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Club Can't Tell - a music venue 1984 - 1988 ... located at 12th & K Streets, downtown Sacramento. Please share your photos and experiences.
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cs, Contractions, Charlie Peacock, Oingo Boingo, Crowded House, Lords of the New Church with Stiv Bators, The Stranglers, Faith No More, Flamin' Groovies, The Germs, John Hiatt, David Lindley, Vktms, Regans Kids, True West, Hunting Game, Let's Active, Spencer Davis, Missing Persons, The Tubes, Kenny G, Psychedelic Furs, Los Lobos, The Milkmen, Deftones, Tex and the Horseheads, Circle Jerks, Eeek-a-Mouse, Lita Ford, Mighty Joe Young, Mission of Burma, Bad Brains, Black Flag, The Plastics, Caribbean Allstars, Husker Du, The Call, Smithereens, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Tommy Tutone, Translator, Thin White Rope, Del Shannon, New Model Army, Adverts, Crime, GBH, Nuns, Charlie Musselwhite, Flock of Seagulls, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, the Neville Brothers, Subhumans, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Wall of Voodoo, Eye Protection, Nick Cave, Concrete Blonde, John Cale, Humble Pie, Wayne County, Greg Kihn, Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra, Tower of Power, Fear, Camper Beethoven, David LaFlamme, Siouxsie, Jo-el Sonnier with Albert Lee and Garth Hudson, The Avengers, The Lewd, Young Canadians, Sonic Youth, TSOL, Tales of Terror, Wire Train, Grandmaster Flash, Flipper, Red Rockers, No Sisters, Times Five, Cowboy Junkies, Joe King Carrasco, Roky Erickson, The Call, Bonnie Hayes, Lita Ford, Uptones, The Features, Bourgeois-Tagg, Berlin, R.E.M., X, Bow Wow Wow, Dead Kennedys, Rank and File, 999, Peter Case with the Plimsoles, Deadboys, Nuns, Wire Train, Romeo Void, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Henry Kaiser, Del Fuegos, Gang of Four, Chris Isaak, and many, many more.....

06/04/2024

The Lords of the New Church with Stiv Bators on vocals was one of my favorite Club Can’t Tell shows. They brought primal New York City punk to Sacramento. The audience probably experienced what it was like at CBGB-OMFUG or Max’ Kansas City. The show felt very Bowery and Stiv wore the pointiest stiletto heels I ever saw. (photo: Greg Savalin)

05/23/2024

Another Club Can’t Tell marquee photo showed up on the feed. Specimen played on Halloween — how appropriate! Please keep the photos coming! 🎃 👻

05/20/2024

Can't Tell shows included The Blasters, The Beat Farmers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fishbone, Richard Hell, Iggy Pop, General Public, The Cramps, Rubinoos, Rosie Flores, Authorities, Waitresses, El-Rayo X, Mitch Ryder, Crime, Angry Samoans, Todd Rundgren, D.O.A., Mutants, Cowboy Junkies, Lone Justice, Love and Rockets, 77s, Bush Tetras, The Church, Rain Parade, The Knitters, Psychotic Pineapple, Antics, Contractions, Charlie Peacock, Oingo Boingo, Crowded House, Lords of the New Church with Stiv Bators, The Stranglers, Faith No More, Flamin' Groovies, The Germs, John Hiatt, David Lindley, Vktms, Bangles, Regan Kids, True West, Hunting Game, Let's Active, Spencer Davis, Missing Persons, The Tubes, Kenny G, Psychedelic Furs, Los Lobos, The Milkmen, Deftones, Maria Muldauer, Tex and the Horseheads, Circle Jerks, Eeek-a-Mouse, Lita Ford, Mighty Joe Young, Mission of Burma, Bad Brains, Black Flag, The Plastics, Caribbean Allstars, Husker Du, The Call, Smithereens, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Translator, Thin White Rope, Del Shannon, Tommy Tutone, New Model Army, Adverts, Crime, GBH, Nuns, Charlie Musselwhite, Flock of Seagulls, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, the Neville Brothers, Subhumans, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Wall of Voodoo, Eye Protection, Nick Cave, Concrete Blonde, John Cale, Humble Pie, Wayne County, Greg Kihn, Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra, Tower of Power, Fear, Camper Van Beethoven, David LaFlamme, Siouxsie, Jo-El Sonnier with Albert Lee and Garth Hudson, The Avengers, The Lewd, Young Canadians, Sonic Youth, TSOL, Tales of Terror, Wire Train, Grandmaster Flash, Specimen, Flipper, Red Rockers, No Sisters, Times Five, Cowboy Junkies, Stryper, Joe King Carrasco, Roky Erickson, The Call, Bonnie Hayes, Lita Ford, Uptones, The Features, Bourgeois-Tagg, Berlin, R.E.M., X, Bow Wow Wow, Dead Kennedys, Rank and File, 999, Peter Case with the Plimsoles, Deadboys, Nuns, Wire Train, Romeo Void, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Henry Kaiser, Del Fuegos, Gang of Four, Chris Isaak, and many, many more.....

05/19/2024

I’ll stop inundating you with calendars from Club Can’t Tell — but here’s one more. Maybe you remember some of these groups. Unforgettable was the Beat Farmers with wild Country Dick Montana. And with the recent death of beloved Mojo Nixon, here’s proof that they were here!

05/19/2024

Somebody posted a two-week calendar from Club Can’t Tell — in response to the documentary. I have to say this was pretty typical of the acts we presented regularly. As the ad says, “There’s always something going on at Club Can’t Tell — everything from national acts, to varied musical genres, to local nights and dancing. 🕺🎶🎤 #

05/18/2024

I went downtown this morning to meet with filmmaker Kirk McCaleb who is making a documentary on the Sacramento music scene of the 80s. We met at the site of my Club Can’t Tell and told stories and reminisced a bit. It was great to meet up with producer Johnny Pride (formerly of the Features) and our old sidekick Dave “Ratty” Perry! 🎶

12/10/2023

TB by Kevin Seconds in 2013 talking about the China Wagon days:

The D.O.A./Black Flag/Reagan Kids China Wagon show was the first punk show in Sacramento I ever saw. It was in September of 1980 and i lived in Reno at the time. D.O.A. had just played Reno and had invited a bunch of us to make the drive down for the show. Around 10 of us did and it was quite a doozy.

Back then, Sac had a lot of new wavers (lotsa gangly nerdy kids in long overcoats and skinny ties who liked the B-52s and Blondie) and only a small hardcore scene. It was at this show that i got to know cool Sac punk folks like Karen Spencer, Rat's Ass and Johnny No-Style and they welcomed us Skeenos by thrashing and skanking with us on the dancefloor.

The Reagan Kids were great.

D.O.A. were their usual brilliant selves. This was the classic Sh*thead/Rampage/Biscuits/Gregg-era and no band could touch D.O.A., live-wise, at the time.

Black Flag destroyed my brain that night.

The show ended in a mini-riot when our then singer Dim Menace, who had been drinking all day long, got into it with some metal dude and his girlfriend at the front door. The fight carried on outside, the cops came and by the time we hustled Dim back into the car to go home, I believe he had fought 5 or 6 different people.

(Poster: Danny DiPierro)

07/31/2023

Do you remember these bands? So many of them played at Club Can’t Tell, Galactica 2000 and the China Wagon. 🎶 Who did you see?

04/03/2023

This morning, the internet is awash with the news of the passing of Seymour Stein, founder of Sire records. You might not recognize his name, but you know and admire the acts he discovered and signed. In fact, these acts and their songs formed the soundtrack of our lives in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Stein introduced UK acts like The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, Seal, The Cure and Madness to the US.

Other signings included Ice-T, The Pretenders, KD Lang, Lou Reed, The Undertones, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids.

Perhaps his most well known signings were the Ramones, Talking Heads, Madonna.

In 2005, Stein was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which hailed his ability to "hear the future".

03/08/2023

With the sad passing of David Lindley, almost everyone has a story. I first met him when he arrived at my Club Can’t Tell in the ‘80s. No, he wasn’t solo. He was part of the mind-blowing, ultra talented group: Jo-EL Sonnier and Friends. Jo-El (if you don’t know him) is a Cajun accordion playing, singer-songwriter who was born to play exactly what he does. David Lindley shared the stage with a great, great band of musicians including Jo-El, Garth Hudson, Sneaky Pete, Albert Lee, Cactus Moser, Byron Berlin and a few others. David was a wonderful musician who was so talented on multiple instruments. In addition, he was warm, so friendly and very funny. The two shows they played over the years are among my favorite memories that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life.

10/27/2022

Original poster for a Can’t Tell Productions show with The Cramps! They lived in Sacramento for a time.

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