Listening to vinyl, creating new drinks,
booking shows for our club,
aesthetics and hairstyling,
collecting Bonnie Cashin designs, vintage Famolare and Kalso shoes, vintage clothing.
Music
Gram Parsons, Paul Weller, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Gamble and Huff, Marvin Gaye, Tom Waits, Betty Carter, Milt Jackson, Paul Westerberg, Michael Jackson, Beck, Jackie Byard, Lionel Hampton, George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, David Bowie, Toni Childs, Elvis Costello, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Kelly and the Kelly Girls, Steely Dan, Sparky, David and David, Pequod, Robert Johnson, Derek and the Dominoes, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Fifth Dimension, Andy Kim, Nirvana, Rancid, Adam and the Ants, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, 999, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Joan Baez, Wilson Pickett, Joel and the Last of the Neighbours, Ghosthouse, Billy and the Lost Boys, The Inflation Kills, Mick Ronson, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Black Mountain, Bad Brains, Satori, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, The Edgar Winter Group, Grace Jones, The Jam, Luther Vandross, Ron Wood, Steve Marriot, The Small Faces, The Faces, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Buck 65, The Great Speckled Bird, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Tommy Hunter, Tricky, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Jaco Pastorius, The Stray Cats, The Stranglers, The Bop Cats, Carole Pope and Rough Trade, The Jam, Blue Cheer, Shonen Knife, Dwight Yoakum, Ohio Players, Rick James, Steve Earle, Herbie Hancock, Desmond Dekker, Faith No More, Mike Patton, Harry Nilsson, Fishbone, The Doobie Brothers, Black Sabbath, Primus, Luther Wright and the Wrongs, Oh Suzannah, Les Claypool, Teenage Head, Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew, Splatter, Local Rabbits, Bootsauce, Peter Elkas, Cub, Deep Purple, Tony Levin, Godley and Cream, 10CC, Peter Gabriel, Mike Oldfield, Elton John, The Awkward Stage, Ann Vriend, The GTO's, Mother Maybelle Carter, Nana Mouskouri, Maria Callas, Bananarama, James Brown, The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Souixsie and the Banshees, Charlie Musselwhite, George Thorogood, Stevie Wonder, Booker T and the MG's, The Bar Kays, Bobby Blue Bland, Maria Muldaur, The Neville Brothers, War, John Hammond Jr., Eddie Shaw and the Howlin' Wolf, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, New Order, The Allman Brothers Band, Lynard Skynard, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, ZZ Top, Ritchie Havens, Colleen Brown, David Hein, Pizzicata 5, Minnie Ripperton, Professor Longhair, Outkast, Earth, Wind and Fire, Dr. John the Nighttripper, Pink Floyd, Gary Numan, Gary Wright, Foghat, Nazareth, Cheap Trick, The Replacements, Joe Jackson, Wings, ELO, Chet Baker, Blossom Dearie, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Massive Attack, The Cars, Jonny Lang, Chris Beard Band, The Illuminati, C'Mon, Marc Ford, Burning Tree, Portishead, The Black Crowes, Average White Band, Pretty Train Crash, The Grey, Starewell, Danko Jones, Dan Goldman, The Absent Sound, Royal City, The Constantines, Wooly Leaves, Peter Katz, Rob Szabo, Sufjan Stevens, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Blues Traveller, Morphine, Snowblink, Maps of the Night Sky, Sue, Emaline Delapaix and the Delistocracy, The Dogs D'Amour, Dresden Sky, Marc Charron, Wax Mannequin, Joey Balducci, The Robot Ate Me, D Trevlon, Bow Wow Wow, OK Cobra, The Cruzados, The Kinsey Report, War, Issac Hayes, Kilbourne, Todd Rundgren, Bjork, Fatboy Slim, Jeff Beck, Bob Marley, Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper, Concrete Blonde, Jacob Miller and Inner Circle, Amon Tobin, Stereolab, Shawn Hewitt and the National Strike, The Architects, Ermine, Maurice John Vaughn, Donald Ray Johnson, A Taste of Honey, Alliyah, Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders, The Cruzeros, KC and the Sunshine Band, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Sylvester, Patrick Hernandez, The Pointer Sisters, Sister Sledge, Amy Stewart, TLC, The Beastie Boys, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee, Loretta Lynn, Joan Armatrading, Janis Ian, Missy Elliot, Lee Ann Womack, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jill Sobule, Madonna, Billie Holiday, The Monkees, Michel Nesbitt, Tom Tom Club, David Cassidy, Talking Heads, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller Band, Dusty Springfield, The George Baker Selection, Clarence White, KT Tunstall, Beth Orton, My Morning Jacket, The Police, Loreena Belluz, The Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo, Patti Smith, Neneh Cherry, Sara Hickman, Morphine, MC5, Shawn Colvin, Sueisfine, Merle Haggard, Odissey, Bob Dylan, Peter Tosh, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Lucinda Williams, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Twin Fangs, The Museum Pieces, Marianne Faithfull, Sly and Robbie, Studebaker John and the Hawks, Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Prince, Wendy and Lisa, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John Hartford, Buck Owens and The Buckaroos, Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Suzi Quattro, Loggins and Messina, Dee-Lite, Willie Nelson, The White Stripes, Midnight Oil, Hunters and Collecters, The Expensive Winos, Soul Asylum, The Vapours, Crowded House, Split Enz, Blancmange, The Human League, Shelby Lynne, Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Roches, Marie McKee and Lone Justice, Nicolette Larson, Kris Kristofferson, Sugarloaf, Ten Years After, Heaven 17, Third World, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Zeppelin, Santana, Michael Shrieve, Gino Vannelli, Ultimate Power Duo, John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, Joe Cocker, The Style Council, Van Morrison, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, The Band, Emmy Lou Harris, Michel Pagliaro, Mick Jagger, Willie and the Poor Boys, Suzanne Vega, Dr. Rage and the Uppercuts, Marc Bolan and TRex, The Pumps, The Clash, Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, Marcia Ball, X, Washboard Hank, Kim Beggs, Burke Carroll, Holy Fuck, Run Chico Run, Sly and the Family Stone, Doc and Merle Watson, Earl Scruggs, The Greenhornes, Peggy Lee, Chuck Berry, Peter Gabriel, Malcolm McLaren, King Crimson, Yes, Big Audio Dynamite, Dolly Parton, Holly Golightly, Rick James, AC/DC(with Bon Scott), Los Lobos, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Ramones, The Pretty Things, Willie Nelson, XTC, CSS, ELO, Waylon Jennings, Panurge, Del Shannon,
Bill Haley and the Comets, Sugar Blue, The Old Soul, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin, Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Nick Cave and the Bad Seed, The Bauhaus, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Beck, Chad Vangaalen, Weather Report, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Trio, you get what I mean...as Gram Parsons so eloquently stated, "Cosmic American Music".
Movies
The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Eyes of Laura Mars, The Limey, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Seventh Samurai, To Catch A Thief, Rear Window, The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, Soylent Green, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, After the Thin Man, Frantic, Rosemary's Baby, The Misfits, Two Lane Blacktop, Enter the Dragon, The Crow, Twelve Angry Men, Priscilla(Queen of the Desert), Spanking the Monkey, The Pawnbroker, Compulsion, The Incredible Journey, The Hunger, A Chorus Line, The Great Escape, The Philadelphia Story, Bullitt, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Wild Bunch, Strictly Ballroom, Anne of a Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Adam's Rib, Jesus Christ Superstar, Buffalo 66, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Ed Wood, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Little Miss Sunshine.
Television
It's all cartoons now, isn't it? Funny, I think Plato warned us about that. I used to like American Bandstand, The Midnight Special, Medical Centre, The Mod Squad, Get Christy Love, Love American Style, The Storefront Lawyers, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock, Creature Feature, Northern Exposure, Scooby-Doo, Josie and the Pussycats, The Partridge Family, Hawaii Five-O, Bugs Bunny/Road Runner cartoons
Books
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Plato's Republic, Who Has Seen The Wind by W.O. Mitchell, astrology books by Linda Goodman, Stephen Aroyyo or Sydney Omarr, Og Mandino's University of Success, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night(or What you Will), King Lear, A Midsummernight's Dream and Macbeth, The Stranger(L'etranger) by Albert Camus, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Interview with The Vampire by Annie Rice, The Exorcist, old Vogue(70'- 80's)issues, Tall Tales by Jerry Hall, I'm with the Band by Pamela Des Barres, DV by Diana Vreeland, Diane Arbus, Goodbye Columbus, Smiley's People, Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Gia(The Life and Times of a Supermodel), Hickory Wind(The Life & Times of Gram Parsons), The Life & Times of Jaco Pastorius.
Heroes
My mom and dad, my late, great brother Stanley, Socrates, Plato, Parmenides, Plotinus, Bruce Lee, Sister Wendy, Heraclitus, Joseph Campbell, Oscar Wilde, John Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer, John Lennon, Peter Sellers, Red Skelton, Johnny Carson, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Vincent Gallo, Robert Johnson, Jaco Pastorius, Chet Baker, Alexander Calder, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Billie Holiday, Martin Luther King, Diana Vreeland, David Bowie, Betty Carter, John Sahag, Robert Renn, Way Bandy, Kandinsky, Dr. Richard Berg of Lakehead University.
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About me: The Apollo Bar is located at 239 Red River Rd. in the downtown district of Thunder Bay. For info or bookings, please call me(Sheila)at 807.767.8561 or by email at www.myspace.com/apollobar or on Facebook(The Apollo Bar)or at theapollobar@gmail.com.
Some highlights in my musical journey were: I won a 45 record of my choice when I was eight and picked Black Dog/Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zeppelin. Listened to Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" while my cousin taught me the "Acid Dance". John Lennon's "Imagine" was one of my favorite songs. I saw Lighthouse(featuring the late, great Bob McBride on vocals)play live at the Fort William Gardens when I was nine. Recorded my girlfriend Lori and myself singing along to "Stuck In The Middle with You" by Stealer's Wheel. Saw Rush during their Fly By Night Tour(Max Webster opened). Saw Led Zeppelin at the St. Paul Civic Center April 13th, 1977(I was fifteen). Hung out at Dante's(a disco/restaurant in Arthur Square), Feathers(in the Nor Shore Hotel)and Dick Turpin's Room(in the Red Oak Inn)during the heydays of disco(where I first got turned on to Prince's music). Was always a huge Blondie and Cars fan as well as Rickie Lee Jones, Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, AC/DC, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Stray Cats, Bruce Springsteen(mostly the "Born to Run" album and "Darkness on the Edge of Town").
Went to Uncle Sam's(later, First Avenue)and Scotty's on Seventh during disco's waning and saw The Village people in concert(1979)in Minneapolis.
Met Ray Charles in an airport in Athens, Greece in 1980 and got to see him play live at an outdoor theatre. First heard Bob Marley's "Jammin'" at a sea-side hotel/bar outside of Athen's as well as The Police.
During the eighties saw lots of live bands perform at The Inntowner in Thunder Bay(Jane Siberry, The Villains, The Deserters, The Pumps, Steve Blimkie and the Reason(featuring Derek Grehen III who was later the guitarist for Honeymoon Suite), The Deadbeat Honeymooners and at The Expressway Lounge in The Landmark Inn(The Pumps, The Payolas, The Lincolns, Dan Hill and lots more whose names I can't recall right now). Then I saw The Doobie Brothers(with Michael McDonald)circa 1981, Prince(with Sheila E)for The Purple Rain Tour in 1984 in Minneapolis.
In the nineties I got turned on to The Black Crowes and saw them play(New York City, Minneapolis, Buffalo, NY where they opened for ZZ Top) and saw them in Mississauga at a club called Superstars with Helix as opener during 1991-92. Saw Bob Dylan play a forgettable show at the Fort William Gardens He was inaudible(though few would admit it). Saw Sugar Blue, The Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Trio, Ellen McIlwaine and others at the old Office Bar in Arthur Square in Thunder Bay.
Went many times to the Bayfront Blues Festival in Duluth, Minnesota where I got to watch and meet John Hammond Jr., Charlie Musselwhite, The Kinsey Report and Kid Jonny Lang. Also saw Ike Turner, Marcia Ball and the Fabulous Thunderbirds perform as well as many other blues acts.
I also met and hung out in New York city with Franco Cirulli(a musical friend/philosophy student/avatar from Italy), actor Craig Colfelt(Philadelphia)and Franc(a keyboard player/mathematician from France)in 1994. Craig and I went to the Blue Note and Manny's Car Wash(blues club). Franc brought me out to the The Blue Note and the Times Cafe in Union Square to see Betty Carter(God bless her, she sent chills down my spine), Milt Jackson, Jackie Byard and Lionel Hampton perform.
Saw Bob Dylan in an outdoor concert(with Charlie Sexton in the band)in Duluth around 1997 with my partner, Jeff. Paul Simon was the opener. Mr. Dylan played a fantastic show. He was audible, funny and friendly with the crowd.
Music is soul food and that's why I feel it's important to facilitate as much as I can for musicians to play at our club and give people the opportunity to watch good musicians play live. Peace, live long and prosper. Godspeed. Cheers!
Who I'd like to meet: Musicians, artists, vinylphiles, anyone who digs good music(not marketed crap), Vincent Gallo, Christopher Guest, Eddy Murphy, William Shatner, Mary J. Blige, Greg Kinnear, Buck 65, Andre 3000, Joni Mitchell, Prince. ....
Helllllloooooo up there! I miss ya guys... Next summer I'm coming up for sure... Hope Tina an Al are having a good summer an all... Can you get me on a bill w/ Coco? haha Cheers!
