The Nowhere Club
A club in Hendersonville that catered to high schoolers.
History[edit | edit source]
An early version of the all-ages club, with primary attention paid to high school aged youth in Hendersonville.
The opening featured local acts, The Paramount Four, an all-black vocal group, and The Counts of Nowhere, a high school rock combo that served as the house band.
Randy Mabe, bassist for The Counts, remembers: The Nowhere Club was started so the young people of Hendersonville and surrounding communities would have a place to get together to dance, hang out and have fun. Joe Melson helped us with The Nowhere Club (he wrote hits for Roy Orbison and the Newbeats). We made great efforts to keep the drinking type activities to a minimum so we could remain open...We would unload enough stuff to make some noise and sometimes jammed until 3 or 4 am. I am fuzzy in memory as to which groups we did that with as it was just the times that it worked out that way. I was thinking that maybe The Ugly Forest was there one night like that. The club was always packed with 100 - 200 young people in the club and out on the parking lot. Once we were into the night about two to three sets we just threw the doors open (in the summertime) to use the weather instead of air conditioning. We let many of the local kids decorate the walls of the club and had a soda bar to keep people cooled down. Hendersonville, Madison, Gallatin all had about ten miles or better of darkness between them at that time so the kids in Hendersonville were sort of isolated and our club filled that niche. Previous to our opening The Nowhere Club the only gathering place for the kids to dance was Saunder's Ferry Boat Dock.
"Parents Welcome."
References[edit | edit source]
https://pbase.com/deadelvis/nowhere Randy Mabe comments