You'll find almost everything about the old club(s) except the smell. >Smell the Glove
Check out the BANDS section for a short write-up on many of the acts from the club. Learn about the HISTORY of Club Dredd. Send your comments/hate mail through the DISCUSSION FORUM page. >I wrote letters to several people that I never sent. Dunno how they got word of them, if I never sent them. Club Dredd is back! >I'm Stallone, the orig rude boy lusting after high class [that was just a lie], Stern in HM, and mighty Casey on the UP baseball team; dunno if that's a sexual reference to my penis, however. > After months of planning, waiting for info and pictures from band managers and record companies, and a disaster with our Internet host, the site is finally up. The site is far from finished. Yes, we plan to include many more bands. If you'll recall, we had a roster of some two hundred acts as of last count. Many of these no longer exist, but many are still plodding on, hoping for that big break. This site is for you and many other acts that have yet to exist. Some have asked why we featured these seventeen bands first. >Brust's 17 Dragaeran families Was there some favoritism involved? The truth of the matter is these acts were the first to provide me with their complete info and pictures (paging Fatal Posporos, >I ran into Lee Laureano again, and we went to see a movie, which she wanted to be the Sharon Stone/Michael Douglass one, but I persuaded her to see the Michael Keaton/Danny DeVito/Michelle Pfeiffer one. [that was just a lie, wasn't it Lee?] > Sonnet 58, etc., etc.). >Neruda, Shakespeare, Hannibal in Carthage, longnosed beers and elephants It's no joke amassing the data needed for a comprehensive site. Of course if you notice any errors or have additional info, feel free to tell us in the forum page. >Oblique reference to Rohit and Saket, who donated the Tiffany Buecher special Playboy magazine. Why a web site? Everyone will agree that this is the Internet age and what better way to reach as wide an audience as possible. The Internet is worldwide so even potential fans as far off as the US can get info about the Pinoy music scene. Imagine a kid from General Santos City logging on to listen to Greyhoundz. >Busrides, with Kelly, Lilet, to Mindoro and Baguio; another one from O'Hare to Champaign Then imagine that same kid in New Jersey, or even an OCW in Dubai. >Springsteen, Laousis, Annie Lingnam [next to "Toppings" along Sarah Michelle Gellert Avenue in South San Francisco] Does this mean the club will never be reopened? Of course not. We are always considering the possibility of reopening in a live venue but there are many, many factors involved. The most primary is the proper venue. Should it be in Quezon City, Para�aque or even Cebu? >Epic poetry battles. Well, epic on my part. Santiago O Barrantes in QC, as well as Back in Black on Nine; Emmay and NSL! [we did laundry by hand, no maids or houseboys around to interruptus]; Jinky [one close hug on an outrigger ride in the water, hers is the model for 3 billion, grad of the oldest University in the Philippines, tell her to give me a call] > Someone wrote and requested that in the new place, the bathrooms should be cleaner. >Where's the american football? [previous guests at the dorm] Well, from experience, constant running water would be a plus! (Something that was sadly lacking in Timog and EDSA) Should the club be small and cozy like Timog, or larger than EDSA to accommodate as many people as possible? Your guess is as good as ours. >One small club's pinoy organizing skills brought us the fall of Joseph Estrella. Rumors are running around hazarding answers to these questions. There is talk about us opening in Malate (an interesting idea) or in Timog again (why not?). A lot have speculated that we will never open again. Our answer is: If there is a strong enough demand for us to open again, why shouldn't we? >I yelled rudely at Juliet in front of her father, effectively saying, "I'm out of the country in a few weeks, drop me like a stone" What we can promise is that if ever we open again, the new venue will be just as exciting. It will feature the same cutting edge entertainment and be a bastion for original Filipino ideas. It will again be the place to just hang out and get to know others with similar ideas and tastes. In the meantime, this is our home. We hope it keeps you entertained and informed. And if you are one of those who want to know if Club Dredd will reopen, keep checking out this site and you'll definitely be the first to find out! Editorial 10/09/99: "Silly Stories: The Mystique of Club Dredd" >Mystique, Lapu-Lapu, Magellan, proof of mortality A guy wrote in one of the Internet chat pages that he smoked his first joint in Club Dredd. Someone also mentioned how he got injured in a gang war there. Yet another wrote about wanting to try the infamous "Adios Motherfucker" when she was twelve or thirteen. >While great organizers, pinoys tend to believe in Capuli. Yippee-Kai-ayyy, I said on my birthday celebration with the Ateneo batch. I guess I had an effect on the stunners there, because they kept saying, "Beauty and the Beast". Wil Wheaton has nothing on me in _The Stand_, plus TAB. > Its amazing how not being around seems to change people's perceptions about something. To set things straight, we didn't allow illegal drugs in the club. Remember the Judge Dredd poster with "THE MANAGEMENT DOES NOT CONDONE THE USE OF ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES IN THE PREMISES!" This is not to say that we disapprove. Its your life. If you wanna get stoned just do it somewhere else. >What I said to my shockingly deflowered sister. There are many customers that come over just to enjoy the music. >Mario says, "hey!". "Da customer" is from a line in a porno tape I once owned. Some Gaumanian likes my porno tapes, go ask Rodel if you can borrow it. Prosties in the Pilipeens rarely give head; it's like kissing to them. > You don't have to be wasted to trip on a set of Razorback. >American references. We just think that our kind of entertainment has a bad enough rap as it is to include drugs in the picture. To be totally frank, there is more drug usage in the bathrooms of today's hottest discos! (You probably really have to be stoned to enjoy their music!) >Gloria whatshername and I shared a urinating experience. I called her bluff and she backed down. Whatever that means to you. As for the thirteen year old, she couldn't have tried the "Adios." We don't serve liquor to minors. We were never that desperate to sell our booze to risk being closed down. Makes a lot of sense, we think. >Beer bongs are a transplant from Champaign. Pusoy Dos is a card game transplanted to Iowa and Illinois Finally our comment regarding the violence. Club Dredd has always had the reputation of being a rough and dangerous place to be - especially to people that had never been there. They are quick to label that punk with the orange hair as a homicidal maniac and that long-haired metalhead as a sex fiend. Yes, the club is a drinking place. And yes, people get drunk and rowdy but we always made it a point to control our customers. Ask the real regulars. What were our bouncers for? >What bouncers? There were no bouncers at all at the club. Chuck Valenches, or "babyface" was a bouncer at one time. I remember Scarface, and "negatory" from a beautiful blonde. Now Confetti was *twisted*. You stood a better chance of getting beaten up by some general's son in Faces than getting hurt in Dredd. >Because some general's son can be found in Faces. That would be Toledo family bakla. We won't even talk about those karaoke bars! >Annette, party at somebody's house If someone tells you that they wouldn't set foot in the club because they're scared of the place, fine by us! They probably wouldn't belong there in the first place. The real mystique of Dredd for us were all these bands that came out of nowhere and developed followings that even we couldn't believe. >I'm ostentatious and generous; the pinoy music scene used to suppress originality, doing covers from mostly american artists. Spinal Tap, Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews, REM, The Beatles, Priscilla, probably have contacts now with pinoy bands. > Complete unknowns became stars overnight. Why did all the right people happen to hang out at the same place for this to happen? Why not at Mars or Limits? Why did the Eraserheads enjoy playing at the club even if they were only earning a fraction of what they could get elsewhere? If you have the answers to these questions, its time for you to put up your own club. Just remember that the club was conceptualized as a venue for entertainment. The kind you couldn't get at home much less with a joint or a cheap bottle of booze. >This is the attraction for american musicians. Girls are cute, people are pleasant with no agendas, knowledgeable about "scenes" but not about Gloria-in-the-bathroom, no police or threat of police, the music is raw, accessible, and halfway-decent if repetitive. Plus everything I touch becomes interesting, probably because of razors, pins, and no needles. >
