Toads Place is a New Haven CT landmark. Its actually a filthy Northeastern landmark. Any band who's anyone has played this filthy sticky floored hell pit.
The Ramones, Blondie, The Stones, The Kinks, Joan Jett, let alone a boatload of others "Where the Legends Play" is the tag line.
I venture into the vomitorium and no lie EVERY time I go the next day either me or the kid are ill with some weird respiratory ailment. Bad gross air. But so far a bit of cough medicine has cured our ill not an ambulance.
Three bullet holes in the stage now.. no one would notice through the grime if it weren't for the bodies droppin of course. An employee at Toad's Place was one of two men shot on the stage of the club Wednesday during a performance by local rap group C.M.S.this past Wednesday.
