#first avenue
Grouplove at First Avenue Minneapolis, MN on Sunday, December 23. Click here for tickets.
I recently had the pleasure of shooting another Wreslepalooza (XII) in Minneapolis. Here are some of my favorite selects from the night. Click here for more (because there’s over 300, lol).
WRESTLEPALOOZA XII
Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
June 2018
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Kat with Babes In Toyland performing at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN - 12/22/94
Photo by Michael Ochs
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Babes In Toylandperforming at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN - December 22, 1994
Photo by Michael Ochs
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“Babes in Toyland pose for a portrait at First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 23, 1995.”
Credit: Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs
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Having an umbrella can come in handy.
On humid summer afternoons, thunderclouds invade the cornflower skies of the Upper Northwest, leaving Minneapolis sidewalks drenched in puddles of purple rain.
The epicenter is often the First Avenue and 7th Street Entry, built as a bus depot but converted into a music venue. Joe Cocker played two sets there on opening night, April 3rd, 1970.
Fourteen years later, a local talent made First Avenue famous. Prince rented the club for $100,000 over 25 days to serve as the main location for his first film. The soundtrack for Purple Rain included Let’s Go Crazy and When Doves Cry and earned an Academy Award. Prince simultaneously had the top single, album and film in the United States.
He continued to visit First Avenue is subsequent decades, both to perform and listen to new musicians. On the day Prince died in 2016, more than 10,000 people converged near the venue for an impromptu celebration of his life.
(Photograph by Scott Church from DeviantArt.)
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