The Starck Club Documentary- Teaser

[@KellyeR1970]

I worked for Detour Magazine as Assistant Fashion Editor. Luis actually got me a job at Starck working the door also worked at Video Bar and Art Bar.... Boy do I miss those days. I remember working the Cold Bar at the Grace Jones show. I still have that T-shirt all ratty and old.

[@jfa42]

Certainly a lotta fun:) btw check out full version here think you’ll like it: tubitv.com/video/553560

[@OhSoCynthia]

I LOVED coming of age in the 80s. The clothes, the music, the (legal) drugs and the Starck Club... Never again will we see such an age. I'm so glad I lived it!

[@newyorktex]

ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS CLUB! I was there Thursday - Sunday. Best times of my life.

[@rickyparker4436]

Stevie Nicks was co-owner of the Starck Club.

[@DHRINC07]

I remember being a guest DJ from Clearview This was the club to be at in the 80s

[@jekku4688]

Starck Club was the SH*T back in the 80s/90s! The few rare times I got to go there (the cover charge was incredibly high by club standards) it was always amazing. And yeah, of course, you HAD to have ecstasy, which was extremely prevalent back then, much easier to come by. Starck was one of those clubs where you really wanted to dress up, to "see and be seen" because you never know which famous person you might run into there! The metal fencing on the dance pit walls, the curtains, the couches, the co-ed bathrooms with TVs in the stalls (remember MTV videos were all the rage back then), it was all VERY heady stuff!

[@jfa42]

Agree 💯 watch the full version on Amazon Freevee

[@michaeljudlin3801]

One of the coolest bars I ever danced in. Spend many nights in front of that video screen dancing like crazy. That, Nostromo’s and The Starck Club were my favorites. The 80’s blew by way to fast, and the club design was awesome. 😎

[@hayshammond5499]

Where was Nostromis?

[@UndieWhere]

Our group of friends were lucky enough to have a permanent spot on the guest list and the summer of '84 after graduating high school until the Starck Club was on its last legs, we spent 6 nights a week there! The summer of '85 we had a contest to see who could take x every single night for the longest. I won with 103 nights in a row. It was an INSANE era for Dallas night life! It was pure stupidity I know now, but I look back on those Starck Club, SRO and Rio Room days with one helluva memory..

[@ktlewis02]

Your brain must be like mashed potatoes 😂

[@colinburroughs9871]

@@ktlewis02 "helluva no* memory"

[@user-yr1uq1qe6y]

Out of all of the acts that played there, I went when Ton Loc played 4 songs that all sounded like funky cold medina

[@PH1069]

i worked the door at starck w rodrick/bob and betty 84-drugbust 86 and i still miss that place! i listen to the wave on xm 24/7 ...the stars,drugs etc...grace! went to reunion last year at starck....so great to c everyone! xoxo ur favorite and mine-teddy

[@LCio380]

best fucking club ever!

[@dallaspolo]

@Scherer321 Starck Club was like Studio 54 in NYC. You seen alot.. Miss all that fun

[@nojsc]

I was one of the weekend valet car parkers at The Starck in the mid-80s. Didn't get inside but briefly on a couple of occasions. I remember one time looking at those big elephant-ear doors and thinking . . . looks like the gates of hell. I always had lots of fun just hanging out in the parking lot. And got to drive a lot of real nice cars! Whatever was going on inside never interested me. Good memories. And got some pretty big tips, too!

[@jmatt4life]

I remember the good ole days back in Big "D" at The Starck Club in The Brewery section next to the West End Market Place. Massimo comes to mind! Good times were had by all!!! (•=

[@paumiller74]

To think i was there. It was such a fun time. The club was spectacular. The marble floors, and heating the crystal break if u dropped your glass. That's how they picked the glasses btw

[@mercedesnevarez7458]

i worked aS A coat checker at the starckclub ...WHAT A MEMORY!!!!!

[@TCBnTX01]

thanks for posting this, I spent many nights there in 85-86, was headed there and pulled up to park when all DEA and cops raided the place, just drove on by

[@melissachappell1320]

Loved the club !

[@jfa42]

Luv the Club too, absolutely despise the people who ran it… money simply doesn’t buy class!!

[@feedwinnie]

You just can't explain the Starck Club. One can try... Lol...😊 I think I lived there. I still have memories that pop up all the time that are new ones. 🤭😳🤫 You simply had to be there or experience this type of thing like in New York. I was at L' Ultimate Fête.. July 1989 Got my invitation in the mail as I didn't live in Dallas full time at that time. Still have my t- shirt. Match books. Pictures. Somewhere...I run across them every now and then. 😊 Met with Grace back stage before the show. Her little girl was there with her. Yes, that infamous spinning black leather chair. She wore breast plates and a crotch plate that night. And she had the air conditioning turned off. She asked if it was hot enough for all you m*****f******* out there. Omg.. we nearly fainted from the heat. What a show. What a show every night...😉More times than not we had a sofa next to DJ Mike or Rick. Aw... just found this. 🕺💃 Thanks! I've never been able to dance that many hours straight since.

[@jfa42]

feedwinnie check out the full doc free on Prime under Sex, Drugs, Design: Warriors of the Discotheque! Think you’d like.

[@scherer321]

this video is fucking hilarious, sounds like a great time

[@jmatt4life]

Yesss!!! I was there dancing to it!!!

[@jfa42]

check out our FB page at Warriors of the Discotheque

[@jasonclendennen9731]

In the 80's my place to go was the VILLAGE STATION on cedar springs.

[@jeffcoupland4355]

I spent hundreds of nights there over time. Loved the unisex bathroom lobbies with private stalls at the back. Go into a private room with an upside down TV hanging over the toilet and totally different music than what was playing outside. Best club I have ever been to. On halloween I was busted for a joint and the cop took me down into the concrete halls(where Robocop was filmed) and searched me. She found a bag and led me by the wrist outside and made me dump it out in the garbage. She told me go home and don't come back. It was only about 10 so I went home changed costumes and returned to dance all night. One of a million stories I have from that place .Rick(DJ) was a good friend and way ahead of his time.

[@jfa42]

Jeff Coupland agree loved Ricky! You should watch final version on Amazon Prime. Sex, Drugs, Design: The Starck Club Documentary Special Edition... or Warriors of the Discotheque on Fandor!

[@GetsumJ]

Starck Club 1985-1989, Best times ever :-) No Dance, Bust, Cold Bar, ahh the memories. 8:15-Nowhere

[@ibuprofenPill]

I was there when it was still the original Starck, but only on all-ages night. Didn't turn 21 until after it closed. It reopened a couple times under other names but it just wasn't the same.

[@michelesonoma]

being 15yrs old and showing up at 3AM to get in.....and working the door many yrs later! Ohhhh the excitement ~ *dance dance dance*

[@kimjones387]

I Touch Roses! A club standard in 84!

[@jfa42]

Yes it was, they played it before it came out in ‘85. Same w Rick playing Falco a year before Rock Me Amadeus hit air waves…

[@jimmyhatnyc]

Dallasssssss!

[@G80M3Comp]

Now a days it's called "zouk". It's whatever. I wish I was there back then. I do go there (zouk) sometimes and wonder what happened here. I can't even try to re-live it as I never experienced it in the beginning. The reason so many Americans are clinically depressed is because we are running out of entertainment and fun times. I am happy for the people who experienced it first hand though.

[@ABCRE2]

Damn, Could there ever be another....?

[@posterlion]

The Starck was f-ing awesome in 1986. I don't know if I have ever been to a place that matched the diversity found there. Rich and poor, Gay Straight Bi whatever, it didn't matter and no one cared about that sort of shit. Everyone tried hard to be creative, wore interesting clothes, and enjoyed the moment. In summary: We were all flying high as F and danced the night away. Pure energy. Fun Fact: Saw Book of Love give a live performance there sometime between 1986 & 1988. 🙂

[@jfa42]

Very well stated!

[@ncb1003]

Hung out there in Spring and Summer of '85. Thought I was in heaven. Moved down to Austin the fall of '85 - remember going to a club that was not quite the Starck Club - although pretty cool just the same. Can't remember the name, tho....

[@ncb1003]

Now I do remember - it was a place called Halls. A much smaller version of the Starck Club, and a blast to hang at as well...

[@unlikeavirgin]

It's called 8:15 to Nowhere by Vicious Pink.

[@kimberlycaceres3449]

I remember going there in 1988 but I was too young to get in and was outside when it was raided one night by police, it was crazy. Went after I got old enough when they opened it back up for a short period of time. Fun days.

[@griffm5]

every weekend we would drive to Dallas buy pockets full of X and have a great time

[@Xplus75208]

Karen Finley and Red Hot Chili Peppers actually played at Theatre Gallery in Dallas before they ever performed at Starck Club.

[@LakewoodDallas]

25 years, y'all - where did it go... More important, when is the reunion?

[@unlikeavirgin]

Damn it! Where is my time machine????

[@texastwister6988]

My friend Michelle West and I went there..

[@jfa42]

Where was ur fav spot? I kinda liked couch in the bathroom & funny Bar!

[@texastwister6988]

@@jfa42 That was cool too! I couldn't believe it was unisex😯 It was so dreamy to me..I loved the long sheers hanging from the ceiling around the couches also

[@lollygoa]

Amazing times! My hairstylist would get me passes. I had retro 60's dresses and always wore a pillbox hat with netting and long gloves. The Boys would wear long tailed printed shirts with brooches at the neck instead of ties, and also wore long ropes of pearls backward down to their butts.

[@dallaspolo]

The Starck Club was so much like Studio 54. You did see alot of famous people there. I remember going downstairs and seeing so much stuff, The doorman was like 54 you picked you if he wanted you to enter. The outfits where unbeliveable at times. After it closed they tryed to reopen it again .. but it failed,, Just like Studio 54.. I miss those days

[@EMERALDJAYNE]

STARCK.... be whoever you wanted to be that day Anything Goes.... different color hair every weekend... blueberry cellophane... dance hard until you almost died... then you walk into the walk-in cooler!!! Lowered your temperature 10 degrees in 3.2 minutes... music and people were radiating and I loved the unisex bathrooms so many guys helped me wirh my makeup in the bathroom.. there will never be anything like it EVER!😎 You definitely need Betty Ford on Sunday😂

[@chante48]

Oh wow! i remember this place well, i remember when i was in the Queen of the night life pageant! and won it!!! It was so much fun! and Val, she was the bald headed woman that ran the cigarette counter. I remember going there with my friend peedie!!!

[@JosephPbuckleyNorthAmerican]

Yes i waz on Greg or Danny list, sometime hung out w/Rick at his house off central exp, those days were pure JOY.. That said could not do it again..

[@drewster1118]

Also really the first year was the best . X was still legal and the music like Malcolm McClaren, Time Zone, Propaganda, Vicious Pink were so great. By the time all the wanna bes discovered it in early 86- it just took on a whole new meaning and not for the better. I still patronized it for a few more years. By 88 I was done with Starck and Dallas in general. Time to move on and get a life.

[@Libertyracer]

The Starck Project movie premier JUST happened 4/12/14 and the after party was at Zouk (old Starck) and the building will be torn down in a few months. I used to go anywhere from 1 to 6 times a week. LOVED that place; it was SO unlike most of Dallas, i.e. classy. I took Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander there in the mid 80s one night. Saw several celebs there like Prince and David Lee Roth (no one was talking to him, lol) and cool bands like Book of Love and Grace Jones (twice). No place will probably ever compare to its innovation and style.

[@jfa42]

Make sure you see the first version, let us know how they compare:) jfafilms.com/films_warriors_of_the_discotheque.html

[@jfa42]

Rad Racer yeah still waiting to see the film. Guess we'll wait forever. What a scam!

[@jfa42]

@nina555rio Thanks Nina, the feature version of the film is at starckclubmovie or jfafilms dot com

[@jfa42]

it starts a little after, but it's Let Me Go by heaven 17

[@newyorktex]

Is there a party on June 6th?

[@rle1111]

Did this movie ever even finish?

[@jfa42]

Yes, it's called Sex, Drugs, Design: Warriors of the Discotheque on Am Prime and buncha other sites...

[@vernixx]

I was there for the whole thing. Spent every Thursday and Saturday night there for practically two entire years. We had our own couch area! We sold acid for candy flipping. It was the best times of my life and the reason I am a DJ to this day.

[@jameshendricks6266]

Damn! Lucky!

[@XPACMANXX]

Eartha kitt, The whalers ,The transvetite version of Patsy Cline that sent us invites to the Betty Ford Clinic. LOL

[@jfa42]

@nina555rio I think you would definitely dig it!

[@groovechaser]

I went in 1986 for the first time. The music and design was right on, but didn't associate with the crowd too much and didn't get into the drugs like everyone else. I didn't go back.

[@unlikeavirgin]

I can't wait for the Starck Club party on June 6th. Who all is going???

[@richardbradshaw5534]

I was there that night it got busted . I remember picking pills up off the floor. I spent many nights there

[@jfa42]

cool, btw check out the full version on Amazon. think you'd dig it!!

[@jameshendricks6266]

Lucky! Lol Cherish those memories!

[@richardbradshaw5534]

@@jameshendricks6266 some of the best memories I have when I was clubbing back then are from the stark lol

[@richardbradshaw5534]

@@jfa42 I have several videos from there . I took this huge , I mean huge video camera with me . I'm talking vhs tape sized 🤣🤣🤣

[@jfa42]

@@richardbradshaw5534 I can imagine;) do u still have the footage?

[@augustusbetucius1572]

Never went to the Starck Club. It was pretensions, faux elitism (not that actual elitism is any better). Many of us preferred going to see the Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers and those sorts of shows, rather than dressing up, and having to pretend. Dallas in the 80s had many good things going for it. Just the amount of green space that has been mowed down for more buildings, strip shopping, ugly McMansions and cold, industrial looking apartment complexes makes me wish we could turn the clock back. Then there's how crowded it has become. Being a teen in the 80s was probably the last great era here, although the early 90s still had much of it.

[@jfa42]

There was an element of that amongst ownership, but I’d say it evolved beyond to a certain social equanimity that kinda got lost after the bust. Put it this way, if u were LGBTQ in that time frame Starck was a god send… (consider the fact they turned away holy roller Roger Staubach away at the door & it adds a more complex element to the ‘elitism’ charge. In any definition Staubach was an elite who got rejected;) lol

[@SHOWsource]

1985 is when the Time magazine with the moniker AIDS on the cover came out.

[@techslam]

Why is there no mention of Divine?

[@frostygoatt]

i know that song.but its the 1 befor heaven 17.u can barely hear it over every one talking. does any one know?

[@BakerDeltaFour]

What’s the track playing from the start?

[@jfa42]

Book of Love I Touch Roses

[@drewster1118]

I was a patron from 84-88. The club was great but really pretentious. It really lost its charm by late 87. I really think the Deep Ellum clubs were cooler.

[@frostygoatt]

does any one know the name of the song that starts at 2:15?

[@jfa42]

the link is above in description:)

[@dubkjay]

I’m just here fir the AREA51 comments, does nobody remember Area??

[@Mark-gk3hh]

Yes

[@dallasradionerd]

anyone get busted for X when the DEA came through

[@EMERALDJAYNE]

Nope it was totally legal still...no sweat!😅😍😎

[@mwmann]

I met many good looking women there. Damn if I could go back.

[@jfa42]

What????? lil flying saucers??? are we watching the same video?

[@XPACMANXX]

I get frustrated when they say "The Starck Club played Europien music" Fuck yes it did Philippe Krootchey was from France, i was from England, all they had heard before us was country and western and Van Halen. We bought the music, i was the first to play Frankie Goes To Hollywood (relax) and Midnight oil (power and the passion). Depeche mode. Duran Duran, Tears For Fears. But nowhere in these documentaries does it talk about us . Phillipe had a number 1 single in France but ...later died from a herion overdose (he is buried close to Jim Morrison). Rick the DJ that came after him loved to play disco music, he would play Donna Summer for 8 hrs if we let him. I once threw his Donna Summer record off the balcony into the dance floor and he did the same with my Bronski Beat record. Great Times, Rick died of Aids , Vall i think was herion. Sita and i had a couch put underneath the stairs leading down to the dance floor, we would go down there and smoke a joint blowing the smoke onto the dance floor. Thats what the Stark Club was famous for, being out there and iam honoured to be a part of it, even if those bloody Americans won't acknowledge the fact that it took Europeans to do it.

[@XPACMANXX]

Don't make me laugh. At the start I didn't even have a clue what Phillippe was playing (and neither would you), there was MTV But it didn't play new wave, hell it wouldn't even play Michael Jackson (cos he was black) and the only thing to listen too was what was played on the radio or in the clubs and it was NO where near what we were playing. The B52's or Talking Heads if you where lucky at some clubs. You may be thinking about the later days of the Stark Club where 1 radio station played Duran Duran The Reflex for 3hrs straight. Or (On The Air) did play new wave stuff Maybe.(but only cos I worked there on my days off). Did you see Eartha Kitt , the Wailers or The drag Patsy Cline show at the Stark? Either Way your little mad rant about the whole country and western thing and Van Halen Is Not my problem, I am over it and your attempt to make me feel stupid has a (Care Less) factor. I was there, I enjoyed my time and I am alive and still in the business. Go troll someone else. (cure cancer, you dick) P.S. I AM NOT YOUR DUDE.

[@jfa42]

I think you would've liked Starck, thanks for posting... Btw, if ya wanna see more go to jfafilms dot com warriorsofthediscotheque thanks!

[@jamesredick5537]

And our favorite DJ was "gogo" Mike Dupriest I was more a fan of Gogo's music than Rick's

[@TimewarpLabs]

whats the songs name starting at around 3:00 ???

[@djfoil]

TimewarpLabs Baltamora Tarzan Boy

[@dallasradionerd]

didn't they turn this place into the lizard lounge soon after, i remember the drug bust was around 96

[@Clintvictory]

Oh wow the Starck club became the Lizard Lounge? I used to go to the Lizard Lounge all the time.

[@Libertyracer]

NO, the Lizard Lounge was over in Deep Ellum not the west end. They turned it into DV8 for awhile and it is now Zouk but the building will be torn down in a few months for some more stupid condos.

[@trey5667]

dallasradionerd Nope. The Starck was in the West End and became DV8 and later Metronome. The Lizard Lounge was previously Empire.

[@trey5667]

dallasradionerd And the drug bust was in 86

[@jukejointjezebell8774]

Baby domes

[@jfa42]

A bit of a technicality. as late as 1984 aids was being referred to as "gay cancer". let's say on the cusp of when the hiv/aids epidemic was becoming more widespread...

[@thomasgray7991]

JOE ROGAN -- -- LORENZO HAGERTY

[@jfa42]

Watch here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaC7k6aOaMyef7M

[@seltzernator]

starck was unfortunately a little before my time. well, not really before my time, however i grew up in a small town about an hour south of dallas so i kind of came into the scene a little later than most people my age from the metroplex. i went there when it was area 51 i think, around 2000 or so. was still a cool spot then but nowhere near the same as back in the starck days obviously. now it's zouk. i won't even step foot in that place. shitty music and pretentious patrons.

[@jfa42]

You may have been a Starck Club Queen, but you also appear to be illiterate sweetie! What exactly are trying to say?

[@juansaladzar]

Had to dislike video this is not a teaser this documentary was never made this is clickbait brah 🤨

[@jfa42]

You might wanna get ur facts straight. This is the documentary that was made… bruh! tubitv.com/video/553560 www.jfafilms.com/films_warriors_of_the_discotheque.html

[@jfa42]

You put a lotta effort into it obviously there are like 4 links below the video in the description!!! C’mon bruh!!

[@juansaladzar]

@@jfa42 not downloading some app just to watch one documentary. Put it on the web or KZbin get with the program homie 😐

[@jfa42]

@@juansaladzar dude u are so clueless it’s already on KZbin braintrust lol I guess it’s to much effort to look in the description under the video. (How could u miss the link if u saw the ‘apps’, gawd bud what’s up w you?)

[@sekinsocal]

what is the song starting at 1:24?

[@jfa42]

Actually started at 1:18 it’s called 8:15 to Nowhere