John Roderick on the new Crocodile
It’s time for a new round of Crocodile-related nostalgia, now that the new/old space is creeping ever closer to being finished, tickets are starting to be on sale, and bands are listing the venue in their tour schedules. John Roderick went in to the unfinished space and took a good look around [SW]:
I was excited to see it, but a little reluctant too, dreading the prospect that they’d remodeled it into some Belltown bridge-and-tunnel meat market. Don’t get me wrong: I didn’t treasure the decor of the old Crocodile. But it was a completely unpretentious, utilitarian space, and there are a thousand ways they could have gotten it wrong in trying to transform it into something new. The first person I saw wearing Armani Exchange was going to get a kick in the biscuits.
I am really, really excited for this reopening.
Oh wow. That is just a great mix of nostalgia and preview from John Roderick! I really like hearing that the back bar is the most preserved because it was not so secretly the part that I loved the most. I hope that the Via Tribulani doesn’t screw it up too badly and that it magically turns from restaurant to connected back bar at around 10 pm.
It’s also interesting to see his mention of Jim Anderson as sound consultant. The TIG story about Jim staying at Chop Suey seems to have been disappeared sometime last night.