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Show Park Cil Nws Thursday January 6, 1983 Page A7 Bringing in the New Year on Park City 's Main Street by Jeff Howrey If you wanted to ring in the New Year by getting a drink at a Main Street bar late Friday night, you needed either a reservation or a lot of luck. If you wanted to hear live music as well, a bribe for the doorman wasn't a bad idea. It was virtually wall to wall revelry at every nightspot night-spot in Old Town New Year's Eve. With tourists in town by the busload and locals primed to kiss off 1982 in style, it was a challenge to get a cocktail, much less find empty bar space in which to put it down. It was New Year's Eve to the max. A night to remember. remem-ber. If you could. With the exception of private parties, all the action was on Main Street. Even the venerable Rusty Nail on the resort plaza was closed to the public as those facilities were put to use as part of the gala $130 per couple Egyptian Egyp-tian Theatre benefit. Out by the golf course at Adolph's, local New Wave sensations Andrea and the Strap rocked out. But the restaurant's haute cuisine drove admission admis-sion prices at $80 per couple beyond the means of most rock 'n' rollers. So circumstances dictated that the average party animal look to Main Street for a place to make the traditional New Year's Eve toast. Watering holes like the Club and Mileti's were crowded, to put it nicely. (How nice it was depended upon who you were crammed up against.) As waitresses scurried about in a hopeless quest to keep up with the demands of the thirsty hordes, patrons' spirits rose in conjunction with the alcohol level in their bloodstreams. By midnight there was a thin line between rowdy rejoicing and obnoxious boorishness. Things were even wilder at joints where they had bands. The Ore House's bawdily clad barmaids worked the floor while Second Chance, featuring Danny Stark and Val Hunt, offered up some tasty country-tinged tunes. At the Black Pearl, hard rocker David LaFlamme put on his customary good show for those fortunate enough to get in. Long before midnight there were lines outside. Despite the $15 cover charge, the place was crammed to capacity midway through the evening. Prices were even higher up the street at the Cowboy Bar. But a $35-per-person tab there got you a complete buffet dinner and unlimited set-ups and beer. Two bands entertained as well. Country-rocker Haymaker played a couple of well-received well-received sets. But the Salt the good ol' boys in attendance at-tendance and had the dance floor nicely packed. Across Main Street, Park City's working class pub had quite a few dancers, too. Which was a bit of a surprise, considering that the Alamo doesn't even have a dance floor. But a space cleared of Lang Syne." ("Does anybody any-body here know the words to this song?") While an evening downing suds at the Alamo may not be everybody's first choice for an ideal New Year's Eve, for many it was a place to go. "I never thought I'd stand in line to get in the Alamo," said Salt Laker Jim Gum. A folkie troubadour armed only with an acoustic guitar and a small sound system tried his best to provide dance music, pausing only at midnight to lead the carousers through a heartfelt, if somewhat ragged version of "Auld Lang Syne. 99 Lake-based New Wave band, 004, was not so kindly treated when it hit the stand to ring in the New Year. Although 004 has generally been wowing audiences around the area for quite awhile now, New Year's Eve in Park City proved not to be their night. Apparently, most of the tourists who jammed the bar Friday night expected to hear another country band like Haymaker play. After all, if you're from Southern California and you come across a place in Park City named the Cowboy Bar, you expect to hear country music, right? Wrong. While the Cowboy's eclectic eclec-tic looking policy has brought some delightful talent to town in the past, perhaps New Year's wasn't the right night to experiment. experi-ment. It seemed the herky jerky rhythms and outlandish stage mannerisms of the eccentric sky rockers who make up 004 were a little inaccessible for some of the Cowboy's patrons. At times during the show, the group was booed. The management received several complaints from customers according to one doorman "they were mostly older Texans" who said they were going to vacate the premises unless 004 was silenced and replaced re-placed by a country band immediately. The good cheer of the season eventually prevailed, however, as 004 gamely finished out its last set. By the end of the evening, the group had won over many of There are still a few people who don't read the TtvrParkCMy man, --. a-MMtfy . j! I li uji j . iliHl1" ' ...vet. 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