At The Dark End Of The Bar

At The Dark End Of The Bar [1]

Series
The Other Side (Series)
Original Broadcast Date
12/31/1998
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 92 minutes
Preceded by:	Last Show
Followed by:	Home (Remix)

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. It was originally broadcast on December 31, 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 "Spill The Wine"

• "Spill The Wine" - Eric Burdon and War (from Eric Burdon Declares "War", 1970) | YouTube [Intro]

Shared material

• The Queen Of Puerto Rico (Show)
• At The Dark End Of The Bar (Remix)

Additional credits

• James Harrah: Guitar
• Walt Fowler: Trumpet
• Mike Boito: Keyboard
• Danny Frankel: Percussion
• Kenny Lyon: Bass
• David Brown: Saxophone
• David Ralicke: Trumpet
• 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)