Danger Gens, Girl With 100 Heads, and 66 Saints at Re-Bar, Seattle, WA, July 26, 1994
This poster advertises a performance by Danger Gens, Girl With 100 Heads, and 66 Saints at Re-Bar in Seattle on July 26, 1994.
Maxi Badd was a Seattle Rock band formed in 1991 by guitarist Gretta Harley (b. unknown), bassist Tess Lotta (b unknown), and drummer Dave Parnes (b. unknown). They signed a record deal and toured under a new name, Danger Gens, and they performed with numerous bands including Babies in Toyland, Giant Sand, Laughing Hyenas, 7 Year Bitch, Hammberbox, TAD, and Love Battery.
Girl With 100 Heads was a Seattle-based Pop Rock band formed in 1993 by vocalist and guitarist Scott Wagar (b. unknown). The band also featured drummer Mike Goodman (b. unknown), who was later replaced by Howard Parr (b. unknown), guitarist Peg Wood (b. unknown), and bassist and vocalist Mike Kuhn (b. unknown). The band was active in the Northwest until 1998, playing with bands like Team Dresch, Pansy Division, and Super Deluxe. GW100H was part of a group of out and proud bands who would later be dubbed Queercore, and they performed at San Francisco Pride in 1998. They released an eponymous five-song EP in 1995, and an album called Chicken Pot Pi in 1997.
66 Saints was a Seattle, Washington, Rock band formed in 1991 and active in the Northwest throughout the 1990s. The band was started by guitarists and vocalists Lisa Orth (b. unknown) and John Maroney (b. unknown). Orth was the first official art director for Sub Pop Records, where she designed Nirvana’s now iconic logo, and she also worked for The Rocket, Manna Records, and Seattle Gay News. The band also featured Mitch Michieli (b. unknown) on drums and backup vocals, and they frequented Seattle venues like Re-Bar, the Crocodile Café and the Off Ramp. 66 Saints released limited recordings with Big Flaming Ego Records before they disbanded.
Steve Wells and Patrick “Pit” Kwiecinski opened Re-Bar in January 1990 at 1114 Howell Street, which had long been a safe space for Seattle’s LGBTQ community. The Night Hawk Tavern (or Nite Hawk) opened in the 1930s, creating a center of gay nightlife featuring cabaret, followed by Thirsty’s in the 1970s, which then became Axel Rock, a dance-focused venue, in the 1980s, and finally Sparks Tavern, which added full-length stage plays, before Re-Bar moved in. Until 2020, when Re-Bar, like many venues, closed indefinitely during the COVID-19 pandemic, they hosted disco nights, art exhibits, theatre, drag, burlesque, and live bands, supporting generations of LGBTQ patrons and performers. KEXP’s Riz Rollins got his start as a DJ, becoming a big part of Seattle’s Black music scene, David Schmader put on his first three plays, and drag performer and comedian Dina Martina was born at Re-Bar. The venue also hosted one of the longest running poetry nights in the West, Seattle Poetry Slam, and a weekly Sunday dance night, Flammable. On September 13, 1991, Re-Bar also hosted the infamous release party for Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind.
