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Eine Kleine d.b.a. Musik |
Down at the bottom of First Avenue is an unassuming red-fronted tavern called d.b.a. (click here for a suitably disreputable photograph). Inside it is old-school anything-but-chic, warm and friendly and filled with the East Village Regulars. d.b.a. pours about the best beer in the City--and we're not talking cold Red Dog here--in the belief that if you do good stuff, good stuff happens. And it does.
New York being New York, it's no surprise that the better bars here are a magnet for the best musicians, new and seasoned, in the business. Drop by d.b.a. early in the week and you might bump into people you saw playing over the weekend at the Knitting Factory, Mercury Lounge, Brownies or Lincoln Center. The "Burner" compilation takes d.b.a. as epicenter: it's a quietly-happening place in the loudly-happening Scene, and the best and brightest and oddest come in to chat and hang and buy drinks from some of the best and brightest and oddest who also happen to work there.
Thus the birth of "Burner," as Glen Jones writes in his liner
notes (remember liner notes?) to the CD. That's Renée Wilson of RAW Kinder to our left
(the Tour Guide gestures vaguely) drawing a d.b.a. pint; Sean Smith of
Pawnshop is a manager at the bar, and between the two of them and
the earnest beer connoisseurs at Home Office Records, this
compilation album fell into place less than six months after it was first a
glimmer in Mr. Cyrano's eye.
Stupid "Burner" Jokes and Trivia:
