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Getting Tragic News Mid-Tour
- Candas (Canvas) remembers getting the news that Nick DeNoia had been shot but still ran the show that night with the dancers unaware. She screamed alone in the back during the
From Gas Stations To Nightclub Ambitions
- Steve Banerjee pivoted from gas stations to nightlife, using timing (oil crisis) and opportunism to build capital. He saw the emerging porn/disco culture in L.A. as a market he could enter and exploit.
A Promoter's Pitch Changes Everything
- Paul Snider, a Vancouver promoter, suggested a male strip show and recruited dancers; Steve Banerjee agreed to try it as a last-ditch idea. The first men-for-women nights drew huge crowds and changed the club's fortunes.