Someone posted this on Facebook today (albeit without a photo credit, sadly) and it's just such a smashing image of the place, I thought I'd share it. Click on it to enlarge.
The first time I went here was in 1982 to see Devo on the Oh, No It's Devo tour. Some time after that, it was closed and completely re-modeled and re-invented as the quintessential big 80's club. In that iteration, I saw Public Image Ltd., Fishbone, The Dead Milkmen, 2 Live Crew, Digital Underground and a neck-snapping triple bill of Foetus, The Unsane and Cop Shoot Cop.
Today, the footprint of the Palladium plays host to a soulless NYU dorm (churlishly still referred to as The Palladium) with a Trader Joe's on its ground floor. By my estimation, the iconic spot where Paul Simonon smashed his bass guitar, as captured by photographer Pennie Smith for the cover of London Calling, is somewhere at the end of the produce section.
Who did YOU see here?
Below is frankly goofy 3D reconstruction of its iteration as a nightclub...
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