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Past the appropriately ivy-green awning, you’ll find nine taps, $5 well drinks at happy hour and a pool table. Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleĪs a bar, the Ivy Room is pretty straightforward. Lani Torres and Summer Gerbing, owners of the Ivy Room, on Saturday, Sept. One thing was for certain: The Ivy Room was back. “We hadn’t gotten the ventilation system figured out then,” Torres says apologetically upon hearing I was at that show.
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Ivy Room co-owner Lani Torres, who at that point had run the bar for just 16 months, recalls the sweaty part a little differently.
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“It was just a room full of friends in this old bar. “I mean, it’s a party for our nearest and dearest, how wrong could it go? Stakes were low.
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“It was the perfect place for our band to ease back into playing,” Jawbreaker drummer Adam Pfahler writes in an email when I ask, a year later, what he recalls from the gig. Earlier in the afternoon, one such fan was discovered hiding out in the Ivy Room’s bathroom, apparently hoping to stick around until the show. It was known as a great small music venue in years past, but for the last decade, despite various owners’ attempts at revamping the place, it had mostly been your standard old-man bar in a small East Bay town.įor die-hard Jawbreaker fans, in other words, this 2017 show was akin to learning at the last minute that Pink Floyd would be reuniting for a casual set at the local 7-Eleven. The Ivy Room is tiny, with a capacity just shy of 200. But for a few lucky locals, the night represented the ultimate in unexpected wish fulfillment. It was a “secret” friends-and-family show, and something of a warm-up the band’s official reunion set was to take place in front of thousands at the Chicago festival RiotFest six weeks later. In less than two hours, on the Ivy Room’s tiny stage, Jawbreaker - the beloved Bay Area punk trio who broke up in 1996 but whose cult following grew exponentially in the decades that followed - would play its first show in 21 years. Old friends greeted each other, shared cigarettes, caught up on marriages and divorces and kids. By 8 p.m., a horde of people, most of them in black hoodies and jeans, were standing around outside on San Pablo Avenue. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show LessĪ buzzy energy emanated from the front door of the Ivy Room, a small bar and music venue in Albany, on the evening of Aug. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 9 of9 Shelly Cardiff sells CD's and other merchandise for the Ghost-Note band at the Ivy Room, on Saturday, Sept. From left: Nate Werth, Xavier Taplin (not pictured), Jonathan Mones,, Sylvester Onyejiaka, Peter Knudsen, Dywane "MonoNeon" Thomas, and Robert "Sput" Searight (not pictured). Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 8 of9 The Ghost-Note performs at the Ivy Room, on Saturday, Sept. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 7 of9 Xavier Taplin, Jonathan Mones, and Sylvester Onyejiak perform for Ghost-Note at the Ivy Room, on Saturday, Sept.
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Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 6 of9 Posters adorn the walls at the Ivy Room, on Saturday, Sept. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of9 Alice Black and Peter Tatum takes a break inbetween sets of the Ghost-Note band outside the Ivy Room, on Saturday, Sept. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of9 Laura Roberts, a customer (left), and co-owner Summer Gerbing, serving, at the Ivy Room on Saturday, Sept. Gelb says she is wearing her wedding dress. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of9 Tree Gelb and Jack Stuber celebrating their 37th wedding anniversary at the Ivy Room on Saturday, Sept. Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of9 Lani Torres and Summer Gerbing, owners of the Ivy Room, at the stage on Saturday, Sept. 1 of9 Rachel Cepeda dances to the music of the Ghost-Note band at Ivy Room on Saturday, Sept.