{"id":51277,"date":"2024-06-09T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51277"},"modified":"2024-06-09T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:58:19","slug":"retro-news-gigs-music-theater-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/06\/09\/retro-news-gigs-music-theater-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro News: Gigs Music Theater Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dZ5ogsljNv4?si=1yPnu-bQkFl0vrpg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A blast from the past \u2014\u00a0two news reports on the closing of Anchorage&#8217;s all-ages music venue <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/gigs\/\">Gigs Music Theater<\/a>, in August of 1998. There&#8217;s even a quick shot of me (long-haired, shirtless, and muddy after the \u00a1TchKung! performance) DJing at the 1:56 mark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-09-at-6.53.51%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A somewhat low-quality screengrab of a video clip of me DJing in 1998. The shot is from behind me over my right shoulder. I have long curly red hair dyed black at the ends. I&#39;m not wearing a shirt, and I have red streaks of mud on my cheek and shoulder. I have one hand on the tempo control of a Numark CD DJ mixer. There is a rack of CDs to my left.\" title=\"Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 6.53.51\u202fPM.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"880\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mark Romick and his daughter for recording these way back then, and then unearthing and uploading them (originally to the Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/90sanchoragealternaculture\">&#8217;90s Anchorage Alternaculture<\/a> group, then I copied the video to YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/90sanchoragealternaculture\/posts\/10163140521818942\/?comment_id=10163166569463942&#038;reply_comment_id=10163169257463942\">with Mark&#8217;s permission<\/a> and added subtitles).<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:889,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/gigs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250415145318\\\/http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/gigs\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 15:42:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 20:49:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 17:54:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 05:00:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 12:13:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 03:54:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-13 05:18:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-25 23:05:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-06 18:32:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-14 07:23:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 04:57:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 10:22:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-16 01:21:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-27 22:51:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-02 06:52:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-06 00:19:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-15 09:53:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-15 09:53:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:890,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/groups\\\/90sanchoragealternaculture&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/login\\\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F90sanchoragealternaculture&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:891,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/groups\\\/90sanchoragealternaculture\\\/posts\\\/10163140521818942\\\/?comment_id=10163166569463942\\u0026reply_comment_id=10163169257463942&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from the past \u2014\u00a0two news reports on the closing of Anchorage&#8217;s all-ages music venue Gigs Music Theater, in August of 1998. 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