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''I was on vacation in the Caribbean with my parents.''

'''At The Dark End Of The Bar''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]].  It was originally broadcast on December 31, [[:Category:1998|1998]]

== Synopsis ==
Joe is a teenager on vacation. He falls for a girl, gets propositioned by a prostitute and a friend's mother, and ends up drugged while on a boat with an older man.  Ministers speak.  Joe celebrates, blows noisemakers, talks about a fired employee, etc.  Killing people in a restaurant.  Needing things - a girl, to cook.  Going to sleep in a mattress store and dreaming of utopia.  Retirement home people were once children.  "Ask me what time it is, and I'll tell you how the watch is made."  Meditations on time.  A tattoo of a country landscape.  

== Music ==
* Original music performed by the Joe Frank Band, over a loop from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spill_the_Wine "Spill The Wine"]
{{Spill The Wine (Eric Burdon and War)}} [Intro]

== Shared material ==
* [[The Queen Of Puerto Rico (Show)]]
* [[At The Dark End Of The Bar (Remix)]]

== Additional credits ==
* [[James Harrah]]: Guitar
* [https://www.waltfowler.com Walt Fowler]: Trumpet
* [https://www.discogs.com/artist/197147-Mike-Boito Mike Boito]: Keyboard
* [[Danny Frankel]]: Percussion
* [[Kenny Lyon]]: Bass
* [[Wikipedia:David Arthur Brown|David Brown]]: Saxophone
* [[David Ralicke]]: Trumpet 
* [https://perla.com Perla Batalla]: Vocals

== Miscellanea ==
*Joe has produced several somewhat different programs with the same title.
*Includes a retelling of [[The Queen Of Puerto Rico (Show)]]

[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:David Rapkin]]
[[Category:James Harrah]]
[[Category:Kenny Lyon]]
[[Category:Danny Frankel]]
[[Category:1998]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19981231]]
{{Airdate|airdate=1998-12-31}}[[Category:The Other Side]]
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}