One last show at Easy Street Queen Anne
Friday was the last day of business for Easy Street Records at their Lower Queen Anne location. For the final in-store show, Yo La Tengo came to town and played a nearly hour-long set.
Easy Street owner Matt Vaughan bid a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported the store over the last dozen years:
"I'd just like to thank the Queen Anne neighborhood, they've been very supportive of us. I wish we could have stayed longer, we're coming off a pretty good year, but there's some things out of my control. Hopefully we didn't let anyone down, made up for it tonight. Go west young man, we'll see you in West Seattle" (Easy Street's West Seattle location is still open.)
The big surprise of the night was the marriage proposal from long time Easy Street employee and KEXP DJ Troy Nelson to his girlfriend Mackenzie Mercer. (the proposal happens at about the 4 minute mark)
Congratulations!
Big box chains, big banks replace small businesses... who could have seen this coming?! Duh. The combination of heavy handed regulations, and taxes make big business the only people who can survive in Seattle.
Wasn't this Tower records before Easy Street? Memory eludes me...
LOL! That is so cool! I feel kinda guilty I never really had the shopping experience there, I'm usually a Silver Platters shopper. Always intended to check it out, but I guess I can check out West Seattle. Didn't know they had another location there until the other day. Yeah I remember having to go down to Queen Anne for SP since they close the Southcenter location. Sad when that happened and the same with Easy Street closing as well. Just afraid to think one day sooner or later, Silver Platters will probably be closing as well. :(
Thanks for posting this... wish I could have been there! I heard after the venue was full, the lines still went down the street (both ways!) to get inside. How depressing to think that we'll soon see another major bank chain in its place.
The Alki Tavern,Easy Street Recs...glaciers of greater Seattle slide into Elliott Bay - not good