say around 75 or 76. if so do you remember a band out of florida, jacksonville i think named eli. pretty good kick ass group. strickly rock. lead singer was
guy name cookie. did one hell of a stones,beatles and zep. set. hell it's close enough to 5:00 to open the woodford up and forget this week.
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any of you guys @ state when lenlews and sarges was around? |
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Original48 |
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Posts: 483 05/22/09 03:49 PM |
And hell yeah I remember Eli and Cookie. In '86 they played in front of the Pike House and there must have been 2000 people there. He pulled out a giant
inflatable penis, stuck it between his legs and sprayed a foamy substance out of it all over the people in the first few rows. Craziest college band front man
ever. And Lenlews was gone by the time I got there. Just the Landing..the Club..and then Doug's Discoteque and Student Emporium.
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Posts: 342 05/22/09 04:05 PM |
I was inside Len-Lews when it caught on fire. I was feeding quarters in the Miss America pinball machine, when the Bud delivery guy comes out of the bathroom
and said the roof is on fire. I saved a trunk full of budweiser and full keg with pump before it got to smokey.
I also worked at Doug's occasionally and Eli was playing one night. The singer cookie liked to throw the mic around like the dude from the who. He threw the mic up in the air and the mic and cable wrapped around one of the beams and got stuck. It was pretty funny. |
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Posts: 32 05/22/09 04:07 PM |
LenLew's was the first beer joint I ever got thrown out of. Had the best hamburger steak and the coldest beer I've ever had, bar none. Most of the
jocks hung out there in the pool room. Across the road was the Triangle Club. It was a little rowdier over there. South of the Crossroads was Echol's.
If you wanted keg beer for a party, you had to get it from Echol's. This was in the
One of the saddest sights I ever saw was the first time I went to West Point after the fire and there was no LenLew's on the hill. I cried like a baby. As for Eli, I think there was some sort of rule that there couldn't be Homecoming in the 70's without Eli playing at one fraternity house. They were there every Homecoming and at least once or twice more during the year.
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Heh. The first time I saw Eli... | #4 | ||
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Posts: 3228 05/22/09 05:31 PM Manager of Deathtöngue |
bbqbully wrote:...was the night before a homecoming football game sometime in the late 1970s-early 1980s. |
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dawgmaster |
LenLews had the best Fried Pickles around.....Macks Supper Club | #5 | ||
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Posts: 141 05/22/09 06:31 PM |
Ole Mack used to get so pissed off when students would throw cans of beer at the cage surrounding the stage where he was singing.
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tupelotim |
Eli is still playing | #6 | ||
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Posts: 343 05/22/09 07:11 PM |
A quick internet search says "Still living the dream 1969 - 2009"
Not much content on their web page. http://www.elirocks.com/index.html |
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whistlerdog |
Saw Eli and Cookie many times... | #7 | ||
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Posts: 39 05/22/09 07:13 PM |
during the 80 to 84 period - great show. Think Len Lews burned around Dec. 81 or so. Made some bookshelves out of some of the cinderblocks from Len Lews..
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Posts: 190 05/22/09 09:14 PM |
I have often wondered what happened to Eli. They were a hell of a band. Partied hard with Eli on several occasions. The Beatle's set they would play sounded pretty damn close to the Beatle's themselves; sometimes better. 'Course the booze and babe's had a lot to do with that. Oh, the memories...........
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thatsbaseball |
The Crossroads and Echols were the original two | #9 | ||
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Posts: 3018 05/22/09 09:25 PM |
they were truly classic beer joints.
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Bulldog Bruce |
I went there a few times' | #10 | ||
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Posts: 413 05/22/09 10:26 PM |
The night I most remember was a crowded night and all the pool tables were going strong. A couple of black guys (not students) came in and were playing pool
and winning a little but of money. Sheriff's deputies come in, which I never saw before, and chat up the guys. I remember many folks telling the deputies
to leave them alone and that they were not bothering anyone. The deputies left.
They came back after 30 minutes or so and this time they were a little more forceful and acting tougher. Again most of the crowd was saying leave them alone. Next thing you know they have them assume the position at the table. The deputy reaches for one of the guys crotch and grabs. The other deputy pulls his gun and they pull a pistol out of the guys pants. That was the only time I remember anything like that. Spent way too much time there. |
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State82 |
Man. did that bring back some memories. | #11 | ||
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Posts: 609 05/23/09 12:13 AM |
I had forgotten about Eli until you mentioned them. Kick-ass band. Everybody loved 'em back in the day.
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Mutt the Hoople |
Eli used to play all the colleges in the South back in the day..... | #12 | ||
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...Saw them at Livingston, when I was visiting my sister there. Dude brought a basketball on stage and dribbled it around during a set.
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bulliegolfer |
I had forgot all about Eli................ | #13 | ||
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Posts: 462 05/23/09 09:01 AM |
brings back fond memories.
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Midnight Rider |
Yeah, I remember Eli. | #14 | ||
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Posts: 8 05/23/09 12:42 PM |
I have not thought about them since 87. That brings back alot of memories from that time. Thanks for bringing them up. Cookie was the cat daddy.
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Did not the | #15 | ||
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Posts: 2022 05/23/09 01:10 PM |
Triangle Club have nickel beer night or nickel beer happy hour on Thurs? Talking early to mid 70's.
Had a friend who was a barkeep at LenLews and every so often they would put out a keg and have free beer happy hour. The friend would let a few of us know when. The test was to see how much beer one could drink before the other patrons figured out what was going on. |
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Posts: 2271 05/23/09 02:36 PM Old Fart |
I remember those two far better than I should, as my grades will attest.
Never saw Eli there, though. Probably because I finished MSU before Archie started playing at OM. |
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maygray1 |
saw Eli open up for KISS in 79 or 80 in the Mobile Civic Center | #17 | ||
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Posts: 158 05/23/09 08:50 PM |
must have been the Dynasty albumn. I think it was the last tour with Peter Chris. They took off their make up a couple off years later...........I'm
sorry, were we taking about Eli?
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