I was sitting down to eat a bagel earlier and flicked on VH1 Classic, only to see the clip below pop up.
I always liked The Smithereens. I mean, they were never going to be a huge deal, but they pumped out a clutch of pretty great tunes along the way. Especially For You remains a great goddamn record, as far as I’m concerned.
In any case, here’s the clip for “A Girl Like You,” from their 1989 album, 11.
While it’s actually not one of my favorite tracks by the band, the video is shot entirely in the space that was formerly known as The Cat Club (then later the Grand and then, after that, about five or six different names before it was closed for good) off the corner of East 13th Street and Fourth Avenue.
I’ve talked about this space before (see below), but I saw some amazing shows here. From Big Country, The Primitives and Ethyl Meatplow through Redd Kross, Cop Shoot Cop and Killing Joke, this room played host to a lot of great music.
It’s gone today, of course. The actual facade of the exterior is still there, strangely, but the space where all this happened is now part of the hugely expensive Hyatt Union Square Hotel….a venue I shall quite assuredly never spend a night -- let alone a thin red dime -- in.
Anyway, the beginning of the video is shot right on Fourth Avenue (across from what was briefly Pie Face). For the guitar solo, they go outside…..can you spot the Missing Foundation logo on the wall?
Enjoy…
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