quoted 2 lines The crappy part is that the club got shut down due to the incident. And so a bunch of>The crappy part is that the club got shut down due to the incident. And so a bunch of
>other musicians who were scheduled to play didn't get to.
Hmmm. That's peculiar because Richie didn't go on until 2 and didn't finish until almost 3am, so if there were other artists scheduled, I can't imagine that they'd have too long to play. Not to mention that there weren't but 75 or so people there for Richie, and most all of them split after he finished, so those other artists would've been playing to an empty house.
Also, the show wasn't in any sort of club, but a small dusty art gallery directly adjacent to a bar, but definitely not part of the bar, as the two rooms had seperate entrances and addresses. The bar itself, the Blue Monkey, was doing just fine all night. So if the fire marshall wanted to shut anything down, he could lock up the doors to an mostly abandoned art gallery with no music going on in it anyway.
In fact, the fire marshall's best case would have been to shut down the bar for overcrowding because the place was super packed like a NY subway at rush hour. You literally couldn't even turn around because there were so many people squashing you into immobility.
Not that I'm calling 'bullshit' on your original statement. That's just how I saw it.