1984
09/01 - Safari Sam's opens as a restaurant
11/02, 11/03 - KROQ Party with Poor Man
11/30 - First Safari Sam's Gig - First Glance
12/08 - Lieutenant Trips, The Insiders
1985
01/11 - Push 1 2 3
01/26 - Gazebo T Shirt
02/09 - Phase II, The Squares
02/12 - The Fad, Gazebo T-Shirt
02/13 - Soi Disant
02/15 - Gazebo T Shirt
02/16 - Push 1 2 3
02/21 - Raw Material, Plain Wrap
02/22 - Raw Material, First Glance
02/23 - Plenty O Sheba, Ghengis Khan, The Sattelites
02/27 - KSBR Back Door Beat Night - Coolers, Western Skies, Blue Trapeze
02/28 - Danzig Pop
03/01 - Rude Awakening, Rythm Method
03/02 - Mind Over Four, Bell Jar, Silly Millions
03/04 - The Remnant
03/06 - U.A.T
03/07 - The Fad, Mirror Image
03/08 - Blue Network, Desperate Living, Hieroglyphics
03/09 - The Fad, Turmoil, Children's Day, The Hags
03/17 - All Star Jam with The Sins, Mirror Image, The Coolers, DC Sparks, Tyler Marks, Desperate Living, The Fad, Blue Network
03/20 - Poetry Night
03/22 - Back Door Beat Night - Abscess, April Danielle, The Zentones
03/23 - Blue Trapeze, El Grupo Sexo (their first show at Sam's)
03/28 - Better Homes
03/29 - Plain Wrap
04/02 - Ouch Cube
04/03 - Poetry Night
04/04 - Intra Muros, The Sins, Distorted Pop
04/05 - Raw Material, Mirror Image, Sapadilla, Soi Distant
04/06 - Blue Network, The Coolers, The Cinematics, New Alliance
04/09 - Violent Psyschosis
04/10 - The Shadows, Heavy Dirt, Partners In Crime
04/11 - Johnny Blue and the Boys In Black, The Chemists, The Dancing Bears
04/12 - Beyond, D.C. Sparks, Ten Tons of Lies
04/13 - The Examples, M.K.M. Stress, Ghengis Khan
04/16 - A.O.T.C., The Children
04/17 - Poetry Night
04/18 - The Hags
04/19 - Lieutenant Trips and the Optic Nerve
04/20 - Danzig Pop, The Fad, The Bedrockers, Miranda (A Play)
04/21 - Mind Over Four, Desire Unit
04/24 - Havana
04/28 - Raw Material
05/02 - Silly Millions, M.O.D.G.B, The Abscess Group
05/04 - El Grupo Sexo, M.K.M. Stress, Ouchcube - Toga Party!!
05/07 Johhny Pike, Knightmare III
05/10 - Rik L. Rik
05/11 - Kickfire, Bell Jar, Raw Material
05/12 - Rysk, Blue Party
05/14 - Exobiota, Bleeding Hearts, Psychotic Fungus, Jerry The Priest
05/16 - Sapadilla, Foreign Policy, Native Language
05/17 - Mind Over Four, Drowning Pool, The Chemists
05/18 - Rockin' Rebels, The Fad, Lifters
05/19 - Walter Trout, M.K.M Stress, Havana, El Grupo Sexo, Ash Tradition, August Purge, The Fact, Shades Over Europe
05/24 - ZOT
05/26 - Intra Muros
05/30 - Masque of Demise
06/01 - Ouchcube, Intra Muros, El Grupo Sexo
06/02 - The Joneses
06/03 - Meat Puppets - Flyer Art
06/04 - The Cinematics
06/08 - Blood on the Saddle, Western Skies
06/09 - Fergusley Park, Intrinsic Desire, Bleeding Hearts, Psychotic Fungus
06/10 - Suicide Kings, Lexington Devils, Doll Factory
06/11 - Grandpa's Become A Fungus, Beguiled, Hieroglyphics
06/12 - Poetry Night with Pop Art
06/13 - Intra Muros
06/14 - 84 Rooms, Tweezers, BBST, Gypsy Trash
06/15 - Untold Fables, The Fad, Beguiled, Reverie, Zanty Misfits, The Things
06/16 - The Pace, The Society, Eyes of Mind
06/17 - Falling Idols, The Hated, Lightside Darkness
06/19 - Flesh Weapon, Blindspot, Western Skies
06/20 - KUCI Benefit Night
06/21 - Children's Day, Native Language, Breathe, Penguin Slept
06/22 - Living Daylights, Tex Tyler, Monsters From Heaven
06/23 - Modern Class, Marshes of Glenny, Cat Bagley
06/24 - The Statics, Penguin Slept, Exobiota
06/27 - Incomplete Monday, Axis, Norwegian Wood
06/28 - Public Domain, The Hags, Rysk
06/29 - Sorts of Soul, The Blue Network, Ouchcube, Temple of Rythm
06/30 - The Dancing Bears, Gypsy Trash, The Creed
07/03 - Plain Wrap
07/05 - Downy Mildew, S.T.D., Danzig Pop
07/07 - President Joe, Grandpa's Become a Fungus, The Tripods
07/09 - The Minutemen, Whiteflower, Ouchcube
07/12 - The Sattelites, Modern Class
07/13 - El Grupo Sexo
07/18 - Radio Head, Harlots
07/20 - Blood on the Saddle
07/21 - Exobiota
07/22 - Gazebo T-Shirt
07/24 - Poetry: Drew Steele, Shredder, The Fiends
07/25 - August Purge, Typhoid Mary, Shades Over Europe
07/26 - Exobiota, Children's Day, Scarecrows
07/28 - Red Devils
07/31 - Poetry: Ivan E. Roth, Chip and Tony Kinman (Rank and File), Western Skies
08/07 - Chris D., Fibonaccis, Mark Soden's Syntho Lounge Act, Motor Totemist Guild
08/09 - Dead Milkmen, Untold Fables, Norwegian Wood
08/11 - El Grupo Sexo, The Minutemen, Exobiota
08/13 - D.I., Blind Hatred, The Hags
08/14 - D. Boon, Jack Brewer, Blue Trapeze
08/15 -The Hellcats, Decry
08/18 - Jamie James and the Kingbees
08/19, 08/20 - Social Distortion Ouchcube
08/21 - Phast Phreddie, Oh! Sisters
08/25 - The Untold Fables, Tuesday's Children, Somma Holiday, Yard Trauma, Beguiled, Ten Tons of Lies, Through the Looking Glass, Gypsy Trash
08/26 - Nick Pyzow, Pop Art, Kerry Getz, Johnny Forever
08/27 - Bell Jar, Red Kross
08/28 - First Play, "Case of the Crushed Petunias", Michael C. Ford, James Moreland, Minutemen, Acoustic*
08/29 - M.I.A, August Purge, Creatures
09/01 - Jamie James and the Kingbees
09/02 - Safari Sam's Labor Day Party
09/13 - El Grupo Sexo, The Fiends
09/16 - Man From Missouri
09/21 - Exobiota
09/22 - Gazebo T Shirt
09/27 - National People's Gang, Chris D. and the Devine Horsemen
10/01 - Jamie James and the Kingbees, Grandpa's Become a Fungus
10/03 - Meat Puppets
10/04 - Tex and the Horseheads
10/05 - The Zentones
10/07 - Sacccarin Trust, Painted Willie, Phantom Opera
10/10 - KUCI Benefit - Moist & Meaty, Satan's Cheerleaders
10/12 - Pop Art
10/19 - Mojo Nixon
10/20 - Jazz Sunday - Shur Thing
10/21 - Raw Material, Rik L. Rik, China White
10/22 - Gazebo T- Shirt, Rik L. Rik, China White
10/25 - Fibonaccis
10/26 - Radio Head, Nick Pyzow, Lost Pilots
10/27 - Jazz Sunday - Shur Thing
10/31 - Exobiota, Vagabond Soul, Children's Day
11/01 - El Grupo Sexo, The Sattelites, The Fiends
11/03 -Sun Demons, Painted Willie, The Descendents
11/07 - Raszebrae, Fergusly Park, Cheeseboy, April Danielle
11/08 - Breathe, The Society, Intra Muros
11/09 - Rank & File, Nick Pyzow, Distorted Pop
11/10 - The Hard, Lexington Devils, New Alliance
11/11 - The Sattelites, As Is, Takamine Brothers
11/12 - Chic Willis, The Confessors
11/14 - Shattered Faith, The Hags, White Rabbit
11/15 - The Minutemen, El Grupo Sexo, Exobiota
11/16 - Rumbletown, Bell Jar, The Cinematics
11/17 - The Red Devils, Incomplete Monday, Medicine Man
11/18 - The Sattelites, Map of France, Tour Guides
11/19 - J.J. Jones
11/21 - Sextet, The Statics, Magic Fish
11/22 - Scarecrows
11/30 - Domes, Opera: Tarot Terror, Jimmy Townes
12/04 - The Jolly Happy Kinds
12/05 - 10,000 Maniacs
12/08 - The Insiders
12/14 - Chris D. and the Divine Horsemen, Rank and File Liquor license suspended
12/15 - 12/18 - Marie & Bruce - One Act Play, The Descendents
12/19 - El Grupo Sexo, Jesus and Mary Chain
12/29 - Mojo Nixon, Baker Brothers, Blood on the Saddle, Arab and the Suburban Turbans
12/31 - El Grupo Sexo, DIN, The Hags
1986
01/01 - Poetry Night
01/02 - Broken English, Brave Tears
01/03 - U.A.T. Radiohead, Magic Fish
01/04 - Rockin' Rebels, The Grave Diggers, The Final Tourguides
01/05 - The Third Down, The Same, Wilson's Down
01/06 - Takamine Brothers, Chaos Swings, Ahrab and the Suburban Turbans
01/07 - The Confessors
01/08 - Poetry Night
01/09 - Shattered Faith, The Hags, The Lexington Devils, Pearls Before Swine
01/10 - The Zarkons, Exobiota, Raw Material, Faux Pas
01/11 - The J-Walkers, Bay of Pigs, National Peolple's Gang
01/12 - D.I., SWA (2 shows)
01/13 - Gone, Painted Willie, Black Flag - referred to in "Get in the Van"
01/14 - Carlos Guitarlos, The Confessors
01/15 - Poetry Night
01/16 - Tin Soldier, The Statics, Mark Caserta
01/17 - Rank and File, The Sattellites, Swamp Zombies
01/18 - Abecedarians, Man From Missouri, Drowning Pool
01/19 - Meat Puppets, The Hags, The Zentones
01/20 - Jonathon Richman and the Modern Lovers, Memories of Days Gone By
01/24 - Vagabond Soul
01/26 -The Bell Jar
01/27 - White Rabbit
02/01 - Daddyos, Zoogz Rift*
02/02 - TSOL, Angst, Satan's Cheerleaders
02/03 - TSOL, False Faces, The Earwigs, Map of France
02/06 - Abscess, The Whirlybirds, Crown Denier
02/07 - James Harman Band, The Bedrockers
02/08 - Electric Cooladie, Bad Actors, Apache Dancers, Out of the Blue
02/09 - China White, The Floorlords, Ouch Cube
02/10 - Children's Day, Killer Wail, Grandpa's Become A Fungus, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Dead of Nature
02/11 - The Confessors
02/13 - Alliance for Survival Benefit: El Grupo Sexo, Intra Muros
02/14 - El Grupo Sexo, Screaming Sirens, Raw Material
02/15 - Children's Day, Cambridge Apostles, Pulu & Ingrid
02/16 - The Society, Magic Fish, In Color
02/17 - Stumble, Bell Jar, The Wake
02/19 - Poetry Night with the Roaring Popes
02/20 - Love Dolls, Medicine Man, Exobiota
02/22 - Falling Moon, Clockwork, Cathedral of Tears
02/27 - The Suicide Kings, Love Canal
03/02 - Beat Farmers, Western Skies
03/07 - Screaming Sirens, El Grupo Sexo
03/09 - Electric Cool-aide
03/10 - Mojo Nixon, National People's Gang, Kevin Utsler and Isaac Guzman
03/11 - The Pandoras
03/12 - The Fibonaccis - Endgame in rehearsal
03/13 - Black Flag, October Faction
03/14 - 17 Pygmies
03/15 - Holy Sisters of the Gaga Dada, The Opaque Window, Map of France
03/16, 3/17 - Social Distortion, Das Dudes
03/18 - Henry Rollins, Spoken Word / Endgame / 'Dentity Crisis
03/19 - The Nuns
03/23 - El Grupo Sexo, Screamin' Sirens, The Final Tourguides
03/28 - U.A.T.
03/29 - DaddyO's, Exobiota, Chris D. and the Divine Horsemen
04/01 - Tazers, Lost Cause, The Earwigs
04/02 - Poetry Night w/ Uterus
04/03 - Kaprelyan, The Big Feel, Alter Ego
04/04 - Camper Van Beethoven, Brave Tears, Bad Actors, Deadly Sins
04/05 - Matinee: Man From Missouri, X1 Whiteman, Electric Cool-aide
Evening: Holy Smokes, Robert Williams, Rockin' Rebels
04/06 - Love Dolls, Red Kross
04/07 - Swamp Zombies, The Earwigs, Cinematics
04/08 - Radio City looses it's permit / Winston Down, Streethearts, Raw Material
04/09 - 10,000 Maniacs - Natalie Merchant Incident / Clockwork, The Zentones
04/10 - Van Go Go's, The Red Devils, Sextet
04/11 - Western Skies, Man From Missouri
04/12 - Cheap Suit, M.K.M. Stress, The Walkers, Scott Pope & the Rhythm Men
04/13 - Freshly Wrapped Candy, The Hags, Plan
04/14 - St. August, The Earwigs, Pseudo Eyes
04/15 - The Final Tourguides, Children's Day, Preston Smith & The Crocodiles
04/16 - Poetry Night with Terrell & Christopher Crockett
04/17 - Alliance For Survival with Rotundi, Intra Muros
04/18 - The Confessors, James Harman
04/19 - Purple Bosco, The Remnant, Saccharine Trust, Blood on the Saddle
04/20 - This End Up, Alien Sea, Factory
04/21 - Bell Jar, The Tracers, Man From Missouri
04/22 - Stumble, Zero to Infinity
04/23 - Poetry Night with Grandpa's Become a Fungus
04/24 - The Stand, Opaque Window, In Color
04/25 - Tender Fury, The Cinematics, Traditional Beast
04/26 - Angry Samoans, Daddyo's, Serious Liesure, The Final Tourguides
04/27 - Victor, The Squirts, Native Language
04/28 - Incomplete Monday, Silkensen, Exhorted
04/29 - The Difference, The Final, The Space Between
04/30 - Poetry Night with Cartoon
05/02 - Bell Jar
05/05 - El Grupo Sexo, A Noise Agency, Pete The Bartender
05/06 - Ex Voto, The Final Tourguides, Flies on Fire
05/07 - Poetry Night with Touch, Ashton Rands
05/08 - Balancing Act, April Danielle, Peter Case & Victoria Williams
05/09 - China White, Hard as Nails/Cheap as Dirt, Little Girls, Big Feel
05/10 - Stone Soul Picnic, Taz, Stormbringer
05/11, 05/12 - Social Distortion
05/13 - The Tazers, In Color, Spoke Word by Henry Rollins
05/14 - Poetry Night with Freshly Wrapped Candies
05/15 - Swamp Zombies, Mojo Nixon, Camper Van Beethoven
05/16 - Wednesday Week, Blue Trapeze, Downey Mildew
05/17 - The Beguiled, Melvis and the Megatones, Out of the Blue
05/18 - Gazebo T-Shirt, Jane and the Generics, Missing Faces
05/19 - Satan's Cheerleaders, The Final Tourguides, Zombie Birdhouse
05/20 - Hollow Men, 13th Grade
05/21 Poetry Night with Factory
05/22 - Lonesome Strangers, Western Skies, Radio Ranch Straight Shooters
05/23 - James Harman, Frankie S. Band
05/24 - Children's Day, Penguins Slept, Exobiota
05/25 - The Stand, Dissarray, Swamp Zombies
05/30 - The Final Tourguides
05/31 - Tail Gators
06/07 - Faux Pas, Viv Alundren, Gazebo T-Shirt, Screamin' Sirens
06/08 - Matinee: Tender Fury, The Floorlords, Magic Fish
06/08 - Bob Gnarly and the Failures
06/09 - Ex-Voto
06/12 - The Bell Jar, Tex and the Horseheads, The Final Tourguides
06/13 - Tupelo Chain Sex
06/20 - Lexington Devils, Riptides, Vagabond Soul
06/27 - fIREHOSE, Exobiota
06/29 - The Final Tourguides
06/30 - Unforgiven
07/04 - El Grupo Sexo
07/05 - Norwegian Wood, Children's Day, Sonic Youth -
http://www.sonicyouth.com/..mustang/cc/070586.html
07/06 - White Rabbit, The Hags
07/10 - M.I.A., The Hags, No Crisis
07/11 - El Grupo Sexo
07/18 - The Wild Cards
07/19 - Meat Puppets
07/20 - Social Distortion, SINS, Partners in Crime
07/21 - Social Distortion, TSOL, Fath20
07/23 - 07/26 - Ted Hawkins, Jonathon Richman
07/27 - The Final Tourguides
08/08 - Gravediggers, Red Devils, Wall Flowers (never made it?)
08/10 - The Hags M.I.A.
08/14 - El Grupo Sexo, Clapping Fish
08/16 - Blood on the Saddle, Exobiota, The Little Kings
08/17 - Dream Syndicate
08/23 - The Bell Jar, Children's Day, White Fronts
08/29 - Rik L. Rik
08/31 - Easter, Alex Chilton
09/05 - James Harmon Band, The Beat Pests
09/07 - Safari Sam's goes dark
09/15 - Demonstration At HB City Hall
09/21 - Benefit Concert at The Coach House: El Grupo Sexo, Firehose, Blood On The Saddle, Opaque Window, The Stand, In Color, Swamp Zombies
10/19 - Benefit Concert: Children's Day, Social Distortion, Western Skies, National People's Gang, Nick Pyzow, Electric Cool-aide, The Bell Jar, The Sattellites
11/23 - Safari Sam's funeral
think i'll put some classic JA on shuffle...
