South Florida’s club scene in Broward and Dade Counties seemed to never go through a weekend without a standing-room-only appearance by the hard working Tampa Bay bands Autodrive, Stranger, and the Bobby Friss Band at Fort Lauderdale’s Art Stock’s Playpen South, The Button South, Rosebuds, and Summers on the Beach: the days of rocking with the female-fronted Femme Fatale, Gypsy Queen, and Lady Sabre, along with Canaveral, Cypress, Fury, Paradise Alley, Race, Rockerfellas, Rock Street, and Split Image. There was no grunge-inspired “alternative” scene, yet, with Marilyn Mansonesque mo…
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