Tenafly Resident Allan Pepper Revisiting The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line

Co – owner of  the Bottom Line in New York from 1974 to 2004 with his now deceased Stanley Snadowsky , Allan Pepper resident of Tenafly has plenty of memories and plans. 

“This is a project that has been several years in the making but at last we’ve been able to pull it off. We have over a thousand performances in our vault that were recorded live at The Bottom Line. Some of them were radio broadcasts, some of them were board tapes, some of them were done on DAT, they’re in all different formats, but there are a thousand different performances which constitute early shows and late shows. The reason it’s taken so long is because first of all they have to get the rights to release this material and second of all we have to restore this material.”

“It was always about our integrity. I fought very, very hard to keep ticket prices low. That was part of Stanley and my vision. We had a real vision of what we wanted the club to be, none of that stuff happened by happenstance, the same reason there wasn’t a minimum. ”

A Bruce Springsteen 1977 Bottom Line Poster

Some of the world class artists that performed at the Bottom Line ( that was located at  15 West 4th Street between Mercer Street and Greene Street in the Greenwich Village) include names such a: The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Aaron Copland,Bruce Springsteen and many others.

Tenafly Resident Allan Pepper

Read an interview with Allan Pepper on huffingtonpost.com