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Though many nights at The Lost Horizon have led to foggy
memories (or in some cases, huge lapses), some recollec-
tions of the events there remain crystal clear.
There are some shows that you never forget, like the rst
time you caught a band there, the time you saw your favor-
ite band and got to meet them, and if you were a musician:
the rst time you played the club. Things like that stick with
you forever and sometimes change your life.
Nathan Angell, frontman of Zadoc & the Nightmare and
guitarist for Undergang recalls meeting The Electric Hell re
Club for the rst time in 1996. I was in a crowd with about
four people. I had no idea who these people were with the devil
horns on their heads... The next thing you know, they're one of
my favorite bands.
My favorite Zadoc story would probably be with a very uptight
drummer we had. At the time, we were still experimenting with
smashing television sets and we still hadn't gured out exactly
what to smash them with and we were using just ordinary
hardware axes back then. I remember not getting paid that
night and a psychopathic drummer slashed right into the Lost
Horizon's back door with a very angry Greg Italiano on the
other side.
Undergang frontman Al Smead remembers, When The
Damned played there in 1986, I was on the tour bus afterwards
with Rat Scabies and Dave Vanian. I was sharing stories with
Rat Scabies about Captain Sensible and about the scene back
in London. I had a twelve pack of something and gave him a
beer. They already had PBR tallboys and he gave me a tallboy.
I saved that beer bottle and took it back to the house. I was go-
ing to keep it as a souvenir from Rat Scabies and, lo and behold,
someone turned it in for the ve cents.
I remember playing one time with Schmeid. We were playing
with Dracula Jones and it was a packed house. I was center
stage and looked down and there was Pat DiNero; the late Pat
DiNero, who passed away a short time after, and he was stand-
ing there with his wife Suzanne. He was looking up at me with
a big smile on his face and I looked down at him and he smiled
back. And that was a great show and shortly thereafter he
passed away. May he Rest in Peace.
Fred Cousineau of The Legendary Jones Gang: One of the
rst shows I saw here blew me away and I knew nothing about
the band until I saw them here. It was Entombed. I was drilled.
I was absolutely fucking drilled. It was the rst real idea that I
got of what a Metal band was, what a Metal band should be, ya
know? And those guys, they fucking scared me. It was fuck-
ing brutal. The pit was brutal. It was just sweat and there was
blood. It was fucking incredible.
My boy Eeroy was like, `You gotta see this band!' I remember
him playing "Lefthand Path" on the cassette. He would listen to
it over and over again and ip over the tape. We got to The Lost
and it was nothing like what I was expecting. I was expecting
dressed-in-black and "Grrr..." and that wasn't what I got. Those
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