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The Moon Glow was already closed for a few years when this photo was taken, but in the late 1950s and early 60s, it was an R&B club. Tommy Chong about playing there with The Shades, his band from those days:
The Moon Glow was owned by Daddy Clark, a railway porter who loved The Shades and wanted to see us back together. Railway porters played a big part in our development as blues musicians because they were the ones who brought records up from the States, turning us on to Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, who did tunes like 鈥淪exy Ways,鈥� 鈥淎nnie Had a Baby,鈥� and 鈥淭he Twist.鈥� They brought us the latest records from Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and a host of other blues artists who were otherwise unobtainable. We would learn these great tunes and then play them for a grateful audience, who would be hearing them for the first time, since they were never played on the radio.
became well known in the local live music scene and had a brush with fame when his band, signed with Motown. After that effort fizzled,聽 turned his brother's topless bar at Main and Pender, the , into a comedy club where he paired up with Cheech Marin to form .
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