The Gate of Horn

Subject: The Gate of Horn
From: GUEST,Monahan
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 12:01 PM

Has there been anything written about The Gste of Horn in Chicago? Any books or magazine articles? I found some nice info in the Bob Gibson bio, but I would like to begin to do some research with the idea of an article or maybe a book if there's interest. Unless someone has beaten me to the punch. Any ideas?

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 12:18 PM

Shouldn't this be in the "Eclectile Dysfunction Thread"?

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 01:16 PM

Thats The Gate of Horn..oops

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 02:15 PM

I was there then. It's where I first heard this folkie music we're so fond of.

To feel like you managed to get there yourself, read Shel Silverstein's liner notes on the back of the LP "BOB GIBSON AND BOB CAMP AT THE GATE OF HORN." ---- That's as close as you can get.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 02:15 PM

Are you on the horns of a dilema?

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 02:35 PM

In the 60's it was a place all us English folkies had heard of. All our favourite American folk groups had played there and made records there. Try Liam Clancy. The Kingston Trio. I would imagine occasional contributor to Mudcat and brilliant author Elijah Wald would have a fund of stories about the place from his studies of Josh White.

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 02:41 PM

There are descriptions of the Gate of Horn in the biographies of people who performed there, and people who had dealings with Albert Grossman.

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:46 PM

I first saw Sandy Paton there in the 1950s---and Odetta---and barefoot Joan Baez opening the show for Bob Gibson. Ed McCurdy, Frank Hamilton, Jo Mapes, Ron and Nama, Peter Yarrow, Paul Clayton, Roger McGuinn, Theo Bickel, Johnny Carbo, Cynthia Gooding, Shel Silverstein, Josh White (of course), Leon Bibb, Lord Richard Buckley, Gibson and Camp, Ron and Nama, the New Lost City Ramblers, Glen Yarborough---so many others. It was in the basement of the old Rice Hotel at Chicago Avenue and Dearborn St. in the near-north side area of Chicago. Not just in the basement, it WAS THE BASEMENT of the hotel. Low Ceilings you could easily touch. Pipes hanging... All painted black. One not too intense spot light above the performer---and a disembodied voice to make the introductions.

And then the old Rice Hotel burnt down, and Alan Ribback and Albert Grossman moved the place to State Street where Rush Street starts. There were carpets there---and it was very high class. (HIGH CLASS = "upscale" in modern English, now that there are no classes in Chi-town--or in America.---Sure!) --------

BUT it was never the same.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: The Gate of Horn
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 10:00 PM

Thanks for the memories, Art.