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The Gaslight Cafe was an American coffeehouse located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. Also known as "The Village Gaslight", it opened in 1958 and became notable as a venue for folk music and other musical acts.〔(the Gaslight, memoir, Al Aronowitz )Retrieved June 25, 2010〕〔(Bob Dylans roots ). Accessed March 30, 2010.〕 It closed in 1971. ==History== The Gaslight was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club. Clarence Hood bought the club in 1961, and he and his son Sam managed the club through the late 1960s. Ed Simon, the owner of ''The Four Winds,'' reopened the Gaslight in 1968. The club was run by Betty Smyth (who is the mother of Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth), and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until its closing in 1971.〔(historical memoir by Al Aronowitz )Retrieved June 25, 2010〕〔(Gaslight Cafe history ). Accessed March 30, 2010.〕 Folk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager during the late 1960s. The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar called the ''Kettle of Fish'', a bar where many performers hung out between sets. Some nights the bar the (Kettle of Fish) was "locked" down to the public because a young "reclusive" singer and poet was in attendance...Bob Dylan.〔(Gaslight Cafe and Kettle of Fish ). Accessed March 30, 2010.〕 Also next door was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. ''Live at The Gaslight 1962'' (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia Records. In the ''Folk Music Encyclopedia'', Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. So then the audience couldn't applaud; they had to snap their fingers instead." Brian Fallon, lead singer and guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem has explained in several interviews that the band's name came from The Gaslight Cafe as he had heard it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and liked the sound of the word and the imagery it brought about. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Gaslight Cafe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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