X 1981 CONCERT TICKET STUB WILD GIFT TOUR 11/2/81 PORTLAND OR EUPHORIA
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Artist: XDate: 1981-11-02Venue: The Euphoria, Portland, OR, USATour: Wild Gift Venue notes: Euphoria Tavern, Portland OR Longtime music venue whose owner decided to experiment with booking punk bands in 1981. Apparently long defunct. Was located at 315 SE 3rd Ave. The site is currently (2006) occupied by a club called Rotture . Onetime club employee Perrin Coman, writing in Jan 2008, recalls: I came to Portland in 1981 from San Francisco, where I was an art student at what was then the Academy of Art College. Within a week of landing in Portland... I was working nights as a waitress/bartender/ticket-taker at the Euphoria. As I recall it these many years later, the Euphoria was in a cavernous old brick warehouse down on the Willamette. It was the shape of a giant shoebox inside, with the stage at the far end from the entrance. It was raucous most every night. The main bar was against the back wall at the entrance and there was a second bar next to the stage at front. The Euphoria booked bands that were established and those coming up. I recall working the bar next to the stage when Tina Turner came through on what was considered her comeback tour after her divorce from Ike. She hadn't been much on the scene in the US. She was considered old at that time, about 50 (I was in my early 20s) I do vividly remember working that bar about
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