Michael Karlis
Bond’s Rock Bar will proceed internet hosting reveals by way of the tip of the 12 months.
Gentrification has claimed yet one more fixture of San Antonio’s music scene.
Lengthy-running Bonds Rock Bar, a downtown watering gap that celebrates San Antonio’s historical past because the “Heavy Metallic Capital of the World,” will near make method for a resort improvement, its homeowners revealed Monday on Fb.
“With a tragic coronary heart we’re asserting that Bond’s Rock Bar shall be completely closing after 25 years of rocking San Antonio,” the publish learn. “The property has been offered to a developer that shall be tearing down the constructing for an additional downtown resort.”
The membership’s upstairs venue — which has hosted myriad performances by native, regional and touring acts — will shut at 12 months’s finish, in response to the Fb announcement. The memorabilia-packed downtown bar will stay open till builders start work on the resort.
Bonds, situated at 450 Soledad Avenue, celebrates SA’s longtime allegiance to exhausting rock and metallic. On any given night time, a customer may catch a tribute act to a traditional exhausting rock act, a jam-packed dying metallic invoice or patrons knocking again low cost drinks and singling together with Dio on the downtown jukebox.
A daily fixture on the Present’s yearend Greatest Bars record, spot was additionally identified for internet hosting Iron Maiden Fan Membership gatherings after band’s current San Antonio reveals. These afterparty occasions drew touring metallic lovers from as distant as South America and mainland Europe.
“We’re grateful on your assist through the years. We are going to all the time cherish the reminiscences and nice buddies that we’ve made,” Bonds’ homeowners stated within the Fb publish. “In the event you ever wished to see a reside music present at BONDS LIVE, or if you wish to see extra reveals — the final 24 reveals — come this weekend and each weekend till the tip of the 12 months. We’ve got some nice rock music scheduled.”
The outpouring of assist on Bonds’ Fb web page was rapid.
“Thanks to Bonds Rock Bar and all concerned for supporting reside native and regional bands,” wrote Terry Anderson, former frontman for San Antonio metallic acts Decide Psychological and Lokey. “For giving us all a stage, a venue and a PA to share music. And on a private notice, thanks for giving us a spot to follow for thus a few years within the early 2000s. We admire every little thing.”
“Bro, this was our dwelling away from dwelling! How can some contractor outbid us like that?” fan Emmitt Garcia posted. “Bond’s has been like household to all of us within the metallic neighborhood!”
“By no means thought this might be the ultimate present I might throw on the legendary spot,” San Antonio metallic promoter John Langston wrote, sharing a flyer for an Oct. 11 dying metallic invoice he booked on the venue. “Good luck to y’all discovering an superior Bonds 2.”
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