oucheh wrote:Gabes closed it's doors on July 6th. It will be re-opened under the name The Picador. From my understanding it will be a cleaner version of Gabes, they are even re-doing the infamous bathrooms. Long live Gabes and it awful bathrooms & treacherous stairwells.

R.I.P. Gabe's!

You were so beautiful to me!

oucheh wrote:Long live Gabes ... treacherous stairwells.

I carried a piano down those stairs.

Here is some discussion of the Gabe's closing.

Cleaning up the Gabe's bathroom. Jesus H. Why not give the Mona Lisa fake tits while we're at it?

Has anybody else ever carried a bass cabinet down Gabe's frozen back stairs in the middle of February? It's a delight.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:
Has anybody else ever carried a bass cabinet down Gabe's frozen back stairs in the middle of February? It's a delight.

The middle of August was treacherous enough.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Here is some discussion of the Gabe's closing.

Cleaning up the Gabe's bathroom. Jesus H. Why not give the Mona Lisa fake tits while we're at it?

Has anybody else ever carried a bass cabinet down Gabe's frozen back stairs in the middle of February? It's a delight.

One night, while drinking tap beer at Gabes, we paid a friend $50 to lay in the Downstairs bathroom troth. Everyone tried packing in from the bar to see it, and my friend, against all better judgement, laid there for 1 whole minute. Fucking disgusting. There are pictures of this event floating around, I'll try to find one to post.

-Jeremy

tallchris wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:
Has anybody else ever carried a bass cabinet down Gabe's frozen back stairs in the middle of February? It's a delight.

The middle of August was treacherous enough.

December sucked.

Schaal wrote:There's a bar called Hairy Mary's that is kind of a stoner-rocker's dream come true. Lots of Frank Kozik posters and schwag there.

USS Horsewhip and Gorch Fock played there for the bartenders not too long ago. A cool bar. Would be cooler if they promoted their shows.

if you're badgers, hawkeyes and gophers, then i'm a goddamn keystone.

My girlfriend just moved to Des Moines to attend Podiatry school at DMU.