Lily Tomlin, Spongetones are a couple of acts I remember that were not mentioned.

I also remember an arcade near the current Johnson and Lambe store and I have blurred memories of time spent at the Cafe Deja Vu on 1 dollar long island nights.

- good times

Currently a resident of Charlotte at 20 years and counting, I went to the NCSU/Winthrop game over the Holiday break (12/29/2009) and decided (after listening to my new, or rather old, PKM CD my wife got me for Christmas) to take a look at the place I frequented quite often as a high school senior (in nearby Franklinton NC) and college freshman at NCSU (1982 and 1983). I had a Bear’s Den membership for roughly two years (drinking age was 18 during this time), and I went here and many other places in the subway to see a lot of local bands (Glass Moon, PKM, Mike Cross, Fabulous Knobs, etc.) that were promoted heavily in those days on WQDR radio (a country station nowadays) as Nan pointed out in the previous comment. Local bands are hardly even played on radio stations today, much less promoted like WQDR did, but this was a different time. Anyway, to my surprise (although not really), I could no longer locate the entrance (which I remembered being near the intersection of clark and woodburn). So, I decided to do a little snooping on google, and found this website. Sure enough, as has been documented here, I was sitting right in front of the new library last Tuesday after the NCSU/Winthrop game saying to myself, “Where the hell did it go?”

Anyway, this website has been a true blessing to me, as I continue reading through the comments today. By the way, PKM’s CD (previously released on album in the 80’s as Rock Erotica) can be purchased at http://www.pkmrocks.com for about $20. The previous Christmas, my wife ordered me the “Dave Adams’ Glass Moon – Moon Hits and More” CD from http://www.cdbaby.com. I cannot count how many times I’ve seen this band in person as well. Dave Adams currently plays 80’s music in the triangle with a band called “Suicide Blonde”, which has its own web page at myspace.

While I missed a lot of the Subway’s heyday in the 70’s, I can tell you that the early 80’s were awesome at this place as well. I have two older brothers that experienced the 70’s Subway, and each had told me this was the place to go see good music and have a good time.

As one last side note. I rarely missed an NCSU home basketball game in our NCAA championship year of 1983. However, I did miss our last loss of that historic season, at home to Maryland just one game prior to our blowing out Wake 130-89 in the last game of the season. For the Maryland game, I had to be away from school on ticket pickup day, and therefore did not have a ticket So, I went to the Bear’s Den instead and ended up playing backgammon while watching this last loss on television there. Little did I know at that time what was about to happen.

I remember the original Frog and Nightgown and slipping in there in the late 60’s to watch the hippest people in town having a blast. My favorite memory is of some lunacy by the staff in 1970 – they always loved a practical joke and this was the ultimate. Someone acquired an enormous black dildo of Long Dong Silver proportions, dripped some Elmer’s glue from the business end, and afixed it (at a strategic angle)to the swinging door of the kitchen. I believe more than one server dropped her tray before order was restored.

It’s funny…back then I thought all the talent and creative juice was in NY or LA. Turns out it was in a place I thought then was kinda unhip, but it sure looks good now.

Possibly with some very special guests

It has been 25 years since the last Glass Moon shows.

They will Possibly play 2 shows in Raleigh and Wilmington.

Doug Morgan will be flying in from Hawaii for the show