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It was hard for original acts in the early/mid 90's to get weekend gigs at clubs. Sure, there was Monday nights at Iliff Park Saloon, Eck's or even Sunday night at Oil Can Harry's. The Blitz Room had some challenges in terms of it's location, but my band finally had a place to draw people to see us on weekends.

Our first time there, we were waiting an hour or so to see when we could get our gear setup on the stage, and this guy named Bill was all pissed off over things that didn't involve us. We decided, let's play "Sunday" and go from there. Right after we did that, Bill said he loved us, introduced himself and we never had a problem with him since

Keith Spargo and I joined forces for his cover band Paragon, but he had a vision for an original band that was originally titled "Senator" or "Czar" so we decided to check out the original circuit to see what's what. Gil Martin told us about The Blitz Room that was located on the way east side of town, but that didn't stop us. The room was HUGE. The stage was large, the lights were good and at the back of the room were some pool tables with posters of Asian female models on the walls. I was a pretty high energy guy who didn't realize that scared a few people on occassion, so when I went to the bar to get a few beers, the asian guy who I learned later was the owner named Bruce looked at me very mortified.

I went to the Blitz Room with Ty once to check out a band called Fragile X. It was cool to see a place that had original music on the weekends but since it was at a hotel, no one could tell it was a rock/metal club on the outside. There was a nicely dressed couple who walked into the room, and Bill Terrell being Bill- greeted them with "We have a 5 dollar cover for each person tonight". This couple asked him if they played live music and Bill's like "Uh, guys isn't this obvious?". They completely sticked out like a sore thumb, there were alot of long haired tattooed people in the crowd and I think that couple was expecting Yacht Rock or something.

I was new to town from Minnesota, and through Catalina Soltero from the Colorado metal e-list, heard about this place and went. I caught onto the scene quite well.

Early on, this was one of the first places to have strictly original music on the weekends, that was the plus. However, this modified Hotel connected conference room was not sonically adaptable for loud music, the high ceilings reverberated, and heavier more aggressive bands echoed throughout. I often wondered what overnight hotel guests thought. Was the hotel even operational? Kudos, to Bill Terrell, for launching this though, it eventually led to his more successful club, Whiskey Bills