Remembering The Warehouse

 






It was a teenager’s rite of passage...

Something akin to a spiritual sacrament...

You didn’t have to grow up in New Orleans... 

But if you were a teenager, you probably went...


I’m talking about The Warehouse... 

Which defined our music scene...

You probably got high at The Warehouse... 

And we both know what I mean...


The list of bands who played there...

During a spectacular twelve year run... 

Gave a musical experience in New Orleans... 

To the groovy generation second to none...


It was at The Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas... 

Where we enjoyed our musical buffet...

If you saw these bands at The Warehouse... 

You were experienced, what can we say...


We saw the Grateful Dead...

And The Allman Brothers Band... 

Country Joe & The Fish...

And of course Manfred Mann...


It was certainly a time to remember... 

Now tell us who you saw before... 

The legendary Warehouse...

Finally closed its infamous door...


Grand Funk Railroad, Albert King, Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen, The Byrds, Richie Havens, Rare Earth, B.B. King, Chicago, Cat Stevens, Johnny Winter, Rod Stewart, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Little Feat, Steppenwolf, ZZ Top, Buddy Miles, Freddie King, Dr. John, Canned Heat, Pink Floyd, Three Dog Night, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Iron Butterfly, The Band, Deacon John, Procol Harum, The Doors, Ten Years After, James Gang, Guess Who, Poco, Elton John, Mott the Hoople, Leon Russell, The Who, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Humble Pie, J. Geils Band, Black Oak Arkansas, The Meters, T. Rex, Wishbone Ash, Redbone, Ted Nugent, Blue Oyster Cult, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker, Jose Feliciano, Seals & Croft, Vince Vance, Dr. Hook, Edgar Winter, David Bowie, The Eagles, Boz Skaggs, Foghat, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bill Withers, Professor Longhair, Billy Preston, Gino Vannelli, Ohio Players, Dave Mason, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Supertramp, Average White Band, 10cc, Herbie Hancock, KISS, Peter Frampton, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvin Bishop, Bob Dylan, Dickie Betts, Styx, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Jeff Beck, Santana, Boston, Gary Wright, Hall & Oates, Levon Helm, Jerry Jeff Walker, Foreigner, Bob Marley, Patti Smith, The Kinks, Kenny Loggins, Toto, The Baby’s, Eddie Money, The Cars, Journey, Robert Palmer, Little River Band, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, The Police, Molly Hatchet, Alice Cooper, The Outlaws, Squeeze, The Cold, Elvis Costello, Uriah Heep, The B52s, The Clash and Orleans.


It was a teenager’s rite of passage...

Something akin to a spiritual sacrament...

You didn’t have to grow up in New Orleans... 

But if you were a teenager, you probably went...


It was at The Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas... 

Where we enjoyed our musical buffet...

If you saw these bands at The Warehouse... 

You were experienced, what can we say...


© 2022 Jeffrey Pipes Guice

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