I just did a job walk in there today. They are going to keep it the same and just do a few upgrades inside and totally redo the outside in the hopes that someone will use it for the same thing.
Seriously can't even remember how many times I went to shows here. One time I found a wallet on the ground and it belonged to the bass player of Strung Out. I gave it back to him and the band took me to the green room for pizza and beer (I was like 12). Face to face was up there too (my 2 fav bands at the time). I had died and gone to socal skate punk middle school heaven.
All we had for this part of So-Cal.. and it's even the IE haha was Pulic Storage "Chain Reaction" Showcase Theatre, UC Riverside Barn was a bit later as was Pomona GlassHouse.. the other side of the world.. Ever revolving Venues In a LA maybe last a week or two hahaha but the Mighty Showcase Stayed..
I drive by the place a lot, looks like they're about to remodel it, new starbucks just opened next to the 99c store. Coming here every weekend with my friends will always be cherished as some of the best times of my life. It was my home away from home. Total absolute freedom. Best concert experience you could ask for. Best sound in the world. To all of those who got to experience the magic that happened there, much love and rock on!
I am eternally grateful to have spent the late 90s and early 2000s between Chain Reaction and The Showcase. Those were my two homes. That's where all my real friends were. Friends that I have to this day. The Showcase in particular is stamped in my heart, that parking lot out front saw some of our best and worst moments.
SpaceManDawn I’m 38. Started going in 1993 in 8th grade. My parents used to drop me off to see blink, vandals, no doubt, voodoo, backside, etc etc etc. epic time. Used to go to every battle of the bands. The showcase was my second home
Loved and played many shows at Showcase theatre! Passed out in the pit once on PCP, to some band's name I can't remember.. lol! Lots of fond memories! Shame it's not around anymore
HELL YES!!!! Showcase was HOME!!! Vibrators, Skeptix, TV Smith, Adicts, LCB, Endless Struggle!!! ... Wasnt Subhumans Live in A Dive recorded there? BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!! ... Awesome to see Dr. Strange in this too ... Holy shit, MAKE LA PUNK GREAT AGAIN!
Did this project get abandoned or something? Showcase was my second home growing up. Every once in a while, I drive past it and wistfully remember what once was. Would've been awesome to see a full length doc on the place.
@5:18 It's like I'm right back in there again. Dying of thirst buying some waters lol place crowded, everyone trying to check out the merch booths upstairs lol.
Was going to that place from the beginning as a young teen. Saw so many good bands, kind of place that made you nervous in line, get inside & everyone in there screaming shut the fuck up and play. Sneaking beers underage. Every time it was the scariest shit yet most exhilarating fucking madhouse. Am I gonna come out of this alive. Then the music played and you could careless anymore and just got fucking nuts. Honestly mindröt days, suffocation, etc me and my bro still talk about how much fun those days were. Place was the fucking best!!! So much so we go to shows and will scream shut the fuck up and play and no one gets it. Place was hard the fuck core. But we laugh now think of those times. What’s cool is you can find a lot of those shows recorded and yep there you are a moment in time.
This place was the socal cbgb..... favorite of probably 50 shows there were..... vandals where screech RIP stage dove, any guttermouth show, voodoo glow skulls shows right after who is this is came out, blink when they were just blink and a chicago band named Bollweevils that i saw spring break my first year at college it felt so good to come home to that place. Backside shows were sick too.
Since the beginning.. Ezzat would take my ID hahaha as I got older, it was for good reason.. loved this place, Came back to see Bands like HopesFall and Unearth.. they had both heard of this tiny sweaty Venue.. from the East coast.. I could believe it.. back in the day, HepCat, C-Spot, Yeska, Oceans 11, MobTown Shows.. even got to smoke pot with Roland Alphonso from the Skatalites.. Epic..
Showcase was epic, hope they mention Spanky’s in Riverside the Barn, live oak inn and billards in Elsinore, those were all my first live punk show experiences in the early 90’s.
I haven't seen it yet, but I know for a fact one of the band members discussed Spanky's Cafe. ...whether or not it made the final cut, I have no idea. Jan. 26 - 30, 2020 www.theconcertlounge.com/
I miss the showcase dearly. I worked at a restaurant across the street when it was closed. I’d be on break smoking a cigarette just looking and missing it and I still do.
Now its all run down kids today dont know how it was back.then good memories i wish it was still.open i wish some body do would do a concert with all the old bands from back then 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯💯🎸🎸🎸
Dude that got his teeth kicked out was My homie Jeff from back in the day. That’s the night I met him. It was Bleak December (winds of plague) suicide silence , and Broken Front. That was my first show there. Changed my life forever.
I saw Napalm Death and Obituary there in the mid-90s. Machine Head opened. Also saw Forbidden and Malevolent Creation there. Saw a Christian band called Stavesacre there in '98.
Justin when are you gonna do a segment on this. Every kid from the inland empire to the coast in the late 90s and early 2000s spent their weekly lunch money on these shows. Circle pits and good old merchandise tables. Goodtimes. Sad that we might not see a good venue like this again.
Fucking grew up at this venue and made it to as many shows as possible. My favoite memory there was helping security move this fucked up crusty that drank to much or was on pills. When I went to help pick him up he fucking bit my arm & I smacked the fucking shit out of him then just grabbed him under the shoulders and helped the security dude get his ass the fuck out of there. No hate or anything but I was a poor punk for the high desert and I didn't want people like that fucking up the shows for us because it was a battle to just get a ride and have the money to get in. RIP to one of the greatest venues Cali ever had! Seeing the addicts there was truly something magical!
Hmmmm! I found out about this a while ago no mention of 69 cents how many nights a months did we pack that place ezzat?! Backside, white kaps Some good times, the vandals! I remember playing a lot of good shows there for years! Bobby Sears
This place put Avenged Sevenfold on the map especially since they were one of the few venues that would even let them play. I also hear the local hardcore scene really hated Avenged though not sure of all the details.
The fuckin memories man RIP to my boy Carlos first pit I got in was 17 years old for Angry Samoans with my boy snorted out and piss drunk off cobras some liquor store would sell us 😂 good times lol I remember we went to a show n smashed some chicks at the church stairs down the street 😂😂
Are you seriously going to make a documentary about the showcase and not mention all the Death/black metal that came through this place??? Saw some of the best in the biz at the showcase. You put a tiny clip of Abbath and didn't mention Immortal or the word metal. Used a clip of Decapitated's music for the trailer but didn't mentioned they played there. This wasn't just a home for Punk... no way! Better make two documentaries or make this one longer because there's another side to this place and it was Metal! Fellow metalhead Alan Doyle was murdered at the "Mall"...after an Obituary show there in 97! Keep digging... Link about the murder: www.ocweekly.com/news/no-justice-no-peace-of-mind-6378419
Crystal Sanchez they left out a lot of local punk and metal bands that packed that place for years! While I respect ezzat for keeping that place open for us to play. He was a total fucking douche who didn’t understand the music or the culture, and they talk like he had this vision of what the kids wanted to see! No!!!! It was young booking agents who worked for him! You know how many time we were promised cash from that place and only received a few sodas lol. The I.E. needs that place again just a different owner!!!
it was the cbgb's of the 90s west coast for ska and punk band's I miss it it was a big part of my life
I just did a job walk in there today. They are going to keep it the same and just do a few upgrades inside and totally redo the outside in the hopes that someone will use it for the same thing.
Dude.. Right On... fingers crossed for sure.. keep us posted..
Seriously can't even remember how many times I went to shows here. One time I found a wallet on the ground and it belonged to the bass player of Strung Out. I gave it back to him and the band took me to the green room for pizza and beer (I was like 12). Face to face was up there too (my 2 fav bands at the time). I had died and gone to socal skate punk middle school heaven.
All we had for this part of So-Cal.. and it's even the IE haha was Pulic Storage "Chain Reaction" Showcase Theatre, UC Riverside Barn was a bit later as was Pomona GlassHouse.. the other side of the world.. Ever revolving Venues In a LA maybe last a week or two hahaha but the Mighty Showcase Stayed..
I drive by the place a lot, looks like they're about to remodel it, new starbucks just opened next to the 99c store.
Coming here every weekend with my friends will always be cherished as some of the best times of my life.
It was my home away from home. Total absolute freedom. Best concert experience you could ask for.
Best sound in the world.
To all of those who got to experience the magic that happened there, much love and rock on!
I am eternally grateful to have spent the late 90s and early 2000s between Chain Reaction and The Showcase.
Those were my two homes. That's where all my real friends were. Friends that I have to this day.
The Showcase in particular is stamped in my heart, that parking lot out front saw some of our best and worst moments.
I will always be grateful that my first show I ever went to was here. So many good memories at this place.
Cant forget all the death metal bands that played here 🤘
Loved that place, as well as Spanky's before it. Thank you, Ezzat.
Remembering all the bands from other parts of the country commenting on how special this venue was. Wish we could have helped preserve the place.
Dude. Opening with Adamantium was all I needed to be in on this.
From 2000-2010. This was my home at least three nights a week!
I just nostalgia'd so fucking hard all over myself.
Ha! 2000? I stared playing shows there in 91-92 after ezzat’s other club closed!
@@sixstringsmasher well, unfortunately for me, im only 35. Didnt get my drivers license till 2000 so theres no way i would have been there sooner.
SpaceManDawn I’m 38. Started going in 1993 in 8th grade. My parents used to drop me off to see blink, vandals, no doubt, voodoo, backside, etc etc etc. epic time. Used to go to every battle of the bands. The showcase was my second home
Dove off the balcony at a resistant culture show. I grew up here.
Was it the Phobia/Resistant Culture show?
My brother's band played there all the time!! What fun!
My first punk show there was DFL and Backside 1996🤘😎🤘
I crowd surfed here at the Static lullaby/Saosin show
Time of my life!
I have so many fond memories of the showcase. I was there at least once a month if not more. I miss my youth
This place was the hub for Death Metal in the 90’s
Loved and played many shows at Showcase theatre! Passed out in the pit once on PCP, to some band's name I can't remember.. lol! Lots of fond memories! Shame it's not around anymore
HELL YES!!!! Showcase was HOME!!! Vibrators, Skeptix, TV Smith, Adicts, LCB, Endless Struggle!!! ... Wasnt Subhumans Live in A Dive recorded there? BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!! ... Awesome to see Dr. Strange in this too ... Holy shit, MAKE LA PUNK GREAT AGAIN!
Did this project get abandoned or something? Showcase was my second home growing up. Every once in a while, I drive past it and wistfully remember what once was. Would've been awesome to see a full length doc on the place.
@Yahooathotmaildotcom Where can one see this documentary?
So how we gonna go about getting this place back open?? Everyone knows there is no better venue than the Showcase!
I played guitar in hardcore bands many times on that stage. I also went to so many shows there. I won’t ever forget those times.
Fuck that almost broke my heart dopes memories there & naked ways kick ass..lets bring it back
@5:18 It's like I'm right back in there again. Dying of thirst buying some waters lol place crowded, everyone trying to check out the merch booths upstairs lol.
Falling cycles last show in04 anyone??
I saw some great metal/hardcore bands there. Some before they got big. Dying Fetus, Amon Amarth, Chimera, Bleeding Through, Hatebreed
Was going to that place from the beginning as a young teen. Saw so many good bands, kind of place that made you nervous in line, get inside & everyone in there screaming shut the fuck up and play. Sneaking beers underage. Every time it was the scariest shit yet most exhilarating fucking madhouse. Am I gonna come out of this alive. Then the music played and you could careless anymore and just got fucking nuts. Honestly mindröt days, suffocation, etc me and my bro still talk about how much fun those days were. Place was the fucking best!!! So much so we go to shows and will scream shut the fuck up and play and no one gets it. Place was hard the fuck core. But we laugh now think of those times. What’s cool is you can find a lot of those shows recorded and yep there you are a moment in time.
This place was the socal cbgb..... favorite of probably 50 shows there were..... vandals where screech RIP stage dove, any guttermouth show, voodoo glow skulls shows right after who is this is came out, blink when they were just blink and a chicago band named Bollweevils that i saw spring break my first year at college it felt so good to come home to that place. Backside shows were sick too.
I always left this place with some kind of injury. Good times
I spent so many nights at the showcase! so many good punk/ska shows..
Man i used go there all the time... Great place a great time all the time.i still.live down the street from there🤘🤘🤘💯🎸🎸🎸
Since the beginning.. Ezzat would take my ID hahaha as I got older, it was for good reason.. loved this place, Came back to see Bands like HopesFall and Unearth.. they had both heard of this tiny sweaty Venue.. from the East coast.. I could believe it.. back in the day, HepCat, C-Spot, Yeska, Oceans 11, MobTown Shows.. even got to smoke pot with Roland Alphonso from the Skatalites.. Epic..
Showcase was epic, hope they mention Spanky’s in Riverside the Barn, live oak inn and billards in Elsinore, those were all my first live punk show experiences in the early 90’s.
I haven't seen it yet, but I know for a fact one of the band members discussed Spanky's Cafe. ...whether or not it made the final cut, I have no idea.
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
I use to go to the showcase to watch the movies. I left to the military when all the bands started coming, and I live 3 blocks away WOW!
I was probably sitting next to you watching the movies. I played on the stage too.
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
The Adamantium intro was perfect.
I miss the showcase dearly. I worked at a restaurant across the street when it was closed. I’d be on break smoking a cigarette just looking and missing it and I still do.
Now its all run down kids today dont know how it was back.then good memories i wish it was still.open i wish some body do would do a concert with all the old bands from back then 🤘🤘🤘🤘💯💯🎸🎸🎸
Legendary Shit right here! My Dad took me here in 6th grade to see Eek A Mouse and then my Older Sis would take me to catch Punk and Ska Shows.
Any word yet? Would still love to watch this and cry.
@Hank Nemetz where do we find it?
This is awesome can't wait for the documentary
@Yahooathotmaildotcom can’t find it anywhere. What is the name of the doc?
@Yahooathotmaildotcom no worries! Thank you
Got to play with di and some other good bands with the goons army. Miss that place
when does this come out so many good memories
@Grandma Dong how do we get a copy? Where do we purchase?
Was this project abandoned? I hear people asking about this regularly still...
RIP Showcase :(
did this come out already ? Man I miss this place !! I used to drive from San Diego to go see shows there!
@Hank Nemetz ok, can you tell us where to find it?
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
Dude that got his teeth kicked out was My homie Jeff from back in the day. That’s the night I met him. It was Bleak December (winds of plague) suicide silence , and Broken Front. That was my first show there. Changed my life forever.
Miss that place
I was raised by the showcase theatre. And I turned out just fine.
Dase 951
It's such a shame that I lived in Corona for all those years, and I never got a chance to go to a concert there.
I saw Napalm Death and Obituary there in the mid-90s. Machine Head opened. Also saw Forbidden and Malevolent Creation there. Saw a Christian band called Stavesacre there in '98.
It was a sweat box that didn’t serve alcohol! Rather go to the Galaxy or Doll Hut!
This is "If These Walls Could Sing", right?
If so, I'm about to watch it!
I grew up on Green River and never got to go here. 🙁
Dang I want to be in this documentary
Justin!!!!! I remeber you guys playing here on top of all the bad ass shows
Justin when are you gonna do a segment on this. Every kid from the inland empire to the coast in the late 90s and early 2000s spent their weekly lunch money on these shows. Circle pits and good old merchandise tables. Goodtimes. Sad that we might not see a good venue like this again.
Any updates on this documentary?
please tell me we have Dave From Throwdown in an interview!!!
Fucking grew up at this venue and made it to as many shows as possible. My favoite memory there was helping security move this fucked up crusty that drank to much or was on pills. When I went to help pick him up he fucking bit my arm & I smacked the fucking shit out of him then just grabbed him under the shoulders and helped the security dude get his ass the fuck out of there.
No hate or anything but I was a poor punk for the high desert and I didn't want people like that fucking up the shows for us because it was a battle to just get a ride and have the money to get in. RIP to one of the greatest venues Cali ever had! Seeing the addicts there was truly something magical!
Serious feels...
Hmmmm! I found out about this a while ago no mention of 69 cents how many nights a months did we pack that place ezzat?! Backside, white kaps Some good times, the vandals! I remember playing a lot of good shows there for years! Bobby Sears
Is this still being working on?
How can I watch this. Played there many times.
I used to rip off the store next door to the showcase all the time... memories....
Underrated
Totally random question... anyone have video footage of the show with Nonsense, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Skankin' Pickle at Showcase by chance??
Is this still in the works?
Any idea when this will be available to stream or download or rent ?
This place put Avenged Sevenfold on the map especially since they were one of the few venues that would even let them play. I also hear the local hardcore scene really hated Avenged though not sure of all the details.
when is this coming out?
Eli Beavers this year
What’s the update ? Is this done yet ?
I miss that fuckin' place
Any update upon this release?
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
Did this come out? Where can we find it?
how is this coming along?
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
did this ever come out? how do i watch it?
Did this ever get released?
Did this doc ever actually come out?
I heard this was completed? Anywhere I can watch it?
Yep.
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
At 3:10 Backside ?! Wow
The fuckin memories man RIP to my boy Carlos first pit I got in was 17 years old for Angry Samoans with my boy snorted out and piss drunk off cobras some liquor store would sell us 😂 good times lol I remember we went to a show n smashed some chicks at the church stairs down the street 😂😂
Any updates on the film?
Jan. 26 - 30, 2020
www.theconcertlounge.com/
@@valdesigns1346 link isn’t working. Any ideas on where to find it now?
Does anyone remember what the line up was for the final show at the showcase?
If i recall it wasn't any crazy spectacular.
Jonathan Gonzalez by the time it closed, it was pretty much just all local, shitty metal bands
Leftover crack played
Leftover Crack, Toxic Narcotic & The Adicts
Death by Stereo wasn’t bad
I'll pay for whatever footage you have and release this shit myself! LETS GET THIS OUT!
EVERY FRIDAY
You guys going to talk about the crews who ruined shows for so many people and eventually people stopped showing up?
Yea what ever happened to those straight edge doooshers always trying to fight people? hahaha
I dont. Think i went. There?? Lame !
Missed. OUT !!!!!!!!-
Are you seriously going to make a documentary about the showcase and not mention all the Death/black metal that came through this place??? Saw some of the best in the biz at the showcase. You put a tiny clip of Abbath and didn't mention Immortal or the word metal. Used a clip of Decapitated's music for the trailer but didn't mentioned they played there. This wasn't just a home for Punk... no way! Better make two documentaries or make this one longer because there's another side to this place and it was Metal! Fellow metalhead Alan Doyle was murdered at the "Mall"...after an Obituary show there in 97! Keep digging...
Link about the murder:
www.ocweekly.com/news/no-justice-no-peace-of-mind-6378419
Crystal Sanchez they left out a lot of local punk and metal bands that packed that place for years! While I respect ezzat for keeping that place open for us to play. He was a total fucking douche who didn’t understand the music or the culture, and they talk like he had this vision of what the kids wanted to see! No!!!! It was young booking agents who worked for him! You know how many time we were promised cash from that place and only received a few sodas lol. The I.E. needs that place again just a different owner!!!
This isn’t the whole documentary. This is the trailer