Word: tigrett
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23. IT'S GRAND Opening night at the House of Blues, the brainchild of Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and a bevy of celebrity investors. Tonight's Big Bash is perhaps the glitziest event to hit the Square in recent memory. And, oh yes, it's the anniversary of Robert Johnson's first recording date...
Inside, the club has a bizarre kind of postmodern juke joint vibe, complete with Southern primitivist folk art and a portrait of Tigrett's Afro-coifed guru, Sai Baba, beaming angelically from above the stage. The ceiling is paneled with the faces of Blues legends carved in relief, their plaster countenances staring placidly down at this whole scene. Boston Phoenix writer and Crimson alum Gary Susman '89 quips, "You almost expect them to start singing, like in the 'Disney Hall of Presidents.'" Tonight, there's also a video camera on the ceiling to collect footage for the upcoming House...
Governor William F. Weld '66 steps up to the stage and makes an announcement. It's House of Blues Day in Massachusetts--well, for two more hours, anyway--and Tigrett commences the jam. And friends, this is the mother of all blues jams. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) and the Blues Brothers Band kick off the show, followed by delta blues musician Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Johnson's stepson, Robert Lockwood Jr., who learned guitar from the Great One himself. Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, a Chicago guitar kingpin who has shared the stage with the likes of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton...
...elegant new blues bar and restaurant--scheduled to open officially next week--is a cooperative venture between Aykroyd, actor River Phoenix and Isaac Burton Tigrett, founder of the Hard Rock Cafe...
...Tigrett said he wanted to locate the flagship blues bar, set to open on Winthrop Street in less than a month, in "the epicenter for radical thought...