You could see John Lee Hooker, Huey Lewis (he was everywhere), Bonnie Raitt and other national and international stars play together on that small stage. Musicians from all walks took a busman’s holiday at that club. Huey filmed music videos at Uncle Charlie’s to a standing-room crowd. Huey Lewis got his running start there, opening for my friends: Marin County’s own Fat Chance. It was the hot spot for many of us for many years.
I remember clubs like the Lion’s Share and the Sleeping Lady where musicians and those who loved them and their music rubbed elbows and boogied to a common beat.Īlong came Uncle Charlie’s in Corte Madera. I moved to Marin in the early ’70s having been born and raised in San Francisco, a child of the Summer of Love who grew up around all types of music from opera to jazz, bluesy rhythm and rockin’ blues. Below we have included every letter or e-mail we received, and we urge you to add your own comments at the end of these memories. The stories range from the 1930s to the current decade, but most of the nostalgia centered on the 1970s, when baby boomers were really spreading their wings and testing’s life’s limits. The IJ posted an all-points bulletin for readers’ Marin nightclub memories more than a year ago, and we’ve saved the responses that have trickled into our office.