Northwest Dance & Music Venue
Rainbow Tavern
University District
722 NE 45th
Seattle, Washington
Some of the bands that this place during those great years of NW music were:
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Art Ensemble of Chicago Blackfoot Blue Cheer Blue Eyes Bo Diddley Bundle of Hiss Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown Cameo Eugene Chadbourne Clifton Chenier The Dynatones The Wild Chupatulis Clover Robert Cray Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition Paul DeLay Band George Thorogood & the Destroyers Bo Diddley Willie Dixon Ramblin' Jack Elliot Art Ensemble of Chicago Clay Alien Clifton Chenier Danger Bunny Different Ones Dive The Dynatones Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition George Thorogood & the Destroyers |
Fishbone Green Pajamas Green River Fastbacks Feast Flying Saucers Fred Heffern/Hams Harvey Rondo Band Hamza al-Din Heart Heats John Lee Hooker Robert Hunter Huey Lewis It’s A Beautiful Day F- Holes Jr. Cadillac Kidd Africa Krypt Kicker Harvey Mason Delbert McClinton Life in General Melting Fish Sonny Terry Brownie McGhee Hank Ballard & the Midnighters Steve Miller My Eye |
Jimmy Page Persuasions Pamona Boners Pure Joy Mason Proffit Ramones Red Dress Lee Ritenour Room Nine Rose & The Dirt Boys Sam & Dave Skinnyard The Skyboys Soundgarden Stanley's Wife Sun Ra Sweet Talkin' Jones Annie Rose and the Thrillers Tiny Tony and Rock n Roll Jones Big Joe Turner U Men Warm Jets Mary Wells Jesse Colin Young Variant Cause Vexed Violate Cast Young Fresh Fellows Walkabouts Warm Jets The Wild Chupatulis |
Hank
Ballard and The Midnighters
The Flying Saucers - About
'86 - '87 - (Courtesy of Dave Oathout)
I was the live sound engineer at The Rainbow Tavern 2000-2006. We had every genre of music imaginable. I would like to get in touch with the rainbow familyChristian E. Reise, March 2015
We opened the Rainbow in 1973, started live music and the rest is history. We finally sold out about 15 years and over 1000 bands later in the late 80's. Above is a list of some of the more notable performers that set foot on stage at the Rainbow. I'm sure there are many more that I can't remember.Steve Hudziak, January 2006
1976 to 1984....those were some fun times and good days and the Rainbow was a big part of it.
I saw so many great shows there...The Ramones, George Thorogood, Delbert McClinton, Blue Cheer, It's A Beautiful Day, Blackfoot, Neville Brothers, and many great Northwest bands such as Jr. Cadillac, Skyboys, and on and on.
I do miss Seattle. Thanks for a lot of great memories.
Ben Daniel
Former Mgr., Peaches Records & Tapes
Like many Northwest bands, Kidd Afrika was often called upon to provide back-up to name artists that rolled through the Northwest, but didn’t travel with their own group. A memorable pair of nights for fans of Bo Diddley and Kidd Afrika, March of 1978, yielded this rare documentation from the Rainbow Tavern, THE University hot spot on 45th at I-5.Donny Marrow, March 2013
