
The Three Piece Skid Row !
                                                         Those were serious days when it came to music and night clubs , and I am not talking about big night clubs . I am talking about mostly basement clubs with that special jaded atmosphere and intimate settings . But these were the springboards for a lot of up and coming very talented musicians and songwriters .
                                                         I will conclude with a very memorable question an old friend of mine named John Sweeney

who just happened to be a bouncer in The Go Go used to say " You Got Your Membership Card " ?   
No need to examine or analyze me , I am Well Beyond That !

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