Murrieta: CORNER POCKET PAUSES BETWEEN NOTES

October 11, 2008 by PT Rothschild.

VERNABLE BAR IS TURNING INTO A VENUE BAR

Murrieta, CA - What the city councils couldn’t see in their way to ’standing on their record’ was that real folks, Joe Sixpack and Betty the Cougar, like ‘real’ live music and the young adults who inhabit that world around it. After having new original live music shows for the past several months and seeing the response from their regular drinking patrons, the observant bar business owners decided to redecorate the Corner Pocket bar to accommodate the new crowd.

“We’ll be open in about 5 days,” said an older gentleman today after a source reported the bar was closed down on a Friday night.

Surmising that the rocking new music show up at the Roadhouse, on Grand Avenue in Lake Elsinore, last night couldn’t have been the reason for the stoppage of drinks on a Friday, a hasty investigation today of the long time Murrieta hangout proved my theory was correct. We, at the Review, welcome the latest business venture to come on board and welcome all the new music bands around here by giving them a place to play without waiting for a ‘youth master plan’ or a call from some guy from Massachusetts (and yes, Virginia, I know the reference is T-Town but when you read the latest Peter Surowski Valley News Underground about Murrieta’s Battle of the Bands and listen to the bands say how wonderful it is to have a place (again) to play, and you remember Cuppy’s/Java Joz and how they were shut down due to politics, well…).


Also in the music news is the rocking success of a fun cover band named Master Splinter & The Shredders, which is Dark Haven’s way to keep getting paid now that the $5-$10 shows are snuffed by permit fees, and places like Showcase and The Glass House have shut down. The band plays regularly in the south of Temecula at Barleys and Hops, and at Killarney’s during the week.

And continued success to show promoter Wade (of the Underground Recoring Studio and no kin to Surowski’s Underground) for turning Trevi Entertainment around in throwing a music show. As the folks found out last week at Aloha J’s after having a cool hiphop show thrown by local promoters/artists, having a show a week later is more than just turning on a mic or calling out the riot squad.

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