Today in Duran History – The Spit

Betcha think this blog is gonna be about White Lines….

WRONG!

On today’s date in 1981, Duran Duran played at The Spit on Long Island. That’s right folks, they played at what was a club named The Spit.  That’s friendly and fun for the very first show played in the US, isn’t?  This is was the band’s first visit to North America, where they thought they’d be IN New York City rather than driving away from it, and this was also the trip where John announced that they should be on the “expwee” (expwy = expressway) Yep, here in the US we devise the signs so that way visitors….and the occasional US resident…get lost. Welcome to America!!!

And to think that one show…at The Spit…started all that we know here in the states from this band.

-R

 

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2 comments

  1. Very interesting nickname for expressway :-). Thankyou for sharing this fact as i did not know there was a place called “The Spit”!

  2. I can verify that…I was in the warm up band, The Lines, that played at the Spit show. It was a popular Long Island New Wave club at the time and at other nights of the week it was a disco named Uncle Sam’s.

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