Starck Club Documentary

[michelej1]

I just saw this DVD on Amazon, Warriors of the Discotheque: The Starck Club Documentary. I wonder if it has footage of Stevie.

A newspaper article quoted on Amazon says: "Following its 1984 first night, when Stevie Nicks and Grace Jones shared the stage, Starck soon had millionaire socialites, trendoids and transvestites on queue, all hoping for a life-affirming nod from style-conscious doormen. Guests like Maureen Reagan and Monaco's Prince Albert mingled among 20-somethings with green hair. They danced or lounged to the pounding beats of cutting-edge DJs in a luxe environment designed by a brand name in global cool, Philippe Starck."

[iamnotafraid]

NetFlix it. Cheaper that way.

[priestofnothing]

I know its been mentioned before, but Stevie was also an investor in the Starck Club. Here is an article from the newspaper when I lived in Dallas back in 1983.

Another little tidbit, apparently, Gordon Perry was also one of the investors.

[Sanne2]

I think this was Stevie's only performance in 1984?
I looked everywhere for pics of this

[goldustsongbird]

I hope they sang Pull Up To The Bumper.

Is that pic in the article supposed to be mamala? Even if I squint i'm not seeing her.

[priestofnothing]

No, the picture is of Nancy Smith (the author) she wrote a society type column in the Dallas Times Herald.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by joe

Is that pic in the article supposed to be mamala? Even if I squint i'm not seeing her.

"Mamala"

I like that.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

I hope they sang Pull Up To The Bumper.

Just imagining Stevie on that song is hilarious.

Then again, I couldn't imagine her singing Crash until it happened. Michele

[michelej1]

[Excerpt from this drug article mentions an upcoming documentary on the Starck club]

http://www.refinery29.com/2013/08/50...ly-drug#page-2

Then, in 1984, former seminary student and self-proclaimed “Ecstasy missionary,” Michael Clegg returned to Dallas from a religious experience in California with a group of therapists. He brought MDMA with him, hooked up with some chemists, and started his own manufacturing operation. He sold it at clubs and through a 1-800 number (even offering free-shipping). One particularly popular club, just off the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, was the Starck Club, frequented by celebrities like Grace Jones and Stevie Nicks. “You had sexual freedom, which had come out of the ’70s, and the drug culture was still going on,” says filmmaker Michael Cain. Cain is currently in post-production for a new documentary, The Starck Project, about the club — which is regarded by many as the birthplace of rave culture in America. “It was just what you did...almost like a pyramid scheme. People would get invited to parties and be asked, ‘Would you like to buy it? Would you like to sell it to your friends?’ You could make money doing this.”

[michelej1]

Guide Live, May 11, 2014 By Alan Peppard

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com...v-series.html/

Looking back 30 years at the Starck Club opening and forward to a Starck TV series

Thirty years ago Monday, months of when-will-it-open speculation ended with the grand opening spectacle of the Starck Club. Now there is a new documentary about the era-defining Dallas nightspot. It drew a packed house closing night of the recent Dallas International Film Festival. A TV series could be next.

“It is the 30th anniversary of opening night,” says co-director Michael Cain, “and it is sweetly appropriate that we sign our final deal with Marc Levin (producer/director of Chicagoland) who is helping us release The Starck Club and develop a series based on the same.”

So what was it like that night 30 years ago? Fleetwood Mac had just gone on hiatus and lead singer Stevie Nicks was launching her solo career. She flew into Dallas and checked into The Mansion on Turtle Creek.

At 11:30 p.m., she and her band took the stage at Starck. Instead of doing a perfunctory set, Nicks danced and swirled for an hour and a half. She opened with “Gold Dust Woman” and worked her way through “Dreams,” “Sarah,” “Stand Back,” “Leather and Lace,” “Gypsy,” “The Edge of Seventeen” and “Rhiannon.”

Listening in that packed crowd was Bruce Springsteen guitarist and future Sopranos star Steve Van Zandt, Knotts Landing femme fatale Donna Mills and members of the local gentry such as Robbie Vaughn, Shannon Wynne, Monk White and Taylor Boyd.

A curious mix of blue bloods and transvestites gravitated to the unisex restrooms where club designer Philippe Starck sat in his blue jeans, telling friends, “Stay in here, it’s the best place.”

It was past 2 a.m., after the bars had stopped serving, that closing act Grace Jones took the stage in all her androgynous glory sporting a semi-Mohawk.

And five years later, it was all over. Jones was back at Starck for the club’s last night, a Farewell with Grace party.