Cleveland's Catalog of Cool by Michael Murphy

Author:Michael Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 2018-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

John Petkovic, in addition to being the front man in many bands, including Cobra Verde, Death of Somalia, and Sweet Apple (where he’s been called “provocative grime” by Rolling Stone), is best known in Cleveland as the longtime arts and entertainment writer for The Plain Dealer.

Petkovic’s pièce de résistance is the Tragical History Tour, which he penned in 2015. It is a sight-seeing trip with absolutely no sights to see. His tour takes you to historic spots that no longer exist where rock ’n’ roll thrived. Along the journey, you’ll visit 3717 Euclid Avenue, where the Cleveland Arena used to be and hosted, or tried to host, the first ever rock concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball.

At 7500 Euclid Avenue you’ll see a grocery store standing on the spot once occupied by Leo’s Casino, a seven-hundred-­person capacity club where Smokey Robison, the Supremes, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, the Temptations, and Otis Redding all once played.

La Cave, at 10615 Euclid Avenue, hosted the Velvet Underground, Neil Young, and Jeff Beck. Closed in 1969, it is now a parking lot.

Swingos, on East 18th Street and Euclid Avenue, from 1971 to ’82 welcomed Led Zeppelin, Cher, Gene Simmons, and Elvis. It is now a sapless Comfort Inn Motel.

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