A long time ago, I used to occasionally go to the 9:30 Club. The only thing missing from this Post article is the cigarette smoke the original location had — the air would be blue when you walked in and brown when you walked out. I only went to current one a couple of times. I think the first time I went to the new one, we walked out after one song by some group called the Goo Goo Dolls, saying something along the line of “those guys are terrible, they’ll never be heard from again.”