The Starck Club Documentary

[BobbynEdward]

Two dozen or so people laying all over each other in the bathroom stall.

[nina555rio]

Tks jfa42 for this video!!! I was in my early twenties during the Stark Club Era - there will never be anything like it again. The mix of energy, the most fabulous legal drug, unbelievable music & beautiful people! Every Fri & Sat night was an out of body experience beyond description. Loved the entire staff, & really adored VAL!!! I am curious as to the artist & name of the song at 1:10? This song is embedded in my soul! If anyone knows - I would really appreciate it! Tks!!!

[jfa42]

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

[jfa42]

@nina555rio I think you would definitely dig it!

[amytheartist]

@nina555rio 9:15 to nowhere by vicious pink

[amytheartist]

@nina555rio sorry - that was 8:15 to nowhere by vicious pink

[abiranwar]

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.

[jaynarey]

This was our Studio 54 - I remember many nights dancing on the stairs with Chante Greer and the gang - it was fun.

[JahaysusKahrist]

I loved the Stark Club, it was a ritual every weekend, Made out with Taylor Dayne. sigh these days are bleak.

Anyone ever go to Sparx?

[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

[TalkingOcean1]

I was on the guest list and a teen, lol. I was hot and me and my friend went every weekend. Loved the Stark Club!

[yesgirl7]

You mean 8:15 to Nowhere by Vicious Pink?

[b0yzero]

I got hired as a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines in May, 1982 and moved to Dallas from South Texas. Those were amazing times! All the talk about the Starck Club reminds me of a smaller club called Anaconda that was located over by Bachman Lake. It was a dive but they played the same music and the X flowed freely. Anyone else on here ever go to Anaconda? Ha ha, I'm in LA now and I recently sold all my New Wave clothes (parachute pants, etc) to a shop down on Melrose and made bank.

[Scherer321]

this video is fucking hilarious, sounds like a great time

[yesgirl7]

@Scherer321 it was!!!

[dallaspolo]

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

[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!!! (•=

[jimmyhatnyc]

Dallasssssss!

[ronrob56]

You had to live it to understand it....there was nothing like it and there will never be....I am glad I had the opportunity to experience it...

[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.

[triker512]

I was lucky enough to party there once - the video captures the essence. I remember having a bit of time getting a pee going while a babe looked on..

Is that KJ at 2:16?

[wbgt07]

Why cant there be any more places like this in Dallas? All the crap they have today sucks ass! Im seriously starting to see what my parents meant when they talked about the "good ol days"

[GetsumJ]

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

[mrwatknz]

remember the night of the drug bust and they printed up tee shirts that said" we survived the bust" or something like that,,,

ah and the cool bar/room at bottom of stairs

[MyOtherThings]

OH MY GOSH!! My old hangout!! Too awesome to find it here! UNREAL!! Me in Dallas Texas Still! WILD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ABCRE2]

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

[newyorktex]

Is there a party on June 6th?

[CB9YT]

I worked the bar at Starck for about six months. It was not uncommon to make $1,000 on Saturday night. I quit in the Spring of 1986. The place was too gay for me. Everyone was too hopped up on junk.

[gunmaker247]

I was a Stark Club queen, your need sooo much help what happened to the ones r hot and were the STARK THAT WAS WEAK

[jfa42]

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

[unlikeavirgin]

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

[TheSilverFactory]

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

[jfa42]

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

[TheSilverFactory]

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

does any one know?

[unlikeavirgin]

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

[angurisloud]

I'm not usre it is, but 8:15 to nowhere is here on Youtube - an good version of it... hadn't heard it in YEARS!

[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!

[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.

[OhSoMomilicious]

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!

[9ks9ks]

It was probably awesome at the time, granted, but boy am I glad I missed the 80's music and fashion...

[spiritfla]

I was a patron 85-88...some great memories.

[newyorktex]

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

[shelton442]

No one mentioned Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry were there in mid 85. When Warhol was promoting a book and staying at The Mansion.

[neenerbeenerz]

X-tasy....so much more fun than meth!

[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.

[9ks9ks]

Every empire's decline and fall is similar. Oh, and ecstasy = win. LEGAL ecstasy = WIN

[klunky]

I got there in 85. I heard from others that 84-85 was the best - they were already over it by 86 but we had to get ours in. Glad I got to be a wannabe!

[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.

[realpeoplerealshit]

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

[gdpost]

those were such fun days! I saw Val in NYC last year, and it brought back memories of buying clove cigarettes from her.

[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*

[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

[granvisconti]

those are my hands with those lil flying saucers. we filmed that for THE TODAY SHOW. (i don't remember who gave me those to hold in my hands for the camera - certainly not my own!)

[jfa42]

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

[MamaMidler]

OH BOY! i USED TO HANG OUT THERE! THE DRUGS, THE MUSIC! THE FUN! THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

[unlikeavirgin]

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

[ruthtx]

The bathrooms were the best! X so much better for sex then viagra! Better for both!

[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.

[LakewoodDallas]

25 years, y'all - where did it go...

More important, when is the reunion?

[luc1texas]

I have a chocolate bar wrapped in stark white paper with black letters, "Starck"...I was there Halloween 1985.

Amazing. It was another planet.

[SHOWsource]

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

[angurisloud]

This was a great club! Great design, music, vibe... No mention of the restrooms - they were a club unto themselves!

Music was great (8:15 to nowhere teaser, loved that song! Full version currently up on Youtube, quite hard to find otherwise)

I love the way this video was cut too!

[kkaren50]

Starck opened in 1984, not pre HIV!

[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...