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LOS ANGELES — A new showcase club called the Place has opened in Eugene Ore., filling a musical void in the Eugene/Portland area. | |||
The 350-seat club opened its doors Feb. I and has thus tar presented Norton Buffalo, Elvis Costello, Hometown Band, Pat Travers, Tom Waits and Roger McGuinn, and Gene Clark. | |||
Club owner and promoter Alan Kovak cites market demographics as a major impetus behind the club's opening and future success. According to a survey, 47% of the market is 18-34-year-olds. | |||
Until now the only other outlets in the city Were the UM% of Oregon's basketball facility and the 1,250-seat Lane County Fairground. | |||
Also, Eugene's top-rated radio station KZEL-FM has been influen-tial in breaking records, prompting labels to support the club with new acts the station has exposed. | |||
"Because the station is breaking records." says Kovak. arc re-ciprocating and are enthusiastic about the situation." | |||
The club is also consenicnt to agents to round out West Coast tour dales. Artists can now make the San Francisco. Seattle. Portland and now Eugene circuit. | |||
The interior of the Place is done up in rustic decor A 10-foot by 12-foot modular stage has the capacity to expand to 24-feet by 24-fret. there are two bars at opposite ends of the room, tables, and a $30,000 sound system, notes Kovak. | |||
He says his experience as a promoter has given him insight into the kinds of environment musicians en-joy playing in. | |||
The Place is open seven nights a week with usually two shows per night. A regional act opens the show. | |||
Ticket prices have ailed so far from a low of S130 for the Home-town Band to a high of $5 for Tom Waits. Norton Buffalo was priced at WO while Roger McGuinn was $3.50. | |||
Kovak says his audiences are a miss of university students and regional residents. He did some mad-order shows with 241-26% 01 the re-sponkc coming from persons as far as 30 miles away About 25d1 were students with the remainder Eugene residents. | |||
The club has its own stage man-ager and lighting technician (mm Kovak's own in-house production company called Totally' Dedicated to Artists Productions. -Were build-ing a stable of artists that otherwise wouldn't come to Eugene." states K mak.. | |||
While the club is now IU.(100- 12.0011 StitIATC feet. it has the capac-ity to be expanded to 27,000 square feet- Kovak eventually plans on en-larging the seating capacity to 750 Wats and by April 114,0k only nation-ally known acts. | |||
Acts scheduled to appear in the future include the Amazing Rhythm Aces. Dizzy Gillespie. Woody Shaw. Karla Bonoff. Country Joe McDonald. James Cotton Esther Phillips. Tom Rush. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee and Stan Kenton. | |||
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