Long-Lost Satyricon Sign Resurfaces at the Dandy Warhols’ Old Portland Wine Bar

Well before Courtney Taylor-Taylor ever considered turning the streetside section of his band’s Slabtown practice facility/recording studio/clubhouse into a wine bar, the Dandy Warhols’ frontman had already begun storing emblems of a disappearing cityscape within the Odditorium’s vast confines. Even during its first night, Old Portland seemed somewhat a reliquary. The signboard out front belonged to a lower Southeast playhouse where the Dandy’s recorded Welcome To The Monkey House. A daunting collection of concert handbills dominates one corner. Woodwork was repurposed from the Multnomah Athletic Club. Furnishings could be traced to the Lotus, Wildwood, an early incarnation of the Hilton lounge—a decorous assemblage of artifacts salvaged from an increasingly distant civilization… read more >

Satyricon Portland 1983 Vintage Men’s T-Shirt