Reply #106: I loved the Tip Top Cafe...

[vajraroshana]

In the daytime it was a diner that served typical meat and three veggies type food and catered to the working-class neighborhood regulars. I think it's now reverted to being just a diner.

At nighttime three or four nights a week it was a punk/alternative act club. Capacity was maybe 100. Especially popular around the late 80s. Too many bands to even remember them all. Fetchin' Bones played there a few times iirc.

Great times!

When Black Crows played, they weren't very popular and hadn't yet evolved into their stoner-southern-funk type sound, but instead were more of a screaming grungy mess.

Keanu Reeves and his little band played once, but I missed it (didn't miss much, I was told).

It was the closest thing to a "scene" in the Huntsville area; overshadowed for about a year by the Texican Taco Company which hosted some good acts and had fantastic food, but the profits unfortunately went up the owner's nose (or so the rumor had it)!

Was your friend Chris Brown, by the way? He did the sound and other stuff there for years; haven't seen him in ages.