Line Out - Comments on It's 1982 And You're At The Monastery.... http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery Remember The Monastery? You don't? From 1978 through the mid '80's The Monastery was Seattles premier gay disco/underground nightclub. It was hot. There were men. There were drugs. There was sex. Very few women were allowed in the club at... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:22:35 -0800 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:45:02 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Brian If it's 1982 and I'm at the Monastary, everyone is in a shitload of trouble because I'm 12.

]]> Brian http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802612 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802612 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:45:46 -0800 Comment by TJ Sean sent this to me a few days ago and I loved it. It's nice to see that Seattle was representing an italo/disco scene when it was actually in it's prime. I wish I could go back in time and attend this club just once!

]]> TJ http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802619 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802619 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:52:09 -0800 Comment by Ari Spool Isn't the Monastery where this whole TDO business got started?

]]> Ari Spool http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802695 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802695 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:49:11 -0800 Comment by chris yup, ari. the TDO had it's roots in the aftermath of the monastary. the local media had a heyday with scare stories about the owner george freeman, and all the underage drugging and sexing that was happening there. although there was a shady element to the monastery, it was heaven for a young, barely out fag like me. my friends and i would sneak out and drive 3 hours from eastern washington just to try to get in. thanks terry, your post brought back some great memories.

]]> chris http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802759 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802759 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:30:20 -0800 Comment by terry miller actually it wasn't until the final years of The Monastery wwhere it actually got bad.

If i remember correctly there was talk of homeless kids making it in, then basically being pimped or pimping themselves to the older/richer crowd.

and i think the drug thing finally got out of control (when is a drug thing under control at a club...i dunno.)

but as i've heard via the grapevine, that was really towards the end. in it's first five years though it was supposedly a safe loving family place. and by family i mean, everyone knew eachother, stood up for eachother and watched out for eachother. that all faded, as it always does. (see NY's club scene for a grander scale of that whole loop.)

]]> terry miller http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802780 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802780 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:44:33 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop the monastery was bonkers. the few times i went always felt so dirty and dangerous. it was great, much better than skoochies. plus, MDA was legal.

and, i might be making this up in my mind, but wasn't sidran's kid a monastery regular/teenage runaway? isn't that when sidran started losing his shit with regard to all ages clubs?

can anyone confirm?

]]> kerri harrop http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802848 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802848 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:27:10 -0800 Comment by Tom C. RIP Dana, here's to your mix living on.

Not much else a good DJ can hope for after life!

]]> Tom C. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802900 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c802900 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:12:56 -0800 Comment by Amelia Thank you. This is great. I wish I could remember enough from certain... eras to google the people who'd provide the links.

]]> Amelia http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c803014 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c803014 MP3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:51:39 -0800 Comment by Sean Wolcott Thanks to Paul at outlab.net who identified the unknown tracks on the first set:

06. [UNKNOWN]
Is "Flight To Fantasy" by Linda G. Thompson
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JSIVjqIUoiY

08. [UNKNOWN]
Is "Don't You Believe That" by Hot Shot

Be sure to checkout outlab.net, a great site in the Netherlands (current electro-disco mecca of the world).

]]> Sean Wolcott http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c803292 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c803292 MP3 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:37:28 -0800 Comment by guhay A fucking mazing.

]]> guhay http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c803369 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/its_1982_and_youre_at_the_monastery#c803369 MP3 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:45:02 -0800