
THE LEGENDARY TRADE WINDS NIGHTCLUB was one of the two live music venues in the Hudson Valley that we played at on a regular basis. The other was the Buccaneer on the border of Poughkeepsie and Pleasant Valley. Both were owned by the Pietrzak brothers, Frank and Tony.
Our guitarist Jack Dougherty was cleaning out his mothers attic recently and came across these photos. Since they were shot as slides and not prints, most of them held up pretty well. We will post a few more of these rare pieces of Bandit memorabilia in the near future. |

THE RED DOG IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT was on the second floor overtop a taxi stand. Occasionally we would be blasting away at a Hendrix tune and when the last note was played, we would get the taxi cab calls through our amplifiers. It's unusual when "PURPLE HAZE WAS IN MY EYES!" is followed by "pick up the old lady with the bag on the corner of Church and Third."
Incidentally, the Red Dog was located on a diagonal from Nectars, the club that decades later would become famous for a band that got their start there - Phish. |