With the last shows at the Horned Hand happening this month (their final day in business will be June 29), so we’re soliciting your best memories from the bar/venue/taxidermy haven!
Tell us about your favorite show, your most drunken debaucherous night, the time you got told to shut the f*** up or share anything else you’ll miss about the Horned Hand. Don’t forget to send photos if you have ’em!
Submit to editor@bendsource.com or comment below or on the Source’s facebook.
Best memory will get a prize TBD.
This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2013.
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Holy smokes! SOO many great memories. There are a billion reason I love the Horn. I have made so many extraordinary friends through it-friends who have become best friends-some local and some from all over the country. I’ve seen the best shows there, some of my favorites: The Tornado Riders, The Hooten Hallers, EVERY Hopeless Jack show, Moondog Matinee, The Dirty Filthy Mugs, Onward Etc., man the list goes on…I love that there was never violence, that everyone there was always approachable whether a popular musician, artist, cowboy, punk rocker or your average Bendite. It has always felt like hanging in a friend’s garage-absolute good times. My favorite memory? Not sure I can think of an appropriate one-but I definitely enjoyed seeing Jasper (sound man and band man) put on a pretty dress with a touring band and prance around, seeing a fella (I will not name) drink beer out of his shoe, or when Rushad from Tornado Riders jumped on the slate bar with his electric cello and was then dragged on his back through the crowd while rocking it out! My other favorite memories are inappropriate and are sensible only to me (but you can surely ask me sometime!). Thank you Wes & Callie-for bringing epic music to Bend and allowing me to make so many incredible experience and friendships EVERY time i stepped foot in the Horn! It’ll be greatly missed!
I loves the time Wes called our darker skinned friend a “sand n-word”, and the time he got drunk while working the bar and stood on some ones throat on stage, a member of a band that just played. Oh, and all the times he was a huge raging bully on a power trip who liked to pick on people smaller than him, men and women. Wow, it’s such a surprise they didn’t make it.